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Office File API & Office-Inspired UI Controls – 2022 Roadmap

Based on your votes and feedback, we’ve finalized our 2022 Office File API and Office-inspired UI Controls Roadmap. We thank you for your continued support and for sharing your needs/requirements. If you’d like to discuss the items on this roadmap in greater detail, or if you’d like to share a business use case that we don’t support, feel free to submit your comments below. We’ll be happy to follow-up....

Office Products Team

8 February 2022

2022 API Blazor Office PDF Rich Text Editor Roadmap Spreadsheet v22.1 v22.2 WinForms WinUI Word Processing WPF

PDF Document API – How to Use Page Facade API to Update Bates Numbering (v21.2)

Though the digital realm has overtaken much of society, paper documents or “paper trails” remain crucial for certain market segments (for instance, the legal professionals often produce paper documents that span hundreds, if not thousands of pages). To help better organize and identify these documents, you can use different indexing methods, including Bates numbering. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use DevExpress PDF Document API to update sequential page numbering across PDF files, a...

Office Products Team

27 January 2022

2021 API DMS Facade API Office PDF v21.2

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls - Use Custom Fonts without Installation on the System (v21.2)

In our most recent major release (v21.2), we added custom font support to our Spreadsheet and Word Processing product lines. You can now load and apply custom fonts to avoid font substitution effects when you display, print, or export (to PDF) documents (when/if a document includes fonts not installed on the target operating system, in Azure App Service, or a Docker container)....

Office Products Team

19 January 2022

API Custom Fonts Font Repository Formatting Office PDF Rich Text Editor Spreadsheet v21.2 WinForms Word Processing WPF

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips and Tricks (December 2021)

This post includes a series of interesting support tickets answered throughout October and November along with a handful of enhancements made to our Office-inspired product line. We hope you find the contents of this post interesting and of business value. Should you have any questions about this post, feel free to comment below....

Office Products Team

16 December 2021

.NET 6 2021 API Office PDF Rich Text Editor Spell Checker Spreadsheet Tips & Tricks WinForms Word Processing WPF

PDF Document API – Annotation Enhancements (v21.2)

In our most recent major release (v21.2), we added annotation support to our PDF Document API and desktop PDF Viewers (both for WinForms and WPF). As you may recall, we implemented text annotation (sticky note) support in a previous release (v20.2). For...

Office Products Team

10 December 2021

2021 Annotations API Facade API Office PDF v21.2

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls - Generate Accessible PDF Files (v21.2)

Our most recent release (v21.2) includes enhanced PDF export options for our Spreadsheet and Word Processing product lines (WinForms-WPF-Office File API). You can now convert your spreadsheet and rich text documents to accessible PDF files. This will allow people with disabilities to use screen readers and other assistive technologies to read and navigate PDF documents....

Office Products Team

22 November 2021

Accessibility API Office PDF Rich Text Editor Spreadsheet v21.2 WinForms Word Processing WPF

PDF Document API – Digital Signature Appearance (v21.1)

As you may already know, the DevExpress PDF Document API supports multiple digital signature options. For background information on our implementation, please review the following blog posts: PDF Document API v20.1 - Multiple Signatures and Timestamps...

Office Products Team

14 June 2021

2021 API Appearance Office PDF Signature Signatures v21.1

PDF Document API – Embed XMP Metadata & Create ZUGFeRD-Compliant PDFs in v21.1 (And an Important Survey)

Our PDF File API v21.1 allows you to embed Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) and ZUGFeRD -compliant XML data within your PDF documents. As you may already know, XMP is an XML-based ISO metadata standard (originally created by Adobe Systems Inc...

Office Products Team

4 June 2021

2021 API e-invoice Metadata Office PDF v21.1 XMP Zugferd

Office File API & Office-Inspired UI Controls – 2021 Roadmap

Thanks to your feedback, we have finalized our 2021 Roadmap. Since we can’t address every single feature request from our roadmap survey, we’ve focused on capabilities that garnered the most votes. If you’d like to discuss the items on this roadmap in greater detail, or if you’d like to share a business use case that we don’t support, please comment below. We’ll be happy to review your requirements and follow-up....

Office Products Team

15 February 2021

2021 API Office PDF Rich Text Editor Roadmap Spreadsheet v21.1 v21.2 WinForms Word Processing WPF

PDF Document API - PAdES - BES (LT and LTA levels) Signatures

As you may already know, our PDF Document API v20.1 offers digital signature support. For background information on our implementation, please review the following blog posts: PDF Document API v20.1 - Multiple Signatures and Timestamps PDF Document API...

Office Products Team

6 January 2021

API Office PAdES PDF Signature Signatures v20.2