GemBox.Document

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 2.7 with a new HTML engine.

This new engine has the following advantages:

• Full CSS style resolution
• External CSS support
• Support for CSS style selectors
• Better HTML parsing

We hope that you like the new feature. If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions, feel free to contact us.

We have released a new version of our document component, GemBox.Document 2.7, for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word.

New in GemBox.Document 2.7:

• Added support for footnotes and endnotes.
• Added support for text frames.
• Added CharacterFormat support to the SpecialCharacter class.
• Added support for image size optimization when saving documents to DOCX and PDF formats.
• Improved help documentation.
• Fixed various other small issues and nuisances.

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

If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions, feel free to contact us.

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

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 2.5 and GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9 with support for digital signatures in PDFs.

For more information, see the digital signature in GemBox.Document and digital signature in GemBox.Spreadsheet examples.

Other notable GemBox.Document improvements:

• Major refactoring of lists (numbered / bulleted).
  The internal implementation now supports all complex cases supported in the Office Open XML specification and MS Word application, and the public API has changed to support new features, such as bullet pictures, but remains backward compatible.
• Added the ability to calculate list items via the DocumentModel.CalculateListItems() method, ListItem type, and Paragraph.ListItem property.
• Added the new ImportMapping type, which can be used in the DocumentModel.Import(T, bool, ImportMapping) method to specify custom style mapping and to improve performance when importing multiple elements.
• Various other enhancements and fixes in GemBox.Document and GemBox.Spreadsheet. For more details, see the GemBox.Document bug fixes and GemBox.Spreadsheet bug fixes pages.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions, feel free to contact us or send us feedback.

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 2.5 with support for reading PDF files.

GemBox.Document currently supports reading PDF files that contain text in paragraphs and/or tables by trying to recognize the logical structure of the document from the content of PDF pages. The output is not of a high fidelity, since it depends on the complexity of the content of the PDF pages, but has the following advantages:

• The logical structure of the document (sections, paragraphs, tables) is available.
• Text search is fully supported.
• Editing a document is fully supported.

Note that we plan to progressively improve recognition of logical structure and add support for new features, such as pictures, form fields, etc.
For more information about PDF reading with GemBox.Document, see our help page: Support level for reading PDF format.
For an example showing the results obtained from reading a PDF file and extracting text from it, see the Read and Extract PDF Text in C# and VB.NET example.
Other notable improvements included in this release are:

• Added support for updating the TOC and table, column, and cell widths while paginating the document by using the DocumentModel.GetPaginator method with PaginatorOptions.
• Added support for text box formatting via the TextBox.TextBoxFormat property.
• Added support for default tab stops via the DocumentSettings.DefaultTabStop property.
• Added support for specifying DPI resolution when saving to image formats via the ImageSaveOptions.DpiX and ImageSaveOptions.DpiY properties.
• Added support for specifying a document name when printing a document via the PrintOptions.DocumentName property.
• Various other enhancements and fixes in GemBox.Document API and file format readers/writers. For more details, see the GemBox.Document bug fixes page.

We hope that you like the new features. If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions, feel free to contact us or send us feedback.

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word – GemBox.Document 2.5.

New in GemBox.Document 2.5:

• Full support for Table Styles.
• Support for basic Shapes.
• Support for IF field in mail merge.
• Various fixes and enhancements in GemBox.Document model and file format readers / writers.

For more details see Table Styles and Shapes help pages.

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

From December 24, 2014 we are discontinuing Site Wide License.

There are few reasons for that:

• Lots of our users are distributed teams. Site Wide License which is tied to physical location doesn’t work for them.
• There were many situations where company has several locations so we had to make custom offer which includes several Site Wide Licenses plus several 1 Developer Licenses. That was also a big hassle.
• Sometimes it was hard to define to which office (physical location) some developer belongs.

At the end we decided to simplify the process and make it transparent.

You only need to know how many developers will work on project that uses our component and then you need to either purchase:

• 1 Developer License for every developer.
• Small Team License Pack (up to 10 developers) which is nothing more than discounted package of 1 Developer Licenses.
• Large Team License Pack (up to 50 developers) which is nothing more than discounted package of 1 Developer Licenses.
• You can also combine license packs.

All Site Wide Licenses that were bought are still valid and we’ll honor all right that arise from them. When owners of Site Wide License decide to purchase an upgrade to newer version of our component (or to renew free technical support) they can purchase an upgrade to either Small Team License Pack or to Large Team License Pack (depending on number of developers that need to be covered with the license).

To read more about licenses visit Knowledgebase Licensing questions section or contact our sales department.

We have just released a new setup, help and examples for GemBox.Document 2.3 with following improvements:

• Added support for Rich Text Format (RTF) as input and output format.
• Added support for creating and reading form fields in DOCX and DOC formats.
• Added support for restricting document editing.
• Added support for loading and saving document content to clipboard in HTML, RTF and TXT formats.
• Various other enhancements and fixes in GemBox.Document API and file format readers / writers. For more details, see GemBox.Document bug fixes page.

Go to GemBox.Document bug fixes page to download the latest bug-fix.

For some time now we have been working on improving our support service and we have released a new GemBox Support Center.
We have taken this initiative in order to improve our customer support, to simplify the process of feature requesting, to increase the available GemBox components resources and to enable our users to see currently developing features.
We are greatly pleased at how fast a great number of users have adjusted to it and started using it.

We have introduced new support pages:

• GemBox.Spreadsheet support
• GemBox.Document support

We have also introduced new knowledgebase pages:

• GemBox.Spreadsheet category
• GemBox.Document category
• Licensing questions category

Note that we will continuously work on adding new content to our knowledgebase.

Not only that, we have also introduced new feedback pages:

• GemBox.Spreadsheet feature request
• GemBox.Document feature request

We want to simplify the process of feature requesting as much as possible.
Note that your feedbacks are really important to us so please feel free to create any feature request or vote for any existing ones.

And finally, we have introduced a new ticket based system to our support service: whether you have a question or an issue, feel free to submit a ticket on our new “contact us” page and we will provide help.

We have just released a new bug-fix, help and examples for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and GemBox.Document 2.3.
GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 improvements:

• Added support for XLSX encryption.
• Improved print options: added support for PrintTicket stream.
• Improved quality of rendering metafiles (EMF, WMF) in PDF, XPS, image formats and printing.
• Fixed issues with DateTime formats which depend on operating system regional date and time settings.
• Various fixes and enhancements in GemBox.Spreadsheet model and file format readers / writers.
  Go to GemBox.Spreadsheet bug fixes page to download the latest bug-fix.

GemBox.Document 2.3 improvements:

• Added support for TextBox element.
• Added support for DOCX encryption.
• Improved quality of rendering metafiles (EMF, WMF) in PDF, XPS, image formats and printing.
• Added support for loading documents from URI locations.
• Improved loading from HTML: added support for absolute and relative URI images.
• Various fixes and enhancements in GemBox.Document model and file format readers / writers.
  Go to GemBox.Document bug fixes page to download the latest bug-fix.

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 bug-fix and help for GemBox.Document 2.3 with following improvements:

• Greatly improved support for PDF, XPS and image file formats.
  Following members are now supported in PDF, XPS and image file formats:
  • PageSetup.TextColumns property,
  • SectionStart.Continuous field,
  • Picture properties WrappingStyle and WrapTextType,
  • TableFormat properties AutomaticallyResizeToFitContents and DefaultCellSpacing,
  • TableRowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages property,
  • TableCellFormat properties FitText, TextDirection and WrapText.
• Added support for HttpResponseBase in DocumentModel.Save methods so they can be used in ASP.NET MVC applications.
• Various fixes and enhancements in GemBox.Document model and file format readers / writers.
  Go to GemBox.Document bug fixes page to download the latest bug-fix.

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