GroupDocs.Comparison For .NET 17.1.0 Release Notes
This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Comparsion for .NET 17.1.0
Major Features
There are 7 new features and 7 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:
- Introduced support of support for Apply/Discard changes in Comparison.Cells
- Introduced support of support for Apply/Discard changes in Comparison.PDF
- Introduced support of support for Watermarks, Hyperlinks, Comments, Text Box, Shapes in Comparison.Cells
- Improved GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF comparison efficiency
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release
| Key | Summary | Category |
|---|---|---|
| COMPARISONNET-1053 | GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Add support for Apply/Discard changes | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-975 | GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Add support for Watermarks | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1065 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add support for Hyperlinks | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1069 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add support for Comments | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1072 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add support for Text Box | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1063 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add support of Apply/Discard changes | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1073 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add support for Shapes | New Feature |
| COMPARISONNET-1075 | GroupDocs.Comparison.Cells: Add borders for deleted and inserted cells and Range of cells | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-679 | Fix problem when moving modified table into new page and not deleting previous version of added table | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1055 | Improve Trim paragraphs by pages after some change in absorbing paragraphs | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1080 | GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF: Improve comparison changes detection for Paragraphs | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1056 | Improve GroupDocs.Comparison.PDF comparison quality for images in header, footer, setting coordinates for components and paragraphs by pages | Improvement |
| COMPARISONNET-1074 | GroupDocs.Comparison: PDF: Set type change for paragraph runs after page break | Bug |
| COMPARISONNET-1077 | Comparison.Cells: Fix cells appearance after critical update for Aligner comparer and Document builder | Bug |
Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes
This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 17.1.0. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Comparison which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.
Compare Spreadsheet file formats with Settings
Update way to use Comparison Settings for Spreadsheet file formats
// Enter presentations paths
string sourcePath = "./source.otp";
string targetPath = "./target.otp";
// Create two streams of presentations
Stream sourceStream = File.Open(sourcePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
Stream targetStream = File.Open(targetPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
// Create instance of *GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison* and call method *Compare*.
GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison comparison = new GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison();
CellsComparisonSettings settings = new CellsComparisonSettings();
settings.ShowDeletedContent = false;
settings.GenerateSummaryPage = true;
Stream result = comparison.Compare(sourceStream, targetStream, settings);
Compare Words file formats with Settings
Update way to use Comparison Settings for Words file formats
// Enter Words document paths
string sourcePath = "./source.odt";
string targetPath = "./target.odt";
// Create two streams of Words docuemnt
Stream sourceStream = File.Open(sourcePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
Stream targetStream = File.Open(targetPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
// Create instance of *GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison* and call method *Compare*.
GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison comparison = new GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison();
WordsComparisonSettings settings = new WordsComparisonSettings();
Settings.ProcessHyperLinksAsAText = true;
Stream result = comparison.Compare(sourceStream, targetStream, settings);
Comparison example for Open Documents file formats
// Enter presentations paths
string sourcePath = "./source.otp";
string targetPath = "./target.otp";
// Create two streams of presentations
Stream sourceStream = File.Open(sourcePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
Stream targetStream = File.Open(targetPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
// Create instance of *GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison* and call method *Compare*.
GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison comparison = new GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparison();
Stream result = comparison.Compare(sourceStream, targetStream, settings);
COMPARISONNET-1080 Compare two paragraphs with method CompareWith.
// Creating Paragraphs
ComparisonParagraphBase sourceParagraph = new ComparisonParagraph();
sourceParagraph.Text = "This is source Paragraph.";
ComparisonParagraphBase targetParagraph = new ComparisonParagraph();
targetParagraph.Text = "This is target Paragraph.";
// Creating settings for comparison of Paragraphs
SlidesComparisonSettings settings = new SlidesComparisonSettings();
// Comparing Paragraphs
ISlidesCompareResult compareResult = sourceParagraph.CompareWith(targetParagraph, settings);
Save presentation to image via image folder
/using GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides;
using GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides.Contracts;
using GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides.Contracts.Comparison;
using GroupDocs.Comparison.Slides.Contracts.Enums;
using GroupDocs.Comparison.Common.Images;
//path to file
string filePath = "./presentation.pptx";
//path to image folder
string imageFolderPath = "./FolderForImage/";
//Open document
ComparisonPresentationBase presentation = new ComparisonPresentationBase(filePath);
//Set settings
var settings = new ComparsionSlidesImageSettings();
//Save as Image
presentation.SaveAsImages(imageFolderPath, settings);