Adds support for .NET Standard 2.0 and above.
Features
- Xceed Words for .NET is now available on .NET Standard 2.0 for .NET Core 2.0 Applications.
- In all classes points are now used to set sizes, margins and spacings.
- In Bookmark the new Remove method is now available to remove a bookmark from a document.
- In Container and Paragraph the new ReplaceTextWithObject methods now make it easy to replace a string with an image, a hyperlink or a table.
- Document
- Calling the InsertDocument method to join 2 documents now manages the documents sections. This result in a final document composed of 2 sections, one for each document.
- Tthe Bookmarks property now includes the bookmarks from the headers and footers.
- In DocX the saved document now always has the extension “docx” or “doc”.
- Paragraph
- Equations can now be aligned to the left or right.
- Loading a document, adding a paragraph with a specific Heading style to it and saving it, now saves the document with the paragraph in the correct heading style.
- The Bold and Italic methods can now also be used to remove a bold or italic text.
- The InsertHorizontalLine method is now obsolete and has been replaced by a new InsertHorizontalLine method with different parameters. This prevents an issue with creating incorrectly formatted lines.
- The IsListItem property now returns false when a paragraph’s numId is equal to 0.
- The IsListItem property now returns true when a paragraph has a style (or a basedOn style) which contains a numId different from 0.
- The new ClearBookmarks method can be used to remove all the bookmarks from a paragraph.
- The new GetListItemNumber method now returns the numeric value of this paragraph when the paragraph is a ListItem.
- In Section the new PageNumberStart property can now be set to specify the starting page number of each section of a document.
- Table
- Setting the Design property to the same value it already contains no longer acts on the Table. This results in documents merging where tables keep their styles.
- New properties are now available to wrap text around the tables.
- In Table and Cel, the GetBorder methods now return the default border when an Xml type is missing. This prevents a NullRefException.
- Document
- The new UpdateTableOfContents method is now available to force an update of the Table of contents when document headings have changed.
- Paragraph and Container, new properties and methods are now available to create or get Shapes (only rectangles for now) and TextBoxes.
- PDF Conversion
- A cell displayed on 2 pages, with a bottom vertical alignment, now displays its content in PDF.
- A paragraph containing a page break and a table now converts the table to PDF.
- A paragraph following a table now always uses its LineSpacingBefore property.
- Absolute tabs are now converted to PDF.
- Big wrapped pictures and shapes are now converted to PDF.
- Bullet lists without a font family set are now converted to PDF.
- ListItems now show their bullet when the paragraph uses a hanging value.
- Paragraphs that define tabStopPositions now include their style’s tabStopPositions.
- Pictures contained in a Hyperlink, which is contained in a paragraph, are now converted to PDF.
- Sections now start page numbering at their start page number, or continue numbering from the previous section.
- Shapes (rectangles and lines) and TextBoxes are now converted to PDF.
- Tables that start a new section are now converted to PDF.
- The docx document properties now appears in the converted PDF document.
- The highlight color is now removed when an endOfLine character is converted.
- The lastRenderedPageBreak are no longer considered. This prevents from adding blank pages in PDF document.
- The tab distance between the ListItem’s numeric value and text is now normalized.
- The z order of pictures and shapes is now respected in the converted PDF document.
- Wrapped images/shapes/tables are now always displayed on the same page as their associated paragraph.