Essential Studio for Xamarin.Android Release Notes

v29.1.33

March 25, 2025

DocIO

Create, modify, and remove SmartArt graphics programmatically in DOCX format documents.
#I566560, #I581206, #I173017, #I156416, #I191034, #I227776, #I379957, #I383384, #I440935, #I150127, #I153359, #I181911, #I211893, #I222043, #I223360, #I223422, #I223516, #I246325, #I247941, #I248366, #I282726, #I293680, #I335826, #I350137, #F180343, #FB28962 - SmartArt graphics are now preserved when converting DOCX format documents to PDFs and images.
Improved rendering of EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images when converting Word documents to PDFs and images.

#I698363 - Paragraph with exactly line spacing is now positioned properly while converting a Word document contains the noExtraLineSpacing tag to PDF.
#I698364 - Tab is now applied to the paragraph containing the floating item when converting a Word document to a PDF.
#I698379 - Justification alignment is now applied properly when converting a Word document to PDF.

Added support for defining custom structure elements with role mapping when generating accessible PDF documents.
#I565184 – Added support for generating well-tagged standard-compliant PDF documents.
#I565184 – Added support for generating PDFs compliant with Universal Accessibility Level 2 (PDF/UA-2) standards.
#I662486, #I587085 – Added support for generating PDF documents compliant with ZUGFeRD version 2.3.2.
#I677046 – Added support for applying Hatch Brush patterns in PDF documents.

#I686548 - Preserve shapes as PDF text form fields when converting PowerPoint to PDF.
Improved rendering of EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images when converting PowerPoint to PDFs and images.

Added file path overloads to the Open, Save, and Convert APIs, allowing direct file path usage instead of FileStream.
Introduced the GetCellValue method for efficient cell value reading in Excel documents.
Improved performance for opening, reading, creating, and saving Excel documents.
Enhanced support for preserving EMF Plus images in Excel to PDF/Image conversions.