GroupDocs.Signature Cloud 21.11 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Signature Cloud 21.11

Major Features

Added new options describing signature appearance
Added support of FormField signatures
Improved getting document info with signatures list and new options

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
SIGNATURECLOUD-587	Add support for SignOptions.Appearance	Improvement
SIGNATURECLOUD-588	Implement ability to exclude Deleted Signatures from Document information	Feature
SIGNATURECLOUD-589	Extend IDocumentInfo interface with new property to keep list of all existing Signatures	Improvement
SIGNATURECLOUD-590	Extend Delete method with overloads that accept Id or List of identifiers	Investigation

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Get document info API

InfoSettings was extended with ShowDeletedSignaturesInfo property that that allow to include deleted signatures into Document Info result

{
   "FileInfo": {
      "FilePath": "one-page.docx"
   },
   "ShowDeletedSignaturesInfo": true
}

InfoResult was extended with Signatures field that contains collection of document signatures

{
   ...
 "signatures": [
    {
      "text": "John Smith",
      "signatureImplementation": "Native",
      "signatureType": "Text",
      "pageNumber": 1,
      "signatureId": "9701c793-a548-444c-9625-91bc5ae0a474",
      "isSignature": true,
      "createdOn": "2020-07-07T05:59:57.4849682+00:00",
      "modifiedOn": "2020-07-07T05:59:57.4849682+00:00",
      "top": 330,
      "left": 2,
      "width": 200,
      "height": 100
    },
    ...
}

Added SignOptions.Appearance option

SignOptions (and derived structures) was extended with new option Appearance with additional properties for this options instance

{
  "FileInfo": {
    "FilePath": "string",
    "StorageName": "string",
    "VersionId": "string",
    "Password": "string"
  },
  "Options": [
    {
      "Page": 0,
      "AllPages": true,
      "PagesSetup": {
        "FirstPage": true,
        "LastPage": true,
        "OddPages": true,
        "EvenPages": true,
        "PageNumbers": [
          0
        ]
      },
      "Appearance": {}
    }
  ],
  "SaveOptions": {
    "OverwriteExisting": true,
    "OutputFilePath": "string",
    "SaveFormat": "string"
  }
}

There are several derived structures of SignatureAppearance: PdfTextAnnotationAppearance, PdfTextStickerAppearance, ImageAppearance, DigitalSignatureAppearance, PdfDigitalSignatureAppearance

Added FormField signature type

The SignatureType enum was extended with new FormField value. Added new signature classes: CheckboxFormFieldSignature, ComboboxFormFieldSignature, DigitalFormFieldSignature, RadioButtonFormFieldSignature, TextFormFieldSignature