Road Map for Essential Studio for WPF

Word Library

Mathematical equations in Word-to-PDF conversions

This feature allows users to preserve mathematical equations (MathML) while converting Word documents (DOCX and WordML) to PDF.

PowerPoint Library

Header and footer

This feature allows users to add and edit headers and footers in PowerPoint presentations.

Diagram

Swim lanes

This feature will allow users to create a swim-lane diagram from code or a visual interface with the built-in swim-lane shapes.

Image Editor

Add custom view

This feature allows users to add a custom view in the Image Editor and provide different customization options such as rotate and resize.

Image picker support

Provides support to browse images in a local folder and load them in the image editor.

Maps

Tooltip support for shapes, markers, and bubbles

This feature allows users to show tooltips on shapes, markers, and bubbles with animation support when they interact with them.

Pinch zooming support

Provides pinch zooming support for the imagery layer of maps.

Radial Gauge

Annotation support

This feature allows you to add annotation text and views with customization options.

Gradient color support for scales and ranges

This feature allows users to add gradient colors for the background property of scales and ranges.

Offset support for gauge features

This feature allows users to adjust the position of scales, ranges, range pointers, ticks, labels, and annotations based on the offset value.

Label rendering event support

This feature allows you to customize each label in the Radial Gauge.

Tail support for needle pointer

This feature allows you to add a tail to the needle pointer.

Rounded corner support for range pointer

This feature allows you to customize range pointers with rounded corners.

Excel Library

Enhancements in pivot tables

The following enhancements are being made to pivot table functionality in the Excel Library:

• Support for outline layout and tabular layout.
• Inline formatting support in pivot table cell range.

Enhancements in shapes

The following enhancements are being made to shapes in the Excel Library:

• Font size adjusts according to the indent level within a shape.
• Bullets supported in shapes.
• Access and modify border properties in shapes.

PDF Viewer

Marquee zoom

This feature allows users to zoom a particular area of a PDF document by dragging the area around using the zoom tool or keyboard actions.

AutoComplete (TextBoxExt)

Token support

This feature allows users to have the selected values represented as tokens in multi-selection mode.

History support

This feature allows users to save and load the history of the searched text.

SelectedValue support

This feature allows users to set and retrieve the selected value of the item selected in the control.

Ribbon

Simplified Ribbon

Allows users to collapse the ribbon into a single row that looks like the latest Microsoft Office products.

Syntax Editor

Word wrap

• This feature allows long sentences to be broken and wrapped to the next line automatically.

ComboBoxAdv

Editable support in multi-selection mode

• Allows the user to select items in the combobox drop-down by typing the text manually.

Search box

• When there are many items in a combo box, adding the search option would provide a recommended list, which would be easy for users to interact with.

Syntax Editor

Brackets highlighting

• Option to highlight the open and close brackets that match the editor region.

PDF

Redaction annotation

This feature allows creating redaction annotations in PDF documents.