What's New in Essential Studio^® for WPF

PDF Viewer

Find text with PDFium integration

The PDF Viewer’s find text functionality has been significantly enhanced with the integration of PDFium. This improvement results in a more accurate and reliable text retrieval when searching within PDF documents. This enhancement is particularly beneficial for extracting specific data from PDF reports, such as financial figures or customer information. The increased accuracy of the text search reduces the likelihood of errors, ensuring that critical data is retrieved quickly and correctly.

Surface Chart

Theming support

The Surface Chart control now supports various built-in themes, allowing users to customize its appearance.

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 is 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 is 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

This feature allows users to 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

This feature enables 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.