IronSoftware.Drawing - Image, Color, Rectangle, and Font class for .NET Applications

IronSoftware.Drawing is an open-source library originally developed by Iron Software that helps C# Software Engineers to replace System.Drawing.Common in .NET projects.

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Compatibility
• Using IronSoftware.Drawing
  • AnyBitmap Example
  • Color Example
  • Rectangle Example
  • Size Example
  • Font Example
• Support

IronSoftware.Drawing Features:

• AnyBitmap: A universally compatible Bitmap class. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.AnyBitmap and following popular Bitmap/Image formats supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To AnyBitmap Supported | From AnyBitmap Supported | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|:--------------------------:|:----------------------------:| | System.Drawing.Bitmap | ✅ | ✅ | | System.Drawing.Image | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKBitmap | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKImage | ✅ | ✅ | | SixLabors.ImageSharp | ✅ | ✅ | | Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Platform.PlatformImage | ✅ | ✅ |

• Color: A universally compatible Color class. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.Color and following popular Color formats supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To Color Supported | From Color Supported | |-----------------------------------|:--------------------:|:----------------------:| | SkiaSharp.SKColor | ✅ | ✅ | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.Color | ✅ | ✅ | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.PixelFormats | ✅ | ✅ |

• Rectangle: A universally compatible Rectangle class. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.Rectangle and following popular Rectangle formats supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To Rectangle Supported | From Rectangle Supported | To RectangleF Supported | From RectangleF Supported | |--------------------------------|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:| | System.Drawing.Rectangle | ✅ | ✅ | | | | System.Drawing.RectangleF | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKRect | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKRectI | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.Rectangle | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.RectangleF | | | ✅ | ✅ |

• Size: A universally compatible Size class. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.Size and following popular Size formats supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To Size Supported | From Size Supported | To SizeF Supported | From SizeF Supported | |--------------------------------|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:| | System.Drawing.Size | ✅ | ✅ | | | | System.Drawing.SizeF | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKSize | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKSizeI | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.Size | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.SizeF | | | ✅ | ✅ | | Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Size | ✅ | ✅ | | | | Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.SizeF | | | ✅ | ✅ |

• Font: A universally compatible Font class. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.Font and following popular Font formats supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To Font Supported | From Font Supported | |----------------------------|:-------------------:|:---------------------:| | System.Drawing.Font | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKFont | ✅ | ✅ | | SixLabors.Fonts.Font | ✅ | ✅ |

• Point and PointF: Universally compatible Point and PointF classes. Implicit casting between IronSoftware.Drawing.Point and IronSoftware.Drawing.PointF and the following supported:

| Implicit Casting Support | To Point Supported | From Point Supported | To PointF Supported | From PointF Supported | |--------------------------------|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:|:----------------------------:|:------------------------------:| | System.Drawing.Point | ✅ | ✅ | | | | System.Drawing.PointF | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.Point | ✅ | ✅ | | | | SixLabors.ImageSharp.PointF | | | ✅ | ✅ | | Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Point | ✅ | ✅ | | | | Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.PointF | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKPoint | | | ✅ | ✅ | | SkiaSharp.SKPointI | ✅ | ✅ | | |

IronSoftware.Drawing has cross platform support compatibility with:

• .NET 9, .NET 8, .NET 7, .NET 6, .NET 5, .NET Core, Standard, and Framework
• Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, Azure, and AWS

Using IronSoftware.Drawing

Installing the IronSoftware.Drawing NuGet package is quick and easy, please install the package like this:

PM> Install-Package IronSoftware.System.Drawing

Alternatively, download directly from the official NuGet website.

Once installed, you can get started by adding using IronSoftware.Drawing; to the top of your C# code.

AnyBitmap Code Example

using IronSoftware.Drawing;

// Create a new AnyBitmap object
var bitmap = AnyBitmap.FromFile("FILE_PATH");
bitmap.SaveAs("result.jpg");

var bytes = bitmap.ExportBytes();

var resultExport = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
bitmap.ExportStream(resultExport, AnyBitmap.ImageFormat