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 images.
• Documentation Updates
  • The documentation has been updated with a new look and better user experience.
  • Topics are now shown in Dark mode when you have it selected in your system settings.
  • Added the Detect Image Format How-To topic.

Fixes

• PDF
  • On Linux environments, fixed a crash that occurred when extracting text with either ImGearPDEText.GetText or ImGearPDETextItem.CopyText.
• Color
  • Fixed an issue where loading a color profile on Linux resulted in an exception. Installation of the third party library Little CMS is required to load color profiles on Linux Systems.

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_PATH environment variable to the ImageGearPDF native resources location.

Fixes

• PDF
  • Security - Fixed an issue with password encoding for PDFs where the Owner and User passwords in the security data were encoded incorrectly.
• NuGet
  • Updated the Accusoft.ImageGear.Pdf NuGet package to preserve symbolic links and reduce disk space usage.
  • Updated the Accusoft.ImageGear.Core NuGet package to include default color profiles.
• Raster Formats
  • Fixed an issue where penultimate raster is duplicated when loading YCbCr JPEG files with 4:2:0 chrominance subsampling pattern.
• Documentation Updates
  • For SVG support:
    • Added the SVG How-To topic.
    • Added the SVG format topic.
    • Added the PDF to SVG topic.
    • Updated the Getting Started with ImageGear Office topic to include conversion to SVG.
  • Categorized the "New Features and Improvements" and "Product Updates and Fixes" for better user experience.

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
  • ImageGear is now exclusively distributed using NuGet. Customers who have purchased a toolkit or deployment license can also download our license utilities archive.
  • The Accusoft.ImageGear.Pdf.Resources NuGet package has been integrated into the Accusoft.ImageGear.Pdf NuGet package, and will no longer be retrieved as a dependency.
• PDF
  • General:
    • Re-added PDF compression options for JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compressions.

Fixes

• PDF
  • General:
    • Fixed an issue where compressing PDF files in Linux resulted in larger output file sizes than in Windows.
    • Reduced the time it takes to save a PDF in evaluation mode, which was caused by the repeated rendering of the evaluation watermark.
  • Security:
    • Fixed an issue where accessing the security data of a password protected PDF document on Linux caused an exception to be thrown.
    • Fixed an issue where saving a password protected PDF document caused an error to be thrown when that PDF did not contain object streams.
    • Fixed an issue where saving a password protected PDF document using the ImageGearFileFormats.SaveDocument method would save the PDF without a password.
  • AcroForm:
    • Fixed an issue on Linux where PDF AcroForm Form.Fields did not include signature fields.
    • Fixed an issue on Linux where PDF AcroForm flattening did not remove all visual information from signatures fields.
    • Fixed an issue where it was possible to set the Font and FontName properties of the RadioGroup and SignatureField classes without generating an exception.
    • Fixed an issue that caused certain non-displayable characters (for example, carriage returns) to display as missing glyphs in multiline AcroForm text fields.
• Raster Formats and Watermark
  • Fixed an issue where TIFF files containing cyclical IFD offsets could result in an infinite loop when loading the document.
  • Fixed an issue where saving an 8-bit raster image as a GIF with pageNum = -1 caused an end of stream exception to be thrown.
  • Fixed an exception thrown when rendering ImageGear's evaluation watermark for some locales.
• Deprecated Operating Systems
  • Support for Windows 8.1 has been deprecated.
  • Support for Ubuntu 16.04 has been deprecated.
  • Support for CentOS 8 has been deprecated.

Fixes

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

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.