GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 22.3 Release Notes

Major Features

Below is the list of most notable changes in release of GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 22.3:

• Implemented replacement for empty lines, instead of displaying changes in result document for paragraphs in Word format
• Implemented сomparison of values from string variables
• Improved image comparison in Cells format
• Improved creating charts in Cells format
• Improved display of components with styles changes for Word format
• Improved informativeness of error messages in PDF format
• Improved comparison of merged cells in Cells format
• Improved processing of paragraphs with style changes in PDF format
• Improved image generation in PreviewOptions for Words documents
• Improved calculation of coordinates for run for Words documents
• Added new parameter to image style comparison that allows you to track the markup type in Word format
• Removed redundant span tags around unchanged text in HTML
• Fixed issue with closing streams while comparing text documents
• Fixed and improved Header/Footer component comparison
• Fixed and improved lists handling
• Fixed handling of some unsupported file signatures
• Fixed coordinate calculation for changes in ChangeInfo list
• Fixed creation of charts in some cases in Excel format
• Fixed creation of resulting document in HTML format
• Fixed change list counting in Diagram format
• Fixed getting information about page number and size for changes when calling getChanges() method
• Fixed getting page information and coordinates for Hyperlink component in Word format
• Fixed comparison of empty cells with changed style in Cells format
• Fixed comparison of specific paragraphs in PDF format
• Fixed display of paragraphs with a table of contents in PDF format
• Fixed an issue when comparing some annotations in PDF format
• Fixed display of ComponentType property in the list of changes from the getChanges() method
• Fixed display of text styles on PropertySummaryPage
• Fixed setting page numbers for changes for Note and Text document formats
• Fixed setting coordinates and page information for some changes in Word document format
• Fixed setting coordinates for changes in Cells documents and Word documents with comments
• Fixed display logic of empty SummaryPage
• Fixed issue with displaying marked changes if the change takes several lines
• Fixed issue with displaying marked paragraph changes
• Fixed issue with Word changes having unnecessary objects
• Fixed issue with hyperlinks in Diagram not counting in SummaryPage
• Fixed issue with getChanges method not returning nested content
• Fixed issue with HTML title in result file containing unnecessary tag.
• Fixed issue with MarkNestedContent property in Diagram removing changes
• Fixed issue related to error when comparing HTML documents
• Fixed lost alternative text’s title in Cells
• Fixed issue with grouped objects not comparing in PowerPoint documents
• Fixed issue with Word and PDF changes counters returning incorrect number of changes
• Fixed issue with presentation file not reflecting style changes
• Fixed issue with wrong height in PDF result output
• Fixed incorrect calculating of coordinates for PDF with Images
• Fixed issue with Cells output file containing changes from fully deleted worksheet when MarkNestendContent property is disabled
• Fixed issue with Imaging changes counters returning incorrect number of changes
• Fixed issue with PDF output file containing warning message
• Fixed issue with HTML elements not comparing by attributes
• Fixed incorrect text positioning in PDF
• Fixed Comparison crash in specific Words documents
• Fixed issue with HTML comparing for Comparison App
• Fixed issue with image comparing for Comparison App
• Fixed issue with particular PDFs returning no result

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

1. To see changes in the display of information about components with style changes, you can use the following code:

try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourcePath)) {
    comparer.add(targetPath);

    CompareOptions options = new CompareOptions();
    options.setDetectStyleChanges(true);
    options.setDetalisationLevel(DetalisationLevel.High);

    comparer.compare(resultPath, options);
}

2. Learn more about getting result document with changed content replaced with empty lines can be found here.

3. Learn more about сomparison of values from string variables can be found here.