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We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Document 2.1 with a support for HTML format.

HTML format is, for now, supported as output file format, but we are also working on adding support for HTML as input format.
Also supported is Single File Web Page format or MHTML. For more information, see Html Export sample.

GemBox.Document Sample Explorer, which is already available for some time, is now implemented as web application which makes it easier to access and use than previous WPF ClickOnce implementation.
As before, Sample Explorer gives you an option to run sample’s code, which makes it ideal to make quick testing of GemBox.Document features.

Additional features introduced in the new release are:

• Added MailMergeClearOptions enum which can be used to specify whether the containing paragraph, table row or mail merge range should be deleted if no field was merged into it.
  For more information, see Mail merge clear options sample.
• Added DocumentModel.GetPaginator() method which can be used to find total page count and convert each page to WPF’s FrameworkElement or export it to PDF format.
• Major refactoring of Bookmarks: support for reading all level (block, inline, table row, table cell) bookmarks from DOCX format and bookmark methods now work for all BookmarkStart and BookmarkEnd locations.
• Improved support for DOCX format: support for reading Symbol characters and content of inline-level structured document tags (sdt), support for preserving form fields.
• Many other bug fixes and improvements. For more details, see GemBox.Document bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any feedback, feel free to send us an e-mail.

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and as promised before, this release includes major improvements of our PDF/XPS rendering engine.
We have added support for fit to page and page scaling features, fixed issues with rendering merged cells, improved performance of font fallback strategy and fixed other minor issues.

Another big feature is release of the new GemBox.Spreadsheet Sample Explorer which is now implemented as web application which makes it much more accessible.
As before, Sample Explorer gives you an option to run sample’s code, which makes it ideal to make quick testing of GemBox.Spreadsheet features.

The rest of the features introduced in this release are:

• Export to HTML file format is completely reimplemented.
  For more information, see Removed HTML export API help section and Html Export sample.
  Added support for exporting all sheets to HTML file format.
  Added support for exporting to single web page (MHTML) format.
• Included utility GemBox.Spreadsheet.WinFormsUtilities.dll in GemBox.Spreadsheet product which can be used to import/export ExcelWorksheet to System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView control with data, hyperlinks, formatting, images and more.
  For more information, see Windows.Forms sample.
  You are not required to redistribute GemBox.Spreadsheet.WinFormsUtilities.dll if you are not using its functionality.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. For more details, see GemBox.Spreadsheet bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any feedback, feel free to send us an e-mail.

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7.

New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7:

• Write support for the:
  • Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF),
  • Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS),
  • Image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMP).

  For more info, see GemBox.Spreadsheet Supported File Formats help page.

• Support for printing.
• Convert a spreadsheet to the XpsDocument and ImageSource (providing a means to embed a spreadsheet in WPF application with DocumentViewer and Image controls).
• Unification of Free and Professional versions. Easier performance evaluation.
• Simplified API.
• Improved help documentation.
• Fixed various other small issues and nuisances.

For more details about specific features, see our GemBox.Spreadsheet Sample Explorer.

If you have any questions, complaints or suggestions, drop as an email.

We hope that new GemBox.Spreadsheet features will add a greater value to your spreadsheet processing / reporting applications.

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 with the following new features:

• Support for getting formatted cell value based on a number format applied to the cell.
• Improved column auto-fitting and HTML export which now use formatted cell value.
• Added ASP.NET utility method which enables you to stream Excel file to browser from ASP.NET in just one line of code.
• Support for image hyperlinks in XLSX format.
• Added utility class LengthUnitConverter for converting numeric values between various measurement units used in GemBox.Spreadsheet and Excel file formats.
• Updated GemBox.Spreadsheet Sample Explorer with new features and two new samples: Number Format and Unit Conversion.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. For more details, see GemBox.Spreadsheet Free bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any feedback, feel free to send us an e-mail.

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Document 2.1 with the following new features:

• Mail merge supports date/time (/@) and numeric (/#) format switches in mail merge fields. There is no more need to use string properties in your mail merge data source or handle FieldMerging event to apply custom formatting. Use \ci switch or DefaultFormattingCulture to specify the culture used for formatting field values.
• Added ASP.NET utility methods: DocumentModel.Save(Object, String) and DocumentModel.Save(Object, String, SaveOptions) which enable you to stream the document to browser from ASP.NET in just one line of code.
• New web demo: Ajax HTML Editor with source code included which shows how to create DocumentModel from HTML string and export it to DOCX, PDF and other supported formats.
• Updated GemBox.Document Sample Explorer with new features and improved samples.
• Added support for printing to network printers.
• Added basic support for reading VML images in DOCX files.
• Various bug fixes and improvements in PDF writing and DOCX reading/writing. For more details, see GemBox.Document bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any feedback, feel free to send us an e-mail.

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Document 2.1 with a support for nested mail merge.

Nested mail merge is a powerful feature that enables you to import relational or hierarchical data source into the template document in a single statement.
For more information about this feature, see our Mail Merge help page or check out the new nested mail merge samples in our GemBox.Document Sample Explorer.

Additional features introduced in the new release are:

• Added Element.ParentCollection property for getting element’s parent collection.
• Added StyleCollection.GetOrAdd(StyleTemplateType) method for easier working with styles.
• Added Field.IsDirty and TableOfEntries.IsDirty properties which allows a field to be marked as dirty so that MS Word updates its value when opening a document.
• Added support for RTL languages (DOCX only).
• Added support for hidden rows.
• Resolved multiple bugs and issues. For more details, see GemBox.Document bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any feedback, feel free to send us an e-mail.

From July 10, 2012 we are discontinuing 4 Developer License. There are few reasons for that:

• We hoped that more people will purchase multiple license packs if we give a big discount on additional licenses. This proved to be false, as majority of companies still purchases 1 Developer License although we had a big discount on 4 Developer License.
• Some of our customers demanded the same discount when purchasing 3 or 5 licenses and that was a big complication to our sales process.
• Some of our customers wanted to switch from 1 Developer License to 4 Developer License once they acquired additional developers, that was also a big hassle.

At the end we decided to simplify the process and make it transparent. If you need to purchase license for more than one developer than just change Quantity field on the Buy now page. If you add developers to your company, just purchase additional licenses.

For existing customers, we will have transition period until July 25th where we will still have Upgrade for 4 Developer License on our pricelist. After July 25th, we will remove that upgrade option.

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word – GemBox.Document 2.1.

New in GemBox.Document 2.1:

• Write support for the:
  • Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • Microsoft XMP Paper Specification (XPS)
  • Image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMP)
• Support for printing
• Convert a document to the XpsDocument and ImageSource (providing a means to embed a document in WPF application with DocumentViewer and Image controls)
• Methods for replacing and setting bookmark content
• Versions for .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 and for .NET Framework 4.0 are united as one version for .NET Framework 3.0/3.5/4.0

For more details go to GemBox.Document features page or use GemBox.Document Sample Explorer.

If you have any questions, complaints or suggestions, drop as an email.

We hope that new GemBox.Document features will add a greater value to your document processing / reporting applications.

We have released new GemBox.Document component for easy and efficient Word document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word.

GemBox.Document, for now, supports DOCX reading and writing, but we are already working on support for other file formats.

GemBox.Document has following advantages:

• Rich Set of Features. More »
• No dependency on Microsoft Word.
• Many times faster than Microsoft Word automation. More »
• Plain and fair licensing. More »
• 100% managed code (C#), follows .NET class library design guidelines.
• Simple and easy-to-use programming interface. More »
• Preserves unsupported file format features. More »

For more details go to GemBox.Document features page or use GemBox.Document Sample Explorer.

GemBox.Document common uses:

• Generate Word documents.
• Generate reports using mail merge.
• Insert formatted text, images, tables and other content.
• Extract data from documents.
• Merge/combine documents.

You can download GemBox.Document Free setup and evaluate GemBox.Document free of charge and for an unlimited time period. Free version is limited to 20 paragraphs.
If you want to use the component in a professional mode – without any limitations – you need to purchase the license key. For more information about evaluation and licensing, see here.

If you have any questions, complaints or suggestions, drop as an email.

We hope GemBox.Document will improve your productivity and efficiency of your document processing / reporting applications.

We have refactored GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5, so it no longer uses constructs that do not work in medium trust environment. As a result, you can now use GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 in medium trust security level that is typical for applications hosted in cloud or shared-hosting servers.

We have fully tested support for medium trust, but since many hosting and cloud providers override default medium trust level permissions, there is a possibility that a component might not work in the modified medium trust environment. If that happens, drop as an email and we will investigate it.

You can download GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 Free with medium trust support here. Support for medium trust is added in build v1012.

For a demo, see our Web demo which is an ASP.NET application that runs in medium trust.