Essential DocIO

Improved .DOCX Support

In DOCX format, Essential DocIO supports the same features that it previously supported in DOC format. Mail-merge reading and writing support, Form-fields preservation and writing support, Reading and writing support for footnotes and endnotes, Fill effects, background color, watermark preservation support, and AutoShapes preservation support.

Improved Find and Replace

This feature has been enhanced so you can find and replace control characters such as carriage return and new line. This version also has added support to preserve the formatting of an existing placeholder while replacing content with or without formatting.

Enhanced Mail Merge

For nested mail merge in tables, this feature merges information from a database with a document containing parent and child relationship tables within a table.

ActiveX Form Controls Preservation

Gives you the ability to preserve ActiveX controls such as Text Box, Check Box, Option button, and Label in both DOC and DOCX formats.

Improved Doc to HTML Support

Improving upon its format preservation, Essential DocIO now supports nested tables and text-box preservation when converting a Word document to HTML.

Comment Support

Essential DocIO is now capable of removing all comments or only specific comments from a document.

Image-bullet Preservation for DOC to DOCX

The ability to preserve image bullets in DOC-to-DOCX conversion has been added.

Essential PDF

PDF/A-1b

Added support for creation of PDF/A-1b documents based on the ISO 19005-1:2005 standard.

This standard defines a format for long-term archival of electronic documents and ensures that documents are reliably reproduced.

This is suitable for governmental organizations and other institutions where archiving is of paramount importance.

Bar Code

Support to render bar codes inside PDF documents is available.

Content Extraction

Added support to extract text and images in a PDF document. This feature also supports extracting text and images from a specified range of pages.

Improved HTML to PDF Conversion

The HTML to PDF converter speed has been enhanced and now has the ability to enable or disable client scripts in a rendered Web page. It also supports automatic detection of page breaks in rendered Web pages.

Other Features

Several other features have been added, including the ability to render HTML-styled text, line annotations, and text Web links.

Improved Documentation and Samples

Enhanced documentation and samples provide finer details about new and existing features.

Essential XlsIO

Medium-trust Support

The latest version of Essential XlsIO supports the deploying of applications in medium trust. You can now work with XlsIO on the medium-trust level with the same API. This allows you to deploy your application in a shared hosting environment.

RGB Color Support in XLSX

Spice up your reports with attractive RGB colors, and give your application rich styles. This version adds support for reading and writing RGB colors in Excel 2007 XLSX format and enables standard MS Excel 2007 32-bit color preservations in your application.

Advanced Conditional Formatting

Microsoft Excel 2007 has advanced support for conditional formatting. In this version, Essential XlsIO carries support for advanced visualizations in MS Excel 2007 XLSX format. You can now apply cell formatting to data bars, icon sets, and color scales when the data in a cell meets an applied condition. This provides you with an opportunity to create visual effects when dealing with large amounts of data and allows you to compare the value of a cell with other cells.

Improved XLSX Support

This version of Essential XlsIO has improved support for XLSX files and stabilizes reading and writing functions. You can now freeze a pane, split a pane, show or hide gridlines, ignore error indicators, read or write sheet-level document properties and sheet-view properties, zoom, preview page-breaks, apply summary settings to a group, and parse chart data points in XLSX format.

String Preservation in Range Level

The latest version of Essential XlsIO adds a property that preserves strings in a worksheet when importing data. This feature gives users the ability to work with complex strings without having to type-convert while importing.

Calculation Modes

Microsoft Excel allows you to set various modes in order to control formula calculations. This version of Essential XlsIO gives you the ability to set calculation modes so that a user can change a calculation in order to prevent formulas from being calculated by default when opening an Excel file.

Display Properties

This version of Essential XlsIO contains properties used to get or set gridline colors and to show or hide scroll bars. This feature allows you to control the way an Excel workbook or worksheet is displayed. You can now set various colors for a gridline and enhance the appearance of your reports. You can also hide scroll bars and prevent users from scrolling down.