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.NET Spreadsheet (WinForms, WPF, Office File API) – Create Thumbnail Images for Worksheets and Chart Sheets (v21.2)

Our Spreadsheet Document API v21.2 allows you to generate thumbnails from worksheets and chart sheets. A thumbnail is a small image that you can insert into a document, presentation, or website to display a preview of worksheet or chart sheet content...

Office Products Team

21 February 2022

Word Processing: WinForms, WPF, Office File API – Watermark API Enhancements (v21.2)

As you may know, we overhauled watermark support across our Word Processing product line (Document API and UI controls for WinForms and WPF) in our most recent release cycle (v21.2). Changes include an enhanced API and the ability to modify existing watermarks/add different watermarks to document sections....

Office Products Team

14 February 2022

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

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

.NET Word Processing API and UI Components - How to Use Fields to Create a Holiday Party Invitation

With the winter holidays upon us, some of you may be busy sending electronic greeting cards, invitations, and other mailouts to your family, friends, and business associates. The purpose of this blog post is to illustrate the use of our word processing...

Office Products Team

22 December 2021

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

.NET Spreadsheet (WinForms, WPF, Office File API) – Printing Options

In this blog post, we’ll review the extensive printing options available in the DevExpress Spreadsheet Document API and our Spreadsheet UI component for WinForms and WPF....

Office Products Team

9 December 2021

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

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