Changelog

All notable changes to Dangl.TextConverter are documented here.

v3.0.2:

  • Updated internal dependencies

v3.0.1:

  • Support \line as line-break control character when reading RTF

v3.0.0:

  • The ANTLR dependencies were updated from Antlr.Runtime to Antlr.Runtime.Standard. The new package is the now official ANTLR runtime package and includes many performance improvements
  • Compatibility for net40 and netstandard1.3 was dropped, the lowest supported frameworks now are net45 and netstandard2.0

v2.1.0:

  • Dropped tests for net5.0 and added tests for net7.0
  • Whitespaces in span texts are now better preserved when converting from Html to plain text

v2.0.0:

  • RTF texts now support images. They can be read from RTF and also exported. Conversion between RTF and Html will also preserve images. For some operations, images can only be preserved if they are converted to another format, e.g. importing DIB (Device Independent Bitmaps) from RTF requires you to supply an IRtfImageConverter, similar when exporting a GIF image to RTF which also requires a conversion. To extract RTF texts from images, you must use the RtfToText.ConvertRtfToSegmentedText method
  • A new package Dangl.TextConverter.RtfImageConversion has been published, which contains converters for both GIF and DIB formats
  • HtmlAgilityPack was updated from 1.11.7 to 1.11.43, which now treats sequences like <br></br> as two instances of the br tag instead of a single one. This behavior is actually correct, but customers that rely on the old behavior can check the source code examples for how to configure it
  • Segmented RTF text now may also return a new type RtfImageSegment. Client code should be updated to expect this new type
  • The TextByClass type now also has a property ImageNode, which will be populated if Html text is split by class name and an image node is encountered. Please be aware that image nodes will always lead to a split node and not have any other properties set
  • Dropped tests for .NET Core 3.1 and added tests for .NET 6.0

v1.3.9:

  • Fixed a bug where escape sequences terminated with a semicolon ; were not properly converted from RTF to plain text
  • Dropped tests for netcoreapp2.1 and added tests for net5.0

v1.3.8:

  • Fixed a bug where HtmlToText.ConvertHtmlToPlaintextAndSplitByClassname removed empty segments at the beginning or the end, even if the segments were matching a class name

v1.3.7:

  • Fixed a bug where the runtime complexity of the HtmlTableConverter was rising very fast for deeply nested tables

v1.3.6:

  • Add net40 as target framework

v1.3.5:

  • Deserializing RTF text now recognizes escape sequences in decimal format, e.g. \u252 is deserialized as ΓΌ

v1.3.4:

  • The NuGet package now does specify the MIT license
  • Dropped tests for netcoreapp2.2 and added tests for netcoreapp3.1
  • The PackageIcon element is now used for the NuGet package instead of the deprecated PackageIconUrl

v1.3.3:

  • Deserializing escaped unicode strings now ignores non printable characters

v1.3.2:

  • Bugfix when deserializing incomplete RTF texts. When an incomplete RTF string was given, this could sometimes lead to a NullReferenceException

v1.3.1:

  • Bugfix in HtmlToText.ConvertHtmlToPlaintextAndSplitByClassname which could throw an exception if the Html had no plain text representation, e.g. for image only Html

v1.3.0:

  • The generated assemblies now have a strong name. This is a breaking change of the binary API and will require recompilation on all systems that consume this package. The strong name of the generated assembly allows compatibility with other, signed tools. Please note that this does not increase security or provide tamper-proof binaries, as the key is available in the source code per Microsoft guidelines

v1.2.9:

  • The class Dangl.TextConverter.Html.HtmlTableConverter is now public
  • The InternalsVisibleToo attribute for the assembly was removed to prevent conflicts in applications that sign their binaries

v1.2.8:

  • Bugfix where bookmark elements in Rtf texts with missing closing elements where throwing a System.InvalidOperationException
  • CI tests are now also run on Linux
  • Bugfix where line endings were sometimes not correctly trimmed when running on .NET Core on Linux

v1.2.7:

  • Non-printable unicode escape sequences (0x00 - 0x08, 0x0b and 0x0e - 0x1f) are now ignored when converting RTF text to plain text

v1.2.6:

  • Add the HtmlAgilityPackLegacyBehaviorHelper utility class and fix an issue where enabling the legacy behavior in HtmlAgilityPack was not thread safe and could fail when simultaneously accessed

v1.2.5:

  • Update HtmlAgilityPack dependency. The previously referenced version 1.9.2 was pulled from NuGet due to an unintended, breaking API change. Please see https://github.com/zzzprojects/html-agility-pack/issues/125 for more information about the change
  • The HtmlToText class now sets the static property HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument.DisableBehavaiorTagP = false in its static method calls to ensure compatible behavior. If your own code relies on different behavior, please ensure that this property is always set to its original value after invoking one of the methods on HtmlToText. See the README for further details

v1.2.4:

  • Dependencies update

v1.2.3.:

  • Small internal refactoring
  • Dependencies update

v1.2.2:

  • Add bool keepWhitespaceAtLineEnds parameter to TextToHtml.TransformPlaintextToHtml() overload which defaults to false
  • Bugfix where Rtf text was sometimes incorrectly read and output when segments between groups started with whitespace

v1.2.1:

  • Add StringLineStartNormalizationExtensions

v1.2.0:

v1.1.5:

  • Bugfix: Some empty tables caused a NullReferenceException when converting them to plaintext via the HtmlToText class
  • Update of HtmlAgilityPack and System.Text.Encoding.CodePages (the latter only for netstandard targets)

v1.1.4:

  • Dependencies update

v1.1.3:

  • Update of HtmlAgilityPack dependency to include latest bugfixes
  • Internal refactoring of the CI/CD pipeline

v1.1.2:

  • Small performance improvements for parsing Rtf text

v1.1.1:

  • Update HtmlAgilityPack to latest stable version 1.8.4

v1.1.0:

  • Switch to HtmlAgilityPack. The HtmlAgilityPack.Core fork is no longer required since the original supports now netstandard

v1.0.8

  • Add netstandard2.0 target
  • Switch build system to NUKE

v1.0.7

  • Fix bug in RtfToText where Rtf annotations were read as plain text

v1.0.6

  • Performance improvements for Rtf texts that contain pictures

v1.0.5

  • Update Html encoding/decoding to preserve correctness in roundtrip scenarios

v1.0.4

  • Downgrade to netstandard1.3 and net45 for broader compatibility

v1.0.3

  • Performance improvements

v1.0.2

  • Update ANTLR4 dependencies to latest stable version

v1.0.1

  • Target NETStandard 1.3