GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 25.9 Release Notes

This GroupDocs.Viewer for Java version 25.9 includes 10 new features, 7 improvements, and more than 20 bug fixes.

Full list of changes in this release

Key	Category	Summary
VIEWERNET‑4739	Feature	Add support for rendering multipage AI (Adobe Illustrator) files
VIEWERNET‑5125	Feature	Add support of LHA archive format
VIEWERNET‑5134	Feature	Display full email address when rendering email messages
VIEWERNET‑5143	Feature	Add possibility to disable updating fields with new option when saving WordProcessing documents
VIEWERNET‑5152	Feature	Text highlighting in rendered documents
VIEWERNET‑5197	Feature	Add public option to remove JavaScript from resultant HTML generated from input WordProcessing
VIEWERNET‑5233	Feature	Return all fonts used in input document via public API
VIEWERNET‑5236	Feature	Add support of Cabinet (CAB) archive format
VIEWERNET‑5239	Feature	Optionally disable preserving JavaScript when converting different formats to HTML
VIEWERNET‑5242	Feature	Add support of Windows Imaging Format (WIM) archive format
VIEWERNET‑4740	Improvement	Improve rendering of PSD (Photoshop) files to PNG format
VIEWERNET‑5062	Improvement	Remove JavaScript from output HTML when converting DOCX to Fixed-HTML
VIEWERNET‑5104	Improvement	Improve rendering XML documents to HTML in pageless and paged modes
VIEWERNET‑5149	Improvement	Eliminate empty style attributes and rulesets during serialization of HtmlDom and CssOm
VIEWERNET‑5194	Improvement	Improve validation and extracting dimensions from SVG images
VIEWERNET‑5266	Improvement	Support last modification date for entries of CAB, ISO, and TAR archives
VIEWERNET‑5275	Improvement	Detect whether specified XML files are truly XML
VIEWERNET‑5381	Enhancement	Significantly improve fonts extractor for all formats
VIEWERNET‑3191	Fix	“Index was outside the bounds of the array.” exception when rendering DWG file
VIEWERNET‑3847	Fix	Make readable exception for old versions of XLS files
VIEWERNET‑5091	Fix	Empty comments area is present when viewing Presentation family documents even if document contains no comments
VIEWERNET‑5096	Fix	Global styles affect Viewer App styles when rendering Archives to HTML
VIEWERNET‑5098	Fix	GetViewInfo() returns 0 for width and height for Archive files for HtmlViewOptions
VIEWERNET‑5099	Fix	GetViewInfo() should return non-zero width and height for XML documents
VIEWERNET‑5127	Fix	Unknown document property name when saving specific DOCX to HTML
VIEWERNET‑5137	Fix	Fix slide size according to notes
VIEWERNET‑5148	Fix	File corrupted exception when rendering EPS
VIEWERNET‑2827	Bug	“CAD document rendering failed.Please check that CadOptions sizing options do not have too low or too high values.” exception when rendering DXF file
VIEWERNET‑3503	Bug	“Invalid Base.” exception when rendering PS file
VIEWERNET‑3610	Bug	“Specified units are not supported: ex” exception when rendering TEX file
VIEWERNET‑3691	Bug	“Specified units are not supported: *” exception when rendering TEX file
VIEWERNET‑3791	Bug	Cannot view DXF
VIEWERNET‑3819	Bug	“CAD document rendering failed” exception when rendering DWF file
VIEWERNET‑4432	Bug	3D drawing is not showing in GroupDocs Viewer
VIEWERNET‑4667	Bug	BinaryFormatter exception in web application when working with EPS format
VIEWERNET‑5007	Bug	Slow performance and huge memory consumption of small 2-page PDF file
VIEWERNET‑5203	Bug	XLS conversion to HTML and PDF produces distorted results
VIEWERNET‑5269	Bug	Incorrect listing and order of archive entries
VIEWERNET‑5303	Bug	Different page number of document generated by GroupDocs.Viewer for HTML web view
VIEWERNET‑5315	Bug	Fix issue with incorrect picture location in Worksheet
VIEWERNET‑5347	Bug	Quality of rendering PDF to HTML is greatly degraded from 24.3 to 25.3
VIEWERJAVA‑3951	Bug	Viewer.getViewInfo(ViewInfoOptions.forPdfView()) for .eml file throws: “The document appears to be corrupted and cannot be loaded.”

Disabling updating fields

A new public property was introduced in this version — isUpdateFields boolean property in the WordProcessingOptions class. It’s purpose is to disable updating fileds in WordProcessing documents like DOC, DOCX, DOCM and so on while saving these documents to the HTML, PDF, or images. More on this new feature here.

LHA support

Starting from this version 25.9, the GroupDocs.Viewer for Java supports the LHA/LZH archive format. This also includes the auto-detection of LHA files.

CAB support

Starting from this version 25.9, the GroupDocs.Viewer for Java supports the CAB (Cabinet) archive format. This also includes the auto-detection of CAB files.

Option to remove JavaScript

Starting from this version 25.9, along with the WordProcesing format, the ability of disabling or enabling JavaScript in the output HTML documents are supported for all relevant formats. More in the corresponding article.

Getting all used fonts

Starting from this version 25.9, the Viewer class contains a new method getAllFonts(). More on this in a separate article.

Public API changes

New LHA field in the FileType class.
New CAB field in the FileType class.
New isRemoveJavaScript boolean property in the HtmlViewOptions class
New isUpdateFields boolean property in the WordProcessingOptions class
New UsedFontInfo class in the com.groupdocs.viewer.fonts namespace
New getAllFonts() method in the Viewer class.
New SearchHighlightOptions class in the com.groupdocs.viewer.options namespace
New search(SearchHighlightOptions) method in the Viewer class.
New FontStyles class.
New FontFormat class.