Essential Studio for Universal Windows Platform Release Notes

v27.1.48
September 18, 2024

DocIO

Features

  • #I542378 - WordArt effects such as shadows, reflections, glows, bevels, 3D rotations, and transformations are now properly preserved in DOCX format documents.
  • Enhanced HTML to Word conversion to handle HTML files that do not meet XML standards.

PDF

Features

  • #I580902 – Added support for applying a cloud border style to circle and ellipse annotations in PDF.
  • #FB47463 – Added support for rendering Arabic Extended (A, B, and C) and Presentation Forms (A, B) blocks in PDF documents.

Bug Fixes

  • #F189049 – Fixed the issue where IsDocumentModified returns an incorrect result after validating the existing PDF signature.
  • #I627792 – An exception no longer occurs when retrieving the free text annotation in an existing PDF document.

Breaking Changes

  • #I611735 – Caret Annotations (subtype /caret) are now marked as unsupported and will no longer be retained in the annotation collection of a PDF document. Previously, these annotations were incorrectly treated as PdfTextMarkupAnnotation, despite not being fully supported.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • The PowerPoint presentation will no longer be corrupted while cloning and merging the slide with Equation type OLE object.
  • The PowerPoint presentation will no longer be corrupted while cloning and merging the master slide that contains an OLEObject with a VML drawing shape.

SfCombobox

Bug fixes

  • #I589902 - The CornerRadius now applies properly in SfComboBox.

XlsIO

Bug Fixes

  • #I617604 - The exception is no longer thrown when loading an Excel document with large decimal values.
  • #I560994 - Performance has been improved when converting Excel documents to PDF with large cell ranges.
  • #I621798 - A Lambda function that contains a named range is now preserved properly when resaving the Excel document.