Released: Mar 15, 2024

Updates in 2024 Volume 1 (25.1.35)

Funktionen

• Common
  • Assemblies for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.6 are no longer provided. It is recommended to use .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later.
• Button
  • Corner radius - Users can now set the corner radius for the Button control, allowing them to tailor the appearance of buttons to fit various design aesthetics.
• Docking Manager
  • New button clicked event - Introduced an event in the Docking Manager to notify users when the new button in the DocumentTabHeader is clicked.
• TabControlExt
  • Header style for tabs - Introduced three new configurable visual styles for the tab header, allowing users to choose their preferred appearance.
• Image Editor
  • Serialization - Added the ability for users to serialize and deserialize annotations and their settings.
• Spreadsheet
  • Theme support for forms and dialogs - This feature adds built-in theme support for the following forms and dialogs in Spreadsheet:
    • DateOccurringCondition window.
    • UnHideSheet window.
    • GroupUngroup window.
    • OutlineSettings window.
    • NewNameRange window.
    • DefaultColumnWidth window.
    • FileEncrypt window.
    • FormatAsTable window.
    • InsertHyperlink window.
    • Password window.
    • ConditionalFormat window.
    • NameManager window.
    • BetweenNotBetween window.
    • FormatHeightAndWidth window.
  • Insert rows or columns after cut or copy - Spreadsheet now allows you to insert rows, columns, or cells after performing cut or copy operations.
• PDF Viewer
  • Signature form field - The WPF PdfViewer now supports signature form fields, enabling users to effortlessly display or delete existing signatures while also seamlessly adding new signatures within the document. Signature form fields in PDFs enable users to sign documents digitally from anywhere, improving efficiency and enhancing security.
  • Undo redo support for form fields - Users can now utilize the undo and redo functionalities to revert or reinstate changes made to form field elements in the PDF document. The undo/redo support enhances user productivity and accuracy by providing the ability to easily correct mistakes and revert changes during the process of completing PDF forms.
  • Rendering stamps with appearance stream - In the WPF PdfViewer, users can now easily view custom stamps in appearance streams. By using custom stamps with user's name and job title, the user can quickly authenticate his actions and provide a clear audit trail for compliance purposes.
• PDF Library
  • Remote GoTo action in PDF - Added the ability for users to add or modify remote actions that navigate to an external PDF document. Users can easily add links to a specific page or location of another PDF document.
  • Digital signature enhancement - Users can now effortlessly add signature and timestamp certificates to the PDF Document Security Store (DSS), ensuring greater security and compliance with PDF standards.
  • HTML to PDF enhancements:
    • Upgraded the BlinkBinaries to the latest version 120.0.6099.110, to address vulnerabilities and ensure a secure conversion process.
    • Added the timeout option for the HTML to PDF conversion process. Users can convert HTML to PDF seamlessly, by ensuring timely completion with the new timeout option.
    • Added an option to preserve accessibility tags that are in the input HTML while converting HTML to PDF.
• Microsoft PowerPoint Library
  • Crop an image in a PowerPoint presentation - The PowerPoint Library now includes APIs for cropping images within existing PowerPoint presentations or when creating new presentations from scratch, mirroring the picture crop options in Microsoft PowerPoint. With this feature, when the presentation contains cropped images, users have the ability to save them as they are, preserving the cropped regions instead of the original pictures.
  • Presentation merge enhancements - The PowerPoint Library now compares master and layout slides to prevent the addition of duplicate master slides and to ensure the reuse of existing master slides when merging slides from another presentation.
• Microsoft Word Library
  • Update Table of Contents (TOC):
    • The Word Library now supports the inclusion of \c and \a switches when updating the table of contents (TOC) in a Word document. The purposes of these switches are:
      • \c: Includes captions of figures, tables, charts, and other items that are numbered by SEQ fields in TOC entries.
      • \a: Builds a table of captions by excluding caption labels and numbers.
    • With this feature, you can create a table of figures, tables, charts, and more, giving readers a clear overview of the document's contents and facilitating easier navigation.
  • Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements - Headers and footers that exceed half of the page in a Word document are now preserved during Word to PDF or image conversion.