GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 19.11 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 19.11

Major Features

There are 5+ features, improvements and bug-fixes in this release, most notable are:

Solved compatibility issues under .NET Standard 2.0
Now client application can hookup to converter and monitor for start, progress and complete states
Improved MPP to spreadsheet conversions

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Category	Summary
CONVERSIONNET‑3460	Feature	Provide information for conversion start, end and progress
CONVERSIONNET‑3345	Improvement	MPP to XLS conversion improvement and missing information
CONVERSIONNET‑2819	Fix	Fail to convert a specific word document to PDF
CONVERSIONNET‑3420	Fix	Other than PNG to PDF conversion throw exception for PNG source file
CONVERSIONNET‑3423	Fix	“System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL ?gdiplus?” exception when targeting .NET Standard 2.0 under MacOS
CONVERSIONNET‑3424	Fix	Compatibility issues under .NET Standard 2.0

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET 19.11. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Conversion which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

GroupDocs.Conversion.ConverterSettings.Listener

Introduced new property Listener

/// <summary>
/// The converter listener implementation used for monitoring conversion status and progress
/// </summary>
public IConverterListener Listener { get; set; } = NullConverterListener.Instance;

Usage

var settings = new ConverterSettings
{
   Listener = new ConverterListener()
};

ConverterListener is a class which implement IConverterListener interface:

public class ConverterListener : IConverterListener
{
    public void Started()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Conversion started...");
    }
    public void Progress(byte current)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"... {current} % ...");
    }
    public void Completed()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("... conversion completed");
    }
}