Released: Sep 18, 2024

Updates in 2024 Volume 3 (27.1.48)

Features

• BulletGraph
  • Smart tag support - Support for smart tags has been added to the Bullet Graph control, providing instant access to frequently used operations and configurations within the design interface.
• Diagram
  • DataContract Serializer support for Diagram - Added the ability for users to save and load diagrams and symbol palettes in XML format. By using DataContract serialization, the diagram's structure, including its shapes, connections, and styles, can be serialized into XML for storage or transfer. Later, the serialized XML can be deserialized to reconstruct the diagram or symbol palette, ensuring that users can persist and restore their work seamlessly across sessions or different environments.
• Smith Chart
  • Smart tag support - Support for smart tags has been added to the Smith Chart control, providing instant access to frequently used operations and configurations within the design interface.
• Excel Library
  • Enhanced conversion of Excel to PDF - The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancement for converting Excel files to PDF:
    • Tagged PDFs: Converting Excel documents to PDF files with PDF/UA standard compliance is now supported. This ensures that users who rely on accessibility tools can read the content of these PDF documents.
  • Performance improvement - The Syncfusion Excel Library's performance has been improved by 30% for reading cell values from Excel documents. The time taken to read cell values for an Excel document containing data for 100,000 rows and 200 columns has been reduced from 22 seconds to 16 seconds.
  • Import XML maps - The Syncfusion Excel Library now supports adding XML maps to Excel documents. This feature allows users to select and map the fields to the worksheet range.
• PDF Library
  • Enhancements in Arabic script rendering - This feature enables users to render Arabic text with extended characters support for specific blocks, ensuring precise representation and improved readability of Arabic script in PDF documents.
    • Extended - A.
    • Extended - B.
    • Extended - C.
    • Presentation Forms - A.
    • Presentation Forms - B.
  • Circular annotations with cloud border style - Users can now apply a cloud border style to circular annotations in PDF documents, making it easier to emphasize key information, highlight important sections, and make annotations visually distinctive. It's beneficial in educational materials, technical documentation, design reviews, and collaborative business documents where clear communication is essential.
  • Image cropping in HTML-to-image conversion - Added the ability for users to crop specific regions of a converted image during the HTML-to-image conversion process, allowing for precise extraction of relevant content, such as isolating key visuals or focusing on particular webpage sections for reports or presentations.
• Word Library
  • WordArt in DOCX - The .NET Word Library now preserves WordArt effects like shadows, reflections, glows, bevels, 3D rotations, and transformations in DOCX files, ensuring that decorative text retains its appearance.
  • HTML conversion enhancements
    • HTML-to-Word conversion - The .NET Word Library now supports HTML files that do not follow XML standards, offering greater flexibility in HTML-to-Word conversions. Users can now more effectively handle HTML files with non-standard tags or structures.
    • RTL text preservation - RTL (right-to-left) text is accurately preserved during HTML-to-Word and Word-to-HTML conversions. Users can now convert HTML files containing the RTL text, and the text direction formatting remains consistent.
  • Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images:
    • Performance: Conversion of large Word documents (above 1,000 pages) with tables and hyperlinks to PDFs or images is now up to 25x faster, reducing processing time from hours to minutes.
    • RTL text preservation: RTL (right-to-left) text within track changes balloons is now accurately preserved during Word-to-PDF conversions.
    • Table rendering: Rendering of tables with "keep with next" settings on multi-column pages during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, preserves the layout as it is in the input file.