GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 22.9 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 22.9

Major Features

There are lots of features, improvements, and bug-fixes in this release, most notable are:

Improved rendering Spreadsheet files
Render Text files to responsive HTML
Fixed exception when invalid or expired license provided
Separator detection for CSV/TSV files
Add TAR GZipped (TGZ) file-format support
Add TAR XZipped (TXZ) file-format support
Add XZipped (XZ) file-format support
Add 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z) file-format support
Add syntax highlight to programming language formats
Add Power shell script (.PS1) file-format support
Add Power shell script module (.PSM1) file-format support
Add Power shell script module manifest (.PSD1) file-format support
Convert PSD with custom fonts
Preserve original image format when converting JPEG to HTML with embedded resources
Open files with HTML table inside as XLS files
Render all archive folders content for multi-page archives

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
VIEWERNET-3358	Render Text files to responsive HTML	Feature
VIEWERNET-3354	Throw exception when invalid or expired license provided	Feature
VIEWERNET-3455	Add TAR GZipped (TGZ) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-3362	Add TAR XZipped (TXZ) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-2757	Add 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-3361	Add XZipped (XZ) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-2811	Need option to add empty columns.	Feature
VIEWERNET-1988	Add syntax highlight to programming language formats	Feature
VIEWERNET-3491	Save external resources for text files rendered to HTML.	Feature
VIEWERNET-3492	Add Power shell script (.PS1) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-3493	Add Power shell script module (.PSM1) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-3496	Add Power shell script module manifest (.PSD1) file-format support	Feature
VIEWERNET-3570	Open files with HTML table inside as XLS files	Feature
VIEWERNET-3459	Support for reading latest Apples .numbers file format	Improvement
VIEWERNET-1972	Convert PSD with custom fonts	Improvement
VIEWERNET-3494	Preserve original image format when converting JPEG to HTML with embedded resources	Improvement
VIEWERNET-2126	Convert PSD to PDF with selectable text	Improvement
VIEWERNET-3136	Improve rendering archive files to PDF	Improvement
VIEWERNET-3457	Render all archive folders content for multi-page archives	Improvement
VIEWERNET-3370	Incorrect page count returned for Excel files in trial mode	Bug
VIEWERNET-3369	Excel to HTML conversion only renders first page	Bug
VIEWERNET-3368	Word to HTML conversion - Overlapping characters	Bug
VIEWERNET-3364	“Shape to image Error!” exception when rendering XLSX file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3360	Headings are rendered incorrectly when converting XLSX to PNG	Bug
VIEWERNET-3318	Image and pie-chart incorrectly positioned when converting XLSX to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3266	Exception when rendering CSV file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3233	“header doesn’t correspond to vCard format"“exception when rendering VCF file”	Bug
VIEWERNET-3196	“Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” exception when rendering OST file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3141	Excel file with watermark is not properly rendered to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3004	PDF to HTML conversion: Annotation transparency lost	Bug
VIEWERNET-2941	Parameter is not valid	Bug
VIEWERNET-2755	“PDF to HTML rendering wrong image colors in the output”	Bug
VIEWERNET-2693	Incorrect page count for EPUB document	Bug
VIEWERNET-3443	Invalid column index when converting XLSX	Bug
VIEWERNET-3359	GetViewInfo hangs for specific XLSM	Bug
VIEWERNET-3314	Exception ‘Value cannot be null. Parameter name: region’ when opening WMF file	Bug
VIEWERNET-2252	Some Chinese fonts cannot be displayed properly	Bug
VIEWERNET-2462	“File is corrupted or damaged” exception when rendring DWF file”	Bug
VIEWERNET-2479	Exception is thrown when loading VSDX file	Bug
VIEWERNET-2694	When watermark is added output HTML doesn’t ends properly	Bug
VIEWERNET-2957	Visio to PDF rendering issue	Bug
VIEWERNET-2992	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering IFC file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3133	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering CDR file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3138	Specific IFC files failed to open	Bug
VIEWERNET-3231	“Parameter is not valid.” exception when rendering VSD file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3275	“Parameter is not valid.” exception when rendering VSDX file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3287	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering TGA file to HTML"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3325	NotImplementedException when viewing certain ZIP file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3401	“Parameter is not valid.” exception when rendering VSDX file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3404	“The given key ‘1680’ was not present in the dictionary.” exception when rendering MPP file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3411	“The given key ‘188744169’ was not present in the dictionary.” exception when rendering MPP file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3506	Wrong call for Resize on specific DWG file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3511	Image loading failed exception thrown for specific DXF file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3514	Exception when converting Excel with hidden worksheets to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3517	ImageSaveException on an attempt to convert specific PSD to PNG	Bug
VIEWERNET-3518	Exception when trying to convert particular Psd file to png	Bug
VIEWERNET-3529	Bad representation after conversion	Bug
VIEWERNET-3531	Git to HTML -> Out of Memory exception	Bug
VIEWERNET-3534	Error when rendering specific DICOM file.	Bug
VIEWERNET-3560	Cannot load specific Xps file.	Bug
VIEWERNET-3571	Document viewer API only Renders the Deleted Folder of a PST File	Bug
VIEWERNET-3489	Invalid column index when rendering XLSM to PDF	Bug
VIEWERNET-3183	“Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.” exception when rendering CDR file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3186	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering CDR file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3189	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering IFC file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3194	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering DGN file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3221	“There was an issue with detecting page size. Please contact support.” exception when rendering DWF file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3228	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged” when viewing IFC	Bug
VIEWERNET-3274	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering DWG file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3451	“Could not load file. File is corrupted or damaged.” exception when rendering VSD file"	Bug
VIEWERNET-3512	Failed to render specific PLT file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3521	Specific VDW, VSS, VST files rendering blank to IMAGE/HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3538	Radio buttons are blurry when converting XLSM to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3580	“Unable to read beyond the end of the stream.” exception when rendering ODS file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3583	Junk email listed twice when converting PST to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3599	Image shifted in specific XLS files when rendering to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3600	Image not visible when converting specific XLSX file to HTML	Bug
VIEWERNET-3607	“Input string was not in a correct format.” exception when rendering XLSX file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3615	“Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal.” exception when rendering MPP file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3627	“Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” exception when rendering NUMBERS file	Bug
VIEWERNET-3637	Specific numbers document should be exported correctly.	Bug
VIEWERNET-3638	Enormous conversion time and output file size while converting specific worksheet of XLSX to HTML	Bug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Since GroupDocs.Viewer v22.9 Java version 1.7 is not supported, Java 1.8 is minimum required version

Public API Changes

com.groupdocs.viewer.options.SpreadsheetOptions class

Added new DetectSeparator property.

/**
 * Detect separator (for CSV/TSV files).
 */
public boolean isDetectSeparator();

/**
 * Detect separator (for CSV/TSV files).
 */
public void setDetectSeparator(boolean detectSeparator);

See how to use new properties in the following help topic: Detect a CSV/TSV separator.

com.groupdocs.viewer.FileType

Fields were added to FileType enum that reflects new file formats that we’re supporting starting from v22.9.

/**
 * <p>
 * XZ file (.xz) is archive compressed a high-ratio compression algorithm based on the LZMA algorithm.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/xz/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
XZ("XZipped", ".xz")

/**
 * <p>
 * Consolidated Unix File Archive (.txz, .tar.xz) are archives created with Unix-based utility for collecting one or more files.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/xz/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
TXZ("Tar XZipped", ".txz")

/**
 * <p>
 * Consolidated Unix File Archive (.txz, .tar.xz) are archives created with Unix-based utility for collecting one or more files.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/xz/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
TARXZ("Tar XZipped", ".tar.xz")

/**
 * <p>
 * Consolidated Unix File Archive (.tgz, .tar.gz) are archives created with Unix-based utility for collecting one or more files.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/tgz/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
TGZ("Tar GZipped", ".tgz")

/**
 * <p>
 * Consolidated Unix File Archive (.tgz, .tar.gz) are archives created with Unix-based utility for collecting one or more files.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/tgz/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
TARGZ("Tar GZipped", ".tar.gz")

/**
 * <p>
 * 7Zip (.7z, .7zip) is free open source archiver with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/compression/7z/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
SevenZip("7Zip", ".7z")

/**
 * PowerShell script module (.psm1) a file format for PowerShell module scripts.
 * <p>
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
PSM1("Windows PowerShell script module", ".psm1")

/**
 * PowerShell script file (.ps1) a file format for Windows PowerShell Cmdlet files.
 * <p>
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
PS1("Windows PowerShell Cmdlet File ", ".ps1")

/**
 * PowerShell script module manifest (.psd1) a file format for PowerShell module manifest scripts.
 * <p>
 * Learn more about this file format <a href="https://docs.fileformat.com/">here</a>.
 * </p>
 */
PSD1("Windows PowerShell script module manifest", ".psd1")

Behavior changes

Now when rendering source code files, they will be colorized. This feature is supported for following files: C++, CSS, HTML, JAVA, Javascript, JSON, PHP, SQL, XML, PSM1, PS1, PSD1

C# colorizing example:
C# coloring

SQL colorizing example:
SQL coloring

Since GroupDocs.Viewer 22.9 version when rendering archive to multiple HTML pages, all contents of the archive are rendered recursively, in previous versions only root folder was rendered.