At GroupDocs, we’re always on the lookout for new ways to deliver the best possible value to our customers.
We rarely increase our pricing and pride ourselves on our fair licensing policies, cutting edge Metered subscription models and flexible installment payment plans.
Today we’re announcing two further changes that our customers can take advantage of from the 1st of May 2019:
GroupDocs Pricing Update
We’ve updated GroupDocs pricing to deliver the best value Document Manipulation API suite on the market.
Generate Image Preview of the Documents
Image previews are now commonly used to present your file/document to the users. It is quite useful when you want the users to quickly have a look at your document without downloading or opening it. As an example, MS Windows has this ability to provide the preview of the files in the preview pane of File Explorer without opening the document in the dedicated software program.
Did you ever desire to have the ability to generate image previews in your application?
Upcoming Release of GroupDocs.Redaction for Java
Big News! We are going to launch GroupDocs.Redaction API for Java platform very soon. Similar to the .NET version, GroupDocs.Redaction for Java would be a backend API for removing sensitive and classified information from the popular document formats. As far as the supported features are concerned, this is going to be a replica of GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET. Through this API, we aim to provide you a single, format-independent interface containing a set of redaction methods to redact text, metadata, and annotations.
Implement Page Rotation when Converting to PDF
Its time to augment your document conversion experience. You will be pleased to hear the new features, improvements and bug fixes that we’r going to elaborate in this blog post. Did you ever think of converting and rotating a document at the same time? We make your wish come true with this month’s release of GroupDocs.Conversion for Java 19.4.
You can now set page rotation angle when converting to a PDF or Image format.
Add Ellipse Annotation in Slides
We try our best to provide minimal yet appropriate solutions to our customers. Hence, in this month’s release of GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET 19.3 you will observe some new “easy-to-implement” features. Lets start with ellipse annotation. You might be looking for it, we’ve now added its support for different document formats.
Ellipse Annotation GroupDocs.Annotation for .NET 19.3 provides GetThumbnail method for PageImage class, that helps you in getting thumbnails of PDF document pages.
Password Protected Files Comparison Issue is Resolved
GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 19.3 rolls out with major bug fixes. When password protected files were compared, result was null. This might be a showstopper for you but not anymore.
Moving ahead, comparing a PDF with itself was not working, result was null. We fixed this issue.
Most importantly, MultiCompare was also returning null. Code below explains how it works.
You can compare a source file with multiple target files. Sounds appealing, isn’t it?
Set Flip Mode when Converting to a Image Format
With our latest release of GroupDocs.Convesion for .NET 19.3, some new properties are introduced in ImageSaveOptions class. When converting to a Image format you can now always set brightness and contrast. API permits you to do mirror-reversal across a horizontal/vertical axis using FlipMode property. Based on your feedback, we resolved some previously logged issues and improved document conversion experience. Such as, image quality is improved when converting to a WebP format.
Detect Print Restriction in PDF Documents using GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 19.3
PDF is a widely used document format that also supports interactive elements including annotations, forms, 3D objects, layers, etc. Along with these elements, PDF format also supports setting restrictions such as print restriction, modification restriction, restrictions on data extraction and so on. Such features give the user more control over the document and therefore, the PDF has become a popular document format.
Since we support the rendering of PDF documents, therefore, we always keep looking to introduce features that may give you more information about the documents.
GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 19.3 is Released!
We are happy to announce the release of version 19.3 of GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET. In this release, we have added several new features that target the PDF documents, archives and the source code files of Visual Basic and C#. Along with 2 bug fixes, we have made a couple of improvements for rendering of ZIP archives and vCard documents. For detailed information about the latest release, please have a look at the release notes.
Configurable Redaction using an XML File
A configuration file defines the initial or commonly used parameters, options, settings or preferences applied to operating systems, infrastructure devices or applications in an IT context.
When the Need Arises If you have large size data (may consist of multiple files of different file formats) or corporate sensitive data which need to be redacted without specifying the rules in your code.
What is the Solution The GroupDocs.Redaction API provides the way to define a removal policy by writing the list of pre-configured redaction rules in an XML file.