Monday, 16th April 2007Overpower Free Image Manipulation Library (overpower.dll)

Introducing the Overpower JPG (also GIF & BMP) image component library

I was recently introduced to the Overpower library by a top notch programmer (Bill Woodland from SqueekASP.com). He generously sent me details of the library, example scripts and helpful hints and tips - thanks Bill!  You can download the library here and installation instructions are below.

I in turn have decided to "share the love" and make the library available as a download here, I have also published an Object Reference for the Library here - I hope to add examples to the Object Reference as soon as possible.

I have created a new CAPTCHA (Image Form Verification) script using the Overpower library for those unable to use the ASPJpeg CAPTCHA script, you can download this from here.

OverPower Installation Instructions

Download and Unzip the OverPower.dll file on to your server or test system

Copy the file to the System folder within your Windows root folder, this could be for example:

C:/Windows/System/

C:/Winnt/System/

Right click on the file in Windows, Select Properties, click on the Security tab and make sure the Everyone user is in the list - if not, add them to the list via the Add button.

Highlight Everyone in the list and make sure that ONLY Read & Execute and Read are highlighted, click ok to close the dialogue box.

Go to START > RUN and type "regsvr32 c:\windows\system\overpower.dll" then click OK (making sure to adjust the path to match your system). 

Thats it!

Now personally I tried to remove permissions from the Overpower.dll file for everyone and give only the IUSR_ServerName the required rights but I couldn't get this to work - please let me know if anyone succeeds with any specific combination of rights.