Latest release (March 2024)
This release introduces new NuGet package GroupDocs.Conversion.CrossPlatform that contains .NET 6 assembly which can be used on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Supported frameworks
- .NET 6
- .NET 7
- .NET 8
Supported operating systems
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
GLIBC library version is typically around 2.17 that is not compatible with GroupDocs.Conversion.CrossPlatform which requires Linux x86_x64 with GLIBC 2.23 or higher.Dependencies
Microsoft True Type Core Fonts that comes with
ttf-mscorefonts-installerpackage or you can copy the fonts manually. On Linux it is typically/usr/local/share/fonts/folder to place your fonts.Font configuration and customization library
fontconfig. Make sure to rebuild font cache after you install additional withfc-cache -f -v.
Limitations
This package has limitations on platforms and file formats compared to the GroupDocs.Conversion package.
Platforms
ARM64-based Linux and Windows platforms are not supported yet.
File formats
The following file formats are not supported by GroupDocs.Conversion.CrossPlatform package:
- AI - Adobe Illustrator Artwork
- PSD - Adobe Photoshop Document
- PSB - Photoshop Large Document Format
- VDW - Visio Web Drawing
- VDX - Visio Drawing XML File
- VSD - Visio 2003-2010 Drawing
- VSDM - Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing
- VSDX - Visio Drawing
- VSS - Visio 2003-2010 Stencil
- VSSM - Visio Macro-Enabled Stencil
- VSSX - Visio Stencil
- VST - Visio 2003-2010 Template
- VSTM - Visio Macro-Enabled Template
- VSTX - Visio Template
- VSX - Visio Stencil XML File
- VTX - Visio Template XML File
See Supported file formats documentation topic for a complete list of the formats and their versions supported by GroupDocs.Conversion.
We’re planning to add support for the listed file-formats above in the future releases.
Support
Please let us know if you have any issues with GroupDocs.Conversion or GroupDocs.Conversion.CrossPlatform packages by posting an issue at our free support forum.
Along with this, there are 15+ features, improvements, and bug fixes in this release.
Full list of changes in this release
| Key | Category | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CONVERSIONNET-6749 | Feature | Implement conversion to J2K |
| CONVERSIONNET-6727 | Feature | Add JFIF (.jfif) file extension as supported |
| CONVERSIONNET-6758 | Enhancement | Generic GetDocumentInfo method to return specific IDocumentInfo type |
| CONVERSIONNET-6740 | Enhancement | Correctly report unsupported conversion pairs |
| CONVERSIONNET-6741 | Enhancement | Bypass the source document to the converted stream if NoConvertOptions is provided from the convert options delegate |
| CONVERSIONNET-6674 | Enhancement | For container documents (pst, ost) extend document info to return files and folders |
| CONVERSIONNET-6759 | Enhancement | The “Folders” property of PersonalStorageDocumentInfo must represent hierarchy structure of folders and content |
| CONVERSIONNET-6750 | Enhancement | Improve Svg to Svgz conversion |
| CONVERSIONNET-6755 | Enhancement | When converting an email with attachments to a file, the converted file contains the last attachment content |
| CONVERSIONNET-6738 | Enhancement | Improve CAD to PDF conversions |
| CONVERSIONNET-6737 | Enhancement | Improve CAD to image conversions |
| CONVERSIONNET-6747 | Bug | System font folders not properly set when converting images and running on non-Windows platforms |
| CONVERSIONNET-6726 | Bug | Conversion from a CAD to image produces low resolution image |
| CONVERSIONNET-6760 | Bug | Conversion from Azw3 and Mobi to Pdf failed |
| CONVERSIONNET-6764 | Bug | NullReferenceException when converting dxf files to pdf |
| CONVERSIONNET-6305 | Bug | DOCX to PDF conversion - Bullets points issue |
| CONVERSIONNET-6754 | Bug | Conversion from Nsf not working |
| CONVERSIONNET-6753 | Bug | Conversion from Olm in trial mode not working |
| CONVERSIONNET-6735 | Bug | Conversions from CAD to any format do not respect the specified target page width and height |
| CONVERSIONNET-6746 | Bug | Output from DWG to PNG conversion is very pixelated in .NET |
| CONVERSIONNET-5601 | Bug | Converting particular Pdf to Tex produce broken result. |
Major features
- Conversions to J2K
- Conversions from and to JFIF
- Improved conversion from CAD
- Generic GetDocumentInfoMethod which return specific document info class
Public API and backward incompatible changes
- Introduced PersonalStorageItemInfo class which represents an item in a personal storage document.
- In PersonalStorageDocumentInfo are introduced two new properties - Items and SubFolders
- Folders property in PersonalStorageDocumentInfo class now represents hierarchy structure of sub-folders and items
- In Converter class, GetDocumentInfo<T>() method is introduced