Released: Dec 23, 2024

Updates in v27.0

Features

• Added support to read RTF documents, rasterize them and convert to PDF, as a part of Office component.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where biSizeImage field of Bitmap Info Header was saved incorrectly when saving an image with a palette to BMP format.
• Fixed an issue causing missing content in some PDF files when converted to SVG format.
• Fixed an issue causing some PDF files to be converted into PDF/A-4 instead of PDF/A-1a.

Released: Oct 2, 2024

Updates in v26.5.0

Fixes

• Fixed a null reference exception that was thrown when adding a grayscale image without a palette to a PDF page.
• Breaking Change - ImageGear.Formats.Pdf requires that the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 be installed at the target machine. (Windows)

Released: Apr 24, 2024

Updates in v26.4.0

Features

• REST API
  • Added a RESTful API to convert PDF to PDF/A.
  • Added a RESTful API to remove XFA data from PDF documents.
  • Added deskew operation to the Image Editor RESTful API.
  • Improved exception messages when ImageGear is used from unsupported 32-bit processes.
  • Breaking Changes - Removed unusable DICOM related API:
    • In namespace ImageGear.Core:
      • Removed the DICOM property from the ImGearMetadataHead class.
      • Removed the DICOMDisplaySettings property from the ImGearRasterPage class.
      • Removed the...

Released: Nov 7, 2022

Updates in v26.3.0

Features

• Office
  • The path to your LibreOffice installation can now be specified by the 'IMAGEGEAR_LIBREOFFICE_PATH' environment variable. To enable this behavior, use the ImGearOffice.Initialize(Double) overload.
• NuGet
  • Preview NuGet packages containing pre-release builds of ImageGear can now be easily accessed by using ImageGear's Preview NuGet Package feed.
• PDF
  • Added the ability to convert PDF documents to conform with the PDF/A-2b archival standard.
• REST API
  • Added a RESTful API for editing...

Released: Oct 13, 2022

Updates in v26.2.0

Features

• Image Processing
  • Added the ImageClean namespace found in previous versions of ImageGear, enabling various document cleanup routines.
• SVG
  • Added the ImageGear.Formats.SVG namespace found in previous versions of ImageGear, enabling image conversion to SVG.
  • Added support to convert a PDF page or document to SVG format.
  • Added support to convert Microsoft Office file types (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, and XLSX) to SVG.
• PDF
  • On Linux environments, it is no longer required to set the LD_LIBRARY...

Released: Sep 9, 2022

Updates in v26.1.0

Features

• Added new ImageGear Office component which:
  • Enables automatic detection for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
  • Enables conversion to PDF or raster image.
  • Reports metadata such as Author and Title.
• Added support for converting MSG and EML email formats to PDF and image formats.
• Support for 32-bit processes has been deprecated and removed.
• You can now use SmartZone for all your OCR needs.
• Documentation Updates
  • Updated documentation concerning saving AES encrypted PDF.
• NuGet...

Released: Apr 1, 2022

Updates in v26.0.1

Fixes

• Fixed an exception thrown when rendering ImageGear's evaluation watermark for some locales.

Released: Jan 27, 2022

Updates in v26.0

Features

• Core image and PDF document processing/conversion functionality is now available on the Microsoft .NET Core framework. This expands the operating system support to Microsoft Windows and Linux distributions.
• Sample source code demonstrating the currently available features in ImageGear are now available at the official GitHub imagegear-net-samples repository, which can be cloned.
• Created new online documentation to specifically target ImageGear.