What's New in Essential Studio for Xamarin.iOS

Excel Library

Chart to Image enhancements

The following enhancements are added for the chart to image conversion.

• Line caps for line charts are now preserved.
• The line dash style for line and scatter charts are now preserved.
• The manually positioned chart titles are preserved.
• The 100% stacked line chart can be converted to an image.
• The axis titles’ text is wrapped.
• The multilevel category labels now render properly.

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.

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.

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

• Charts with shapes are now preserved in PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.
• The line caps for line charts are now preserved.
• The line dash style for line and scatter charts is now preserved.
• Manually positioned chart titles are now preserved.
• 100% stacked line charts can be converted during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.
• Wrapped text for axis titles is now preserved.
• Multilevel category labels in charts are now rendered properly.

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

• Enhanced preservation of Arabic text formatting, particularly italicized text, during Word to PDF or image conversion.
• Now, headers and footers that exceed half of the page in a Word document are preserved during Word to PDF or image conversion.

Enhanced Chart preservation in Word-to-PDF and image conversion

• Charts with shapes are now preserved in Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• The line caps for line charts are now preserved.
• The line dash style for line and scatter charts is now preserved.
• Manually positioned chart titles are now preserved.
• 100% stacked line charts can be converted during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
• Wrapped text for axis titles is now preserved.
• Multilevel category labels in charts are now rendered properly.