Released: Sep 23, 2021

Updates in v22

Features

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine v22

Office and Text Formats Enhancements

• Office format decryption - LEADTOOLS can decrypt DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, and PPT/PPTX files.
• New option to show hidden Microsoft PowerPoint slides.
• Improved rendering of Microsoft PowerPoint slides, especially when dealing with master and layout slide relationships.
• Load spreadsheets saved as XLSB (Microsoft Excel Binary).
• Major enhancements have been made to the rendering of PST, MSG, and EML formats.
• Load and render text files with ANSI, UTF7, UTF8, UTF16LE, UTF16BE encoding.

PDF SDK Updates

• Enhanced font embedding techniques, which result in better conversion to PDF/A files.
• Expanded PDF digital signature support to Java for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS, Apple iOS, and Android.

Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line
In Version 22, the following products have been added.

• LEADTOOLS Edit - includes all features of the LEADTOOLS Document product and adds the LEADTOOLS Document Editor control.