What's New in Essential Studio^® for WinForms

Common

• Our controls are now compatible with .NET 9.

Excel Library

Performance improvement

The Syncfusion® Excel (XlsIO) Library performs with a significant 80% improvement when global styles are applied to Excel worksheets, processing more efficiently.

Decryption

The Syncfusion® compression library now decrypts zip archives with multiple passwords, allowing each archived item to have a unique password for enhanced flexibility and security.

PDF Library

Add and retrieve document-level JavaScript in a PDF

Users can add or embed, retrieve, modify, and remove document-level JavaScript actions within PDF documents. These actions, written in ECMAScript, allow dynamic content and interactivity by executing scripts when the document is opened or in response to user interactions.

Flatten specific types of annotations in a PDF

This feature allows users to flatten specific types of annotations in PDF documents, converting them into static content while leaving others editable. It ensures secure, consistent viewing and is ideal for finalizing documents for sharing or submission.

Add date when signing a PDF document

This functionality allows users to add the date when adding signatures to PDF documents. This ensures the integrity and authenticity of the document.

HTML-to-PDF conversion enhancements

The Syncfusion PDF Library includes the following enhancements when converting HTML to PDF format:

• Calculating dynamic HTML content size: This enhancement allows the automatic calculation of dynamic HTML content size before conversion to PDF. It ensures that the content scales appropriately within the PDF, providing an accurate and consistent conversion experience for responsive or dynamic HTML content.
• Automatic scaling support: This enhancement enables automatic scaling of HTML content during conversion to PDF, ensuring that the content adjusts to fit the PDF page size. It provides a seamless and accurate conversion experience, especially for responsive or dynamically sized HTML content.
• Waiting for rendering of external fonts: This enhancement ensures that external fonts are properly rendered before converting HTML to PDF format. It improves the accuracy and consistency of PDF documents by ensuring that all font styles are correctly applied, even when external font resources are used.

Word Library

Word conversion enhancement

In the Syncfusion® Word Library, column balancing on pages with multicolumn layouts and continuous section breaks has been improved for Word-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions.