DevExpress Office File API 20.1.4

Improves PDF, Spreadsheet and Word Processing APIs.
June 4, 2020
New Version

Fixes

All Office File API products

  • Parsing - A document cannot be loaded if it contains an invalid array of font glyph widths.
  • Parsing - A document with an invalid logical structure cannot be loaded.

PDF Document API

  • An exception is thrown on an attempt to extract a page from a particular PDF document to a separate file.
  • Document can't be loaded if contains invalid command stream data.
  • Export - Application crashes when an invalid native object is finalized.
  • Export to PDF - OpenType CFF fonts with more than 32767 glyphs are not embedded correctly to the resulting PDF files.
  • Parsing - A document with an invalid interactive form field value cannot be opened.
  • PDF Document API - The PdfInteractiveFormField.Flags property is read-only.
  • Text Extraction - Text is incorrectly extracted from a specific document.
  • The GetText(PdfDocumentArea) method overload incorrectly extracts text for wrapped words.

Spreadsheet Document API

  • An Microsoft Excel 2.x (BIFF2) document cannot be imported.
  • An Microsoft Excel document loses content after PivotCaches.RefreshAll.
  • Characters might be cropped in a rich text cell when the AzureCompatibility option is turned on.
  • Microsoft Excel shows an error on an attempt to resave a XLSM document that was previously saved with the Spreadsheet Document API.
  • Spreadsheet - A custom User-Defined function used in array formulas is not re-calculated correctly in a worksheet.
  • The 'Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program' error is thrown on an attempt to export a document with rich text to PDF on Microsoft Azure.

Word Processing Document API

  • Export - A transparent indexed image is exported incorrectly if the ConvertToJpeg option is set to True.
  • Export to PDF - Characters followed by a slash/backslash are narrowed in the exported document in Azure Compatibility mode.
  • Export to RTF - NullReferenceException is thrown on an attempt to export a document with a table to the RTF format when automatic layout calculation is enabled.
  • Hyperlinks and bookmarks - KeyNotFoundException is thrown on an attempt to export a document containing TOC and TC fields to PDF when the DisplayBookmarksInPdfNavigationPane option is set to TocBookmarks.
  • Images - ScaleX and ScaleY properties behave differently in v19.1+ compared to v18.2.
  • Styles - The Normal style from the field result overrides the Normal style of the parent document after a field update.
  • Usability - There is no option to get or set Alt Text for a shape.

Zip Compression and Archive API

  • The ZipItem.Extract method duplicates a sub-folder in a network path when archive files are extracted in v20.1.
DevExpress Office File API

DevExpress Office File API

Read and write Excel and Word files, create and edit PDF documents, generate barcodes and compressed archives.

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