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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

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

Reporting — Embed PDF Content into DevExpress Reports (v21.2)

With the introduction of the XRPdfContent control in our v20.1 release cycle, we gave users the ability to include/merge external PDF file content within a report. If you have yet to use the XRPdfContent control, please refer to the following blog post for more information: Reporting - Merge PDF Documents into Your Report (v20.1)....

The DevExpress Team

6 December 2021

PDF PDF Content Reporting v21.2 WinForms WPF XRPdfContent

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

Reporting — Early Access Preview (v21.2)

v21.2 is a couple of months away and we wanted to document some of the features we expect to ship in November....

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

13 September 2021

.NET 5 .NET 6 Cross-Tab DirectX EAP expressions Localization PDF PDF Content Report Design Analyzer Reporting v21.2 Web Report Designer WinForms

Reporting - Generate Accessible PDF Documents (v21.1)

In v21.1, we enhanced our PDF export engine and now allow you to generate tagged (accessible) PDF documents from apps that rely on DevExpress Reports. This post describes PDF accessibility, why it is important, and how you can generate accessible PDF documents. ...

The DevExpress Team

7 June 2021

Accessibility PDF Reporting v21.2

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