GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud 18.6 Release Notes

Major Features

There are couple of improvements and bug fixes in this release. Most notable are:

  • Options to specify bookmark level, heading level and expanded level when converting from Words to PDF
  • Options for generating linearized and grayscaled PDF
  • Options for controlling conversions from Cells
  • Options for resource optimizations when converting to PDF
  • Fixed invalid url returned after successful conversion

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

KeyCategorySummary
CONVERSIONCLOUD-180Specify bookmark level, headings level and expanded level when converting from Words to PDF and XPSNew Feature
CONVERSIONCLOUD-181Option for creating linearized PDF when converting to PDFNew Feature
CONVERSIONCLOUD-182Option for converting to grayscale PDFNew Feature
CONVERSIONCLOUD-184Options for controlling conversions from CellsNew Feature
CONVERSIONCLOUD-183Options for resource optimization when converting to PDFNew Feature
CONVERSIONCLOUD-179The result of conversion returns invalid URLBug

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Converting Document to grayscale PDF

This version introduces an option to convert supported documents to grayscale PDF.

cURL Example


curl --request POST \
  --url https:~/~/api.groupdocs.cloud/v1.0/conversion/pdf \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{sourceFile: {folder: '\''words/docx'\'',name: '\''one-page.docx'\'',},options: {convertFileType: '\''pdf'\'',pdfOptions: {grayscale: true}'

Creating linearized PDF

An option to create linearized PDF is introduced in this release.

cURL Example


curl --request POST \
  --url https:~/~/api.groupdocs.cloud/v1.0/conversion/pdf \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer [Access Token]' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{sourceFile: {folder: '\''words/docx'\'',name: '\''one-page.docx'\'',},options: {convertFileType: '\''pdf'\'',pdfOptions: {linearize: true'

Resource optimization in PDF

This version supports an option to optimize the resources while converting supported file formats to PDF.