GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 17.4.0 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 11 new features, improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

  • Introduced new method for retrieving basic metadata of the source document
  • Improved handling of extension-less urls
  • Improved to HTML conversions
  • Improved HTML to Cells conversions
  • Fixed 3 bugs

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

KeySummaryCategory
CONVERSIONNET‑1810Implement method for getting extended document informationNew Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1835Convert Html to Cells improvementsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1845Convert Cad to Html improvementsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1846Convert Note to Html improvementsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1840Convert Slides to Html improvementsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1847Convert Tasks to Html improvementsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1851Convert Words to Html improvements with UsePdf=true option setImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1871Improved handling of extension-less urlsImprovement
CONVERSIONNET‑1678Failed to validate PDF_X_3 and PDF_X_1AFix
CONVERSIONNET‑1844Converting Image to Html with UsePdf=true always use direct conversion instead converting through PdfFix
CONVERSIONNET‑1676Loading Latex document from stream requires FileStreamFix

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

How to get source document metadata 

const string sourceFileName = "sample.docx"; //TODO: Put the source filename here
// Setup Conversion configuration
var conversionConfig = new ConversionConfig
{
    CachePath = "cache",
    StoragePath = "."
};
var conversionHandler = new ConversionHandler(conversionConfig);
DocumentInfo documentInfo = conversionHandler.GetDocumentInfo(sourceFileName);
 
Console.WriteLine("Size: {0}", documentInfo.Size);
Console.WriteLine("File type: {0}", documentInfo.FileType);
Console.WriteLine("Pages count: {0}", documentInfo.PageCount);
Console.WriteLine("Last modified: {0}", documentInfo.ModifiedDate);