What's New in Essential Studio for WinForms

Common

We no longer provide assemblies for .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.6. We recommend using .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later.

PDF Library

Remote GoTo action in PDF

This feature allows users to add or modify remote actions that navigate to an external PDF document. Users can easily add links to a specific page or location of another PDF document.

Digital signature enhancement

Users can effortlessly add signature and timestamp certificates to the PDF Document Security Store (DSS), ensuring greater security and compliance with PDF standards.

HTML to PDF enhancements

• Upgraded the BlinkBinaries to the latest version 120.0.6099.110, to address vulnerabilities and ensure a secure conversion process.
• Added the timeout option for the HTML to PDF conversion process. Users can convert HTML to PDF seamlessly, by ensuring timely completion with the new timeout option.
• Added an option to preserve accessibility tags that are in the input HTML while converting HTML to PDF.

PowerPoint Library

Crop an image in a PowerPoint presentation

The PowerPoint Library now includes APIs for cropping images within existing PowerPoint presentations or when creating new presentations from scratch, mirroring the picture crop options in Microsoft PowerPoint.

With this feature, when the presentation contains cropped images, users have the ability to save them as they are, preserving the cropped regions instead of the original pictures.

Presentation merge enhancements

The PowerPoint Library now compares master and layout slides to prevent the addition of duplicate master slides and to ensure the reuse of existing master slides when merging slides from another presentation.

Word Library

Update Table of Contents (TOC)

The Word Library now supports the inclusion of \c and \a switches when updating the table of contents (TOC) in a Word document. The purposes of these switches are:

• \c: Includes captions of figures, tables, charts, and other items that are numbered by SEQ fields in TOC entries.
• \a: Builds a table of captions by excluding caption labels and numbers.

With this feature, you can create a table of figures, tables, charts, and more, giving readers a clear overview of the document’s contents and facilitating easier navigation.

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

Now, headers and footers that exceed half of the page in a Word document are preserved during Word to PDF or image conversion.