GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 17.5.0 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 17.5.0

Major Features

There are 9 new features, improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

Conversion from XML-FO/XSL to PDF
New option to set zoom when converting to HTML
Conversion from Vsdm, Vssm, Vstm
Conversion from LaTex
Improved speed when converting from cells.
Improved memory usage
Fixed 1 bug

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
CONVERSIONNET‑1892	Implement conversion from XML-FO/XSL	New Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1910	Option to set zoom when converting to HTML	New Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1917	Conversion from Vsdm, Vssm, Vstm	New Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1928	Implement conversion from LaTex	New Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1756	PPTX to HTML Conversion - Slide zoom level property	New Feature
CONVERSIONNET‑1881	Improve SlidesToHtml saver	Improvement
CONVERSIONNET‑1885	Update CellsToImageSaver and CellsToPdfSaver to remove empty rows and columns before saving document	Improvement
CONVERSIONNET‑1884	PPt to PDF Conversion - Tables borders are showing - showgridline property is also not working for this	Fix

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 17.5.0. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Conversion 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.

How to convert XML-FO/XSL to PDF

const string sourceFileName = "sample.xml"; //TODO: Put the source filename here
const string foFileName = "sample.xslt";
// Setup Conversion configuration
var conversionConfig = new ConversionConfig
{
    CachePath = "cache",
    StoragePath = "."
};
var conversionHandler = new ConversionHandler(conversionConfig);
using (var foStream = new FileStream(foFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    var pdfSaveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions{
       OutputType = OutputType.String
    };
    var xmlLoadOptions = new XmlLoadOptions
    {
        XslFo = foStream
    };
    var result = conversionHandler.Convert<string>(sourceFileName, xmlLoadOptions, pdfSaveOptions);
}

How to set zoom when converting slides to HTML

const string sourceFileName = "sample.pptx"; //TODO: Put the source filename here
// Setup Conversion configuration
var conversionConfig = new ConversionConfig
{
    CachePath = "cache",
    StoragePath = "."
};
var conversionHandler = new ConversionHandler(conversionConfig);
var saveOptions = new HtmlSaveOptions
{
    OutputType = OutputType.String,
    Zoom = 150,
};

var resultPath = conversionHandler.Convert<string>(sourceFileName, saveOptions);