Load, Save, Edit & Render 2D SmartArt Objects in Presentation using .NET API

What's New in this Release?

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.1.0 merged API release. This release is part of the ongoing process to develop a merged Aspose.Slides for .NET API that is at par with the legacy Aspose.Slides for .NET API (Aspose.Slides for .NET 8.3.0). The legacy Aspose.Slides for .NET API will be phased out once the merged API incorporates all the same features and is fully mature. In the meanwhile, we maintain both the merged as well as legacy API so that our customer can familiarize themselves with the new API. In this release, we have added support for loading, saving, editing, and rendering 2D SmartArt objects. Our documentation section, working with SmartArt in presentation, gives a working sample. We have also rectified some reported issues regarding presentation access in this release. There are some known issues in this release and we working on them. We are hopeful to overcome these limitations in upcoming versions.

• Merge "SmartArt: support loading, saving, editing, and 2d-rendering SmartArt objects" into Aspose.Slides 14.1.0
• Exception resolved on Opening a PPT file: Couldn't read "PowerPoint Document" record.
• Exception resolved for the error "Couldn't read "PowerPoint Document" record." on opening a PPT file with Embedded Object
• PPT to HTML Generation (Bullets are now converted properly)
• Hyperlinks missing in HTML are fixed
• Images stretching inside presentation are resolved on changing master slide
• Text overlaps for Pie chart labels in generated PDF is fixed
• Background gradient changing after transforming to PDF is fixed
• Extra lines are appearing in the charts when exported to PDF is now fixed
• Hyperlinks are multiplied when PPTX presentation is exported to PDF
• Numbered bullets changed to symbol in generated PDF is now fixed
• Data exceeds slide in generated PDF is now fixed
• Alpha value for color is ignored while setting shape color is now fixedOther most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET

Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also supported. Now you can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. Other features include saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.

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Code16K Barcode Generation, SHA-2 Support & Dark Images Recognition in Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

The new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 5.6.2 has been released. We are glad to state that this release lets you get the rotation angle of a detected barcode. You can see how that works in How to Detect the Orientation of a Detected Barcode. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes and enhanced recognition support.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

• Detect orientation of the detected bar code
• Bad class error message when compiling Java class using jdk1.5.0_22 is fixed
• Improve the copying speed of the images
• Out of memory exception is resolved while recognizing QR code
• Enhanced Pdf417 barcode recognition
• Unable to generate bar code with custom size is now fixed
• Loading GS1DataMatrix bar code images is now fixed
• Loading ISSN bar code image
• Out of memory exception is resolved while recognizing DataMatrix code
• Out of memory exception is resolved while recognizing EAN13 code
• Out of memory exception resolved while recognizing Code128 code
• Release the Java examples dashboard
• Recognition of Pdf417 barcode from pdf file is now fixed
• Encoded number of bytes are different from decoded number of bytes is fixed
• BarCodeBuilder.getCustomSizeBarCodeImage method is returning a b type of object is now fixed

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java
 
Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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Read Password Protected Excel 2013 Files & Print Excel Comments in Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.7.2 has been released. This new release supports reading password protected Microsoft Excel 2013 files. We provide the Style.setJustifyDistributed() method so you can apply the justify distributed setting while applying text alignment settings on cells. We also provide support for B3 (13.9 x 19.7 inches) and Business Card (90 mm x 55 mm) PaperSizeType. We have enhanced the unhiding rows/columns feature in this release. While making a hidden column or row visible, if you want to restore it to previously assigned width/height or to its original width/height, you can unhide the column or row with a negative width/height. We have added a number of enhancements and fixes in the new release. For example, you can now print comments in a Microsoft Excel document while rendering to PDF.We have improved the chart to image and sheet to image modules and fixed issues with manipulating charts and shapes. Several other important issues have also been addressed. Issues to do with exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. A few other improvements are also made to Aspose.Cells for Java’s formula calculation engine. We have fixed a few exceptions when reading and writing Microsoft Excel file formats too. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

• Support opening password protected MS Excel 2013 files
• Print comments on an Excel document
• Support Justify Distributed Alignment Setting
• Remove hardcode usage of com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec
• Unhide Row with previously assigned height
• Axis.setTickLabelSpacing() is now working for XLS version
• Cell borders were rendered on opaque cells
• Less than equals to calculation error is fixed
• Problem with wildcard parsing in formula calculation is fixed
• Some columns are narrow to contain text properly is now fixed
• IStreamProvider.setCustomPath now have effect to file tabstrip.htm
• Extracting formatted Chinese Date issue is resolved
• getStringValue() returns #VALUE!
• Validation now working after converting to XLS format
• XLSX to PDF: Underline below the hyperlink is getting spread out to adjacent character positions is now fixed

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Java

Aspose.Cells is a Java component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. Other features include creating spreadsheets, opening encrypted excel files, macros, VBA, unicode, formula settings, pivot tables, importing data from JDBC ResultSet and support of CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF, ODS and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007. It is compatible with Windows, Linux & Unix and supports all advanced features of data management, formatting, worksheet, charting and graphics

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Convert PDF to XML, Set Image Prefix & Fonts in PDF to HTML Conversion

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET (8.9.0) has been released. One of the features we implemented for Aspose.Pdf for .NET early on was converting an XML file to PDF. The API also provides the facility to transform custom XML files to PDF with the help of XSLT. With the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 8.9.0, we have introduced a new feature which lets you convert PDF documents to XML (MobiXML). As usual, we try to keep things simple, so this feature can be accomplished with two simple lines of code. Aspose.Pdf for .NET also offers the feature to determine if source PDF file is signed. As shown on the blog page, you can verify if the source PDF file is signed without providing the signature name. PDF to HTML conversion is one of our prominent features and with every new release we make it more powerful by adding new capabilities. Along with new features, there are many enhancements and bug fixes related to PDF to DOC conversion, customization in saving and referencing images during PDF to HTML conversion, PDF to image conversion, PDF to PDF/A conversion, image to PDF conversion and much more. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• Pdf to XML Conversion
• Provide support to create and fill rows dynamically
• HtmlSaveOptions class should have the property to specify Image save folder path
• Certify a PDF document
• PDF to HTML - add callback to images during conversion
• PDF to SVG - Save all images/assets in a separate folder
• PDF to HTML - specify prefix for images
• PDF to HTML - set a URL prefix for fonts in the style.css file
• PDF to HTML - set prefix for URLs of SVG files
• Determine if the source PDF is signed
• PageLayout should support "Two Page Up"
• PDF to DOC/DOCX conversion imporvement
• Opportunity to customize saving and referencing images during PDF->to->HTML conversion needed
• PDF to HTML - specify the pages range
• XML to PDF now properly working
• Empty PDF file is generating when converting aspx to PDF is now fixed
• During HTML to PDF conversion <Font> tag's "size" attribute is ignored or is applied in wrong way is now fixed
• PDF to Image: conversion is corrected
• PDF to PDFA1b: Unable to convert eForms to PDFA1b is now fixed
•  Removing stamp from PDF files is now enhanced
• Problem is resolved while converting signed PDF to PDF/A1b
• PDF to DOCX: Conversion issues resolved under line and strike off line.
• PDF to PNG: information lost is fixed
• PdfExtractor object extracts rotated image is now fixed
• PDF to TIFF conversion returns blank image is now fixed
• CreateWebLink() incorrectly places link above matching text is now fixed
• PDF to DOC - Strikeout and double strikeout chars are now converted correctly
• Hebrew text is now appearing in form field
• PDF to JPEG - Resultant images issues are resolved
• Enhanced creating PDF file containing images
• HTML to PDF - formatting issues are resolved in resultant file
• PDF to PNG: Text paragraphs missing are fixed
• HTML to PDF - Image is now appearing in resultant PDF when using file: tag for path
• Page break creates a corrupt output document is now fixed
• PDF to Word Conversion - Underlined Text Recognition Issue is resolved
• Page deletion order of a Document results in different output
• TIFF to PDF - Resultant PDF issue is resolved
• PDF to PDFA1a conversion results a corrupt output PDFA1a file is now fixed
• Page extraction issue is resolved
• Setting user password disables print button is now fixed
• PDF to HTML converter : bad right hand adjustment of text is corrected
• PDF to HTML converter - table of contents format: page numbers is now aligned
• PDF to HTML converter - right hand edges of words in text columns not aligned, so justification is corrected
• PDF to HTML converter - bullets shifted from their texts is fixed
• Splitting the PDF to pages produces same size files
• Annotation is removed when creating NUP of PDF file is fixed
• HTML to PDF: Table is now rendered correctly
• PDF to TIFF conversion result bad quality output is enhanced
• All Icons in PDF file are appearing as single object is now fixed
• Unable to remove form fields with same name
• Image to PDF: mirror image issues is resolved
• Setting PDF creator information is now corrected
• Encrypted PDF file recognition issue is fixed
• ComboBox field is now filled
• HTMl to PDF - UL tags are now displayed in PDF

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

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MS Word 2013 Password-Protected Documents Support in .NET, Java & Android

What's New in this Release?

 

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for .NET and Java 14.1.0 as well as Aspose.Words for Android 1.6.0.  Aspose.Words 14.1.0 includes over 100 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Aspose.Words has wide support for documents created by Microsoft Word 2013 however one there was a limitation when it came to password-protection. Documents created by Microsoft Word 2013 use a different type of encryption when compared to older versions of Microsoft Word and as such were not supported by Aspose.Words from the get go when the new format was introduced. The fix included in this month’s release fix resolves this problem and Aspose.Words can now load and save such documents without any issues. A new class has been introduced which allows you to control how revisions are displayed when rendering documents to formats such as PDF, XPS etc. Use the members of LayoutOptions.RevisionOptions to fine tune how revisions appear in rendered documents. This month’s release marks further improvements to rendering performance as internal parts of the rendering process have been optimized to reduce memory usage.  This improvement will reduce the possibility of OutOfMemory issues and improve the rendering performance when working with extra-large documents. The list of new and improved features in this release are listed below

• Support for password-protected documents created in MS Word 2013
• New public API to control rendering of tracking changes / revisions
• Reduced peak memory usage for large documents
• Performance improvements to the page layout engine
• Rendering of hidden text is improved
• Calculation of line height for Chinese characters improved
• Export comments to HTML as footnotes
• Export of drop-down fields and form fields as text into HTML
• Document headers and footers can now be preserved in DOC-HTML-DOC roundtrip
• DrawingML Soft Edge rendering effect implemented
• DrawingML preset shadows rendering implemented
• Hyperlink fragmentation in PDF resolved
• Add possibility of loading document via URI
• Export comments to HTML as footnotes
• Load Office 2013 encrypted document into Aspose.Words DOM
• Full reflection picture effect is not rendered in fixed page formats
• Softened/rounded edges of the image (feathering) are not retained in PDF
• Provide round-trip of export comments to HTML and import back to AW
• Round tripping of footnotes/endnotes Doc to HTML and HTML to DOC
• Tight reflection picture effect is not preserved in fixed page formats
• Provide options to change colors of Track Changes
• Layout of table is not preserved during saving a Odt to Docx
• .Net-style DateTime parsing and formatting Feature
• Gold comparer refactory
• Add OSGI-Bundle metadata to Jar files
• Consider adding a version number into the file name of JAR.
• Add ImageBinarization option to Tiff in Java.
• OfficeCrypto to support Sha512 hasher
• Consider adding a version number into the file name of JAR.
• Support Black&White transform on metafiles.
• Add to Manifest Codebase, Permissions attributes for RIA (Rich Internet Applications).
• Load Document by URI.
• Fix increment portability of WordArtApsBuilder*.
• /chinese line breaking:40/ Part of content was moved to the next row during rendering
• /asian baseline/ Fix height of lines containing mixed Asian and non-Asian text
• /asian baseline/ PDF rendering: part of text from second page jumps to the first page after rendering
• Word art style 22 is now preserved during rendering to PDF
• Import paragraphs with hanging indent from HTML
• Improve HTML round-trip of document headers and footers
• WordArt // Multiline // Docx to PDF conversion issues resolved
• ShapeType.TextPlainText (Multi line watermark alignment issue is fixed)
• WordArt // Multiline // Alignment of WordArt Shape text is now preserved during rendering to PDF
• WordArt // Multiline // WordArt now preserve when Doc file is converted to PDF
• Provide a way in API to down sample only selected images in PDF
• Consider paddings and borders width in HTML cell width computing algorithm during export tables to HTML
• Consider paddings and borders width in AW cell width computing algorithm during import HTML tables
• Save corrected table width during export to HTML
• Correct table width during loading from HTML
• Provide HtmlSaveOptions.ExportDropDownFormFieldAsText property
• Image is now placed correctly when exported to HTML
• Image is  now placed correctly when imported from HTML
• Doc to Pdf conversion issue resolvd with contents position
• A table overlaps the content of another Table in fixed page formats
• Write an empty value to FormField in the same way like MS Word does.
• Some characters are nowdisplayed during inserting.
• STYLEREF field in header/footer is now properly updated upon rendering
• STYLEREF field shows error "Error! No text of specified style in document." in the output PDF document.
• Doc to PDF conversion issue resolved with fields in page header
• OL element should not be nested within element OL in Html
• Docx to RTF conversion issue resolved with font size.
• /cjk line spacing/Incorrect LineSpacing results in an incorrect number of pages
• TOC hyperlinks and superscript hyperlinks split into multiple fragments in output PDF
• /asian baseline/ Empty page is inserted after conversion from Doc to PDF is fixed
• Images are now placed correctly after RTF-HTML-DOCX round-trip
• Font size of table text gets smaller after export to HTML  is now fixed
• A hyperlink causes LinkAnnotation to be generated for each word is fixed
• Unwanted margin-left is added to <p> during exporting a Docx to Html is fixed
• WNumbers with digit grouping break order of RTL text during HTML import
• Columns of adjacent tables get misaligned after DOCX-HTML-DOCX round trip
• Image is now placed correctly when exported to HTML
• STYLEREF field value in Header/Footer is now corrected when saving to PDF
• Mimic MS Word for rounding decimal numbers to correct precision
• A Table gets resized during open/save a DOCX
• Incorrect rendering of StyleRef field in header of Word document
• Unexpected 'ul' tag issue is fixed when converting Docx to ePub
• Document.UpdateFields method now calculate a TOC field in DOC
• Aspose.Words hanging issues is addressed during rendering DOC to HTML

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET, Java and Android applications to read, write and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, TOC updated/rebuilt, Embedded OOXML, Footnotes rendering and support of DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

• Homepage Aspose.Words for .NET
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Create Transparent Images from Worksheets & Reading Large Excel Files in Java

What’s new in this release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.7.1 has been released. This new release supports reading large Excel files with LightCells API. This is a useful feature. Sometimes you need to read data from a huge Microsoft Excel workbook with millions of records and you are always worried about the performance. You want it to take less time and memory to process big files. The LightCells API is useful in that scenario: to read huge Excel spreadsheets, it uses less memory, so you get better performance and efficiency. The sample code given on the blog page reads a big file and retrieves the total number of cells, a count of strings and a count of formulas for each worksheet in the workbook. Another valuable feature is to find the cells with some particular style or formatting. Aspose.Cells supports finding all cells that have a common style or formatting. Aspose.Cells provides the FindOptions.setStyle() method which you can use to specify the style to search cells for. You can now create transparent images of Microsoft Excel worksheet. Sometimes, you need to generate an image of your worksheet as a transparent image. For example, you might want to apply transparency to all the cells which have no fill color. We have added support to parse/ read ActiveX controls in the template files. We have also added a number of enhancements in the new release. In this version, we have refactored the PivotTables module. We’ve made tremendous enhancements and fixed several issues. We have improved the chart to image and sheet to image modules. In this release, we have fixed the issues with manipulating charts and shapes. Several other important issues have also been addressed. For example, issues to do with rendering Microsoft Excel file formats, rendering images from Excel worksheets, rendering shapes and controls data and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

• Supports reading large files with LightCells
• Refactor reading and writing pivot table of xlsb
• Reading large template files with LightCells
• Reading large template files with LightCells
• ActiveX Support (Read ActiveX controls such as, buttons)
• ActiveX Support (Read ActiveX controls such as, buttons)
• Distinguish between ActiveX Picture or Normal Picture
• Setting default column width issues are resolved
• Using Aspose in an OSGi Environment
• How to set quality in saved Charts
• Negative value becomes positive after calculate is fixed
• Header content is getting distorted in the output PDF file is now fixed
• XLSX to PDF: Result now does have Left & Right Margins
• Issue with PivotTable is resolved (Change the Filter to other value or label)
• Cell.getDisplayStyle() now return correct color for Top 10 conditional formatting
• Alignment of text in shape gets changed from center to left is now fixed
• Bookmark was created for the blank sheet even though the sheet itself was not present in the output PDF is now fixed
• Charter header missing is resolved after xlsx saved to PDF file
• Data loss issues is resolved when excel file is converted to pdf
• Pivot table is now getting refreshed properly
• Value changes are fixed after calculation in xlsb file
• Data Loss and Incorrect label alignment is fixed when excel is converted to PDF
• Image in heading rows only appearing on first page in PDF is now fixed
• Incorrect formula processing
• The shape was transparent in the output pdf is now fixed

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Java

Aspose.Cells is a Java component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. Other features include creating spreadsheets, opening encrypted excel files, macros, VBA, unicode, formula settings, pivot tables, importing data from JDBC ResultSet and support of CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF, ODS and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007. It is compatible with Windows, Linux & Unix and supports all advanced features of data management, formatting, worksheet, charting and graphics

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Reschedule Incomplete Project Status & Enhanced Gantt Chart Rendering

What’s new in this release?

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 6.3.0. Microsoft Project provides the option to update project work as completed through a specified date for the entire project or specified tasks only. The uncompleted project work can then be rescheduled to start after a specified date. This month’s release of Aspose.Tasks provides the same capability to update project work and reschedule uncompleted work through a specified date. Gantt chart rendering to various output formats was introduced in an earlier release. This feature was further improved in the follow-up versions e.g. capability of rolling up Gantt chart bars during rendering was provided. This month’s release brings further improvements to Gantt chart rendering including sorting tasks by any column, customizing text display with task bars and aligning contents of cells. We have also improved the API functionality in terms of fixes for a number of bugs reported by our customers such as baseline information that couldn’t be read, issues with the actual duration and work of a task and some others. For further information on what is new and fixed, please visit Aspose.Tasks’ product download page.  Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

• Update Project functionality
• Gantt Chart Rendering
• Baseline Information was fixed
• Baseline Information is now read by Aspose.Tasks
• Enhanced reading Task.ActualDuration and Task.ActualWork in mpp 2013 properly.
• MSP 2013 splits unassigned task and shifts task finish date when setting percent complete.
• [Tracking] Provide 'Update Project' functionality
• Reschedule Uncompleted Work To Start After Specified Date
• Update Project Work As Complete
• [Gantt Chart Rendering] Show resources and task links in calendar area
• [Gantt Rendering] Ability to sort tasks by any column in the Gantt view
• Gantt Rendering] Align contents of cells
  

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Automatic Update of Linked OLE Frame Data & Better SmartArt Editing & Rendering

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (8.2.0) has been released. This is a major release where we have introduced new features and fixed a number of existing rendering issues from earlier versions. This release has enhanced support for SmartArt loading, saving, editing, and 2d-rendering of objects. For more information about these features, please visit Working with SmartArt Shapes in the documentation section. Some of our customers have asked for a way to preset the zoom level for output presentations when viewed in Microsoft PowerPoint. To fulfill this requirement, we have introduced support for setting the zoom level of generated PowerPoint presentations. Earlier, Aspose.Slides defaulted to 100% zoom level. The support for automatic update of linked OLE frame data has also been introduced in this version. With this feature any changes to linked OLE frame files are reflected in generated presentations. Please read Setting OleFrame Update Mode to see how this feature can be used in the documentation section. We have also introduced a feature that lets you set multilevel chart categories.  Now you can add child nodes for any chart category. Several presentation rendering issues inside exported PDF and slides thumbnails including improper text rendering, improper chart rendering, missing or improperly rendered images and corrupt PDFs have been resolved in this release. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• SmartArt: support loading, saving, editing, and 2d-rendering SmartArt objects
• Write capability for linked OLE objects
• Support for MultiLevelCategoryAxisLabels in Aspose.Slides
• Setting default zoom size for presentation when it will open in PowerPoint
• Images lost from Notes Pages is fixed when saving a PPT file
• Application Hangs while converting PPTX to PDF is now fixed
• PPTX to PDF conversion: Text chopped off on page 3 of generated PDF file is now fixed
• PPTX to PDF conversion: All the pages are blank in generated PDF file is fixed
• PPT to PDF: Generated PDF file shows "No Image" on all the pages
• Chart is now rendered properly in PPT
• Background image is now properly rendered
• Black background seen on the Ole frame pie chart for generated PDF is fixed
• CorelDraw Ole object frame failed to render in generated PDF is now fixed
• Corrupt PDF generation is fixed when exporting presentation in Ubuntu
• Note page view Problem is resolved

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides is a Java component to create, read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports PHP applications and provides all advanced features for managing presentations, slides, shapes, tables and supports PPT, POT, POS PowerPoint formats. Now you can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

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Configure Proxy Server via SOCKS Protocol & Semi-Corrupt PST File Reading

What's New in this Release?

Aspose.Email for .NET 3.8.0 has been released with a number of new features and bug fixes. Organizations sometimes use proxy servers within their premises for controlled access to the digital world outside. This requires mail client configurations, like specifying the proxy server address, that otherwise fail to communicate via the proxy server in absence of such information. Our customers have asked us to support this behavior and we are pleased to share that this month’s release supports configuring proxy server settings for SOCKS4, SOCKS4a and SOCKS5 protocol in mail clients. Sometimes, a PST contains a handful of corrupt messages, as well as normal messages. This has a negative effect on reading even the non-corrupted messages from the file. We have addressed this issue and enhanced the overall messages reading capability from such a semi-corrupt PST in this month’s release. This month’s release also includes a number of bug fixes related to Multilanguage email encodings, inline images display, MapiCalendar scheduling and some attachment issues. We have also fixed some issues related to messages conversion to various formats such as EML and TIFF which further adds to the API’s overall functionality. The main bug fixes, new & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Support of working via SOCKS proxy in Imap, Pop3 or Smtp clients
• Improvement semi-corrupt PST reading
• EML to MHTML: Korean characters in subject replaced "?" is now fixed
• Accents converted to special characters, while converting from EML to MSG
• Wrong start and end time read for MapiCalendar
• MailMessage identifies HTML message body as Plain Text
• Email message headers rendered to output MHT
• MSG Files using Aspose.Email can't be sent from Outlook is now fixed
• EML to MSG raises System.FormatException is now resolved
• MSG to TIFF raises System.InvalidOperationException now resolved
• Exception resolved  while converting EML loaded in MailMessage to MapiMessage (.NET)

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release. 

Overview:Aspose.Email for .NET

Aspose.Email for .NET is a set of .net email components allowing developers to easily implement email functionality within their ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It Supports Outlook PST, EML, MSG & MHT formats. It allows developers to work with SMTP, POP3, FTP & MS Exchange servers. It supports mail merge, iCalendar, customized header & body, header information, embedded files, Twitter & many more. It makes it easy to work with HTML or plain text emails & their attachments.

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Aspose.Newsletter February 2014: New Components for Outlook Emails & MS OneNote

Aspose Newsletter for February 2014 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases of its JasperReports exporters, SQL Server rendering extensions, .NET, Java, SharePoint components, Android & REST APIs. It includes information about how StratEx uses Aspose.Words for .NET to generate reports & new API for Android developers to work with MS PowerPoint presentations, an .NET API for programming with Microsoft OneNote files & much more.

Save Time Programming with Files on .NET

Aspose.Total for .NET brings together all Aspose’s .NET tools into one, flexible toolkit. Whatever you want to do – create files, move data from spreadsheets to presentations, add barcodes or create image-rich reports – Aspose.Total for .NET is there to help. Read more

Coming Soon: Aspose.Email for Cloud

Aspose.Email for Cloud will help developers work with Microsoft Outlook emails in the cloud, accessing and converting emails between formats, and extracting attachments. Like all Aspose for Cloud products, Aspose.Email for Cloud will be easy to work with.

Coming soon: Aspose.Note for .NET

We are working on Aspose.Note for .NET, an API for programming with Microsoft OneNote files. The initial release will read and convert the OneNote format, making it possible for developers to open notes and share them across an organization as image files.

Product News

New: Aspose.Slides for Android

Aspose.Slides for Android brings the flexible, powerful features of Aspose.Slides for .NET and Java to the Android platform. Developers can work with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations on Android, creating and manipulating slides and presentations, including slide transitions, SmartArt shapes and ActiveX objects. Find out more about Aspose.Slides for Android.

StratEx uses Aspose.Words for .NET to Generate Reports

StratEx developed a SaaS application and needed a tool that could produce high-quality reports in several formats from Microsoft Word templates. It needed to re-use the templates they already had and work with their existing framework. After some research, they decided to use Aspose.Word for .NET. It fulfilled all their requirements. Read complete story.

Whitepaper: the Pitfalls of Microsoft Automation

Many of our customers come to us after using Microsoft Office Automation. They often find that there are issues with running Office applications server-side. We’ve collected the main issues into a whitepaper and included figures on performance, to share our and our customers’ experience. Download the whitepaper about Microsoft Automation.