Text-Related Objects Compatibility with Version 10

This section describes all changes to text-related objects which may require changes in the source code of your applications.

Object/Enumeration Property/Method/Constant What has happened? Comment
Paragraph

HasOverflowedHead

HasOverflowedTail

Removed These properties are no longer supported: detecting the paragraph split over two pages is not possible anymore.
InlinePictureID Removed This property returned the ID of PageElement corresponding to the picture, and is no longer useful because PageElement object has been removed with the rest of document structure API.
Paragraphs GetIndex Renamed The new name of the method is IndexOf. Methods of all collections have been renamed to be uniform.
List AddLevel Removed Use the AddNew method instead. Methods of all collections have been renamed to be uniform.
RemoveAll Renamed The new name of the method is DeleteAll. Methods of all collections have been renamed to be uniform.
TabPositions

Add

CreateTabPosition

Removed Use the AddNew method instead. It allows you to set all the properties of the tab leader at creation.
CopyFrom Removed This method is no longer supported.
BarcodeSymbol

Character

Bottom

Left

Right

Top

CharConfidence

IsBinaryData

IsBinaryZero

IsStartStopSymbol

Attributes changed

These properties are now read-only.

In the previous version, if you edited the barcode characters via this object, the changes were not exported into the result. If you wish to edit the barcode text for export, use the EditableText property of the BarcodeBlock object.

CopyFrom Removed This object is now read-only, as well as the BarcodeText collection. It is no longer used for editing the barcode text which you wish to be exported to the result file. For this purpose the BarcodeBlock object provides a new EditableText property.
BarcodeText

Add

CreateBarcodeSymbol

RemoveAll

Removed These methods were not supported in the previous version. The collection is read-only.
PlainText GetCharacterData Output parameters number changed
  • The new output parameter contains an array of Boolean values which specify whether the characters are recognized suspiciously. This allows you more options in dealing with the results of recognition.
  • The method creates the necessary arrays internally. You only need to destroy the arrays after they are no longer in use.
GetCharacterDataEx Removed The GetCharacterData method has the same signature as the GetCharacterDataEx method.
ListLevel RestartNumberingOnUpperListLevelOccurance Renamed The name of this property has been corrected and now is RestartNumberingOnUpperListLevelOccurrence.
ParagraphStyle ParagraphParams Removed The paragraph properties can now be accessed only via the Paragraph object.

HeadingLevel

Name

ParagraphRole

Behavior changed These properties are now read-only. No properties of paragraph style may be edited.
CopyFrom Removed No properties of paragraph style may be edited or copied from another object.
FontStyle ParagraphStyle Removed The paragraph style may be accessed via the Paragraph object.
TabPosition CopyFrom Removed All the properties of a tab stop should be specified on the object's creation with the help of the AddNew method of the TabPositions object. They may not be changed or copied from another object.

Alignment

Position

TabLeaderType

Behavior changed The properties are now read-only. They should be specified on the object's creation with the help of the AddNew method of the TabPositions object and may not be changed or copied from another object.
TextOrientation IsVerticallyMirrored Removed This property is no longer supported.
Text TextRole Removed This property has been removed due to the removal of document logical structure API, as it is no longer possible to access the parts of document by their role in the logical structure.
TextRoleEnum Removed The property that used this enumeration has been removed.
CharParams IsWordStart Removed This property was replaced by two properties: IsWordLeftmost, which specifies the first character in the word if read from left to right, and IsWordFirst, which specifies the logically first character for whichever reading direction is used in the language.
CharacterFlags CFL_Picture Removed The property which used this constant has been removed.

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