Compatibility issues
New parameter (DarkMode) in TRVStyle.OnDrawStyleText. New parameters (Printing, ColorMode, DarkMode) in TRVStyle.OnApplyStyleColor. If you use these events, you need to correct declarations of event handlers accordingly.
New parameter (DarkMode) in TFontInfo.Draw.
If the commercial version of Adit Math Engine is used, equation objects are saved in DocX and HTML as math objects, not as images.
Spelling Check
New component: TRVSpellChecker. It performs spelling check in Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux (Linux version needs Hunspell). In FireMonkey, it can be used as a platform service (to check spelling in TEdit and TMemo).
Lazarus
TRichView supports Linux platform in Lazarus (GTK2 widget set +Cairo canvas for printing).
Appearance
New properties of TRichView:
▪DarkMode inverts luminance of colors
▪UseFMXThemes [FMX] allows using text color from FireMonkey style.
New property of TRVPrint and TRVReportHelper:
▪DarkMode inverts luminance of colors (when drawing on a canvas or printing)
New property of TRVPrintPreview:
▪DarkModeUI inverts luminance of colors in user interface of this component.
New global functional variable: RVGetSystem Color allows using custom color schemes in VCL applications.
Images
This version implements drawing TMetafile images using GDI+ function (VCL). It provides higher quality of drawing, including anti-aliased lines.
To use this feature, add RVGDIPlusGrIn unit in your project.
Equations
If the commercial version of Adit Math Engine is used, equation objects can be saved and loaded in HTML and DocX files (as MathML and OMML objects, correspondingly). Saving can be controlled using properties of the object retuned by RVMathEquationManager function.
Files
Markdown
New optional parameter CodePage for TRichView.SaveMarkdown, SaveMarkdownToStream allows to specify text encoding.
Universal loading methods
New optional CodePage parameter of LoadFromFile, LoadFromFileEx and LoadFromStream, LoadFromStreamEx specifies encoding for loading plain text and Markdown.
Database and LiveBindings
New option is added to TRVDBFieldFormat: rvdbMarkdown. It allows saving data to a database field in Markdown format.
New properties: TDBRichView.AllowMarkdown, TDBRichViewEdit.AllowMarkdown, TRichView.Document.AllowMarkdown allow loading Markdown from database fields (instead of plain text)
New properties: TDBRichView.CodePage, TDBRichViewEdit.CodePage, TRichView.Document.CodePage specify codepage for saving/loading Markdown and plain text from database fields.