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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have just released a new setup, help, and example for the GemBox.Presentation 2.5 which supports the creation, editing and saving of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images to PPTX, HTML, 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 […]
We have released a new version of our presentation component for easy and efficient presentation processing in .NET without Microsoft PowerPoint – GemBox.Presentation 2.5. The biggest addition in this version is a 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 the […]
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 […]
We have just released a new setup, help, and example for the GemBox.Presentation 2.3 with support for creating, editing and saving charts to PPTX, PDF, XPS, or image file formats. Please note that the GemBox.Spreadsheet library is needed to work with charts in GemBox.Presentation. You can find more information by checking the example in our […]
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 […]
We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Presentation 2.3 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 support for customizing the reading direction […]
We have released a new version of our presentation component for easy and efficient presentation processing in .NET without Microsoft PowerPoint – GemBox.Presentation 2.3. New in GemBox.Presentation 2.3: Added support for .NET Standard 2.0 or higher. Increased the period for free version upgrade to 18 months. This is valid for both bug fixes and major version upgrades. […]
We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Presentaton 2.1 with support for reading Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 (PPT) presentations. Other notable improvements included in this release are: Added support for PPTX encryption. Added support for cloning presentations, slides, shapes and text. Added helper class for COM interop. Added support for compressing pictures […]
We have released a new version of our presentation component for easy and efficient presentation processing in .NET without Microsoft PowerPoint – GemBox.Presentation 2.1. New in GemBox.Presentation 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 […]
We have released new GemBox.Presentation component for easy and efficient PowerPoint presentation processing in .NET without Microsoft PowerPoint. GemBox.Presentation, for now, supports PPTX reading and writing, but we are already working on support for other file formats. GemBox.Presentation has following advantages: Rich Set of Features. More » No dependency on Microsoft PowerPoint. Faster than Microsoft […]