Author Archives: Atir Tahir

Get Image Representation of Document Pages

Getting image representation of document pages is one of the most successful feature that is already implemented in .NET version of the API. Keeping your interest in view, we’ve now implemented this feature for Java developers. GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 19.6 allows you to save document comparison results in image format as well.
What does it take to implement such a feature?
You just have to pass the output folder path to convertToImages method and API will take care of conversion … Continue Reading

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Retrieve Count of Credits Consumed In GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET

As you know that API already supports metered licensing.
Can we get count of credits consumed?
Yes, we have a good news for you. There is a new method GetConsumptionCredit() implemented in Metered class. This method returns count of credits that are consumed in case of Metered licensing is used.
Following example demonstrates how to retrieve count of credits consumed.

Let’s talk about the new file formats introduced. Most of you might be working with XLAM, an Excel Macro-Enabled Add-In … Continue Reading

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Issue with Footnote Number is Resolved

If you worked with earlier versions of the API, you are probably aware that there was issue in footnote number conversion. A Word document with such footnotes was converted to PDF or any other supported file format successfully but the footnote number order was disturbed.

There was one more issue reported in the forum. It was about converting a PowerPoint document with black SmartArt text to PDF. And the SmartArt text in the resultant document was changed to white text. … Continue Reading

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Get Image Representation of a Document

Did you ever wish to get image representation of a document? GroupDocs.Merger for Java 19.6 will make your wish come true. This feature is also helpful for front end application development.

Let’s have a look at its implementation.

It will return page number and page stream. Using getPagePreview method you will get list of page image representations for a document of known format. So, source document file format should be specified.
But what will happen if you don’t specify file … Continue Reading

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Export Annotations to TIFF Files

This may be a big news for those who annotate TIFF documents, most of the time. Previously, there was issue with this format. API was throwing exception “Cannot open image file”. But now you can:

  • Import annotations from TIFF file
  • Delete annotations from it
  • Export annotations into it

Moreover, in trial mode you were not able to get document info. This issue is now resolved in GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET 19.6.

Lets see new features introduced:

More Slide Formats
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Enable Pagination in WordProcessing Module

Yes, this is right. Paginal mode is now implemented in GroupDocs.Editor for .NET 19.5. How this mode will effect WordProcessing documents? As you know that previously, there was only float mode. When WordProcessing documents were converted to the page-less HTML, page division was absent. But in this release WordProcessing options class contains new paged (also called paginal) mode. When paged is enabled, it produces HTML markup, optimized and adjusted for per-page edit and it creates ease to enable … Continue Reading

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Generate Search Results from Filtered Documents

Sometimes, we have a lot of different formatted documents. We create index then perform search and API shows hits from all the indexed documents. Ever thought to get search results from desired documents only?

Let’s dig it further. Suppose, you have multiple TXT, XLSX and DOCX documents. What if you want to search a word or text only in TXT and DOCX files with specific word occurrence in file names? We’ve now improved ISearchDocumentFilter interface for such a purpose in … Continue Reading

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Cache Page Previews in GroupDocs.Annotation for Java

EnableCaching feature stores image representation of a document in a directory at the local drive. In case of repetitive processing/opening of a document, it uses cached data. This thing helps to avoid the processing of the same document again and again. You might be waiting for this feature. The wait is over now. GroupDocs.Annotation for Java 19.5 permits you to enable cache mode and cache page previews. Let’s take a overview of its code.

We also added possibility to display … Continue Reading

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Implement Conversion to WMF Format

WMF is a Windows MetaFile that can contain both vector and bitmap image information. We added support of WMF file format along-with few others in GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 19.5. You can now convert any supported file format to WMF. Along-with WMF, convert supported documents to EMF.

Convert to EMF

Convert to WMF

Moreover, you can now pay royalties for the use of the API. Yes, metered licensing is now enabled.

New file formats you can convert from:

  • DIB
  • XLT
  • POT
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Footnote Comparison Issue is Resolved

Footnote appears at bottom of the page and used to cite information. Previously, API was not comparing Footnotes correctly. But with the release of GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 19.5, we fixed this issue. Please have a glance.

But this is not it we have a lot more to tell you. Along with bug fixes, some features and improvements are also introduced.

Lets talk about new features first. Did you ever think of getting coordinates of document changes or differences? It … Continue Reading

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