.NET document viewer API to read, render and display GIF file in any type of C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET & .NET Core applications. View the rendered files with true formatting & layout in HTML5, PDF or as an image using a few lines of the code.
Download Free TrialStart viewing 170+ popular document formats in your .NET applications using GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET APIs by adding a few lines of code. Developers can easily display PDF, Word Processing, Excel Spreadsheet, Presentation, Visio, Project, Outlook and many other popular document formats in HTML5, image or PDF modes. The document rendering is fast, identical to the original source file, and it does not require installing Microsoft Office or any other external libraries.
GroupDocs.Viewer makes it easy for .NET developers to add GIF file viewing feature in their applications by implementing a few easy steps.
GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET APIs are supported on all major platforms and operating systems. Before executing the code below, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system.
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// Instantiate viewer
using (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.gif"))
{
// Set view options
ViewOptions viewOptions = new PngViewOptions();
// Convert file to PNG and check the output in the current directory
viewer.View(viewOptions);
}
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A GIF or Graphical Interchange Format is a type of highly compressed image. Owned by Unisys, GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm that does not degrade the image quality. For each image GIF typically allow up to 8 bits per pixel and up to 256 colours are allowed across the image. In contrast to a JPEG image, which can display up to 16 million colours and fairly touches the limits of the human eye. Back when the internet emerged, GIFs remained the best choice because they required low bandwidth and compatible for the graphics that consume solid areas of colour. An animated GIF combines numerous images or frames into a single file and displays them in a sequence to generate an animated clip or a short video. The colour limitations are up to 256 for each frame and are likely to be the least suitable for reproducing other images and photographs with colour gradient.
Read MoreMulti format documents and images viewer API for .NET. View some of the popular file formats below without any external viewers.
(Microsoft Word Document)
(Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled Document)
(Microsoft Word Open XML Document)
(Microsoft Word Document Template)
(Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled Template)
(Word Open XML Document Template)
(Rich Text File Format)
(Plain Text File Format)
(Microsoft Excel Binary File Format)
(Microsoft Excel Open XML Spreadsheet)
(Microsoft Excel Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet)
(Microsoft Excel Binary Spreadsheet File)
(Microsoft Excel Open XML Template)
(Tab Separated Values File)
(Microsoft Excel Macro-Enabled Add-In)
(Comma Separated Values File)
(PowerPoint Presentation)
(Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show)
(PowerPoint Open XML Presentation)
(PowerPoint Open XML Slide Show)
(Microsoft PowerPoint Open XML Template)
(Microsoft PowerPoint Template)
(Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)
(Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show)
(Adobe Portable Document Format)
(Open XML Paper Specification)
(LaTeX Source Document)
(Open Document Spreadsheet)
(OpenDocument Presentation File Format)
(Origin Graph Template)
(Open Document Text)
(Open Document Template)
(Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 XML Drawing)
(Tagged Image File Format)
(JPEG Image)
(Portable Network Graphic)
(Graphical Interchange Format File)
(Bitmap File Format)
(Microsoft Icon File)
(Adobe Photoshop Document)
(Windows Metafile)
(Enhanced Metafile Format)
(Raster Web Image File Format)
(Scalable Vector Graphics File)
(JPEG 2000 Core Image File)
(Microsoft Project Document)
(Microsoft Project Template)
(Hyper Text Markup Language)
(MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML)
(MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML)
(Microsoft Outlook E-mail Message)
(E-mail Message)
(Microsoft OneNote)
(Windows Metafile)
(Windows Enhanced Metafile)
(Adobe Photoshop Document)
(Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 Drawing)
(Microsoft Visio Drawing)
(Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 Stencil)
(Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 XML Drawing)
(Microsoft Visio 2010 Web Drawing)
(Digital E-Book File Format)