Release Notes

• Added functionality to flatten fields of a Word document during conversion. (v3.25)
• Updated the internal chromium to v119.0.6045.0. (v3.24)
• Bookmarks from Word document can be added to the PDF. (v3.23)
• Support for .NET 5.0. (v3.17)
• Added the ability to get extensive logging for MS Office conversions. (v3.17)
• Added support to convert RTF files using "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer. (v3.16)
• Added options to optimize the output PDF for Screen or Print. (v3.16)
• Reads license key from the web.config or app.config files. (v3.09)
• Added options to print active sheets and visible sheets using ConvertOnlyActiveSheet and ConvertOnlyVisibleSheets properties. (v3.08)
• Added a new property "IgnorePrintAreas" to allow ignoring the print area setting from excel sheet while converting to PDF. (v3.08)
• Optional Windows service is provided to use if the application is running under user accounts with restricted access. (v3.03)
• The Windows service (present in v1 and v2) is no longer required. (v3.02)
• Supports .NET Framework 4.6.1 & .NET Standard2.0/.NET Core 2.0 and above. (v3.02)
• Added support to cancel conversions using CancellationToken. (v3.02)
• Ability to release the HTML Conversion resources using ReleaseResources method. (v3.02)
• Performance & stability improvements. (v3.02)

• Fixed an issue with licensing through web.config file. (v3.27)
• Fixed an issue with flattening fields in the footer of a word document. (v3.26)
• Fixed an issue with the default values used in Convert and ConvertAsync methods. (v3.24)
• Fixed a FileNotFound exception that occurs on a temp file location. (v3.22)
• Addressed an issue causing an "empty content" error during HTML to PDF conversion. (v3.21)
• Fixed an error that says "Navigation cancelled" when converting HTML to PDF. (v3.21)
• Updated exception handling in the service. (v3.21)
• Updates to latest HtmlConverter. (v3.20)
• Fixed an issue with display size of the image added to a PDF. (v3.19)
• Fixed an issue that hangs the application when converting password protected Excel file to PDF. (v3.18)
• Fixed an issue with creating the TemporaryDirectory. (v3.17)
• Fixed an issue converting a specific Tiff image. (v3.15)
• Fixed an issue related to aggregate exceptions. (v3.15)
• Updated error messages and error handling. (v3.14)
• Fixed an issue that causes the error "response was not received". (v3.14)
• Performance & stability improvements. (v3.14)
• Fixed a "Probable I/O race condition" exception that occurs when converting a word document in a multi threaded environment. (v3.13)
• Fixed an issue with margins when converting word documents. (v3.13)
• Fixed an InvalidCastException that crashes the DynamicPDF Service. (v3.13)
• Code optimization and improvements are done. (v3.13)
• Fixed an issue with Office file conversions that occurs when using the Converter Service. (v3.13)
• Fixed an intermittent error (Pipe is broken) that occurs when converting Word or Excel files to PDF. (v3.12)
• Fixed a "Document is not supported" exception that occurs when file name is used without the full path. (v3.12)
• Fixed an issue where the Excel sheets without data are not being converted. (v3.12)
• Updated the DLL names. (v3.12)
• Fixed an InvalidCastException that crashes the Converter service. (v3.11)
• Fixed an issue with licensing through config files. (v3.11)
• Fixed an issue with restarting the service when the spooler is stopped. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with converting BMP images to PDF. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with setting the temporary directory for HTML to PDF conversion. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with covnerting a specific interlaced PNG image to PDF. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with converter that occurs when used in a docker container. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with setting temporary directory for HTML to PDF conversions. (v3.10)
• Fixed an issue with setting PaperKind. (v3.10)
• Fixed a "COMException: Document not saved. The document may be open, or an error may have been encountered when saving" exception caused when converting a specific Excel file to PDF. (v3.08)
• Fixed an issue with the missing images when converting a htm file from a network path. (v3.08)
• Fixed an issue with using Append parameter in ConverterOptions that occurs when converting images to PDF. (v3.08)
• Added ChromiumProcessPath property to set the chromium path if needed (v3.07)
• Fixed a FileNotFoundException caused when converting a specific Excel file to PDF. (v3.05)
• Fixed an issue that creates 1x1 inch size pages by defaut when converting PowerPoint files to PDF. (v3.04)
• Resolved a conversion hanging issue caused by the dialog boxes coming from office documents. (v3.02)
• Fixed an issue with page numbering in footer when converting word documents. (v3.02)

v3.02 is compatible with v2.04. However, there are some deprecated/removed members that needs some code changes. Listed below are the items that were deprecated/removed in v3.04 and their suggested replacements:

• Added Enum PaperKind to replace the System.Drawing.Printing.PaperKind in the Conversion Options classes. (v3.02)
• Added CancellationToken property to the Converter classes to cancel the conversions. (v3.02)
• Classes AsyncConversion, AsyncConverter are deprecated and its suggested to use new ConvertAsync or ConvertHtmlStringAsync methods to do the asyncronous conversions. (v3.02)
• Removed Converter.ConvertHtmlStringToWeb method, write the PDF byte data to browser using Response object instead. (v3.02)
• Removed Converter.ConvertToWeb, write the PDF byte data to browser using Response object instead. (v3.02)
• Removed PdfConversionPage Class, write the PDF byte data to browser using Response object instead. (v3.02)
• Removed ConverterException Class. (v3.02)
• Removed AbortConversion method, use CancellationToken instead. (v3.02)

• Added detailed logging information to troubleshoot Excel conversions. (v2.04)
• Performance & stability improvements. (v2.04)
• Reduced the wait time to process the protected Office documents. (v2.04)
• Excel conversions will continue without waiting for recalculation when it is not happening. (v2.04)
• Optimized usage of CPU and Memory in multithreaded environment. (v2.03)
• Stability and performance improvements. (v2.02)
• CSV file conversions use Excel if installed to give a tabular data format. (v2.02)
• No longer requires a printer driver for most conversion types. (v2.00)
• New Chromium based HTML conversion engine to improve HTML to PDF conversion. (v2.00)
• Added new file type specific conversion options and converter classes for advanced options. (v2.00)
• Added new events for better feedback on a conversion progress. (v2.00)
• Stability & efficiency improvements. (v2.00)

• Fixed a "System.NullReferenceException" caused when converting a specific excel file. (v2.04)
• Throwing a suitable exception when a corrupt image is being converted instead of "System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException" that was thrown earlier. (v2.04)
• Resolved an issue with conversion hanging when there is a "Name Conflict" dialog in Excel file. (v2.04)
• Fixed "The Directory is not Empty" error caused when converting some MS Office files to PDF in Multithreaded environment. (v2.03)
• Fixed an issue with the Converter service being stopped intermittently after some conversions. (v2.02)
• Fixed an issue with cleaning temp files after power point file conversions. (v2.02)
• Resolved an issue with the installer not being successful in some cases when a higher version of Redistributable is already present in the machine. (v2.01)

v2.00 is compatible with v1.1. All code written against v1.1 will compile against v2.00.

• The DynamicPDF Converter service no longer requires interactive services. (v1.1.0 Build 38276)
• HTML Conversion is now using a Chromium based engine. IE is no longer required for HTML and XML conversions. (v1.1.0 Build 38178)

• Resolved an issue with the installer not being successful in some cases when v1.0 was previously installed. (v1.1.0 Build 38262)
• Resolved an issue with the installer not installing a depedancy in some cases. (v1.1.0 Build 38178)
• Fixed an RTF conversion issue. (v1.1.0 Build 38178)
• Fixed a bug that is causing the Converter to not respond intermittently after converting several documents. (v1.0.1 Build 37380)
• Resolved an issue where the output PDFs are created with incorrect syntax. (v1.0.1 Build 36785)
• Issue where certain PDFs are not getting saved is fixed. (v1.0.1 Build 36785)
• New excel conversion options are implemented to allow for active sheet conversion. (v1.0.1 Build 36785)
• Fixed an issue where mixing HTML conversions with any other types causes orphaned converter processes. (v1.0.1 Build 36785)
• Fixed a couple of issues related to MS Office files not rendering correctly in PDF format. (v1.0.1 Build 33698)
• Converter will now throw an exception when password protected MS Office documents are sent for conversion. (v1.0.1 Build 33698)
• Fixed an issue where HTML conversions are hanging on 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 2016. (v1.0.1 Build 33698)
• Exception while converting Excel file to PDF has been fixed. (v1.0.1 Build 30555)
• Fixed an issue where HTML to PDF conversion is not completing. (v1.0.1 Build 30555)
• Optimized code for file type identification. (v1.0.1 Build 30555)
• Fixed a system crash issue when converting Word documents to PDF. (v1.0.1 Build 30555)
• Resolved an exception when setting a page size in conversion options. (v1.0.1 Build 30555)
• Fixed the HTML conversion issue on 64-bit editions of Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. (v1.0.1 Build 28350)
• Default value of ConversionsPerProcess setting for Converter Windows Service has been changed from 1000 to 1. (v1.0.1 Build 28350)
• Resolved an issue with PDF contents not splitting correctly between pages. (v1.0.1 Build 28203)
• Fixed an issue where certain word documents are preventing the conversion from proceeding further. (v1.0.1 Build 28203)
• Resolved an HTML conversion issue where some PDFs are incorrectly generated. (v1.0.1 Build 28203)
• Exception when converting certain csv documents is resolved. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Fixed several MS Word document specific issues that cause the conversion to hang. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Exceptions caused while converting certain Excel documents are fixed. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Resolved an issue where the conversion temp files are not getting deleted. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Excel conversion text overlap bug is resolved. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Resolved the conversion hanging when converting password protected MS Office documents by throwing an exception notifying that a password is required for conversion. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Appropriate exception is thrown when converting corrupt excel documents. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Error while converting text files with Unicode text is resolved. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Resolved an access denied exception that is caused when converting files located on network drive with read-only permission. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Fixed an issue where the charts in Excel file are not getting converted. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Several HTML conversion issues are fixed. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Fixed a few MS Office document formatting and page scaling issues. (v1.0.1 Build 26894)
• Some excel conversion errors are resolved. (v1.0.0 Build 23695)
• Resolved an issue where the file conversions are adding blank pages to the output pdf. (v1.0.0 Build 23695)
• Fixed the incorrect print margin issue with converting certain excel files. (v1.0.0 Build 23695)
• Missing text issue during HTML to PDF conversion is fixed. (v1.0.0 Build 23695)
• Resolved an issue with multi-threaded power point conversions (v1.0.0 Build 23695)
• Fixed an issue with concurrent conversion of word files. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Resolved the https webpage conversion exception. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed some HTML conversion issues with div tag and table background. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed an issue where the PDF generated did not match the EMF file converted. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Multi-page text file partial conversion issue is fixed. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed several word file conversion issues. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed an issue where the MS Office conversion temporary files are not getting deleted. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Resolved a memory leak when images are converted with conversion options. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed an issue with image conversions where the output is generated with horizontal lines. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Fixed the issue with word document conversion where the signature is not preserved. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Resolved a bug where the HTML conversion options are being ignored. (v1.0.0 Build 21812)
• Resolved an issue with HTML conversions where a blank page is added in the PDF output. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• Fixed an issue with asynchronous text file conversions in Windows 2008 R2 server. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• Resolved an issue with the Windows event log error when the Converter service is started. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• Fixed a Converter print queue issue in which the print jobs were not being cleared after successful conversion. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• Fixed an issue with output file permissions. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• HTML conversion issue with certain HTML/CSS tags has been resolved. (v1.0.0 Build 20188)
• Fixed an error caused due to abnormally large page size settings. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue with MS Word conversion where the process hangs due to MS Word pop-up. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue with HTML conversion where some Unicode characters are not appearing properly on the output PDF. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue with TIFF file conversion where some TIFF files are not producing a valid PDF output. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue with HTML conversion hanging on Win 2003 64-bit machine. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue where the TIFF file conversion was not working for certain multi-page TIFFs. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fix for bypassing MS PowerPoint dialog box holding up the ppt file conversion. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Fixed an issue regarding HTML table page break property. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Updated help documentation. (v1.0.0 Build 19383)
• Added support for handling Excel "Page Break" dialogs. (v1.0.0 Build 16947)
• Added support for handling Word "Show Repairs" dialogs. (v1.0.0 Build 16947)
• Updated help documentation. (v1.0.0 Build 16947)
• Fixed an issue with Append module in x64 build. (v1.0.0 Build 16597)
• Fixed an issue with Temp folder not getting deleted when using the AsyncConverter ConvertHtmlString method. (v1.0.0 Build 16597)
• Updated help documentation. (v1.0.0 Build 16597)
• Added an assembly targeting the .NET Framework 4.0. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)
• Fixed an issue with conversion crashing when URL length is more than 1000 chars. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)
• Fixed an issue title taking more than 40 chars when left to default. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)
• Increased Named Pipe buffer from 2k to 12k. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)
• Added support for logging conversion errors. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)
• Updated help documentation. (v1.0.0 Build 16128)