Winovative Software Release Notes

Version v19.0 Release Notes

Check the updated live demo and the online documentation for a complete example of how to use the new features

• A new Word to PDF Converter class has been added which allows you to convert Word DOCX to PDF, preserving the PDF page settings from the Word document or using custom PDF page settings to reflow the content
• A new PdfDocument class has been added which provides the necessary API to programmatically create PDF documents by adding text and image elements
• Winnovative PDF Chromium for .NET deployment to Linux machines, Azure App Service and Azure Functions for Linux has been significantly simplified
• New features for adding HTML with page numbering in headers and footers. You can now configure header and footer visibility on the first page, odd pages and even pages
• New features for adding HTML stamps with page numbering to PDFs generated from HTML
• A new PdfEditor class has been added which provides the necessary API to add HTML stamps with page numbering to existing PDFs
• New features for converting only the regions from the HTML page selected by a CSS selector
• New features to retrieve the position in the PDF for HTML elements selected by a CSS selector
• Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 9 for all .NET Core libraries
• Provided Dockerfile for deployment to Windows and Linux containers. The documentation includes examples of deploying the Winnovative PDF Chromium demo application and accessing it from outside the container
• Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 9 for all .NET Core libraries
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version v18.0 Release Notes

The new Winovative PDF Chromium HTML to PDF for .NET library has been released. It integrates a Chromium-based rendering engine that enables the conversion of all modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content in conformance with the latest standards and technologies currently available.

The library can run on various Windows and Linux platforms and is compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux. The most important features of the new library are listed below.

A detailed list of features can be accessed on the Winnovative PDF Chromium for .NET page.

• Can natively run on both Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms
• Compatible with .NET Core 9.0, 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, 5.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
• Compatible with .NET Frameworks from 4.6.2 to 4.8.1
• Compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux
• Create PDF documents from HTML with CSS, SVG, Web Fonts and JavaScript
• Support for the latest standards and technologies used in modern web pages
• Merge multiple HTML documents into a single PDF document
• Create PDF headers and footers with page numbering from HTML templates
• Repeat HTML table headers and footers in PDF pages
• Control PDF page breaks using CSS attributes in HTML
• Create a PDF document outline with bookmarks from HTML heading tags
• Create a table of contents with page numbers from HTML heading tags
• Create tagged PDF documents for accessibility features
• Automatic and manual conversion triggering modes
• Render for screen or print media types
• Set PDF viewer preferences to control the PDF document display
• Create PDF documents with security features and digital signatures
• Access the HTML page using GET or POST HTTP methods
• Add HTTP headers when requesting the HTML page
• Add cookies when requesting the HTML page
• Convert HTML pages that require authentication
• Convert HTML and web pages to JPEG, PNG and WEBP raster images

Winnovative Tools for .NET have been updated. The most important changes are listed below:

• Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 8 and 9 for all .NET Core Libraries
• Addressed the vulnerabilities introduced by some dependency Microsoft packages in .NET Core libraries
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version v17.0 Release Notes

• Winnovative Server was extended to support all the Winnovative Tools from Winnovative PDF Toolkit PRO in addition to HTML to PDF Converter support
• New Winnovative Client library for .NET to include all the Winnovative PDF tools under WinnovativeClient unique namespace
• New Winnovative Client Library for .NET was tested to ensure the compatibility with Windows, Linux, MacOS, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Xamarin, Mono, UWP and any other platform supporting .NET Standard 2.0 or .NET Framework 4.0 and above including NET Core 7, 6, 5, .NET Framework 4.8.1, 4.7.2, 4.6.1, 4.0 and above
• New Winnovative Client demo projects for HTML to PDF, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PDF to Text, PDF to Image, PDF to HTML and PDF Images Extractor for .NET Core and .NET Framework using the new WinnovativeClient namespace
• New and Updated NuGet Packages for all products
• Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 7 for all .NET Core Libraries
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version v16.0 Release Notes

• The .NET Core libraries are now built for .NET Standard 2.0 and are compatible with .NET Core 2.0, .NET Core 3.1, .NET Core 6.0 and later
• New demo applications were created for .NET Core 6.0
• The demo projects were updated for the new Visual Studio 2022
• All libraries and installers were tested and validated on Windows 11
• The Azure Cloud Services were updated to support the new Azure Cloud Services Extended Support environment and deployment model
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Version v15.0 Release Notes

• New libraries for .NET Core 2.1 , .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes were created besides the regular libraries for .NET Framework
• New ASP.NET Core, MVC and Azure Cloud sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core libraries
• New Edition (NE) libraries for HTML to PDF Converter to support ECMAScript 6, WOFF 2, HTTP2 and TLS 1.3 standards
• New feature to set the User Agent to be used when accessing HTML pages to be converted to PDF to mimic various browsers
• New Azure Service Fabric Application to host the HTML to PDF Server for solutions targeting other platforms than Windows
• New client libraries for .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes and for Universal Windows Platform ( UWP )
• New ASP.NET Core and MVC sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core client libraries
• Various improvements and security updates

Version v14.0 Release Notes

• Rendering engine improvements to support new HTML5 and CSS3 features
• New feature to set the zoom level of the HTML content. See the Control HTML Scaling in PDF Page demo page for more details
• New feature to merge the table of contents from multiple HTML documents added to the same PDF document. See the Merge Table of Contents from Multiple HTML Pages demo page for more details
• New feature to include a PDF document before the table of contents in the final PDF document. See the Insert PDF Pages Before Table of Contents demo page for more details
• New PDF encryption algorithms and security features. See the Set Permissions and Password of the Generated PDF Document demo page for more details
• New proxy settings to bypass a list of hosts. See the Access a HTML Page Through a Proxy demo page for more details
• New features to exclude the local files and local resources from conversion
• Azure HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a Web Role accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
• HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a simple ASP.NET web application accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
• Various tweaks, improvements and bug fixes

Previous Versions Release Notes

• Added support for Java platform. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for Java page for more details
• Added support for Azure websites. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for Azure Websites page for more details
• Added support for UWP. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for UWP page for more details
• Added support for Xamarin platform that can be used to create iOS, Android and Mac OS X applications. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for Xamarin page for more details
• Added support for Mono platform. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for Mono page for more details
• Added support for .NET Core platform. See the Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter Client for .NET Core page for more details
• Various tweaks, improvements and bug fixes
• Automatically generate in PDF a Multi-Level Hierarchy of Bookmarks from H1 to H6 HTML heading tags. See the Auto Create Hierarchical Bookmarks Demo
• Automatically create in PDF document a Table of Contents with Page Numbers from H1 to H6 HTML heading tags. See the Auto Create Table of Contents Demo
• Automatically convert a HTML form to a Fillable PDF Form. See the Auto Create a Fillable PDF Form Demo
• Insert page numbering in the HTML added to header and footer using page numbering place holders &p; and &P;. See the Add Page Numbering in HTML Demo
• Apply headers and footers to existing PDF documents. See the Add Header and Footer In External PDF Documents Demo
• Automatically Resize the Header and Footer to adapt the added HTML content. See the Automatically Resize the Header and Footer Demo
• Insert a space between the header and footer and PDF page body. See the Add HTML in Header and Footer Demo
• Set the rendered HTML content location, width and height in PDF. See the Control HTML Scaling in PDF Page Demo
• Add external PDF documents before and after the conversion result. See the Merge Conversion Result with Existing PDF Documents Demo
• Enable and disable the HTML header and footer repeating in PDF pages. See the Repeat HTML Table Header and Footer in PDF Pages Demo
• Select in API the HTML elements before and after which to insert page breaks. See the Insert Page Breaks in PDF Using API Demo
• Scale the images from HTML before adding them to PDF to reduce the memory usage during conversion. See the Set Images Scaling and JPEG Compression Level Demo
• Select in API the HTML elements inside which to avoid page breaks. See the Avoid Page Breaks Inside Images Using API Demo
• Add elements in PDF pages background. You can use this feature to add background images to PDF pages. See the Add Elements in PDF Pages Background Demo
• Add elements over the PDF pages main content. You can use this feature to add stamps to PDF pages. See the Add Elements Over PDF Page Main Content Demo
• Added a HTML to SVG converter to produce vector images from HTML besides the possibility to produce raster images with HTML to Image converter. See the Convert HTML to SVG Vector Image Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements to bookmark in PDF. See the Select in HTML the Elements to Bookmark Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements to become table of contents entries. See the Define in HTML the Table of Contents Items Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements for which to retrieve the location in PDF. See the Select in HTML the Elements for Which to Retrieve Information Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements to hide in PDF. See the Select in API the HTML Elements to Hide Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements to become URI links in PDF. See the Define Custom URI Links in HTML Demo
• Use special attributes in HTML to mark the HTML elements to become internal links in PDF. See the Define Custom Internal Links in HTML Demo
• Extract a range of pages from an existing PDF document into a new document. This feature can be used to split a PDF document in smaller PDF documents. See the Split PDF Documents Demo
• Updated the internal rendering engine to match the latest version of WebKit rendering engine
• Improved documentation with a complete description and sample code for each feature of the library. You can check the documentation online at Online Documentation
• Added demo applications with complete description and sample code for each feature of the library. You can check the complete online demo at Online Demo. You can find the C# and VB.NET code for this demo in the downloadable software package
• Added demo applications for ASP.NET MVC and Azure Cloud Services in the downloadable software package