Essential Studio for Xamarin.Android Release Notes

v29.1.33
March 25, 2025

DocIO

Features

  • 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.

Bug Fixes

  • #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.

PDF

Features

  • 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.

Presentation

Features

  • #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.

XlsIO

Features

  • 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.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.