GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 18.6 Release Notes
This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Comparsion for Java 18.6
Major Features
Below the list of fixed bugs in this release of GroupDocs.Comparsion for Java. The most notable are:
- Add ability of comparing DICOM documents by Comparison.Imaging
- Simplified and improved public API across all supported formats
- Introduced the process absorbing of tables with merged cells for GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF
- Fixed comparing filled tables for GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF
- Introduced support of multi compare for formats to GroupDocs.Comparison public API
- Introduced supporting of CAD formats
- Improved comparison of Imaging formats
- Simplify API across all supported formats
- Fixed comparing multi-column tables for GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF
- GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Fix bug when the text from the paragraphs overlaps tables
- Introduced support of PNG, BMP and PNG formats
- Added strikeout option for deleted/changed text in words comparison
- Improve comparison performance for Text and Imaging formats
- Added support of ChangeInfo
- Introduced support of Emails formats
- Improved comparison performance for Cells, Slides, HTML formats
- Improved Summary Pages information about comparison results for all formats
- Added ability of applying or discarding for category of changes in Words formats
- Introduced support of style settings for all formats
- Introduced setting for cloning passwords for all formats
- Introduced setting for cloning metadata for all foramts
- Added clone ability for Cells formats
- Added comparing Note documents
- Improvemet Cells comparison
- Fixed a number of Comparison.Slides iisue
- Upated logger
- added new features for Cells format (Pivot tables, header and footers)
- Fixed summary page working
- Authors were added to all changes
- Bug with changed styles in Note was fixed
- SaveImages and GetImages methods in Note were fixed
- Cell’s Aligner was improved
- Intermediate paragraph algorithm was added to Note
- Outline’s styles were added
- AlignWithoutPositioning algorithm was added to Note
- Note’s Summary page was fixed
- Comparison of headerFoters was added to PDF
- Fixed a number of specific cases for Note format (words breaking, paragraph comparing)
- Added intermediate paragraphs mechanism for simplifying comparing (for Words and Note)
- Fixed styles comparing in Notes
- PDF structure update
- Fixes for working with images on PDF format
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release
| Key | Summary | Issue Type |
|---|---|---|
| COMPARISONNET-1156 | Add ability of comparing DICOM documents by Comparison.Imaging | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1163 | Apply/Discard changes for DICOM format | New Feature |
| OMPARISONNET-1165 | Add summary page to images streams | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1143 | Add support of multi compare for formats to GroupDocs.Comparison public API | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1172 | Add UpdateChanges Model for Imaging | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1175 | Add supporting of comparison CAD | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1217 | Add support for JPG, BMP and PNG formats | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1170 | GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Add comparison of page context before building of the object model | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1273 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Words: Add support of setting for cloning document metadata | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1295 | Add support of Emails format by GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1276 | GroupDocs.Comparison all formats: Add support of Check Box and Page in Change Info | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1272 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Words: Add ability of applying or discarding for category of changes | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1274 | GroupDocs.Comparison: All formats: Add support of style settings: bold, italic, underline and strike through | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1332 | Add setting for cloning passwords for all formats | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1331 | Groupdocs.Comparison: Add setting for cloning metadata | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1339 | Add ability of applying or discarding for category of changes | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1407 | Add coordinates of Images as Styles | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1395 | Add ParagraphMerger | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1387 | Add set password to document for PDF | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1367 | Comparison.Cells: Add support Headers and Footers | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1365 | Add support for headers and footers for pivot tables | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1362 | Add support of pivot tables in Cells | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1305 | Add support of OneNote format by GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-778 | Implement the process absorbing of tables with merged cells | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1148 | Improved public API | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1161 | Add ability for comparison of result and original files in Imaging.Tests | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1157 | Add localize exceptions for wrong passwords while opening documents in Cells, Words, Slides and PDF | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1188 | Improve comparison of Imaging formats | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1182 | Cross-format API simplifications across all supported formats | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1080 | Comparison.PDF: Improve comparison changes detection for Paragraphs | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1254 | Strikeout option for deleted/changed text in words comparison | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1237 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Imaging: Improve comparison performance | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1235 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Text: Improve comparison performance | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1218 | Fix the support of new settings for PDF | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1245 | Comparison.Words: Fix case with absolutely different paragraphs | Improvement |
| OMPARISONNET-1244 | Add styles change detection for Comparison.Imaging (height, width) | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1263 | Improve Summary Pages information about comparison results for all formats | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1232 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides: Improved comparison performance | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1275 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Words: Add support of UpdateChanges for StyleChanged changes | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1288 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: defining Cells coordinates for components | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1245 | GroupDocs.Comparison.HTML: Improved comparison performance | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1234 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cell: Improved comparison performance | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1311 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Introduced IComparisonStyle interface | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1313 | Comparison.Cells: Add clone ability | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1378 | Find correct position of pivot table if its coordinates have already been used | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1372 | Cells comparison improvement | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1358 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides: Add support of HyperLinks on Shape | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1326 | Update logger | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1409 | Pdf Improvements:Check compare and add HeaderFooter to document | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1408 | Pdf Improvements: Update page properties | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1402 | Improve compare of comments in Comparison.Cells | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1400 | Refactoring for settings code | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1396 | Remove null checking from FeelChild method | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1390 | Improve Comparison.Note | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1431 | Comparison.Pfd: Refactor document builder using new content map | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1429 | Comparison.Pdf: Implement page content map | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1427 | Pdf Improving: Check and fix colums comparing | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1424 | Improve Style changed deep for Comparison.Note | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1422 | Add ParagraphMerger for Comparison.Note | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1420 | Update pdf structure | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1418 | Add IntermediateParagraphComparer to Words | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1160 | PDF Comparison - PDF files with tables and footer lines generating unexpected output | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1184 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Words: Text files with html content compared by Words engine | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1185 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Text: Fix compare html code in .txt files using word comparer | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1200 | GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Fix bug when the text from the paragraphs overlaps tables | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1208 | Disposed Images in Facade | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1256 | New Version 17.4.0 have Missing Properties for ChangeInfo | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1246 | Comparison.Slides: Two almost identical comments compared as different | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1292 | Comparison.Slides: wrong style of table cells after reject or accept the changes | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1300 | Comparison.Slides: After rejection of deleted SmartNode was lost content | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1284 | Comparison.Words: Incorrect table comparison with different styles | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1314 | Comparison.Cells: Fix getting style change when content of the cell is not changed | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1333 | Fix getting style change when content of the cell is not changed | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1315 | Comparison.Cells: Improve accepting and rejecting of components with hyperlinks | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1370 | Licensing is not working | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1315 | Comparison.Cells: Improve accepting and rejecting of components with hyperlinks | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1376 | Summary Page is not working with API v 17.7.0 | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1291 | Comparison.Slides: Accept\Reject bugs | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1410 | Fix summary page style | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1405 | Fix Deep Changed Nodes | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1399 | Fix saveImages and getImages methods for Comparison.Note | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1394 | Bug with same text divided on different paragraphs | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1392 | Bug with excess outline | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1385 | issue in Getting author for the changes (Changeinfo) | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1433 | Intermediate paragraphs problem in Word | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1432 | Comparison.Note: Fix special cases of word division | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1430 | Comparison.Note:Break line in the middle of a word | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1428 | Fix infinite loop in image rectangle PDF | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1423 | Comparison.Note Insert\Delete empty paragraph before text | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1421 | Tables with similar coordinates overlap on each other | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-419 | For RTF comparison, API detects style changes but does not highlight them like it does with DOCX. | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-418 | Comparison of particular PDFs returns null | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-383 | Invalid comparison for PDF documents | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-380 | Comparing a file with itself, gives poor result | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-377 | HTML Comparison is not working | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1523 | PDF Comparison - scrambled/text overlapped output | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-226 | Comparer is not comparing any format and returning null in ICompareResult | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-421 | Output of PDF comparison is not as expected, all the text exceeding first line is missing | Bug |
| COMPARISONJAVA-420 | No style changes are detected in PDF comparison and PDF is also truncated in multiple places | Bug |
Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes
This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 18.6. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Comparison which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.
None.