WordsProcessing: Add support for hidden text

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Last Updated: 02 Aug 2023 07:03 by ADMIN

ADMIN

Boby

Created on: 07 Sep 2016 11:42

Category: WordsProcessing

Type: Feature Request

WordsProcessing: Add support for hidden text

Introduce Run.IsHidden property or similar, which hides the text in the document.

In MS Word, text is hidden using the Home -> Font -> Font -> Effects -> Hidden. In the Rtf format, such text is preceded (marked) with a '\v' tag. In OOXML, the tag is <vanish/>. The display: none; style from HTML is mapped to hidden text when document is converted to DOCX.

Hidden text is visualized with dotted underline when formatting symbols are shown. Hidden text is not exported to PDF.

4 comments

ADMIN

Yoan

Posted on: 02 Aug 2023 07:03

Hello Ian,

I understand the role this feature plays is important to you and I apologize for the setbacks its absence might be causing you. Currently, there are no plans regarding its implementation and I don't want to mislead you either by giving you a false deadline. As my colleague Martin has previously mentioned, the best I can offer you is to vote for the task and subscribe to it as well in order to track its progress and receive notifications concerning future status updates.

Regards,
Yoan
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Ian

Posted on: 01 Aug 2023 06:09

We need this for the same reason - to support a legacy application. We use so much hidden metadata text that, without this feature, we cant make use of the Rich Text Editor.

ADMIN

Martin

Posted on: 04 Dec 2020 07:38

Hello David,

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing issues due to a currently not supported functionality. This feature is not scheduled for implementation at this point as the team is working on more demanded tasks. The task has a relatively high priority but due to the tight planning, I am unable to say when it might be implemented.

Please, make sure you cast your vote for its implementation and continue following this item so we can notify you about status changes on it.

Regards,
Martin
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David

Posted on: 04 Dec 2020 06:19

Hi Guys!

It would be appreciated to have this functionality available, because for legacy support we need to patch the file with a selfprogrammed solution in order to provide hidden text. Hidden text is needed because thats the way our legacy solution finds and extracts important information from our targetfiles. This is costly since its prone to errors and does not satisfy customers.

David