Essential Studio for Xamarin.iOS Release Notes

v27.1.48

September 18, 2024

DocIO

#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.
Added the new Metafile renderer specific for .NET cross platforms that renders the metafile images as raster image (PNG). Using this library the metafile images present in the Word documents are now preserved in the converted PDF and images. This converter now supports only EMF formats.

#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.

#I623635 – Fixed the issue where the text color changed during the conversion of PDF files to PDFA-3B.
#I627078 – Fixed the issue where a preservation error occurs during the conversion of PDF to PDF/A for specific documents.
#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.

#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.

Added the new Metafile renderer specific for .NET cross platforms that renders the metafile images as raster image (PNG). Using this library the metafile images present in the PowerPoint documents are now preserved in the converted PDF and images. This converter now supports only EMF formats.

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.

#I538363 - Provided support for tagged PDF in Excel to PDF conversion.
#I509277 - Provided support for creating a zip file with different passwords for each item.
#I607192 - Provided support for adding XML maps to the Excel document.
Provided support for importing XML data into Excel worksheet.
Added the new Metafile renderer specific for .NET cross platforms that renders the metafile images as raster image (PNG). Using this library the metafile images present in the Excel documents are now preserved in the converted PDF and images. This converter now supports only EMF formats.

#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.