Released: Jul 7, 2016

Updates in 2016 Volume 2

Features

• Bar Code
  • Export as Bitmap - Linear and two-dimensional bar codes can be exported as a bitmap files.
• Chart
  • Callout - Data labels can be dragged and dropped anywhere within a chart.
  • Pinch Zooming - Charts can be zoomed and panned with interactive pinch-spread gestures.
  • Categorical Axis - Charts support categorical values in horizontal axis.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF Conversion Enhancements - Picture borders are preserved while converting a Word document to a PDF file.
  • WordProcessingML - Essential DocIO allows reading and writing of WordProcessingML files.
• PDF
  • Insert existing page - Pages from existing documents can be inserted in new document or another existing document.
  • Toggle Form Field Visibility - Visibility of the form fields can be toggled when printing the PDF document.
  • Optical Character Recognition from rotated content - Ability to recognize characters from rotated content in the embedded images of a PDF document.
• PDF Viewer
  • Printer Settings - The new printer settings allow the user to choose different page orientation, size and layout while printing the PDF document.
  • Touch Support - Page navigation and zooming can be achieved using touch gestures.
  • Tiling brush - Tiling brush of type 2 can be now be rendered when applied to shapes.
• Pivot Grid Control
  • Asynchronous Data Processing - The pivot grid control supports performing long-running data operations asynchronously on a background thread.
• Presentation
  • Converting Notes Pages to PDF - Notes pages from presentation slides can be converted to a PDF document.
  • Hyperlink Support - Hyperlinks can be added and modified in presentations and converted to a PDF document.
• Spell Checker
  • The advanced spell checker control offers Microsoft Office style spell-checking capabilities for Windows applications.
  • Custom Dictionary - The advanced spell checker comes with one predefined dictionary for the English language and also supports custom dictionaries.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Formula Enhancements
    • Support for adding Excel 2016 functions such as TEXTJOIN, CONCAT, IFS, SWITCH, MAXIFS, and MINIFS.
    • Table formula support to work with table data more intuitively by referencing portions of a table or the entire table.
    • The ability to fill formulas across a row or down a column while relative references are incremented by one.
  • Import Data into Excel from Dynamic and ExpandoObject Objects - Essential XlsIO supports importing data into Excel files from dynamic and ExpandoObject objects, which in turn enables JSON data to be easily imported into Excel files.
  • Filter Enhancements - Essential XlsIO supports applying and modifying text, date, and dynamic filters.
  • Replace Enhancement - Various search options have been provided to allow content to be replaced in a manner that is similar to Microsoft Excel.
  • 3-D Charts - Essential XlsIO can convert 3-D charts in Excel documents to PDF files.