Version History
The following page contains information about GemBox.Document version history with links to the release blog post, stand-alone help file in CHM format, and on-line help, and it shows the release and end support dates.
GemBox.Document 3.5
Release date: 2022-05-16 (blog post)
- Support for cross-platform export to images.
- Support for writing SVG.
- Support for custom shapes.
- Support for OpenDocument Text (ODT).
- Support for reading WordML (XML).
Previous Versions
Note
Previous versions for which support has ended are no longer maintained. You can download the last bug fix for them from the bugfixes page. You can continue to use the previous version indefinitely (the licenses are perpetual), but if support has ended, no additional bug fixes will be released.
GemBox.Document 3.3
Release date: 2020-09-16 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2022-05-13
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Support for reading Single File Web Page (MHTML).
- Support for Barcodes and QR codes.
- Support for .NET 5 and .NET 6.
- Support for SVG pictures.
- Support for DOCX Digital Signature.
- Support for PDF/A.
GemBox.Document 3.1
Release date: 2019-07-08 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2020-09-16
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Support for PDF on Linux and macOS.
- Support for Comments.
- Support for Watermarks.
- Support for Charts.
- Support for .NET Core 3.0.
- Support for Right-to-Left languages.
- Support for Shape Groups.
- Support for Content Controls.
- Support for reading and writing of Flat OPC XML files.
- Improved rendering of shading and borders around a single or multiple paragraphs.
GemBox.Document 2.9
Release date: 2018-05-17 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2020-10-09
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Support for Picture placeholder in mail merge.
- Support for exporting TextBox to HTML format.
- Support for form fields in HTML format.
- Support for .NET Standard 2.0 or higher.
GemBox.Document 2.7
Release date: 2017-04-10 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2019-08-18
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Support for footnotes and endnotes.
- Support for text frames.
- Support for CharacterFormat in SpecialCharacter class.
- Support for image size optimization when saving documents to DOCX and PDF formats.
- Improved HTML engine with a support for external CSS.
GemBox.Document 2.5
Release date: 2015-03-17 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2018-07-09
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Read Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
- Full support for Table Styles.
- Support for basic Shapes.
- Support for IF field in mail merge.
- Updating Page, PageRef, NumPages, Section and SectionPages fields by using DocumentModel.GetPaginator method with PaginatorOptions.
GemBox.Document 2.3
Release date: 2013-09-04 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2016-12-16
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Read Word 97-2003 (DOC).
- Read and write Rich Text Format (RTF).
- Encrypt DOCX and encrypt PDF files.
- Protect DOCX files against saving changes.
- Support for TextBox element.
- Support for text columns, continuous section break and column break in PDF, XPS and image file formats.
- Insert HTML, RTF and TXT content at arbitrary document position.
- Advanced printing options.
- Generate and update Table of Contents.
- Creating and reading form fields in DOCX and DOC formats.
GemBox.Document 2.1
Release date: 2012-07-05 (blog post)
Support ended on: 2015-06-05
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window
- Write support for the:
- Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF),
- Microsoft XMP Paper Specification (XPS),
- Single File Web Page (MHTML),
- Image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMP).
- Read and write support for the:
- Web Page (HTML),
- Plain Text (TXT).
- 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.
GemBox.Document 1.0
Release date: 2012-02-02 (blog post)
Support ended on 2014-04-05
Stand-alone help file: GemBox.Document.Help.zip
GemBox.Document on-line help: separate window