| | Improved text rendering with DirectWrite, reengineered Office document support, in-app updates, and more! |
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| | ExamDiff Pro 17 Released! |
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| | | | ExamDiff Pro 17 is available for download. This upgrade is free for users who purchased ExamDiff Pro within the past 12 months. If you purchased earlier, your upgrade is still free if your license includes free upgrades covering this release. | Here’s what’s new in ExamDiff Pro 17: |
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Improved Text Rendering and Styling | | |
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| ExamDiff Pro 17 introduces a new text rendering engine based on DirectWrite, Microsoft’s modern text rendering API, replacing the older GDI-based rendering. Using DirectWrite enables crisper-looking text (thanks to subpixel rendering and hardware-accelerated anti-aliasing), along with higher-quality display of non-Western character sets, emojis, ligatures, and characters with complex diacritics. | | |
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| Reengineered Office Document Support | | |
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| We’re particularly excited about significantly improved support for displaying and comparing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. For this version, we’ve completely rewritten the plugin that processes Office files (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, etc.) to extract as much structure and rich content as possible for accurate comparison. | | |
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Enhanced Update Checking with In-App Update Support | | |  | | |
| | | ExamDiff Pro 17 adds the ability to download and install updates without leaving the application. When you click Help | Check for Updates, a new Update Available dialog will show all features added since your current version and allow you to download and install updates directly from within the app. |
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| Compare ANSI Files Using Non-Default Code Pages | | |
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| | | ExamDiff Pro 17 adds the ability to manually specify the code page (encoding) used for non-Unicode text files. You can now override the default code page and choose from any supported Windows code page, such as Shift-JIS. |
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Other Additions in ExamDiff Pro 17 |
- Syntax highlighting, previously limited to colors, now supports font effects: bold, italic, underline, and strike-through
- Added VHDL document type with full scope bar support and syntax highlighting
- Option to use Shift + Mouse Wheel to horizontally scroll the focused pane instead of scrolling differences
- Better behavior of "Copy adjacent ignored lines when replacing diff blocks"
- Significantly better text rendering performance when syntax highlighting is enabled
- Improved positioning of dialogs in multi-monitor setups
- Status bar now shows the number of selected characters and the Unicode code point of the character at the cursor
- Cleaner "Explorer Menu" submenu, with duplicate entries from other shell extensions removed
- Pane splitters in text comparison and merge now resize panes live while dragging when Windows' "Show window contents while dragging" setting is on, instead of only after releasing the mouse
- Multiple bug fixes
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