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What's New for Essential Studio 2012 Volume 1

Essential DocIO

Preserving Macro-Enabled Documents

A macro is a piece of Visual Basic (VB) programming code embedded in a Word file to automate repetitive tasks. Essential DocIO provides support for manipulating Microsoft Word macro-enabled documents (.docm) and Microsoft Word macro-enabled templates (.dotm) of Word 2007 and Word 2010 format.

Now, the macros present in the input macro-enabled document are preserved during conversion to another macro-enabled document (.docm to .docm, .dotm to .dotm, .docm to .dotm, and vice versa). However, Essential DocIO does not have support to create or edit macro commands in the macro-enabled documents.

Essential PDF Viewer

Improved Text Rendering

Text matrices are now rendered properly in Essential PDF Viewer, thus allowing content with defined character spacing to be displayed without any overlapping or spacing issues. Decoding support has also been added to extract octal and hexadecimal encoded text. These improvements have been implemented in Essential PDF Viewer across all of its available platforms—ASP.NET MVC, WPF, and Windows Forms.

Essential PDF

Data Matrix Barcode Support

Essential PDF now provides support for rendering two-dimensional bar codes. Support for Data Matrix, one of the popular two-dimensional bar codes, has been included. The Data Matrix bar code can be generated from numeric or alphanumeric text. It supports different encoding structures such as ASCII (includes C40, Text, X12, and EDIFACT) and Base 256. Different sizes for the bar code symbol are available and can be chosen manually or according to the input. Data Matrix bar codes can be directly drawn in PDF or converted to an image.

The Data Matrix bar codes are widely used in printed media such as labels and letters. It can be read easily by a bar code reader and also by mobile phones.

Data Matrix Barcodes in a PDF Document

Essential Report Viewer for WPF

Merge Cells and Summary Support for Tablix

Essential Report Viewer can render different templates of Tablix, a flexible report item used to display data, which includes flat tables (with no row or column groups), tables with column groups but no row groups, and tables with both row groups and column groups.

Essential Report Viewer now supports adding summary rows and columns to Tablix reports. Support has also been added for merged cells in Tablix, which were limited to header rows in previous releases.

Report Containing Tablix with Summary Rows
Report Containing Tablix with Merged Cells