GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 20.11 Release Notes

Major Features

Below the list of most notable changes in  release of GroupDocs.Comparison for Java:

• Added ability to compare the most popular scripts and programming languages files
• Included all supported file fromats
• Added new function for show only inserted content
• Added page preview sizes
• Implemented ability to compare more than two SpreadSheet documents
• Implemented ability to compare more than two Note documents
• Improved calculating of coordinates of changes for PDF
• Improved performance of multiple comparing of text documents
• Improved function for showing target text for Presentations, Spreadsheet, Diagrams PDF, Notes, and Text
• Improved exception usage
• Functions optimization through code refactoring
• Fixed element movement changes detection for Presentation(Slides) documents
• Fixed creating output HTML file while comparing source code files
• Fixed exception when compare Diagrams documents
• Fixed issues with library compatibility for Spreadsheed and Notes
• Fixed number of exception while comparing Diagrams
• Fixed exception handling with Invalid Password message during generating preview of the password-protected PDF file
• Fixed issue with Note library version
• Fixed unexpected borders on the comparison results page.
• Fixed empty space between two lines in PDF comparison
• Fixed error occurred in comparing Word documents with tables
• Fixed unexpected sizes of the Excel file sheets/pages.
• Fixed incorrect positions of compared elements in result for SpreadSheet comparing
• Fixed issue with comparing Word documents with checkboxes and form fields in table cells

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Starting from version 20.11 GroupDocs.Comparison allows getting target text of specific changes in Result document this working for Word documents.

To use this feature you should call getChanges().get(…).getTargetText() getter

try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourceDocumentPath)) {
     comparer.add(targetDocumentPath);
     comparer.compare(outputPath);
     ChangeInfo[] changes = comparer.getChanges();
     for (ChangeInfo change : changes) {
         String targetText = change.getTargetText();
         System.out.println(targetText);
     }
}

Starting from version 20.11 GroupDocs.Comparison provides the ability to disable the display of added content in the result file.

To use this feature you should use compareOptions.setShowInsertedContent(false)

CompareOptions compareOptions = new CompareOptions();
compareOptions.setShowInsertedContent(false);

try (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourceDocumentPath)) {
     comparer.add(targetDocumentPath);
     comparer.compare(outputPath, new SaveOptions(), compareOptions);
}

Starting from version 20.11 GroupDocs.Comparison provides the ability to set paths to folder with custom fonts.

To use this feature you should use FontsHelper.setFonts(…);

FontsHelper.setFonts(Arrays.asList("path1", "path2", "path3"));