Road Map for Essential Studio for WPF

Diagram

Improvements

• Users can nudge annotations using arrow keys on their keyboard.
• Users can display image icons for context menu items.

Stencil improvement

This feature allows users to display headers of symbol groups in a tab layout.

Excel-like Grid

WinAppDriver automation

This feature will provide automation support for Excel-like Grid through WinAppDriver.

PDF Viewer

Cut, copy, and paste annotations

With this feature, users can cut, copy, and paste all supported annotations from one page to another in PDF Viewer.

Spreadsheet

Theme support for forms and dialog boxes

This feature includes built-in theme support for forms and dialog boxes in Spreadsheet.

Syntax editor

Dark theme improvement

Enhance the user experience by making the editor visually appealing using dark themes.

Word Library

Word document comparison

This feature allows users to compare two Word documents and preserve the difference as tracked changes such as insertion, deletion, moving, and formatting.

PowerPoint Library

Find text using regular expressions

This feature allows users to find the text in PowerPoint presentations using regular expressions (RegEx).

Excel library

Excel to image enhancements

• Linear and radial gradient fill color support in chart to image conversion.
• Linear and radial gradient fill color support in worksheet to image conversion.

Security

Support to open encrypted XLS documents with a password using a strong encryption algorithm (RC4 Crypto).

PDF library

PDF digital signature enhancements

• Get revocation certificate information and validity details from the signature validation.
• Select a specific revocation type when signing the PDF document.
• Get revision of the signature in the PDF document.
• Improve the LTV signature to support the CAdES standard.

PDF OCR processor update

Update the Tesseract OCR engine to the version 5 to improve the OCR performance and accuracy.

Image extraction enhancement

Improve the performance and memory consumption when extracting images from PDF documents.