2024 Volume 3 improves our Windows Forms suite with smart tags in the Bullet Graph and Smith Chart, XML serialization in Diagram, and extended Arabic character support in PDFs.
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.
The DataContract Serializer support for Diagram feature enables 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.
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.
The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancement for converting Excel files to PDF:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images: