Detect Print Restriction in PDF Documents using GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 19.3

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Usman Aziz

PDF is a widely used document format that also supports interactive elements including annotations, forms, 3D objects, layers, etc. Along with these elements, PDF format also supports setting restrictions such as print restriction, modification restriction, restrictions on data extraction and so on. Such features give the user more control over the document and therefore, the PDF has become a popular document format.

Since we support the rendering of PDF documents, therefore, we always keep looking to introduce features that may … Continue Reading

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 19.3 is Released!

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Usman Aziz

We are happy to announce the release of version 19.3 of GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET. In this release, we have added several new features that target the PDF documents, archives and the source code files of Visual Basic and C#. Along with 2 bug fixes, we have made a couple of improvements for rendering of ZIP archives and vCard documents. For detailed information about the latest release, please have a look at the release notes.

What’s New in this

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Configurable Redaction using an XML File

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

A configuration file defines the initial or commonly used parameters, options, settings or preferences applied to operating systems, infrastructure devices or applications in an IT context.

When the Need Arises

If you have large size data (may consist of multiple files of different file formats) or corporate sensitive data which need to be redacted without specifying the rules in your code.

What is the Solution

The GroupDocs.Redaction API provides the way to define a removal policy by writing the list … Continue Reading

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Save Document Comparison Results in Image Format

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Atir Tahir

Yes, you heard it right. We’ve implemented ability to save document comparison results in image format as well. In this blog post we’ll review the new feature and bug fixes introduced in monthly release of GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 19.3.1.

Let’s talk about image representation of the document pages. The moment you save comparison results in your directory, you have a control to save results in image format as well using ICompareResult.SaveImages Method. Quite simple, isn’t it?

The good thing … Continue Reading

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Embed Inline Syntax Error Messages in Generated Reports using GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 19.3

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Usman Aziz

In the latest version of GroupDocs.Assembly for Java we have introduced an exciting feature of Inline Syntax Error Messages. Are you thinking about what does make this feature so exciting? Well, I am going to answer it in this post.

First, let’s have a brief overview of how does GroupDocs.Assembly generate the reports. GroupDocs.Assembly uses pre-defined document templates that contain the LINQ statements. These templates are evaluated, processed and then populated by API’s engine during the run-time. An exception is … Continue Reading

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Support for Diagrams in GroupDocs.Merger

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Samicheema

GroupDocs.Merger now supports diagram formats such as VSDFX, VSDM, VSSX, VSSM and VTX . It allows you to swap, rotate or trim pages in diagrams. Apart for that, you can also set or remove password protection of diagrams. This API comes in both Java and .NET platforms and could be integrated in any your .NET or Java application without any dependency.

Features for Diagrams Format

Swap Pages:

This feature allows you to exchange the position of two pages in the … Continue Reading

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Rendering Archive Documents

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

The Compressed files (e.g .ZIP or TAR) use file compression in order to save the disk space. Also, the compressed archive formats can be used to compress multiple files into a single archive. This post demonstrates the usage of the GroupDocs.Viewer API to render the list of files or folders from an archive file.

Rendering the List of a Folder from the Archive

The GetPages method of both ViewerImageHandler and ViewerHtmlHandler renders the items from the root of archives. The… Continue Reading

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Support of Inline Syntax Error Messages

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Usman Aziz

We are back with the latest release of GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET. In this post, I am going to give you an overview of the latest release including the demonstration and usage of an exciting feature. Let’s not wait and walk through what’s new in the latest release. You may also have a glance at the release notes of the latest release.

GroupDocs.Assembly allows you to generate automated reports by populating the pre-defined document templates. The document templates contain the … Continue Reading

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RotatePages Support in Diagram Formats

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Atir Tahir

Page rotation mechanism is one of the fundamental techniques when it comes to document manipulation and modification. As you know this feature is already supported by the API but for the limited file formats. Hence, in this month’s release of GroupDocs.Merger for Java 19.2, we implemented this feature for Diagram formats. By defining page number(s) and rotation angle you can achieve the purpose. Let’s see how simple it is.

We also added SwapPages support for Note format.

Bug Fixes

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XLTX File Format Support in GroupDocs.Merger for .NET

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Atir Tahir

Document Manipulation and Modification is now programatically implemented in a lot of file formats. Keeping that in view, we are introducing some new file formats with the release of GroupDocs.Merger for .NET 19.2.

Following new file formats are now supported by the API:

XLT
XLTX
XLTM

In excel these file formats are basically saved as a template files.

Beside new features, we also introduced a improvement and few bug fixes.
ODP presentations loading is optimized.

Previously, MovePage method was not … Continue Reading

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