Xceed PDF Creator for .NET V1.6

Adds support for .NET Standard 2.0 for .NET Core 2.0 applications.

Features

• Now available on .NET Standard 2.0 for .NET Core 2.0 applications.
• In all classes points are now used to set sizes, margins and spacings.
• In Bookmark the new Remove method is now available to remove a bookmark from a document.
• In Container and Paragraph the new ReplaceTextWithObject methods now make it easy to replace a string with an image, a hyperlink or a table.
• Document
  • Adding a core property no longer removes the created headers/footers in the saved document.
  • Calling the InsertDocument method to join 2 documents now manages the documents sections. This result in a final document composed of 2 sections, one for each document.
  • The Bookmarks property now includes the bookmarks from the headers and footers.
  • The new UpdateTableOfContents method is now available to force an update of the Table of contents when document headings have changed.
  • Paragraph and Container, new properties and methods are now available to create or get Shapes (only rectangles for now) and TextBoxes.
• In Hyperlink the Uri property now shows the correct value when the Hyperlink is inserted in a paragraph at index 0.
• Paragraph
  • Equations can now be aligned to the left or right.
  • Loading a document, adding a paragraph with a specific Heading style to it and saving it, now saves the document with the paragraph in the correct heading style.
  • The Bold and Italic methods can now also be used to remove a bold or italic text.
  • The InsertHorizontalLine method is now obsolete and has been replaced by a new InsertHorizontalLine method with different parameters. This prevents an issue with creating incorrectly formatted lines.
  • The IsListItem property now returns false when a paragraph’s numId is equal to 0.
  • The IsListItem property now returns true when a paragraph has a style (or a basedOn style) which contains a numId different from 0.
  • The new ClearBookmarks method can be used to remove all the bookmarks from a paragraph.
  • The ParentContainer property is now correctly set when a paragraph is part of a header or a footer.
  • The new GetListItemNumber method now returns the numeric value of this paragraph when the paragraph is a ListItem.
• In Section the new PageNumberStart property can now be set to specify the starting page number of each section of a document.
• Table
  • Setting the Design property to the same value it already contains no longer acts on the Table. This results in documents merging where tables keep their styles.
  • New properties are now available to wrap text around the tables.
• In Table and Cell the GetBorder methods now return the default border when an Xml type is missing. This prevents a NullRefException.
• DocPDF the ConvertToPdf method is no longer available.
• A cell displayed on 2 pages, with a bottom vertical alignment, now displays its content in PDF.
• A document starting with a table no longer repeats the table on each PDF page.
• A line composed of a wrapped image/shape and an InLineWithText image/shape now correctly sets the line height.
• A paragraph containing a page break and a table now saves the table to PDF.
• A paragraph containing a pageBreakBefore no longer adds a new page if it’s already on the top of a new page.
• A paragraph following a table now always uses its LineSpacingBefore property.
• A wrapped shape/image/table near the footer no longer adds a new page in PDF (when fitting in current page).
• Absolute tabs are now saved to PDF.
• Big wrapped pictures and shapes are now saved to PDF.
• Bullet lists without a font family set are now saved to PDF.
• Creating a table and setting the column widths with the Table.SetWidthsPercentage method now saves to PDF with the correct column widths.
• ListItems now show their bullet when the paragraph uses a hanging value.
• Paragraphs that define tabStopPositions now include their style’s tabStopPositions.
• Pictures contained in a Hyperlink, which is contained in a paragraph, are now saved to PDF.
• Sections now start page numbering at their start page number, or continue numbering from the previous section.
• Shapes (rectangles and lines) and TextBoxes are now saved to PDF.
• Splitting a table’s cell on 2 pages now correctly displays the remaining cell content on the second page.
• Tables that start a new section are now saved to PDF.
• Tables with less columns in the first row no longer cause a crash when saved to PDF.
• Text in vertically merged cells now correctly aligns relative to top, middle or bottom.
• The created document properties now appear in the PDF document.
• The highlight color is now removed when an endOfLine character is saved.
• The lastRenderedPageBreak are no longer considered. This prevents from adding blank pages in PDF document.
• The tab distance between the ListItem’s numeric value and text is now normalized.
• Wrapped images/shapes/tables are now always displayed on the same page as their associated paragraph.