GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 18.8 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 15 features, improvements, and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

  • Reduce count of calls to storage
  • Extend DefaultFontName setting support for MS Project documents
  • Time interval option for rendering MS Project documents

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

KeySummaryCategory
VIEWERNET-1447Time interval option for rendering MS Project documentsNew feature
VIEWERNET-1698Security improvementsImprovement
VIEWERNET-1685Rendering comments from Presentation documents into images when ExtractText option is enabledImprovement
VIEWERNET-1670Retrieve list of resources only when loading page from cacheImprovement
VIEWERNET-1669Reduce count of calls to storage methodsImprovement
VIEWERNET-1664Extend support for DefaultFontName option for MS Project documents rendering to image and HTMLImprovement
VIEWERNET-1658Add ForcePasswordValidation configuration via configsImprovement
VIEWERNET-1594Extend support for rendering comments from ODP document formatImprovement
VIEWERNET-1697Deadlock when rendering documents in multiple processesBug
VIEWERNET-1687An exception raises while retrieving HTML pages from the source documentBug
VIEWERNET-1684Relative and absolute resource paths in the same HTML pageBug
VIEWERNET-1682Exception when the file name contains curly bracesBug
VIEWERNET-1465Legend is shifted and incorrect formatting when rendering PPTX as HTMLBug
VIEWERNET-1462Incorrect font when rendering PPTX as HTMLBug
VIEWERNET-935Incorrect character position in HTML mode in Safari for iOSBug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Rendering part of the MS Project with the specified time interval

Since the version 18.8, GroupDocs.Viewer API allows rendering part of MS Project document according to specified StartDate and EndDate properties of ProjectOptions class as shown in examples below. When only one of these properties is set, rendering starts from the project’s start date or ends on the project’s end date correspondingly.

Setting time interval for rendering part of MS Project document (C#)

// Setup GroupDocs.Viewer config
ViewerConfig config = new ViewerConfig();
config.StoragePath = @"C:\storage";
  
// Create image handler
ViewerImageHandler imageHandler = new ViewerImageHandler(config);
string guid = "document.mpp";
  
// Set Project options to render tasks from year 2018 only.
ImageOptions options = new ImageOptions();
options.ProjectOptions.StartDate = new DateTime(2018, 01, 01);
options.ProjectOptions.EndDate = new DateTime(2018, 12, 31);
 
// Get pages 
List<PageImage> pages = imageHandler.GetPages(guid, options);
  
foreach (PageImage page in pages)
{
     Console.WriteLine("Page number: {0}", page.PageNumber); 
     Stream imageContent = page.Stream;
}

Get PDF representation of MS Project documents with specified start and end dates (C#)

// Setup GroupDocs.Viewer config
ViewerConfig config = new ViewerConfig();
config.StoragePath = @"C:\storage";
  
// Create image handler
ViewerImageHandler imageHandler = new ViewerImageHandler(config);
string guid = "document.mpp";
  
// Set Project options to render tasks from year 2018 only.
PdfFileOptions options = new PdfFileOptions();
options.ProjectOptions.StartDate = new DateTime(2018, 01, 01);
options.ProjectOptions.EndDate = new DateTime(2018, 12, 31);
 
// Get PDF file 
FileContainer fileContainer = imageHandler.GetPdfFile(guid, options);
 
// Access PDF file stream.
Stream pdfFileStream = fileContainer.Stream;

Changes in sample configuration files

Since the version 18.8, it is possible to set ForcePasswordValidation property of the ViewerConfig class using app.config / web.config configuration files. UseCache property of the ViewerConfig class became obsolete and has been removed, therefore element is no longer valid. Due to recent changes, valid app.config / web.config is as below:

Sample app.config with correct GroupDocs.Viewer configurations

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
      <section name="groupdocs.viewer" type="GroupDocs.Viewer.Config.GroupDocsViewerSection, GroupDocs.Viewer"/>
    </configSections>
    <startup>         
      <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/>
    </startup>
    <groupdocs.viewer>
      <storagePath value="C:\storage"/>
      <cacheFolderName value="cachefolder"/>
      <cachePath value="C:\cache"/>
      <enableCaching value="true"/>
      <localesPath value="C:\locales"/>
      <pageNamePrefix value="prefix"/>
      <forcePasswordValidation value="true"/>
      <fontDirectories>
        <add path="C:\fonts" />
        <add path="C:\more_fonts" />
      </fontDirectories>
    </groupdocs.viewer>
</configuration>

List of Changes in v18.8

In the version 18.8, following public class members were added, marked as obsolete, removed or replaced:

GroupDocs.Viewer.Config.ViewerConfig

Public bool UseCache property compilation is set to fail

This property has been removed, please use EnableCaching property instead.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Converter.Options.ProjectOptions

Public DateTime StartDate property added

Use this property to set starting date from which the rendering should begin.

Public DateTime EndDate property added

Use this property to set end date from which the rendering should end.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.CacheFileNotFoundException

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.CacheFileNotFoundException class has been removed

This exception is obsolete and has been removed. GroupDocs.Viewer is throwing System.IO.FileNotFoundException instead of CacheFileNotFoundException since version v18.7 and next versions.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.GuidNotSpecifiedException

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.GuidNotSpecifiedException class has been removed

This exception is obsolete and has been removed. GroupDocs.Viewer will is throwing System.ArgumentNullException instead of GuidNotSpecifiedException since version v18.7 and next versions.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.StoragePathNotSpecifiedException

GroupDocs.Viewer.Exception.StoragePathNotSpecifiedException class has been removed

This exception is obsolete and has been removed.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Handler.Cache.ICacheDataHandler

void ClearCache(TimeSpan olderThan) method has been removed

This method is obsolete and has been removed.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Handler.Input.IInputDataHandler

DateTime GetLastModificationDate(string guid) method marked as obsolete

This method is obsolete and will be removed after v18.10. GroupDocs.Viewer will rely on LastModificationDate field in FileDescription object returned by GetFileDescription method.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Handler.ViewerHtmlHandler

public void ClearCache(TimeSpan olderThan) method has been removed

Please use public void ClearCache() or *public void ClearCache(string guid) * methods instead.

GroupDocs.Viewer.Handler.ViewerImageHandler

public void ClearCache(TimeSpan olderThan) method has been removed

Please use public void ClearCache() or *public void ClearCache(string guid) * methods instead.