Gnostice Document Studio Delphi 19.2.3145.4775
Multi-format document-processing component suite for Delphi/C++Builder developers

• RAD Studio 12.x, 11.x, 10.4 Sydney, 10.3 Rio, 10.2 Tokyo, 10.1 Berlin, 10 Seattle, XE8, XE7, XE6, XE5, XE4, XE3, and XE2.

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Version 19.2.3145.4775 - December 1, 2023

• New, Support for RAD Studio 12.

Version 19.2.3131.4761 - October 5, 2021

• Enhancements
• General: Support for RAD Studio 11.
  

• Fixes
• FMX DocumentViewer: Fixed app lock up in specific scenarios when rendering documenting.
  
• VCL & FMX Document rendering, PDF: Fixed several image rendering issues for Windows and MacOS platforms related to masked, soft masked and color key masked images.
  
• VCL & FMX Document rendering, PDF: Fixed rendering of DCT (JPEG) images with Soft Mask and Image Mask specified with image.
  

Version 19.2.3120.4752 - February 5, 2021

• Enhancements
• VCL & FMX Document Viewer
• DOCX: Highly improved rendering of DOCX files with better support for table rendering taking into account table properties and border properties, and enhanced row breaking logic.
• Fixes
• VCL & FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Fixed issue with specific PDFs with Group SMask rendering blank.

Version 19.2.3089 - September 24, 2020

• Changes
• VCL & FMX Document Converter
• Images: Default DPI of Image encoder settings changed to 96.
• Enhancements
• General
• Support for RAD Studio 10.4.1.
• Restored support for loading .ico files under Windows, VCL and FMX.
• Improved FMX Document Converter demo UI.
• VCL & FMX Document Converter
• EMF: EMF output will be vector based by default. Option in EncoderParams to output raster based EMF.
• Fixes
• General
• INC file supplied not having proper defines.
• VCL & FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: PDFs with images rendering quality low.
• PDF: Shapes missing when rendering specific PDFs.
• PDF: Specific PDFs rendering blank.
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: "No mapping for Unicode character exists" error when loading PDFs in Delphi 10.4.1 Android, iOS targets.
• VCL Document Viewer
• PDF: Rotated PDF documents not displayed properly.
• PDF: Divide by zero exception when printing specific PDF.
• VCL & FMX Document Converter
• PDF: Output page not proper when converting from DOCX.
• PDF Engine
• Loading saved PDF throws List index out of bounds error.
• Report Export
• PDF: Chinese text missing when exporting ReportBuilder report to PDF.

Version 19.2.3012.4529 - December 5, 2019

• Enhanced
• General
• Support for RAD Studio 10.3.3.
• Support for Android 64-bit targeting.
• Support for OSX 64-bit targeting.
• New FMX FileBrowserList component for browsing files in folders in a list view.
• New Added FMX LiveBindings Document Viewer demo.
• New Added multi-platform FMX Document Converter demo.
• Other code quality, optimization, and general improvements.
• VCL & FMX Framework
• Added GetOpenDialogFilterString and GetSaveDialogFilterString methods to retrieve filter strings with support for multiple grouping options & file format descriptions.
• Added GetReadableFormatsFileMasks method to get delimited file masks string.
• Added GetReadableFormatsFriendlyNames, GetWritableFormatsFriendlyNames, and GetEditableFormatsFriendlyNames methods to get array of supported formats in human-friendly format names.
• [FMX] Added method UnRegisterNavPanePage to unregister navigation pane pages.
• FMX Document Converter
• New Added DocumentConverter component to convert PDF, DOCX, Images to platform supported image formats based on TBitmapCodecManager.
• Design approach based on separation of internal process and user API between input, process, and output.
• Add documents to convert using DocumentConverter.InputDocuments
• Set output settings using DocumentConverter.EncodersSettings property. EncodersSettings now a published property on the Document Converter object and so can be set at design-time.
• Invoke conversion using DocumentConverter.ConvertToFile() or ConvertToStream() methods.
• Mixed channel input documents supply for a given job using DocumentConverter.InputDocuments.AddDocument(AFileName) and DocumentConverter.InputDocuments.AddDocument(AStream) methods.
• Set image output resolution through Resolution.DPIX and Resolution.DPIY properties.
  VCL Document Converter
• VCL Document Converter
• Changed to be made equal in interface and design to FMX Document Converter with PDF as additional output format under VCL.
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Support for filling multi-line text form fields.
• Fixed
• FMX & VCL Document Viewer
• PDF: Text missing while rendering specific PDFs.
• PDF: Specific PDFs with SMask not rendered properly.
• PDF: PDF text with complex glyphs not rendered properly.
• PDF: Solid lines are displayed as dashed lines in specific PDFs.
• PDF: Font styles not considered for Adobe Standard Fonts.
• DOCX: Access violation error while closing viewer after loading specific DOCX files.
• DOCX: Access violation error while loading specific DOCX files.
• DOCX: Loading using stream not working due to recent change.
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Android application crash while loading specific PDF.
• PDF: Segmentation fault in Android while loading specific PDF.
• VCL Document Viewer
• Fixed TgtViewRendererThread memory leak
• VCL & FMX Document Converter
• Images: ConvertToStream returning empty output stream list.
• DOCX: Access violation error while converting from DOCX to any format.
• PDF: Corrupted PDF output generated in 64-bit target.
• VCL Document Converter
• DOCX: Output PDF page size not proper when the screen scale is set above 100%.
• DrawableItems Memory leak while converting to Images.
• Report Export
• Fixed memory leaks in specific scenarios of PDF generation.
  

Version 19.1.2934 - July 24, 2019

• Enhanced
• General
• Support for RAD Studio 10.3 Rio Release 2.
• FMX Document Viewer
• New enhanced LiveBindings enablement through DocumentChannel property. Connect viewer to String fields and BLOB fields and view document supplied as file path and data stream, respectively..
• VCL Document Viewer
• Optimized viewer refresh thread and improved overall UI performance.
• VCL Document Converter
  • Improved conversion from Word formats (DOC, DOCX) to plain text document.
• Fixed
• FMX and VCL Document Viewer
• DOC: Access violation error when freeing the viewer.
• DOC: Out of memory error when loading specific document.
• DOC: Column rendering not proper for specific Word document.
• PDF: Text missing when rendering specific PDF with Type3 font.
• PDF: Stream read error when processing font stream in a specific PDF.
• Memory leak when loading document using LoadFromStream with OwnsStream set to True.
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Access violation when loading specific PDF in Android target.
• PDF: Checked state of the checkbox not displayed during initial load for certain PDFs.
• VCL Document Viewer
• DOC, DOCX: Flicker while loading Word documents with multiple pages.
• VCL Document Converter
• ConvertToStream method throws “nil cannot be assigned to TgtImageEncoderParams” exception when no encoder param is passed.
  
• PDF to Text conversion not proper for PDFs with CID font.
  

Version 19.1.2908 - June 13, 2019

• Enhanced
• FMX Document Viewer
• Optimized memory usage on Android target.
• Optimized refresh frequency of viewer based on display frequency.
• Improved the use of low resolution image flow for smoother scrolling, zooming experience.
• Improved buffer area calculation to avoid re-render on minor zoom, size change.
• VCL Document Printer
• Scale to Fit, Shrink Oversized Pages options now respect the aspect ratio of the page.
• VCL Document Converter
• Added support for setting of DPI for raster output image formats (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP) and rendering at specified DPI for these formats. Setting can be done via ImageEncoderParams.
  
• Fixed
• FMX Document Viewer
• Random "Unable to copy Bitmap" error when performing simple operations.
• Memory usage increasing rapidly when zooming in and out.
• VCL Document Viewer
• DOCX: Access violation when loading any DOCX files in IDEs below XE2.
• VCL Document Printer
• When AutoRotate is True, Rotated pages not printed properly.
• Access violation error when printing specific PDFs.
• Scaling is not proper if application has high-DPI enabled.
• VCL Document Converter
• DOCX to TXT not proper for specific inputs.
• Output Page size not proper if screen DPI is over 96.
• PDFEngine
• Saving in Android platform produces corrupt PDF.
• Application hanging when loading specific PDF file.
• Images missing when rendering specific PDF.
• Text missing when rendering specific PDF with embedded Type1 font.
• Saving produces corrupt PDF in locales with decimal separator as comma.
• Checkbox values not visible in Chrome or Edge browser PDF viewers after filling and saving.
• Radio groups not read properly in specific PDFs.
• Ignoring shapes filled using unsupported shading pattern instead of default color.
• PDFs containing DCT image with JFIF marker not rendered properly.
  DOCX Engine.
• DOCXEngine
• Page count returns 0 for specific DOCX file.
• Application hanging when loading specific DOCX file.
• Report Export
• FR conversion to any format throwing "Invalid handle" error.

Version 19.1.2875 - February 19, 2019

• Enhanced
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Introduced Bookmarks pane.
  
• PDF: Introduced interactive form filling in all targets.
  
• Document Printer
  
• Introduced PrintSpoolerDocumentName property in TgtBeginPrintJobEventArgs class that is used for OnBeginJob event, to inspect and change DocumentName shown in PrintSpooler app.
  
• Fixes
• General
  
• Fixed various memory leaks in framework classes.
• FR Export demo compilation error due to improper icon file configuration.
• FMX Document Viewer
• Password dialog always shown irrespective of the Password.ShowDialog property value.
• Password.AllowedAttempts is not considered while using in-built dialog.
  
• VCL Document Viewer
• GoToPage not showing the correct page due to missing refresh.
• Images: Memory leak and out of memory error while viewing multiple files.
  
VCL & FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Text missing while viewing specific PDF.
Report Export

• FR: Save dialog shown twice while exporting from FastReport 6.
  

Version 18.2.2854 - November 22, 2018

Version 18.2.2831 - October 31, 2018

• Changed
• General
• Product marketing name changed to "Gnostice Document Studio". There is no code break due to this change.
• Introduced Essential and Professional SKUs.
• Essential edition replaces ReportExport edition. Features includes Report Export, View, and Print. No Source code.
• Professional edition includes - View, Print, Convert, and Report Export. With full source code.
• Ultimate edition includes all features of Professional edition + one full commercial license of StarDocs Document Server Viewer edition. With StarDocs you can add an HTML5 Document Viewer in your web applications using REST APIs. Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page) TIFF. StarDocs Document Server comes with SDKs for JavaScript, Delphi, .NET, and Java.
• Report Export
• Product is configured with highest report tool versions. The Report Export Configurator does not run automatically during installation as it is not necessary most times. If Report Export needs to be configured with lower versions of reporting tools, the Report Export Configurator can be launched from the Start menu to reconfigure report versions.
• Enhanced
• General
• Restored support for C++Builder. IDE support includes:
• VCL - 2010, XE, XE2, XE3, XE4, XE5, XE6, XE7, XE8, 10 Seattle, D10.1 Berlin, 10.2.3 Tokyo (Win32, Win64 where applicable)
• FMX - 10.2.3 Tokyo (Win32, Win64)
• Introduced built-in Logger to enable logging of loading errors and exceptions.
• Introduced framework independent Native Canvas interface. Now both VCL & FMX share a common Document Reader and Renderer.
• VCL-only non visual components such as DocumentPrinter, DocumentConverter, Report Controls hidden from FMX Tool Palette.
• Various internal code, packages, installer optimizations. Reduced installer size.
• VCL Document Viewer (FMX Document Viewer already supports the following features)
• PDF: Support for rendering shapes with tiling graphics pattern fill (Mac, iOS, Android).
• PDF: Support for rendering shapes with Axial Shading graphics pattern fill through ‘scn’ and ‘sh’ operators (Windows & Mac).
• PDF: Support for rendering of Transparency Group XObjects.
• PDF: Support for rendering of elements that use Graphics State with SMask.
• Fixes
• General
• Version property not reflecting current build number.
• VCL Document Viewer
• TIFF: Only first page loaded if the file extension is TIF.
• DOCX: Images missing in specific DOCX files.
• PDF: Access violation errors while closing after viewing specific PDFs.
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Access violation while viewing Arabic PDF in Android target.
• PDF: Specific PDF freezing the viewer while loading.

Version 18.1.2745 - August 21, 2018

• Enhanced
• FMX Document Viewer
• TIFF, EMF: Support for viewing Multi-page TIFF, EMF files in Windows target.
• Fixes
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Rotated pages not rendered properly.
• PDF: Viewer freezing due to improper Type1 font end marker.
• PDF: Access violation while loading encrypted PDFs.
• Images: Images not rendered due to recent changes
• White thin lines visible under specific zoom levels.
• Access violation error while zooming rotated pages.

Version 18.1.2725 - August 17, 2018

• Enhanced
• FMX Document Viewing
  
• New high-performance View rendering design enables smooth, responsive viewer with fast scrolling of pages in view on all devices - Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
• PDF:  Support for rendering shapes with tiling graphics pattern fill (Mac, iOS, Android).
• PDF: Support for rendering shapes with Axial Shading graphics pattern fill through ‘scn’ and ‘sh’ operators (Windows & Mac).
• PDF: Optimized rendering of images for faster page rendering.
• PDF: Support for rendering of Transparency Group XObjects.
• PDF: Support for rendering of elements that use Graphics State with SMask.
• Document Converter
• PDF: Introduced PDF encoder settings.
• PDF: Support for output to PDF/A.
• PDF: Support for digital signing of converted output.
• Report Export
• PDF: Added Support for Flat, Round, and Square linecap style.
• PDF: Added support for adding dots when exporting metafile to PDF.
• XLSX: Added new property “Caching” to specify how XLSX resources (XML files) are cached by the XLSX creator during file generation.
• XLSX: Improved XLSX creation speed and reduced memory utilization.
  
• Fixed
• FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Access violation error while closing the document viewer.
• PDF: Various access violation errors and memory leaks.
• Report Export
• Shapes clipping is not handled.
• Some patterns are not rendered properly.
• XLSX: RowSpacing, ColumnSpacing properties is implemented such as number of cells to leave between two text items will be decided.

Version 2017 R5 Preview - September 28, 2017

• Enhanced
• FMX Document Viewing
  
• PDF: Introduced interactive form filling.
• PDF: Introduced Preferences.Forms property to configure form filling settings.
• PDF: Introduced Preferences.ItemsNeedRender, .ItemsNeedInteractive, and .ItemsNeedReadOnly properties to control item types to render, make interactive, and keep as read-only, respectively.
• PDF: Introduced SaveToFile, SaveToStream methods for saving modified documents, including filled forms.
• PDF: Support for rendering shapes with tiling graphics pattern fill (Windows).
• Introduced OnDocItemMouseActivity, and OnDocItemActivity events to program form field and page content related events.
• DOCX: Support for rendering paragraph alignment properties - Left, Right, Center.
  
• VCL Document Printer
  
• Introduced PrintDocument overload that takes Document object. Now ActiveDocument from Viewer can be printed directly.
• Fixed
• VCL DB Document Viewer
• Unsupported format exception raised while creating new record or deleting existing record.
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
• DOC: List index out of bounds exception while loading specific DOC files.
• DOCX: Access violation errors while loading specific DOCX files.
• PDF, DOCX: Memory leaks while viewing specific files.

Version 2017 R4 Upd 2 - August 11, 2017

• Enhanced
• General
  
• Refresh build for RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo Update 1.

Version 2017 R4 Upd 1 - August 3, 2017

• Enhanced
• General
  
• FMX and VCL Document Viewer Demos updated to demonstrate Mouse events - Click, DblClick, MouseDown, MouseMove, MouseUp.
  
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
  
• Augmented EventArgs of MouseDown/MouseUp/MouseMove events to receive additional mouse state, page and selection information.
• Introduced enhanced Click and DblClick events with Page and other View related information in EventArgs.
• Introduced ActiveView property to access current Document View and to go down to the View Provider.
• General code optimizations.
• DOCX: Support for rendering font effects (Color, Underline styles, Strikethrough, Double Strikethrough, All Caps).
• DOCX: Support for New layouter in FMX for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
• FMX Document Viewing 
• Support for Page display rotation.
• Fixed
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
• GotoPage function not working when only Page Number or Page Number and Page Left, Top specified in params.
• PDF: Access Violation while loading specific PDFs.
• PDF: Memory leak while opening specific PDFs.
• PDF: Division by zero error while loading specific PDF.
• FMX Document Viewing
• Access Violation when zooming in and out rapidly with Ctrl+Mousewheel.

Version 2017 R4 - June 22, 2017

• Enhanced
• General
  
• VCL and FMX Document Viewer demos use Document Viewer standard actions for toolbar functions.
  
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
  
• All formats
  
• MouseMode property introduced to select mouse operating mode between Pan, MarqueeZoom, etc. Toggle between Pan and MarqueeZoom mode by holding down Alt key.
• Introduced ScrollPosH and ScrollPosV properties to directly read and write scrollbar position.
• Introduced Scroll method to simulate scrollbar interactions. Scroll by supplying horizontal and vertical delta.
  
• Zooming using Ctrl+Mouse Wheel and Touch Pinch Zoom Gesture now zooms in and out the page and region under mouse and touch, respectively.
• Introduced Marquee Zoom in MouseMode. Select a rectangular region on the view to zoom in and out to and from specific parts of the viewed pages. Select rect with Ctrl key pressed to Zoom out.
• Overloaded ZoomIn and ZoomOut methods to take in Viewport rect and zoom in and out to a specified Viewport area of the page display grid.
• Overloaded GoToPage method with Page Rect as input to fit specified page rect in view, upon jumping to the page.
  
• Introduced OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp, OnMouseMove events.
  
• FMX  Document Viewing
  
• All formats
  
• Introduced DocumentSource property which supports live binding to Data field (BLOB).
• DOCX
  
• Improved column and tab breaks in Windows target.
• Report Export
  
• Added support for exporting Rave Reports.
• Support for Unicode in Text and CSV output while exporting reports. 
  

• Fixed
• General
  
• 'Property not found' error in DB DocumentViewer demo project.
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
  
• All formats
  
• IsDocumentLoaded of DBDocumentViewer not returning proper value.
• OnDocumentClosed being called on document load even if there was no document loaded. OnDocumentClosed should be called only if there was a document previously loaded and while closing it.
• PDF
  
• All known memory leaks while viewing documents.
• Freezing while viewing PDFs with DCT (JFIF) images.
• Color wrongly rendered if PDF contains indexed CMYK colorspace.
• Access violations while viewing specific PDF documents.
  
• DOCX
  
• Various access violations while viewing specific documents.
• FMX  Document Viewing
  
• PDF
  
• ‘Unicode code page unavailable’ error in Android.
• Some characters rendered wrongly in Windows.
• Blank rendering in 64-bit target for specific PDFs.
  
• Report Export
  
• QR codes contained in reports are not exported correctly.
• Text with font size 100 appearing small while exporting FastReport reports to PDF.
  

Version 2017 R3 - May 4, 2017

• Enhanced
• General
  
• Support for RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo.
• Overall code cleanup and Setup/install size optimization.
• VCL Document Converter
  
• OCR: Improved OCR stability and accuracy.
• OCR: Support for more languages and instruction to recognize multiple languages in supplied input.
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
  
• All formats
  
• Handling protected files: OnNeedPassword event to provide password for protected files (relevant for PDF only).
• Handling protected files: Introduced optional password parameter for LoadFromFile and LoadFromStream methods (relevant for PDF only).
• Handling protected files: Built-in password dialog when OnNeedPassword event is not assigned.
• Support for Cover Page View.
• Support for NonContinuous and NonPageSwitching Scroll Modes.
• Smooth panning of pages on Mobile and Desktop platforms with support for panning gesture on touch devices (FMX only).
• PDF
  
• Support for rendering PDFs with Softmask and Imagemask.
• Support for DeviceCMYK, CalGray, CalRGB, Indexed DeviceCMYK, Indexed DeviceRGB colorspace images.
• Support for opening password protected files (RC4 40-bit and 128-bit, AES 128-bit).
• Improved  memory usage and loading speed of PDFs with huge images.
• VCL  Document Viewing
  
• Background processing of pages.
• Maintain of current page position across Scroll Mode and Scroll Orientation changes.
• FMX  Document Viewing
  
• Native rendering engines for all platforms. Native rendering greatly improves rendering speed in the viewer, frees the viewer from limitations of FMX canvas related to path drawing and the inability to render to FMX bitmap canvas in background thread on Android.
• Support for Android, iOSDevice32, iOSDevice64, iOSSimulator, Mac OS X and Windows targets.
• Support for rendering PDFs with standard 14 fonts in Android.
• Background processing and rendering of pages for lag free, smooth UI experience.
• Report Export
  
• RTF: Improved overall text layouting/formatting.
• PDF/A: Support for COMFORT ConformanceLevel when encoding to PDF version PDF3A.

• Fixed
• General
  
• Version property is empty.
• VCL and FMX Document Viewing
  
• PDF
  
• Access violation while loading specific PDFs.
• CID fonts with 1-Byte and 2-Byte char codes not rendered properly.
• PDFs with Type3 fonts not rendered properly.
• Specific PDF with ‘fi’ character not rendered properly.
• Invalid pages exception raised for valid PDFs.
• Some OTF fonts are not rendered properly(‘ä’ is rendered as ‘®’).
• Items not found error in few PDFs while loading.
• Range check error while rendering JBIG2 Images.
• TTF font rendering issue in PDF.
• Text are not rendered while loading specific PDF.
• Specific PDF with Barcode font not rendered properly.
• Integer overflow exception in Font Engine while loading specfic PDF.
• DOCX, DOC
  
• Various access violation errors..
• Report Export
  
• Characters are shrinking when Preferences.ApplyEmfCharSpacing is set to True.
• ApplyEmfCharSpacing property is (logically) deprecated. The setting for this property is now ignored. Char spacing is always applied if it is specified in the EMF file.
• Images are shrunk when exporting specific reports to PDF.
• Some text are cut at the ends in resulting PDF, due to insertion of white rectangles on the text.
• Some image are overlapped when exporting specific reports PDF.
• Ace Reporter: If background image is a metafile in input report, foreground contents are not visible in the resulting PDF.
• Fontstyle strike through is not working in XLSX and XLS Engine.
• Transparent text elements are treated as normal text.
• Clipped text elements are not encoded properly.
• RTF: Text shrinking while exporting specific FastReport reports.
• RTF : Bullets are rendered as question mark.
• FastReport: Page size and contents not exported properly in higher DPI systems.

Version 2017 R1+NG B5 - January 4, 2017

• Enhanced
• VCL Document Viewing
  
• DOCX, DOC, RTF: Progressive processing and rendering of Word formats.
• VCL and FMX Document Viewers (NextGen Beta 5)
• Optimized paint for smoother UI interaction.
  
• Introduced PageNumber property and page navigation APIs. (FirstPage, LastPage, NextPage, PrevPage, GoToPage, IsFirstPage, and IsLastPage).
• ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomTo APIs with Rect and Focal Point support.
• Introduced OnMouseActivity, OnPageNumberChanged, and OnPageCountUpdated events.
  
• Improved NextGen viewer demos with current page tracking, cover page and multi-column layout options.
  
• DOCX, DOC, RTF: Progressive processing and rendering of Word formats.
• PDF: Support for rendering images with color-key mask, SMask.
• PDF: Memory and performance optimization in mobile targets.
• Fixed
• VCL and FMX Document Viewers (NextGen Beta 5)
  
• PDF: Bitmap size too big exception when viewing PDFs with images in Android target.

Version 2016 R10+NG B4 - December 16, 2016

• Enhanced
• General (NextGen Beta 4)
• Added support to RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin Update 2.
  
• Added new Multi-Device viewer demo project for FMX.
• VCL Document Viewing
  
• PDF: Support for rendering of elements with soft mask specified in the ExtendedGraphicsState resource, which is set in the current graphics state.
• PDF: Support for SMask images with pre-blended image data ("Matte" entry).
• PDF: Support for rendering of shapes with Axial shading pattern fill type.
• PDF: Support for rendering of shapes that use Sampled, Exponential and Stitching Function-types to fill/Stroke.
• DOC, DOCX: Improved accuracy of spacing between Lines and Paragraphs
• DOC, DOCX: Improved font selection/substitution based on text.
  
• VCL Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 4)
• Added support for multiple display layouts.
• Zoom in, zoom out.
  
• Pre-defined zoom modes.
• Improved page layouting with smooth and flicker-free scrolling .
  
• Various performance and quality improvements.
• PDF: Added support for viewing PDFs with Type 1 shading color patterns.
• Included dynamic values of predefined zoom modes (FitPage, FitWidth...) in overall zoom steps. ZoomIn/ZoomOut now hop to those dynamic values.
• General behaviour improvements on window resize when using dynamic zoom modes (FitPage, FitWidth...).
• Optimized property value storage in form file.
• Improved background-rendering framework.
• General code cleanup and comments updated.
• DOC, DOCX: Improved accuracy of spacing between Lines and Paragraphs.
• DOC, DOCX: Improved font selection/substitution based on text.
  
• FMX Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 4)
• Support for multiple display layouts
• Page layout: One page, two page, auto fit pages, custom.
  
• Scroll orientation: Vertical, Horizontal.
  
• Zoom Settings
  
• Zoom in, zoom out
  
• Pre-defined zoom modes.
  
• Improved page layouting with smooth and flicker-free scrolling.
• Various performance and quality improvements.
  
• Added Fill property for setting viewer background, with default gradient background.
• Included dynamic values of predefined zoom modes (FitPage, FitWidth...) in overall zoom steps. ZoomIn/ZoomOut now hop to those dynamic values.
• General behaviour improvements on window resize when using dynamic zoom modes (FitPage, FitWidth...).
• General behaviour improvements on scroll with mousewheel.
• Optimized property value storage in form file.
• Improved background-rendering framework.
• General code cleanup and comments updated.
• DOC, DOCX: Improved accuracy of spacing between Lines and Paragraphs.
• DOC, DOCX: Improved font selection/substitution based on text.
  
• Fixed

• VCL Document Viewing
  
• PDF: Rendering PDFs with JBIG2 images causes 'Duplicates not allowed' exception.
• PDF: Range check error while rendering JBIG2 images.
• PDF: Loading and saving PDF file with JBIG2 image results in corrupted PDF output.
• PDF: Shapes are not closed properly when 'S' operator is used to render the shapes.
• DB Document Viewer
• Access violation when inserting records and clearing data field.
• VCL Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 4)
• Improper page layout and scaling in higher DPI displays.
• PDF: Access violation when loading PDFs with patterns.
• PDF: Some text with embedded fonts not rendering in systems with non English locale.
• DOCX: Character spacing not proper in specific files.
• ZoomMode-ActualSize not working.
• FMX Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 4)
• Improper page layout and scaling in higher DPI displays
• DOC, DOCX: First character of paragraph not rendered
• Word Formats Rendering (DOCX and DOC; Effective for current VCL, and NextGen VCL & FMX Viewers)
• Incorrect line spacing when Paragraph contains Inline images.
  
• Borders and sharing were not moved as per alignment of table.
• Rendering tab spacing.
• Indentation in numbered paragraphs.
• Memory leaks when rendering word documents with tables.

 * Currently, PDF, DOC and images are supported for mobile targets. Other formats will be added in the next release. *

Version 2016 R8 + NG B2 - September 30, 2016

• Enhanced
• General (NextGen Beta 2)
• Added support for iOSSimulator, iOSDevice32, iOSDevice64, Android targets (XE8 upwards).
• Added new Document viewer demo under <XDoc Install Folder>\Demos\Delphi\VCL\NextGen.
• Updated supported platforms for components in tools palette.
• Document Conversion (NextGen Beta 2)
• Support for creating searchable PDF while converting images to PDF (OCR).
• VCL Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 2)
• New NextGen viewer component introduced under "XtremeDocumentStudio NextGen Beta" in tools palette.
• Support for multiple display layouts.
• Page layout: One page, two page, auto fit pages, custom.
• Scroll orientation: Vertical, Horizontal.
• Zoom Settings.
  
• PDF: Integrated our 100% native font processor for rendering text that uses embedded fonts.
• FMX Document Viewing (NextGen Beta 2 - use any FireMonkey demos)
• PDF: Added new API PDFPage.Draw(Canvas).
• PDF: Support processing and rendering PDFs in Mobile targets.
  
• PDF: Supported elements - Text using Embedded fonts, Line arts, Images in RGB, CMYK, Grayscale colorspace.
• PDF: Integrated our 100% native font processor for rendering text written using embedded fonts.
• DOC, DOCX, RTF: Support processing and rendering in Mobile targets.
  
• Report Export
• XLSX: Improved layouting of excel output.
• Fixed
• Document Viewer
• PDF: Access violation while viewing PDFs with patterns.
• XLS: Access violation while trying to load unsupported XLS format.

Version 2016 R6 - April 25, 2016

• Enhanced
• General
• Support for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin.
• Report Export
• Optimized generation of PDF/A files with subset embedding of fonts for minimal output file size.
• Fixed
• VCL/FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Invalid password exception raised for specific documents without user password.
• PDF: Access violation error in 64bit target while opening specific PDF.
• Report Export
• Access violation error while exporting reports from DLL projects.
• List index out of bounds error when exporting reports containing specific types of images.
• Extra frames drawn around exported text and images – issue only in build 62.
• Microscopic overlapping of rectangles on text – visible only when text font size is less than 4.
• Curves are filled when they should be in PDF generation.
• Numbers inside parenthesis are not considered as negative numbers when AutoFormatCells is True.

Version 2016 R5 - March 25, 2016

• Enhanced
• VCL Document Viewer
• PDF: Support for reading PDF bookmarks with Unicode characters.
• PDF: Optimized rendering of Type3 fonts.
• PDF: Support for rendering tiling graphics pattern.
• Fixed
• VCL Document Viewer
• PDF: Specific PDF file causes rendering process to hang.
• PDF: Page displayed in wrong size when it contains rotation.
• PDF: Various memory leaks while rendering encrypted PDFs.
• PDF: Access Violation when rendering PDFs with Type3 fonts.
• PDF: Access violation when opening PDFs with form fields in 64bit target.

Version 2016 R4 - February 26, 2016

• Enhanced
• VCL/FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Support for rendering of Type3 fonts.
• Fixed
• VCL/FMX Document Viewer
• PDF: Improved text rendering quality in 64bit target.
• PDF: Text missing when rendering PDFs with embedded OTF fonts.
• PDF: "Win32 error" while rendering specific PDFs.
• PDF: PDResources memory leak while rendering specific PDFs.
• PDF: Access violation while rendering PDFs with Type3 fonts.
• PDF: Access violation while opening PDFs with form fields on 64bit target.
• PDF: Various memory leaks while rendering PDFs on 64bit target.
• PDF: Added safety checks to avoid few GDI+ exceptions.
• DOCX/DOC/RTF: Incorrect spacing and wrapping of Unicode text which affected rendering of Chinese text.
• DOC: Error opening files with empty element properties list.
• DOC: Random errors due to incorrect calculation of data stream/block lengths as "Root Entry" structure information was not used.
• DOC: Error opening files with columns where column count is 1
• DOC: Viewer freeze on opening files with negative margins
• DOC: IndexOutOfBound exception thrown for text with 2-byte characters.
• DOC: Default styles not applied when rendering.
• DOCX: Error opening files with empty styles list.
• DOCX: Incorrect handling of bullet symbols where symbol is specified using direct ASCII value
  

Version 2016 R3 - February 16, 2016

• Enhancement
  • Metafile processor
    • Improved support for clipping commands - IntersectClipRegion supported now.
  • Word formats (DOCX, DOC, RTF)
    • Processing of “0Table” structure in DOC.
• Fixed
  • Word formats (DOCX, DOC, RTF)
    • DOCX: Issues with rendering bullets.
    • DOC, DOCX: Incorrect rendering of table cell margins.
    • DOC: Access Violation error in some cases due to incorrect calculation of structure offsets.
    • DOC: Font size not accurate in some cases.
  • Report Export
    • Metafile processor
      • Image colours changed when exporting some reports.
      • Incorrect font size used in output document.
      • Output image is rendered smaller than report image.
    • Excel Export
      • ReportBuilder: Negative numbers not visible in output.
    • PDF Export
      • Setting only owner password and leaving user password empty, with EncryptionLevel set to elRC4_128Bit, makes Acrobat Reader show password prompt when opening file.

Version 2016 R2 - January 29, 2016

• Enhancements
• General
  • Improved overall code quality.
• Report Export
  • Support for exporting of barcodes and QR codes contained in reports (ReportBuilder 13.0 and above).
• VCL Document Viewer
  • DOC: Improved rendering of bulletted and numbered lists.
  • DOC: Improved fault tolerance when loading documents.
  • DOCX: Support for rendering tabs.
  • DOCX, DOC, RTF: Support for rendering paragraphs even when style is not specified.
• FMX Document Viewer
  • DOC: Improved rendering of bulletted and numbered lists.
  • DOC: Improved fault tolerance when loading documents.
  • DOCX: Support for rendering tabs.
  • DOCX, DOC, RTF: Support for rendering paragraphs even when style is not specified.

• Fixes
  • VCL Document Viewer
  • Catalog not found error raised for some valid PDFs.
  • Access Violation error when loading a file where extension does not match actual document format.

Version 2016 R1 - January 14, 2016

• Enhancements
• VCL Document Viewer
  • Added GoToPage and ZoomTo standard actions to connect to Edit controls. Develop Document Viewers totally without writing code
  • Improved performance of DOCX rendering
• FMX Document Viewer
  • Faster and improved rendering of DOCX documents
  • Improved text rendering accuracy for PDF
• Report Export
  • Improved support for PDF/A generation and ZUGFeRD standard compliance
• Fixes
• VCL Document Viewer
• Random access violation errors when loading documents
• Improper rendering of specific font types and text in PDFs in 64-bit target
• Floating point error when viewing specific PDFs with JBIG2 images
• Document Converter
• Converter always opens output documents after the conversion job
• Report Export
• Output is limited to five pages

Version 2015 R9 - December 30, 2015

• Enhanced
• General
• Final release of XtremeDocumentStudio Delphi 2015 R9 with new ReportExport edition. Ultimate edition is also updated.
  
• Fixed
• Issues in DOCX rendering (AV when exiting the application).

Version 2015 R9 - December 25, 2015

• Introduced
  
• New ReportExport edition with includes capability to export FastReport, ReportBuilder, QuickReport and ACE Reporter reports to PDF, PDF/A, RTF, HTML, Excel and Image formats.

Version 2015 R9 (BETA) - December 18, 2015

• Enhanced
• General
• Improved viewer demo project with all custom engines and file browser integrated
• Standard Controls
• Introduced TgtFileBrowserTree, TgtFileBrowserList, TgtFileBrowserCombo components
• IntraWeb
• Introduced IntraWeb component TgtIWDocumentViewer to view documents.
• Report Controls
• Introduced FRDocumentView component to view documents inside FastReport. Supports single page now.
• Report Export
• DocInfo property added to all encoder settings. Contains Author, Creator, Keywords, Subject, Title.
• Support for font embedding in PDF. Can be configured through EncodersSettings.PDF.FontSettings.
  
• Framework
• Added GetOpenDialogFilterString, GetSaveDialogFilterString APIs.
• Document Conversion
• Added support for converting any supported format to PDF.
• VCL Document Viewer
• Introduced FitHeight option to ZoomMode.
• Added GetZoomPercentForZoomMode(ZoomMode) method.
• Added GetZoomSteps method.
• Document viewer actions will now update their Enabled and Checked states based on viewer state.
• Introduced FitHeight standard document viewer action.
• Load document viewer action exposes OpenDialog and populates filter string with supported formats.
• Document Processing
  
• PDF
  
• Support for named destinations in bookmark panel.
• Support for viewing PDFs with AES encryption.
• Support for viewing annotations in Document viewer.
• Added voCommenting to TgtViewerOperation (DocumentViewer.AllowedOperations property).
• Support for adding sticky note annotation through document viewer.
• Support for viewing all annotations in comments pane in thread mode.
• Support for adding reply to existing annotations.
• Added new User property in the DocumentViewer. By default takes user name from current user.
• Word Formats
• Redesigned layouter and DOM to share between all word formats (DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT...).
• DOCX, DOC, RTF
• Support for Section - Page size, Page Orientation, Page margin, Columns.
• Support for Paragraph - Alignment, Line Spacing [Multiple, Exact, Atleast], Spacing Before, Spacing After.
• Support for Paragraph Indentation - Left, Right, First Line, Hanging lines.
• Support for Numbering and bullets.
• Support for Text - Font, Family, Size, Style, Color, Highlight.
• Support for Images - Inline, Floating, In Font of text, Behind Text.
• Support for Text Wrapping type -  None, Square, Through, Tight, Top and Bottom.
  
• Support for Tables - Borders, Cell Color, Margins, Conditional Formatting.
• Support for Styles in Paragraph, Character, Numbering, Tables.
• Changed
• Framework
• RegisterDocument now takes  TgtDocumentClass, Extension, Description as parameters.
• Virtual class function GetEngineCapabilities must be overridden by engines to define their capabilities (Open, Save, Edit).
• VCL Document Viewer
• Removed redundant APIs - GetZoom, GetZoomPercent, GetStdZoomType.
  
• IsLoaded property renamed to IsDocumentLoaded.
• OnCurrentPageChange event renamed to OnPageChange.
• CurrentPage property renamed to PageNumber.
  
• Fixed
• General
• Compilation error due to conflict with latest version of PDFToolkit.
  
• VCL Document Viewer
• Some special characters not rendering in 64bit target.
• Access violation errors while viewing specific PDFs in 64bit target.
• Access violation errors while closing specific documents that contains bookmarks.
• 'ü' character not rendering in specific PDF.
• FMX Document Viewer
• Pages rendering overlapping iOS device while scrolling.
• Some PDFs rendering in smaller size in OSX target.

Version 2015 R8 - September 21, 2015

• Enhanced
• General
• Added support for RAD Studio 10 Seattle.