Following our monthly release process, GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 18.4 has been released and available for download. This release covers some new features, one improvement and a bug fix. You can specify bookmark, headings and expanded level when converting from Words to PDF and XPS. Grayscale PDF conversion is introduced. Aside these, HTML 5 compliant markup generation is improved. For further details included in this month’s release, please visit the release notes. We’d recommend you to integrate latest version of the API in your application and share your feedback.
Features
Specify bookmark, headings and expanded level
API allows to specify bookmark, headings and expanded level when converting from Words to PDF and XPS formats.Option for creating Linearize PDF when converting to PDF
var saveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions();
saveOptions.PdfOptions.Linearize = true;
Implement option for converting to grayscale PDF
var saveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions();
saveOptions.PdfOptions.Grayscale = true;
Resource optimization when converting to PDF
var saveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions();
// all images in the document are re-compressed. The compression is defined by the ImageQuality property.
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.CompressImages = true;
// value in percent where 100% is unchanged quality and image size. To decrease the image size, use ImageQuality less than 100
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.ImageQuality = 50;
// Link duplcate streams
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.LinkDuplcateStreams = true;
// Remove unused objects
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.RemoveUnusedObjects = true;
// Remove unused streams
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.RemoveUnusedStreams = true;
// Make fonts not embedded if set to true
saveOptions.PdfOptions.OptimizationOptions.UnembedFonts = true;
Image watermark
A new property byte[] Image is introduced.byte[] image = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes ( "image.jpg" );
var saveOptions = new PdfSaveOptions();
saveOptions.WatermarkOptions.Image = image;
Improvements
- Create HTML 5 compliant markup when converting to html
Bug Fixes
- Index was outside the bound of the array, when cache is enabled and watermarks are applied
API Resources
Here are a few channels and resources for you to download, learn, try and get technical support on GroupDocs.Conversion:- Downloads – MSI Package as well as Zipped DLLs
- NuGet – Nuget install
- Documentation – Product Wiki
- Video Tutorials – YouTube Videos
- Product Support Forum – Technical Support Forum for GroupDocs.Conversion
- Examples/Plugins/Showcases – GitHub Source Code Examples
