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Enhance Your SharePoint Environment with a Multi-Format Document Comparison Tool

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET is a downloadable library designed to let developers seamlessly add multi-format document comparison functionality to their own applications or 3rd party services. It allows end users to compare two versions of a document in a web-browser without having to install original software used to create the documents. Supported file formats include: PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plain text, HTML and ODT. Today we’re pleased to announce the release of a plugin that allows developers to integrate GroupDocs.Comparison… Continue Reading

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GroupDocs.Viewer Plugin for One of the Leading Learning Platforms – Moodle

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

Moodle is a powerful learning management system that provides educators and learners with a robust set of tools for building and administrating collaborative learning environments. When integrated into Moodle, GroupDocs.Viewer enables both educators and learners to view and securely share documents, drawings and images in more than 50 different file formats – all from within Moodle environment and without having to install original software used to create the files.

GroupDocs.Viewer is a multi-format HTML5-based document viewer that comes with a … Continue Reading

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InstanceID: using multiple simultaneous instances in GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

Two months ago we presented a new feature called InstanceID in GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET for the first time. In short, InstanceID allows you to configure several simultaneous instances of GroupDocs.Viewer associated with different independent root storage paths. Since that time, we’ve received a lot of feedback on the feature and this time would like to clarify how you can benefit from InstqanceID and how to configure it correctly in more details. Those of you who are familiar with GroupDocs.Viewer for… Continue Reading

Posted in zArchive | Tagged .net library, GroupDocs Viewer

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET version 2.13.0 – caching PDF copies of original documents & using multiple root storage paths

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

Last week we’ve announced a release of the GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET library version 2.13.0 and its two new features – an option for caching PDF copies of original files and the ability to use the viewer with an unlimited number of different independent root storage paths. Today we’d like to write about these features in more detail to help you quickly set up and get the most out of them. Let’s start with the caching enhancement. As you may already… Continue Reading

Posted in zArchive | Tagged .net library, GroupDocs Viewer, release notes

Protect Your Documents with Watermarks in GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Denis Gvardionov

One of the most requested and hence actively developed features in GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET is watermarking. Watermarking allows you to protect documents that you display on the web from screen-grabbing. In GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET watermarks are implemented as customizable text that can be added over a displayed document, overlapping its content. For the first time the ability to add watermarks was implemented in GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET version 2.0. In its first implementation, the feature had a number of restrictions. In… Continue Reading

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A Complete Guide for Developing a GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET Plugin for Kentico CMS

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Denis Gvardionov

As you may have already noticed, GroupDocs has many plugins available for 3rd party platforms and across all products we offer. We constantly expand this list and a few months ago we have announced a release of the new GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET plugin for Kentico CMS. This new plugin is very different from the cloud-based version we released earlier. The cloud-based version simply creates an iframe on a web-page where you want to display a document and redirects all input… Continue Reading

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GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET Can Now Be Easily Integrated into Orchard Sites

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

Good news for Orchard developers and site owners – after a successful release of the module that integrates GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET into Orchard CMS, we’re pleased to inform you that we’ve recently released yet another module – this time for integrating the .NET version of the GroupDocs.Annotation library. Like GroupDocs.Viewer, the GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET library supports all common business document formats, provides cross-platform compatibility and doesn’t require any installations on the client side. In addition to that, the library… Continue Reading

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Display PDF, Microsoft Office and 50+ Other Document Types on Your Kentico Site

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Stanislav Tatarin

Kentico is quite a popular CMS focused largely on document management. At GroupDocs we create APIs that allow developers to enhance their applications and sites with convenient document collaboration tools. One of such tools is a multi-format, cross-platform compatible document viewer – GroupDocs.Viewer. It allows end users to view over 50 types of documents and images from any modern web-browser and without having to install any office software or plugins. To name just a few, the file formats that the… Continue Reading

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A Web-Based PDF Viewer Sample Built Using the GroupDocs.Viewer for Java Library

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Ihor Mykhalevych

GroupDocs.Viewer for Java is a multi-format document viewer library that allows developers to seamlessly enhance their Java applications with the capability to display over 50 document and image types. Designed based on the client-server architecture, GroupDocs.Viewer doesn’t transfer documents to client machines during view sessions. Instead, the library converts documents to web-compatible content, transfers it to clients and then renders in a web-browser. This client-server architecture provides you with the following benefits: 1. End users see only web copies of… Continue Reading

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GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET Library Version 2.8.0 – New Page Layout, Smoother Scrolling and Enhanced Document Sharing Security

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Denis Gvardionov

Recently we’ve updated our GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET library up to the version 2.8.0. In this post I’d like to discover some of the most remarkable updates implemented in this latest version:

New Page Layout Options

So far, when viewing documents, you had the following page layout options:

Scroll view – pages are placed in a continuous chain, one after another.
One page in a row – one page fit to client’s screen. No page turn animation.
Double page flip –