New Features - ImageGear for .NET v21.4
ImageGear for .NET version 21.4 includes the following new or enhanced functionality. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.
Microsoft Office Features
Text Extraction for MS Office Word (DOCX) documents
Improved Office Open XML reader for DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX formats
Rendering support for more DrawingML shapes and other elements
Optimized conversion of large Excel and PowerPoint documents to PDF
Native JPEG and PNG File Format Support
Integrated Accusoft's highly optimized JPEG codec
Integrated Accusoft's highly optimized PNG codec
Barcode Improvements
Faster read speed for QR, Data Matrix, and PDF417 barcodes
Improvements in accuracy for PDF417, QR Codes, Data Matrix, and 1D barcodes
Recognition Improvements
Improved OCR capabilities in 32-bit and 64-bit toolkits
Enhanced ASP.NET Experience
Faster rendering of raster images
Better web viewing fidelity of Office and PDF documents
New Features - ImageGear for .NET v21.3
ImageGear for .NET v21.3 provides the following new or enhanced functionality. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.
AutoCAD 2014 Support
Enhanced DWG and DXF reader to support loading of AutoCAD files up to version 2014.
Improved DWG and DXF writer to support saving to AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD 2013 versions.
Microsoft Office Features
Improved Office Open XML reader for DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX formats.
Optimized memory consumption within the Office Open XML to PDF converter.
Introduced performance optimization API to release individual pages when working with large Word and PowerPoint documents.
ASP.NET Control Improvements
Introduced JavaScript customization API for editing and localization of the right-click context menu.
New Features - ImageGear for .NET v21.2
ImageGear for .NET v21.2 provides the following new or enhanced functionality. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.
Microsoft Office Features
Introduced rendering support for DOCX shading patterns.
Introduced new methods to allow rendering of DOCX files with opaque headers and footers.
Added rendering of Excel DrawingML shapes and elements.
Added rendering of a variety of PowerPoint and Excel Bar, Column, Line, and Scatter 2D DrawingML charts.
Improved rendering of several Microsoft Office Open XML elements.
PDF Enhancements
Introduced the ability to convert Microsoft Office Open XML documents supported by the product to PDF. See the "Office to PDF Converter" topic in the help file for more information.
Improved rendering of PDF content on 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Improved memory usage when loading and releasing PDF page content and resolved memory leaks.
Optimized speed performance and output file size of the PDF/A converter.
ASP.NET Control Improvements
Improved mouse interaction functionality of the JavaScript controls.
Enhanced rendering of PDF documents in the viewer and thumbnail controls on 64-bit systems.
New Features - ImageGear for .NET v21.1
ImageGear for .NET v21.1 provides the following new or enhanced functionality. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.
PDF Features
Introduced the ability to convert PDF documents to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files.
ASP.NET Control Improvements
Introduced vector (SVG) rendering for PDF documents to ASP.NET controls.
Added client-side JavaScript API to print content directly from ASP.NET controls.
Enabled server-side compression for transferring SVG data to reduce the amount of network traffic when viewing vector documents.
Microsoft Office Enhancements
Improved rendering of Microsoft Office Open XML Word and PowerPoint Files to support embedded EMF content.
New Features - ImageGear for .NET v21.0
ImageGear for .NET v21.0 provides the following new features. For detailed information about these and other ImageGear features, please refer to the ImageGear for .NET Help.
Recognition Features
Added OCR capabilities to the 64-bit ImageGear for .NET Toolkit.
Improved the OCR capabilities in the 32-bit ImageGear for .NET Toolkit.
ASP.NET Control Improvements
Improved ASP.NET handling of Office files with SVG rendering.
Improved rendering of annotations in Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 browsers.
PDF Improvements
Updated PDF and PS libraries to support new PDF and PS files.
Microsoft Office Enhancements
Improved rendering of Microsoft Office Open XML PowerPoint Files to support:
Line charts
Line charts with markers
Scatter charts with straight lines and markers
Global background pictures
New PowerPoint shapes
Added support for loading and rendering macro-enabled Office formats.
Improved memory use and performance optimization for loading and releasing Office documents.
Added miscellaneous enhancements for rendering content of Microsoft Office Open XML Word and Excel files.
Annotation Enhancements
Optimized the API for adding annotation marks to a page for better speed and memory consumption.
Added API for scaling annotation marks for better use with PDF documents and raster images with different resolution.
DICOM Improvements
Extended DICOM metadata API to decode string values specified in the following encodings:
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)
ISO 8859-2 Central European; Central European (ISO)
ISO 8859-3 Latin 3
ISO 8859-4 Baltic
ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6 Arabic
ISO 8859-7 Greek
ISO 8859-8 Hebrew
ISO 8859-9 Turkish
JIS X 0201 (Japanese, Shift JIS)
TIS 620-2533 (Thai)
Unicode (UTF-8)
Chinese (Simplified)