Essential Studio for Xamarin.Forms Release Notes

DocIO

Features

• #I84570, #I149806, #I73532, #I104716, #I105049, #I109548, #I119864, #I124725, #I130014, #I137039, #I137196, #I323992, F165479, F168737, #I652765, #I658111 - Provided support to create and remove editable ranges in protected DOCX format documents.
• #I635778, #I214139, #I665210, #I624912, #I583370, #F141869, #FB26929 - Added support to create list number formats including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Thai in DOCX format documents and preserve them during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• #I376950, #I411898, #I465126, #I679498, #I297755, #I301645, #I307279, #I349118, #I176036, #I184228, #I216695, #I331649, #I680106, #I86205, #I107655, #I182993, #I201718, #I209411, #I225246, #I311779, #I317812, #I345122 - Added support to preserve shape fill formats such as gradients, transparency, and pattern fills during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• #I70284, #I144361, #I160658, #I188244, #I201718, #I202261, #I206374, #I212424, #F137571 - Recolor effects like grayscale, sepia, and color tone adjustments are now preserved during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• #I293751, #I310315, #I337547, #I367467, #I469762, #I496627, #I650620, #F176420 - Drawing canvas and its contents are now preserved when converting Word documents to PDFs and images.
• Font substitution is now supported inside charts, allowing users to configure fallback fonts when the original fonts are unavailable during Word to PDF and image conversions.
• Provided fallback font support for Unicode characters in charts to preserve multilingual content during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• Improved preservation of EMF and WMF metafile images as searchable content during Word-to-PDF conversions.

Breaking Changes

• Changed the assemblies name of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.NET.dll” into “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in the build and NuGet package.
• Added the assembly of “Syncfusion.PDF.Portable.dll” as a dependency of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in the build and NuGet package.

PDF

Features

• #I548470 – Added font subsetting support during PDF to PDF/A conversion.
• #I614304 – Added support for form field grouping in PDF documents.
• Added AES GCM encryption and decryption support in PDF documents.
• Added customization support for unison selection behavior in radio button fields.
• Added export value support for checkbox fields in PDF documents.
• Added appearance fill color support for redaction annotations.
• Added comment and review history support for redaction annotations.

Presentation

Features

• Font substitution is now supported inside charts, allowing users to configure fallback fonts when the original fonts are unavailable during PowerPoint to PDF and image conversions.
• Provided fallback font support for Unicode characters in charts to preserve multilingual content during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.
• Improved preservation of EMF and WMF metafile images as searchable content during PowerPoint-to-PDF conversions.

Breaking Changes

• Changed the assemblies name of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.NET.dll” into “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in the build and NuGet package.
• Added the assembly of “Syncfusion.PDF.Portable.dll” as a dependency of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in the build and NuGet package.

XlsIO

Features

• Auto Fill and Fill Series support is provided to programmatically populate Excel cell ranges based on patterns, sequences, or trends, minimizing manual input.
• Font substitution is supported to allow configuration of fallback fonts when the original fonts are unavailable during chart-to-image conversion, ensuring visual consistency.
• Fallback font handling for Unicode text is implemented during chart-to-image conversion, enabling proper rendering when the default fonts lack the necessary glyphs.
• Preservation of EMF and WMF metafile images as searchable content during Excel to PDF conversion is supported.

Bug Fixes

• #I735455 - Cell value is accurately returned by the Range.Value property when the number contains high-precision digits.
• #I737657 - The IsFiltered property is updated properly when clearing a filter contains equal to operator.
• #I736030 - Hyperlinks are removed properly when performing clear operations in worksheet range.

Breaking Changes

• Changed the assembly name of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.NET.dll” into “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in build and NuGet package.
• Added the assembly of “Syncfusion.PDF.Portable.dll” as a dependency of “Syncfusion.MetafileRenderer.Portable.dll” in the build and NuGet package.