Installation and Redistribution Notices

Installation

Graphics Mill installation is available in three packages:

Graphics Mill SDK

Graphics Mill SDK is intended to be installed on a development machine; it includes Graphics Mill binaries, demo applications, and documentation. It also automatically installs Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package as well as requests a trial or production license key and registers it on the target computer. To install this package just run the GraphicsMillSDK.exe file and follow the wizard steps. When the installation is completed, you get a number of folders and files organized in the following structure:

/Graphics Mill 10 SDK
    /.Net 4.0
        /Binaries_x64
        /Binaries_x86
        /VCRedist
    /Help
    /LicenseManager
    /Samples

Graphics Mill Server Redistributable Package

Graphics Mill Server Redistributable Package is intended to be installed on a web server (staging or production), it includes Graphics Mill binaries only. It also automatically installs Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package as well as requests a trial or production license key and registers it on the target computer. To install this package just run the GraphicsMillRedistributable.exe file and follow the wizard steps. When the installation is completed, you get a number of folders and files organized in the following structure:

/Graphics Mill 10 Redistributable
    /.Net 4.0
        /Binaries_x64
        /Binaries_x86
        /VCRedist
    /LicenseManager

Installation via NuGet

Another way to install Graphics Mill is to use NuGet package manager for .NET that is distributed as a Visual Studio extension. With NuGet you do not need to install Graphics Mill on a development machine, all you need to do is just to add the Graphics Mill package to your application. There two ways to install Graphics Mill via NuGet:

• Using Package Manager Console: open Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console and enter one of the following commands:

  • Install-Package Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Core.xNN if you use Graphics Mill core image processing features. NN stands for the target platform of your solution (x86 or x64).
  • Install-Package Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Templates.xNN if you use Graphics Mill PSD templates processing features. NN stands for the target platform of your solution (x86 or x64).

• Using NuGet User Interface: open Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Manage NuGet Packages for Solution, enter Graphics Mill to the search field, and choose the appropriate package:

  

Redistribution

Graphics Mill Binaries

To be able to use Aurigma Graphics Mill 11.5.53 with your application, you should add references to Graphics Mill DLL files. After you add a reference, an appropriate DLL is automatically copied to the /bin folder of your application.

The table below describes Graphics Mill DLL files and their functionality.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package

If you are going to distribute your application to a machine where it is not guaranteed that Visual C++ is installed, you should install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package along with your application. You can find these packages in the Graphics Mill installation folder or download them directly from the Microsoft site. For .NET 4.0, you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable Package (x86) and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable Package (x64) .

Adobe® CMM

If the application references Graphics Mill and uses Adobe® CMM for color conversion operations, you need to make sure that Adobe® CMM is installed on your users' systems. You should write about this dependency in your documentation and should also consider redistributing Adobe® CMM within your installation package. You can download the Adobe® CMM for Windows from the Adobe site: helpx.adobe.com.

Uninstallation

To uninstall Graphics Mill SDK or Graphics Mill Server Redistributable Package open Control Panel, click Programs and Features, then select Aurigma Graphics Mill 11.5.53 and click Uninstall. After that click Yes, and follow the wizard instructions.

If you used NuGet to install the Graphics Mill package, you can uninstall it specifying Uninstall-Package <GraphicsMill Package> in the Package Manager Console, where <GraphicsMill Package> is the name of the package installed in your application.

See Also

Manual

• Registering Production License Keys
• Features