Latest release (Mar 2024)
This release includes three new features, three enhancements and 8 bug fixes.
Full list of changes in this release
| Key | Category | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| VIEWERNET‑4584 | Feature | Add cross-platform package with .NET 8 support |
| VIEWERNET‑4099 | Feature | Support tiled rendering when converting CAD to PDF |
| VIEWERNET‑4747 | Feature | Add JFIF (.jfif) file type as supported |
| VIEWERNET‑4759 | Enhancement | Improve Markdown files rendering quality |
| VIEWERNET‑3333 | Enhancement | Reduce output size when rendering large CAD drawings |
| VIEWERNET‑4761 | Enhancement | Eliminate or rename global styles from resultant HTML when viewing Spreadsheet files |
| VIEWERNET‑4746 | Fix | "Incorrect message format specified in the options: Msg" error during call viewer.View for the MSG file. |
| VIEWERNET‑3449 | Fix | “Failed to open presentation with error: Empty content in the AlternateContent” exception when rendering PPTX file |
| VIEWERNET‑3817 | Fix | Make readable exception for specific invalid TEX file |
| VIEWERNET‑2854 | Fix | Cannot convert a DWG file when license is not applied |
| VIEWERNET‑4738 | Fix | Null reference exception when calling GetViewInfo for Excel file |
| VIEWERNET‑4434 | Fix | Font display issue |
| VIEWERNET‑3987 | Fix | [GroupDocs.Viewer.UI] When files with pptx extension are viewed in presentation mode, corruption occurs in Turkish characters |
| VIEWERNET‑3803 | Fix | Output bitmap cannot be created when rendering MPP on Linux |
Major changes
- New cross-platform package with .NET 8 support
- Support tiled rendering when converting CAD to PDF
- Reduce output size when rendering large CAD drawings
- Added JFIF file type as supported
New cross-platform package with .NET 8 support
We introduced the new NuGet package GroupDocs.Viewer.CrossPlatform that contains .NET 6 assembly which can be used on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Supported frameworks
- .NET 6
- .NET 7
- .NET 8
Supported operating systems
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
GLIBC library version is typically around 2.17 that is not compatible with GroupDocs.Viewer.CrossPlatform which requires Linux x86_x64 with GLIBC 2.23 or higher.Dependencies
Microsoft True Type Core Fonts that comes with
ttf-mscorefonts-installerpackage or you can copy the fonts manually. On Linux it is typically/usr/local/share/fonts/folder to place your fonts.Font configuration and customization library
fontconfig. Make sure to rebuild font cache after you install additional withfc-cache -f -v.
Limitations
This package has limitations on platforms and file formats compared to the GroupDocs.Viewer package.
Platforms
ARM64-based Linux and Windows platforms are not supported yet.
File formats
The following file formats are not supported by GroupDocs.Viewer.CrossPlatform package:
- AI - Adobe Illustrator Artwork
- PSD - Adobe Photoshop Document
- PSB - Photoshop Large Document Format
Project Management file formats
- MPP - Microsoft Project
- MPT - Microsoft Project Template
- MPX - Microsoft Project Exchange File
- VDW - Visio Web Drawing
- VDX - Visio Drawing XML File
- VSD - Visio 2003-2010 Drawing
- VSDM - Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing
- VSDX - Visio Drawing
- VSS - Visio 2003-2010 Stencil
- VSSM - Visio Macro-Enabled Stencil
- VSSX - Visio Stencil
- VST - Visio 2003-2010 Template
- VSTM - Visio Macro-Enabled Template
- VSTX - Visio Template
- VSX - Visio Stencil XML File
- VTX - Visio Template XML File
- ONE - Microsoft OneNote Document
See Supported file formats documentation topic for a complete list of the formats and their versions suppoted by GroupDocs.Viewer.
We’re planning to add support for the listed file-formats above in the future releases.
Support
Please let us know if you have any issues with GroupDocs.Viewer or GroupDocs.Viewer.CrossPlatform packages by posting an issue at our free support forum.
Support tiled rendering when converting CAD to PDF
This release adds support for rendering CAD drawings to a tiles when converting to PDF. Check Split a drawing into tiles documentation topic for more details and code snippet.
Reduce output size when rendering large CAD drawings
To reduce output image, HTML or PDF size when rendering complex CAD drawings you can set CadOptions.EnablePerformanceConversionMode to true to reduce output quality and speed up rendering. See details at Choose rendering speed instead of quality documentation topic.
Added JFIF file type as supported
JPEG File Interchange Format (.jfif) is image that was developed for fast exchange between platforms. This format uses JPEG compression. Learn more about this file format here. See Supported file formats documentation topic for all supported formats.