GemBox.Document 3.5 v1673 Released

8th March 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Document with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed issues when saving documents to PDF files: Rendering of horizontal line shape in headers. Handling of hyperlinks without address. Handling of list level numbers when associated paragraph style level is null. The text from a footnote […]

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Export to images on non-Windows platforms

8th December 2023

We have recently released new bug fixes for GemBox.Document, GemBox.Spreadsheet, and GemBox.Presentation components with support for export to images on non-Windows platforms. Here are some of the details of this feature. When using the GemBox component on a Windows operating system, the WPF is used for text layout, rasterizing content to a bitmap, and bitmap […]

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Added support for nullable reference types

22nd September 2022

We have updated all our APIs by adding support for nullable reference types. This is a C# feature that helps you minimize NullReferenceException occurrence in runtime by performing a null-state analysis. The feature is disabled by default for existing projects, but it is enabled for new .NET 6 projects. To enable it manually, just add […]

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Removal of System.Drawing (GDI+) dependency on non-Windows platforms

18th August 2022

We have just released new bug fixes for GemBox components with lesser dependency on System.Drawing (GDI+). Over the last several months, we managed to isolate and restrict dependency on System.Drawing from our code for functionalities such as image handling, text measuring, printing, etc. Although GemBox components still reference System.Drawing (for backward compatibility), at runtime, we […]

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GemBox.Document 3.5 Released

20th May 2022

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word – GemBox.Document 3.5. The biggest addition in this version is reading and writing support for ODT (OpenDocument Text), a text document format supported by various word processing applications, such as the Writer application included […]

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Support for MS Office 2021

7th February 2022

We tested all our office components (GemBox.Spreadsheet, GemBox.Document, GemBox.Presentation), and we can confirm that they work correctly on files generated by MS Office 2021. We also added new features that were introduced in MS Office 2021. We mainly extended our calculation engine by adding support for spilled array behavior, and the following functions: XLOOKUP XMATCH […]

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Using GemBox components in .NET 5.0 applications

9th February 2021

With the recent release of .NET 5.0, we would like to inform you that GemBox components have been tested on the .NET 5.0 runtime. The behavior of GemBox components on the .NET 5.0 runtime should remain unchanged, however, .NET 5.0 introduced several breaking changes and we observed that the usage of ICU libraries on Windows […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.3 Release with support for SVG images

15th December 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and example for the GemBox.Document 3.3 which supports the creation, editing and saving of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images to DOCX, PDF, XPS, or image file formats. Images in SVG format are rendered in PDF files as vector graphics, resulting in a smaller file size and better […]

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GemBox.Document 3.3 Released

16th September 2020

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word – GemBox.Document 3.3. The biggest addition in this version is support for PDF/A, the ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for long-term archiving of electronic documents. For more details, go to […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.1 Release with support for hyphenation and formula fields

15th June 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 3.1 with the following features added: Hyphenation – You can now use our API to specify hyphenation options and have GemBox.Document hyphenate your text automatically while rendering to PDF, XPS, or image file formats. You can find more information by checking the […]

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Support for PDF on Linux and macOS

17th March 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 3.1, GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5, GemBox.Presentation 2.3, and GemBox.Pdf 1.3 with the support for creating PDF files and paginating document content on Linux, macOS and other platforms that implement .NET Standard 2.0. Over the last several months we managed to remove dependency on WPF from […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.1 Release with support for comments

28th February 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 3.1 with the following features added: Comments – You can now use our API to add, edit, or remove comments in a document Support for updating SEQ fields using DocumentModel Paginator Various other enhancements and fixes in the GemBox.Document API and file […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.1 Release with support for watermarks

20th December 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 3.1 with the following features added: Watermarks – You can now use our API to specify a TextWatermark or a PictureWatermark that will be used as the watermark for a document section. CharacterFormat.Spacing support in rendering to PDF, XPS or image file […]

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New GemBox .NET Core 3.0 Release

13th November 2019

Following Microsoft’s announcement of .NET Core 3.0, we have released new versions of GemBox .NET components compatible with .NET Core 3.0. With the release of .NET Core 3.0 support for Windows desktop applications (Windows only), GemBox.Document, GemBox.Spreadsheet, GemBox.Presentation and GemBox.Pdf .NET Core 3.0 components provide support for printing and writing to Adobe Portable Document Format […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.1 Release with support for charts

7th November 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and example for the GemBox.Document 3.1 which supports the creation, editing and saving of charts to DOCX, PDF, XPS, or image file formats. Please note that the GemBox.Spreadsheet library is needed to work with charts in GemBox.Document. You can find more information by checking the example in […]

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New GemBox.Document 3.1 Release with support for right-to-left scripts

11th September 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 3.1 with support for bidirectional texts when saving to PDF, XPS, or image file formats. This includes support for languages that use a right-to-left script such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, or Yiddish. We also added full support for customizing the direction […]

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GemBox.Document 3.1 Released

8th July 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 3.1, with the following features added or updated: Grouped Shapes – Added support for grouped shapes. Content Controls – You can now get, create, or edit Content Controls of various types. Licensing – New licensing scheme and key format. Added support for […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.9 Release

26th February 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Document 2.9 with the following features added: Picture placeholder in mail merge – Now you can specify and format a picture placeholder, which will be later merged and replaced by an actual picture. Color depth and compression – It is possible to specify […]

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GemBox.Document 2.9 Released

17th May 2018

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word. New in GemBox.Document 2.9: Extended support for HTML input and select tags. GemBox.Document will now convert HTML input and select tags to Form Fields and vice versa. Added support for .NET Standard 2.0 or […]

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New HTML engine in GemBox.Document

18th September 2017

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 […]

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GemBox.Document 2.7 Released

10th April 2017

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 […]

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PDF Digital Signature in GemBox.Document and GemBox.Spreadsheet

15th February 2016

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 […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.5 Release with PDF read support

10th December 2015

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 high fidelity, […]

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GemBox.Document 2.5 Released

19th March 2015

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 […]

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Discontinuation of Site Wide License

23rd December 2014

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 […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.3 Release with RTF and Form Fields support

25th July 2014

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 2.3 with the 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 […]

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New Customer Support Service

26th May 2014

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 […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and GemBox.Document 2.3

17th February 2014

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 […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.3 Release

26th November 2013

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, […]

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GemBox.Document 2.3 Released

4th September 2013

We have released a new version of our document component for easy and efficient document processing in .NET without Microsoft Word – GemBox.Document 2.3. New in GemBox.Document 2.3: Read Word 97-2003 (DOC) files Encrypt PDF files Protect DOCX files against saving changes Support for text columns, continuous section break and column break in PDF, XPS […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.1 Release with support for HTML and ContentRange

17th June 2013

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Document 2.1 with following improvements: Introducing new API for easier manipulation with document content – ContentRange API. Added support for Find and Replace functionality. Added support for Mono framework for DOCX, HTML and TXT file formats. Added support for reading HTML files. Added support for […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.1 Release with HTML support

28th March 2013

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 […]

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New GemBox.Document 2.1 Release

15th November 2012

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 […]

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GemBox.Document 2.1 Supports Nested Mail Merge

2nd August 2012

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 […]

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Discontinuation of 4 Developer License

10th July 2012

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 […]

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GemBox.Document 2.1 Released

6th July 2012

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 […]

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GemBox.Document 1.0 Released

6th February 2012

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 […]

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