GroupDocs.Editor for .NET 22.7 Release Notes

GroupDocs.Editor for .NET version 22.7 is a new groundbraking release that contains tons of a brand new feature, included a super feature we’ve been working during past years — an ability to edit PDF documents like an ordinary text! Along with PDF support, this version also fully support editing of the documents within Email format family like EML, MSG and others. Number of improvements and bug fixes is countless.

So jump in and read the detailed summary about what was done during all this time when GroupDocs.Editor for .NET was in the shadow.

New features and improvements

PDF support

Now GroupDocs.Editor for .NET supports a complete pipeline for the PDF documents, including loading, editing, saving, and extracting document metainfo. Password-protected PDFs are supported on input and output. Here is a special article for PDF.

XPS support

Like the PDF, GroupDocs.Editor for .NET now fully supports the XPS format too. It has no loading options, but all other is similar to the PDF.

Email support

Another groundbraking feature — full support of different Email formats, including (but not limited to) EML, EMLX, MSG, PST, MBOX and others. Special article for Email.

AZW3 support

Along with previously supported Mobi, now GroupDocs.Editor for .NET supports an AZW3 format, which may be considered as an advanced successor for the Mobi. Like the Mobi, for now AZW3 is accessible only for import, but not for export.

Support of new HTML elements

In the version 22.7 we’ve added support of a many new HTML-elements, including those, which are generated by MS Office when saving documents to the HTML format.

New format detector

New GroupDocs.Editor for .NET version 22.7 contains a fully reworked and dramatically improved document format detector. Now automatic detection mechanism is much more robust and accurate.

Runtime version information

GroupDocs.Editor for .NET version 22.7 is the latest product, which is released for the platforms/runtimes .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 4.6.1 and .NET Standard 2.0.

So the minimum required platform will be a .NET Framework 4.6.1.

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

KeySummaryCategory
EDITORNET-2199Add PDF support on import and export with metainfo extraction and format detectionNew feature
EDITORNET-2210Implement support of XPSNew feature
EDITORNET-2228Implement Html to Email processingNew feature
EDITORNET-2216Implement Email to Html processingNew feature
EDITORNET-2217Add support of AZW3 eBook format on importNew feature
EDITORNET-2203Rework format detectorNew feature
EDITORNET-2208Expand range of supported formatsNew feature
EDITORNET-2237Add support of important flag to CSS parserNew feature
EDITORNET-2231Add support of unknown Office-generated HTML elementsImprovement
EDITORNET-2249Add support of ABBR HTML elementImprovement
EDITORNET-2250Add support of HGROUP HTML elementImprovement
EDITORNET-2241Issue when loading a doc in EditorBug
EDITORNET-2239Investigate and fix issue with API referenceBug
EDITORNET-2233Adaptive HTML markup in the EML bodyBug
EDITORNET-2254Fix issue with saving HTML resourcesBug
EDITORNET-2253Fix bug in BorderRecognizerBug
EDITORNET-2252Investigate and fix issue with duplicated LINKBug
EDITORNET-2251Investigate and fix exception with Paddings in ePub docsBug
EDITORNET-2244Improve and bugfix codebase for 22.7 releaseBug
EDITORNET-2218Cannot process AZW3 formatBug
EDITORNET-2240Footnotes and endnotes are missing after saving HTML to WordprocessingBug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

New public types:

  • Options.PdfLoadOptions
  • Options.PdfEditOptions
  • Options.XpsEditOptions
  • Options.XpsSaveOptions
  • Options.EmailEditOptions
  • Options.EmailSaveOptions
  • Options.MailMessageOutput
  • Options.PageRange
  • Metadata.FixedLayoutDocumentInfo
  • Metadata.EmailDocumentInfo
  • Metadata.EbookDocumentInfo
  • Formats.FixedLayoutFormats
  • Formats.EmailFormats
  • Formats.EBookFormats

Removed types and members: