DevExpress Office File API 20.2.6

All DevExpress Office File API products

• Export - A metafile with a custom line cap is exported as an image.
• Parsing - Documents that have text form fields with a negative MaxLen value cannot be opened.

Microsoft Excel Export Library

• Usability - There is no API to write a formula string as a textual cell value without converting the string to a formula.

PDF Document API

• Parsing - A document cannot be saved if a logical structure attribute Role has an incorrect value.
• Parsing - Documents containing an incorrect "XRefStm" value cannot be opened.
• PDF Document API returns signature information (name, location, etc.) with incorrectly encoded characters for a particular PDF document.
• Signing - The GetSignatureInfo method returns null values if a signature has more than one widget.
• Text Search - Wrapped text is processed incorrectly in particular situations.
• Usability - It's impossible to set the ViewerPreferences.CenterWindow, ViewerPreferences.FitWindow, ViewerPreferences.HideMenubar, ViewerPreferences.HideWindowUI, and ViewerPreferences.HideToolbar properties.
• Usability - PdfDocumentSigner does not have a public API to retrieve the number of pages in the document.

Spreadsheet Document API

• Common Charts Model - Individual point colors do not work for line series.
• Excel data slicer source gets changed after using DevExpress Spreadsheet control to populate a table in Excel.
• Shape styles are incorrectly written on saving a particular XLSX document.
• Spreadsheet for WebForms - Chart border is incorrectly rendered to exported HTML.
• The "Cell Metadata Index" attribute is lost on resaving an .XLSX document.
• Usability - There is no API to define a summary function when a pivot data field is created.

Word Processing Document API

• Document Layout - A table inside a header is rendered incorrectly if a DOC document has compatibility settings specified.
• OLE objects - It is impossible to attach PDF and HTML as OLE Objects.
• System.NullReferenceException is thrown when a RichEditDocumentServer instance is created in an unit test.
• The RichEditDocumentServer.Document.GetText method does not work on Apple Mac OS 11.1 Big Sur.
• Usability - There is no API to access OLE Package properties.