GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud 18.11 Release Notes

Major Features

The most notable?features?in this release?are:

  • Added next file formats support:
    • CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
    • PST (MS Outlook data file)
    • OST (MS Outlook data file)
    • PCL (Printer Command Language)
    • TSV (Tab Separated values)
  • Temporally removed support for CAD file formats (DXF, DWG, DWF, DGN)
  • Added?Time interval option for rendering MS Project documents
  • Added possibility to get project start and end dates from MS Porject document
  • Added support of rendering Microsoft Project documents as HTML with embedded resources
  • Added new option which allows setting list of fonts to exclude when rendering into HTML

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

KeySummaryCategory
VIEWERCLOUD-215Time interval option for rendering MS Project documentsFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-216Add CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) file format supportFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-217Add support for rendering PST file formatFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-218Add support for rendering OST file formatFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-219Obtaining start and end dates from MS Porject documentFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-224Option for setting the list of fonts that should be excluded from HTMLFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-225Add PCL file format supportFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-226Add TSV (Tab-separated values) file format supportFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-228Exclude CAD file formats from list of supported formatsFeature
VIEWERCLOUD-95Photoshop file format (PSD) is not listed as supported file formatBug
VIEWERCLOUD-208Objects model schema is missing at apireference.groupdocs.cloudBug
VIEWERCLOUD-230Password required to get attachment page after geting pagesBug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

CAD file formats are excluded from supported formats

CAD file formats are excluded from list of supported formats in the GroupDocs.Viewer.Cloud 18.11

Obtaining start and end dates from MS Project document

Since the version 18.11 GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API allows to?get start and end dates from MS Project document.


### Retrieve access token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/oauth2/token \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[Your ClientId]&client_secret=[Your ClientSecret]'

### Upload file into the storage
curl --request PUT \
  'https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/storage/file path#%2Fsample.mpp' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache'
  --data-binary @"c:\storage\sample.mpp"

### Get document info
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/sample.mpp/html/info \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
{
    "fileName": "sample.mpp",
    "extension": ".mpp",
    "fileFormat": "Microsoft Project",
    "size": 289792,
    "dateModified": "2018-10-19T08:03:09.6274443Z",
    "pages": [
        {
            "number": 1,
            "name": "",
            "width": 2245,
            "height": 1587,
            "angle": 0,
            "visible": true,
            "rows": null
        }
    ],
    "attachments": [],
    "layers": null,
    "startDate": "2008-06-01T00:00:00",
    "endDate": "2008-09-03T00:00:00"
}

Option for setting list of fonts that should be excluded from HTML

Adding fonts into HTML ensures that the text from the original document will appear similar in HTML, regardless of whether fonts are installed on the viewer’s device or not. But at the same time, this improvement comes with the cost of the increased size of the output file. Since the version 18.10 GroupDocs.Viewer API provides a new setting -?HtmlOptions.ExcludeFontsList, that allows finding the compromise, by preventing adding specific fonts (that are commonly available on most of the devices). The example below shows how to prevent adding fonts into output HTML. Currently, it works only for Presentation documents. We are planning to extend support for this feature for all document types where it is applicable in the upcoming releases.

### Retrieve access token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/oauth2/token \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[Your ClientId]&client_secret=[Your ClientSecret]'

### Upload file into the storage
curl --request PUT \
  'https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/storage/file path#%2Fsample.pptx' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache'
  --data-binary @"c:\storage\sample.pptx"

### Set excludeFontsList when rendering pages
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/sample.pptx/html/pages \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"embedResources": true, "excludeFontsList": ["Arial"]}'

### Retrieve created page
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/sample.pptx/html/pages/1 \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]'

Outlook data files rendering support

Since the version 18.11 GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API allows to render MS Outlook data files in .pst and .ost formats.

Additionally, an?OutlookOptions?can be used for rendering.

### Retrieve access token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/oauth2/token \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[Your ClientId]&client_secret=[Your ClientSecret]'

### Upload file into the storage
curl --request PUT \
  'https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/storage/file path#%2Fdata.pst' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache'
  --data-binary @"c:\storage\data.pst"

### Set start and end date when rendering pages
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/data.pst/html/pages \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"outlookOptions": {"maxItemsInFolder": "10"}}'

### Retrieve created page
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/data.pst/html/pages/1 \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]'

Rendering MS Project documents by specifying Project Start and End dates

Since the version 18.11 GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API allows to render part of MS Project? document according to specified StartDate and EndDate properties of?ProjectOptions?class as shown in examples below. When only one of this properties is set, rendering starts from project start or to end date correspondingly.

### Retrieve access token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/oauth2/token \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=[Your ClientId]&client_secret=[Your ClientSecret]'

### Upload file into the storage
curl --request PUT \
  'https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/storage/file path#%2Fsample.mpp' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache'
  --data-binary @"c:\storage\sample.mpp"

### Set start and end date when rendering pages
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/sample.mpp/html/pages \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"projectOptions": {"startDate": "07/01/2008","endDate": "07/31/2008"}}'

### Retrieve created page
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1/viewer/sample.mpp/html/pages/1 \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]'