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Road Map for Essential Studio for WinUI

Road Map for Essential Studio® for WinUI

Common

.NET 10 support

While .NET 10 is already supported, dedicated assemblies will be available with the Volume 3, 2025 Service Pack release.

New Markdown Library

The new Markdown library allows users to open, edit, and save Markdown documents. This improves reusability, simplifies maintenance, and supports lightweight integration for markdown-specific needs.

Kanban

Custom model mapping

This feature lets users bind unique data structures to the Kanban control when default mappings are not enough.

Card item sorting

This feature lets users sort cards within columns to organize tasks.

AIAssistView

Input textbox toolbar support

This feature allows users to add custom toolbar items directly within the text input area, providing quick access to frequently used actions and tools.

MaskedTextBox

Read-only

This feature enables users to set the MaskedTextBox to a read-only state, preventing user input while displaying the formatted text.

Excel Library

Chart to image conversion

The following chart types are to be supported in chart to image conversion. This enhancement will ensure these chart types are accurately represented in the resulting images, providing higher fidelity to the original Excel charts.

  • Stacked line
  • Stacked line with markers
  • Waterfall
  • Treemap
  • Box and whisker
  • Volume-high-low-close
  • Volume-open-high-low-close

Word Library

CSS selectors and attributes in HTML to Word conversion

Enhance HTML to Word conversion by supporting the CSS style hierarchy, including element, class, descendant, group selectors, and inline style attributes. This improvement ensures that complex HTML structures retain their original formatting and styling in Word documents, minimizing visual discrepancies and preserving design fidelity.

Enhance Word comparison accuracy

Enhance the accuracy of the Word Library’s document comparison by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. Currently, the comparison logic does not utilize LCS, resulting in differences from Microsoft Word’s comparison output. By adopting the LCS algorithm, the comparison results will closely align with those of MS Word, ensuring more accurate and reliable document diffing.

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

Multilingual text and symbol preservation

Enhanced support for multilingual text and symbol rendering, addressing previous issues with Vietnamese, French, Spanish, Italian, Malayalam, Kannada, and Tamil. This ensures that characters and symbols are accurately preserved during conversion, significantly improving the readability and integrity of documents containing diverse scripts.

Vertical text direction

This feature allows vertical text flow in text boxes, shapes, and tables, enabling accurate layout reproduction for East Asian scripts and specialized formatting. This enhancement is particularly valuable for documents that rely on vertical orientation for cultural, academic, or design-specific reasons.

Line borders

This feature allows text borders and line border styles across tables, paragraphs, and pages. This ensures that documents with custom or styled borders retain their intended structure and visual emphasis, enhancing the overall fidelity of the converted output.

Picture formatting

This feature allows transparency and irregular cropping using predefined shapes, for more accurate rendering of image-rich documents and preserving the visual design and layout as intended in the original Word files.

Page number styles

This feature allows advanced page number formatting in PDF and image conversions, including formats and separators like hyphens or colons. This is especially useful for technical manuals or academic documents that follow structured pagination for easy navigation and referencing.

Localized date and time fields

This feature allows date and time fields to be rendered in the appropriate regional format during PDF and image conversions based on the language specified for each field in the Word document. This ensures culturally appropriate formatting for multilingual audiences.

PDF Library

Linearized PDF creation

This feature lets users create linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing.

Redaction annotation enhancement: Quad point

This enhancement introduces quad point support in PDF redaction annotations, enabling precise and flexible redaction that is especially useful for multi-line text selections and complex document layouts.

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