Released: Jul 30, 2018

Updates in 2018 Volume 2

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• Chart
  • RTL support - RTL support has been provided for legend, tooltip, and zooming toolkit in chart.
  • Label rotation based on text-anchor - Chart provides support for rotating axis label with the text-anchor as start.
• Diagram
  • Automatic LineRouting - Support has been added to automatically reroute the line around the nodes obstructing the line.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in Word documents are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Maps
  • Toggle Legend - Provided support to toggle visibility of shapes/bubbles on legend item click.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDF/A-1b - Support has been provided to convert existing PDF document to PDF/A-1b document.
  • Custom metadata - Support has been provided to add custom metadata to the PDF document.
  • Document timestamp - Support has been provided to add timestamp to the PDF document without using certificate.
  • Digital signature flatten - Support has been provided to flatten the digital signature fields in the existing PDF document.
  • Auto resize the text of text box field - Support has been provided to automatically resize the text of the text box field.
  • Adding annotation to the PDF layer - Support has been provided to add annotation to the PDF layer.
• Pivot Chart
  • Multiple Axes - You can split the pivot chart and its area into multiple panes to draw multiple series with multiple axes.
• Pivot Client
  • Calculated Members - Users can now frame a dynamic dimension or measure using the existing ones along with a simple calculation at runtime.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
  • PowerPoint to PDF conversion in Azure platform - Support to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF in Azure platform.
• Tree Map
  • Change initial rendering level - Provided support to render the tree map from any level instead of the first level.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time. All grouped shapes can be ungrouped at once or a specific shape can be ungrouped.
  • AutoShapes support in Excel to PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.