We try our best to provide minimal yet appropriate solutions to our customers. Hence, in this month’s release of GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET 19.3 you will observe some new “easy-to-implement” features. Lets start with ellipse annotation. You might be looking for it, we’ve now added its support for different document formats.
Ellipse Annotation GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET 19.3 provides GetThumbnail method for PageImage class, that helps you in getting thumbnails of PDF document pages.
Password Protected Files Comparison Issue is Resolved
GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 19.3 rolls out with major bug fixes. When password protected files were compared, result was null. This might be a showstopper for you but not anymore.
Moving ahead, comparing a PDF with itself was not working, result was null. We fixed this issue.
Most importantly, MultiCompare was also returning null. Code below explains how it works.
You can compare a source file with multiple target files. Sounds appealing, isn’t it?
Set Flip Mode when Converting to a Image Format
With our latest release of GroupDocs.Convesion for .NET 19.3, some new properties are introduced in ImageSaveOptions class. When converting to a Image format you can now always set brightness and contrast. API permits you to do mirror-reversal across a horizontal/vertical axis using FlipMode property. Based on your feedback, we resolved some previously logged issues and improved document conversion experience. Such as, image quality is improved when converting to a WebP format.
Detect Print Restriction in PDF Documents using GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 19.3
PDF is a widely used document format that also supports interactive elements including annotations, forms, 3D objects, layers, etc. Along with these elements, PDF format also supports setting restrictions such as print restriction, modification restriction, restrictions on data extraction and so on. Such features give the user more control over the document and therefore, the PDF has become a popular document format.
Since we support the rendering of PDF documents, therefore, we always keep looking to introduce features that may give you more information about the documents.
GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 19.3 is Released!
We are happy to announce the release of version 19.3 of GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET. In this release, we have added several new features that target the PDF documents, archives and the source code files of Visual Basic and C#. Along with 2 bug fixes, we have made a couple of improvements for rendering of ZIP archives and vCard documents. For detailed information about the latest release, please have a look at the release notes.
Configurable Redaction using an XML File
A configuration file defines the initial or commonly used parameters, options, settings or preferences applied to operating systems, infrastructure devices or applications in an IT context.
When the Need Arises If you have large size data (may consist of multiple files of different file formats) or corporate sensitive data which need to be redacted without specifying the rules in your code.
What is the Solution The GroupDocs.Redaction API provides the way to define a removal policy by writing the list of pre-configured redaction rules in an XML file.
Save Document Comparison Results in Image Format
Yes, you heard it right. We’ve implemented ability to save document comparison results in image format as well. In this blog post we’ll review the new feature and bug fixes introduced in monthly release of GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 19.3.1.
Let’s talk about image representation of the document pages. The moment you save comparison results in your directory, you have a control to save results in image format as well using ICompareResult.
Embed Inline Syntax Error Messages in Generated Reports using GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 19.3
In the latest version of GroupDocs.Assembly for Java we have introduced an exciting feature of Inline Syntax Error Messages. Are you thinking about what does make this feature so exciting? Well, I am going to answer it in this post.
First, let’s have a brief overview of how does GroupDocs.Assembly generate the reports. GroupDocs.Assembly uses pre-defined document templates that contain the LINQ statements. These templates are evaluated, processed and then populated by API’s engine during the run-time.
Support for Diagrams in GroupDocs.Merger
GroupDocs.Merger now supports diagram formats such as VSDFX, VSDM, VSSX, VSSM and VTX . It allows you to swap, rotate or trim pages in diagrams. Apart for that, you can also set or remove password protection of diagrams. This API comes in both Java and .NET platforms and could be integrated in any your .NET or Java application without any dependency.
Features for Diagrams Format Swap Pages: This feature allows you to exchange the position of two pages in the document.
Rendering Archive Documents
The Compressed files (e.g .ZIP or TAR) use file compression in order to save the disk space. Also, the compressed archive formats can be used to compress multiple files into a single archive. This post demonstrates the usage of the GroupDocs.Viewer API to render the list of files or folders from an archive file.
Rendering the List of a Folder from the Archive The GetPages method of both ViewerImageHandler and ViewerHtmlHandler renders the items from the root of archives.