Spire.Office 3.8.0 is released

With the great effort of our Dev team, Spire.Office version 3.8.0 is released today. This update includes some wonderful new features, such as Spire.Presentation supports to set the leader lines' properties for charts, Spire.Presentation supports to embed video or audio when converting PowerPoint to HTML, and Spire.XLS adds a new method ClearFilter to clear a filter. Also, this latest version has fixed numerous bugs to improve the stability and performance.

In this version, the most recent version of Spire.Doc, Spire.PDF, Spire.XLS, Spire.Presentation, Spire.Email, Spire.DataExport, Spire.Barcode, Spire.DocViewer, Spire.PDFViewer and Spire.OfficeViewer are included.

Versions:

• Spire.Doc.dll v6.8.1
• Spire.Pdf.dll v4.8.2
• Spire.XLS.dll v8.8.0
• Spire.Email.dll v1.3.2
• Spire.DocViewer.Forms.dll v3.7.0
• Spire.PdfViewer.Forms.dll v3.6.3
• Spire.PdfViewer.Asp.dll v3.6.3
• Spire.Presentation.dll v3.8.1
• Spire.Spreadsheet v2.8.1
• Spire.OfficeViewer.Forms.dll v3.8.0
• Spire.DataExport.dll v3.5.131
• Spire.DataExport.ResourceMgr.dll v1.6.71
• Spire.Common.dll v1.2.792
• Spire.License.dll v1.3.6
• Spire.Barcode.dll v2.3.0.

Spire.Doc

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes the issue that the page count was wrong when converting RTF to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that the application threw an exception when converting Word to PDF in Win10 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Fixes the issue that the application threw an exception when setting the "HideEmptyGroup" property to true for MailMerge function.
• Fixes the issue that the page number become incorrect when converting Word to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that the code “FirstLineIndent = 0” did not make sense. Now the property has been replaced by "SetFirstLineIndent(0)" method.
• Fixes the issue that the application threw an exception when replacing the bookmark content.
• Fixes the issue that the generated document were in messy code when converting Word to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that the footer content were in the wrong place when printing a Word document.
• Fixes the issue that the result became incorrect when invoking "AppendRTF" method.

Spire.Presentation

New features:

• Suports the conversion of audio and video when saving the PowerPoint to HTML, yet the .wma format is not supported for audio.
• Adds a new property "LeaderLines" for setting the chart leader line details in PPT.

public IChartGridLine LeaderLines { get; }

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes the issue that the hilight and font format turned out to be incorrect when using "AddFromHtml" to add HTML.Fixes the issue that the result become incorrect in format when setting the datalable shape for a certain data point .
• Fixes the issue that the application thraw an "IndexOutOfRangeException" Exception when converting PPT to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that some content got removed when printing the PPT.
• Fixes the issue that the background color turned out to be different when converting PPT to PDF.

Spire.XLS

New features:

• Adds a new method ClearFilter to clear a filter which is not in a pivot table. Sample code:

AutoFiltersCollection filter = workbook.Worksheets["Sheet2"].AutoFilters;
filter.ClearFilter(int); //filter.ClearFilter(columnName);
filter.Filter();

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes the issue that the option "Autofit column widths on update" for pivot table changed to be checked after saving.
• Fixes the issue that cannot set text color for an existing file.
• Fixes the issue that the chart type "Line" changed to the type "Line Marker" when creating a chart in .xls file.
• Fixes the issue that caused ArgumentOutOfRangeException when loading a file.
• Fixes the issue that text and lines overlapped when converting Excel to XPS.
• Fixes the issue that caused NullReferenceException when saving Excel to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that the format was wrong when converting Excel to PDF.
• Fixes the issue that caused ArgumentOutOfRangeException when loading a file.