For instance, we may implement WritePageAsync method in addition to the existing WritePage method. This is a similar scenario as in System.IO.StreamWriter class which has WriteLine and WriteLineAsync methods.

The PDF/A-1 standard uses the PDF Reference 1.4 and specifies two levels of compliance:

- PDF/A-1b - Its goal is to ensure reliable reproduction of the visual appearance of the document.

- PDF/A-1a - Its objective is to ensure that documents content can be searched and re-purposed. This compliance level has some additional requirements:

• Document structure must be included.
• Tagged PDF.
• Unicode character maps
• Language specification.

Since the PdfProcessing and its PdfFormatProvider is compliant with the PDF Reference 1.7. , the produced documents are created with this version as well: 

This property should work similar to PreferredWidth cell property but in vertical direction.

RadPdfProcessing currently supports interactive forms whose data is defined directly in the document. To preserve them when importing and exporting documents, add support for import-export interactive forms based on the Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA).

From PDF 2.0 the XFA forms are depreciated.

An ArgumentNullException is thrown when importing a document with a missing required MediaBox operator in the Page object ("ArgumentNullException: 'Value cannot be null.")

For example, when some PDF file has uncompressed contents we may import it and apply better compression to the stream objects. Ensure that all the content inside the document is compressed.

Currently, we have the following options for PDF export optimizations:

• ImageQuality
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.ImageQuality = ImageQuality.Low;

• ImageCompression
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.ImageCompression = new ImageFilterTypes[] { ImageFilterTypes.FlateDecode };

• StreamCompression
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.StreamCompression = new StreamFilterTypes[] { StreamFilterTypes.FlateDecode };

• FontEmbeddingType (Q2 2024)
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.FontEmbeddingType = FontEmbeddingType.Subset;

  We introduced an option of exporting subsets of True Type Fonts (*.ttf) for the .NET Standard version of the library.

SpreadProcessing has a method,  cellValue.GetValueAsString(format), which allows the user to apply excel format on a value and get the result. While in SpreadStreamProcessing one could get the format and the value, there is no way to get their result and this is very inconvenient when the values in question are dates.

Workaround:

foreach (ICellImporter cell in rowImporter.Cells)
{
    string value = cell.Value;
    var format = cell.Format.NumberFormat;

    var cellValueFormat = new CellValueFormat(format);
   
    ICellValue cellValue;
    CellValueFormat valueFormat;

    CellValueFactory.Create(
        value,
        worksheet,
        new CellIndex(0, 0),
        cellValueFormat,
        out cellValue,
        out valueFormat);

    var formattedValue = cellValue.GetResultValueAsString(cellValueFormat);
}

Add support for creating Tables and applying tables styles (predefined ones or custom).

Add support for pivot tables.