Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips & Tricks (November-December 2019)

We hope you’ll find the following list of tech support tickets of value as you explore the capabilities of our Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls and Office File API Library (DOC, XLS, PDF).

If you come across a Support Center ticket you’d like to share with the DevExpress developer community, feel free to post a comment below.

Enhancements

• PDF: You can create .TIFF images with a predefined resolution (T829804)
• PDF: You can now change annotation flags (T833273)
• PDF: We added new properties to obtain a rotated rectangle’s coordinates (T835690)
• WinForms PDF Viewer: You can obtain the path to a loaded password-protected file (T847838)
• WPF PDF Viewer: Retrieve specific page size (T832452)
• RichEdit Control: You can now specify Right-to-Left page order within the Print Layout View and Print Preview (T814012)
• RichEdit Control: You can increase tables in the Simple View to fit content (for instance, large images) (T838333)
• Spreadsheet: Disable printing placeholders for unsupported document elements (charts, slicers, form controls, and SmartArt graphics) (T844856)

Tips & Tricks

• WPF Rich Text Editor: How to match the DXGrid’s row height with the DXRichEdit’s content height (T827595)
• WPF Rich Text Editor & Word Processing: How to store RTF and plain text at the view model level (T838818)

Documentation Updates

Office File API for .NET Core

New articles and step-by-step tutorials for our Office File API library.

• Use Office File API on Linux
• Use Office File API on macOS
• Publish a .NET Core Application
• Dockerize an Office File API Application

Use the drop-down list above the table of contents to view our Office File API documentation for a specific development platform (.NET Framework, .NET Standard, or .NET Core).

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