We are delighted to announce the release of Spire.Office 8.9.3. In this version, Spire.Presentation 8.9.4 supports setting the time for automatic slide switching as well as setting and reading the transparency and brightness of gradient stop styles; Spire.PDF 9.9.9 enhances the conversion from PDF to images and OFD to PDF; Spire.Doc 11.9.19 enhances the conversion from Word and HTML to PDF. Besides, a lot of known issues are fixed successfully in this version. More details are listed below.

In this version, the most recent versions of Spire.Doc, Spire.PDF, Spire.XLS, Spire.Presentation, Spire.Email, Spire.DocViewer, Spire.PDFViewer, Spire.Spreadsheet, Spire.OfficeViewer, Spire.DataExport, Spire.Barcode are included.

DLL Versions:

• Spire.Doc.dll v11.9.19
• Spire.Pdf.dll v9.9.9
• Spire.XLS.dll v13.9.1
• Spire.Presentation.dll v8.9.4
• Spire.Email.dll v6.8.0
• Spire.DocViewer.Forms.dll v8.7.0
• Spire.PdfViewer.Forms.dll v7.12.0
• Spire.PdfViewer.Asp.dll v7.12.0
• Spire.Spreadsheet.dll v7.4.2
• Spire.OfficeViewer.Forms.dll v8.9.3
• Spire.Barcode.dll v7.2.1
• Spire.DataExport.dll v4.9.0
• Spire.DataExport.ResourceMgr.dll v2.1.0

Here is a list of changes made in this release

Spire.Presentation

Presentation ppt = new Presentation();
ppt.LoadFromFile("input.pptx");
ppt.Slides[0].SlideShowTransition.AdvanceAfterTime = 1000;
ppt.Slides[1].SlideShowTransition.SelectedAdvanceAfterTime = false;
ppt.SaveToFile("output.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013);
ppt.Dispose();

Previous options:
FromCorner1
FromCorner2
FromCorner3
FromCorner4
New options:
FromTopLeftCorner
FromBottomLeftCorner
FromTopRightCorner
FromBottomRightCorner

Presentation ppt = new Presentation();
ppt.LoadFromFile("input.pptx");
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
IAutoShape shape = (ppt.Slides[0].Shapes[0] as GroupShape).Shapes[2] as IAutoShape;
GradientStopCollection stops = shape.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops;
for (int i = 0; i < stops.Count; i++)
{
    float transparency = stops[i].Color.Transparency;
    float brightness = stops[i].Color.Brightness;
    stringBuilder.AppendLine("stops" + i + "transparency: " + transparency + " brightness: " + brightness);
}
File.WriteAllText("output.txt", stringBuilder.ToString());

stops[0].Color.Transparency = 0.5f;
stops[0].Color.Brightness = -0.32f;
ppt.SaveToFile("output.pptx", FileFormat.Auto);
ppt.Dispose();

Spire.PDF

Spire.Doc