Road Map for Essential Studio for WPF

Diagram

Built-in diagram builder control

Feature that supports editing multiple diagrams hosted inside a tab control, and editing the active diagram with a ribbon control.

Additional theme support

Feature that supports built-in and custom themes for shapes, connectors, and annotations

Editable shapes using control points

Feature that allows shapes like rounded rectangles and triangles to be edited with the help of a control point.

Automatic layout

Feature that supports the following layouts:

• Mind map layout
• Symmetric layout

Connector enhancements

Feature that adds the following enhancements:

• Editable circular arc segment.
• Connection validation.
• Override default cursor.
• Line distribution for hierarchy tree layout.

Essential PDF

Complex scripts

Feature that supports adding complex script text to PDF documents.

Essential Presentation

Right-to-left text conversion

Support to convert right-to-left text in PowerPoint files to image/PDF documents.

Slide transitions

Support to create and edit slide transitions in PowerPoint files.

Redaction

Feature that supports removing sensitive information from PDF documents.

Long-term validation

Feature that supports long-term validation with digital signatures in PDF documents.

Signature validation

Feature that changes the signature appearance in a PDF page based on the signature validation.

OCR 3.05

Feature that supports OCR processing with Tesseract 3.05.

Flatten rubber stamp annotation

Feature that supports flattening the rubber stamp annotation.

PDF Viewer

Thumbnail navigation

Feature that provides users a miniature preview of the PDF document pages and allows them to navigate to selected pages.

Text annotation

Feature that allows users to add and save text anywhere in the pages of a PDF document. It also allows users to move, resize, and modify the annotations.

Syntax Editor

Touch selection

Option to change selection of documents loaded in the syntax editor through touch interaction.

Report Viewer

Performance

Feature that improves the report processing performance to handle large amounts of data.

Parameter block customization

Feature that supports building customized parameter blocks using the report helper.

Dynamic height and width

Feature that supports changing the height and width of the chart report item using expressions.

Rich Text Box

Page break

Support to add page breaks to the rich text box content.

UI container

Support to add UI elements to the text rich text box content.

Tile View

UI virtualization

Support to load only visible tile items in a view port. This helps improve tile view performance when loading a large number of items.

OLAP Grid

Display measures and key performance indicators (KPI) in desired order

Support to display individual measure and key performance indicator (KPI) items one after another in any desired order instead of displaying them in groups.

Data Grid

Auto row height support for DetailsViewGrid

Support to fit row height for DetailsViewGrid based on its content by using the QueryRowHeight event.

Row drag and drop enhancements

• Support for built-in events to customize the row drag-and-drop operations.
• Support for auto scrolling when dragging the row from child grid to parent grid and vice versa.

Tree Grid

Coded UI automation

Coded UI automation support to create automated tests for inner elements, and record actions sequence.