EVO PDF Software Release Notes
New features in v11.0
The new EvoPdf Chromium HTML to PDF for .NET library has been released. It integrates a Chromium-based rendering engine that enables the conversion of all modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content in conformance with the latest standards and technologies currently available.
The library can run on various Windows and Linux platforms and is compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux.
The most important features of the new library are listed below.
A detailed list of features can be accessed on the EvoPdf Chromium for .NET page.
- Can natively run on both Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms
- Compatible with .NET Core 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, 5.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
- Compatible with .NET Frameworks from 4.6.2 to 4.8.1
- Compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux
- Create PDF documents from HTML with CSS, SVG, Web Fonts and JavaScript
- Support for the latest standards and technologies used in modern web pages
- Merge multiple HTML documents into a single PDF document
- Create PDF headers and footers with page numbering from HTML templates
- Repeat HTML table headers and footers in PDF pages
- Control PDF page breaks using CSS attributes in HTML
- Create a PDF document outline with bookmarks from HTML heading tags
- Create a table of contents with page numbers from HTML heading tags
- Create tagged PDF documents for accessibility features
- Automatic and manual conversion triggering modes
- Render for screen or print media types
- Set PDF viewer preferences to control the PDF document display
- Create PDF documents with security features and digital signatures
- Access the HTML page using GET or POST HTTP methods
- Add HTTP headers when requesting the HTML page
- Add cookies when requesting the HTML page
- Convert HTML pages that require authentication
- Convert HTML and web pages to JPEG, PNG and WEBP raster images
EVO PDF Tools for .NET have been updated to version 11.0. The most important changes are listed below:
- Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 8 for all .NET Core Libraries
- Addressed the vulnerabilities introduced by some dependency Microsoft packages in .NET Core libraries
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v10.0
- EVO PDF Server was extended to support all the PDF Tools from EVO PDF Toolkit in addition to HTML to PDF Converter support
- New EVO PDF Client library for .NET to include all the EVO PDF tools under EvoPdfClient unique namespace
- New EVO PDF Client Library for .NET was tested to ensure the compatibility with Windows, Linux, MacOS, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Xamarin, Mono, UWP and any other platform supporting .NET Standard 2.0 or .NET Framework 4.0 and above including NET Core 7, 6, 5, .NET Framework 4.8.1, 4.7.2, 4.6.1, 4.0 and above
- New EVO PDF Client demo projects for HTML to PDF, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PDF to Text, PDF to Image, PDF to HTML and PDF Images Extractor for .NET Core and .NET Framework using the new EvoPdfClient namespace
- New and Updated NuGet Packages for all products
- Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 7 for all .NET Core Libraries
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v9.0
- The .NET Core libraries are now built for .NET Standard 2.0 and are compatible with .NET Core 2.0, .NET Core 3.1, .NET Core 6.0 and later
- New demo applications were created for .NET Core 6.0
- The demo projects were updated for the new Visual Studio 2022
- All libraries and installers were tested and validated on Windows 11
- The Azure Cloud Services were updated to support the new Azure Cloud Services Extended Support environment and deployment model
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v8.0
- New libraries for .NET Core 2.1 , .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes were created besides the regular libraries for .NET Framework
- New ASP.NET Core, MVC and Azure Cloud sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core libraries
- New Edition (NE) libraries for HTML to PDF Converter to support ECMAScript 6, WOFF 2, HTTP2 and TLS 1.3 standards
- New feature to set the User Agent to be used when accessing HTML pages to be converted to PDF to mimic various browsers
- New Azure Service Fabric Application to host the HTML to PDF Server for solutions targeting other platforms than Windows
- New client libraries for .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes and for Universal Windows Platform ( UWP )
- New ASP.NET Core and MVC sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core client libraries
- Various improvements and security updates
New features in v7.0
- Rendering engine improvements to support new HTML5 and CSS3 features
- New feature to set the zoom level of the HTML content. See the
Control HTML Scaling in PDF Page demo page for more details
- New feature to merge the table of contents from multiple HTML documents added to the same PDF document. See the
Merge Table of Contents from Multiple HTML Pages demo page for more details
- New feature to include a PDF document before the table of contents in the final PDF document. See the
Insert PDF Pages Before Table of Contents demo page for more details
- New PDF encryption algorithms and security features. See the
Set Permissions and Password of the Generated PDF Document demo page for more details
- New proxy settings to bypass a list of hosts. See the
Access a HTML Page Through a Proxy demo page for more details
- New features to exclude the local files and local resources from conversion
- Azure HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a Web Role accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
- HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a simple ASP.NET web application accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
- Various tweaks, improvements and bug fixes
New features in v6.0
New features in v5.0
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