List & Convert Emails from Exchange, IMAP, POP3 Severs to PDF, DOCX, PST, TIFF

Email Processor by Aspose for .NET lets you view your emails from standard Exchange, IMAP and POP3 servers. You can export or convert the emails to PDF, DOCX, PST, TIFF or XPS. It is developed in ASP.NET, HTML5 and jQuery and supports the latest versions of major browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. We have recently released a new version of Email Processor by Aspose for .NET app. It includes new features and some UI improvements. Some of the important new features in this release includes view email message, download attachments from email, convert selected emails to PDF, DOCX, XPS and TIFF and show sub-folders from IMAP and Exchange Server, if available. Here are some important features supported Aspose for .NET Email Processor.

• Connect to Exchange, IMAP or POP3 mail servers like hosted Exchange, Gmail etc
• List folders and sub folders
• List email messages from any folder
• Search emails
• View the email message with HTML formatting
• View and download the attachments in email
• Export a folder or selected messages to PST
• Convert selected messages to variety of formats like PDF, XPS, DOCX and TIFF.

Overview: Aspose.Email for .NET

Aspose.Email for .NET is a set of 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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Stacked DataBar, Patch Codes & Improved Support for MS SQL Server 2012

What’s new in this release?

We are happy to announce the new release of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 6.7.0. This release brings important changes in perspective of new symbologies support, full support of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and other updates regarding Visual Studio 2012. We have also fixed a few internal errors. These errors were impacting the barcode visibility on the report server. We have added support of stacked codes those are part of DataBar symbologies. DataBar stacked is a variation of the RSS-14 symbology that is stacked in two rows and is used when the normal symbol would be too wide for the application. DataBar expanded stacked barcode can grow vertically, it can encode a large amount of data in small space. DataBar omnidirectional stacked is perfectly suitable for POS (point of sale) applications. Patch codes are a set of 6 distinct barcode patterns (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and T) that are typically used as document separators when scanning. For Microsoft SQL Server 2012, we have provided two assemblies. First “Design Version” works only with designers (Visual Studio or BIDS). This assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2012\DesignVersion directory. Second “RunTimeVersion” works only with Server. This assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2012\RunTimeVersion directory. We’ve updated manual installation docs as well. Toolbox in Visual Studio 2012 can’t detect any report component, but we can work with a report with Barcode component in Visual Studio 2012 without problem. The main problem is, how to put Barcode component to report and there are two ways. First Create a report in Visual Studio 2010 and next open this report in Visual Studio 2012 and work with report and 2ndly add Barcode component to report manually in code. For this need open report code (View Code) and put into <ReportItems> element.     after this we can switch to “View Designer” and work with barcode component. This new release also includes a fix of caption text alignment.  The alignment settings were not working perfectly. Below is the list of new and improved features added in this new release

• Added full support for SQL Server 2012
• Added new symbologies DatabarExpandedStacked, DatabarStacked, DatabarStackedOmniDirectional and PatchCode
• Aspose.BarCode for SSRS supports for Visual Studio 2012
• Fixed: Error message while adding bar code control in the VS 2012 Toolbox
• Fixed issues and can view barcodes when deployed in the Report Services 2012
• Report Server 2012 cannot load the BarCode extension is now fixed
• Can't see barcode on the report server is also fixed
• EULA 01 December 2014 Update
• Add the Online EULA button to MSI
• BarCodeBuilderBuilder.CaptionAbove.TextAlign is fixed and now working properly

Overview: Aspose.Report for .NET

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is a .NET solution for the rendering of barcode images in SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008 Reporting Services. It supports 29+ linear (1D) and 2D barcode symbologies including MacroPdf417, Australia Post, OneCode, Code128, Code39, PDF417, UPCA, Codabar, MSI and QR etc. Also render barcode images on reports in BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats. Other features include EAN-128 application identifiers, DPI resolution settings, barcode size and location adjustments.

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Convert PDF to DOCX & PDF to HTML with All Resources Embedded Using Java

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Java 9.7.0. Document manipulation and conversion from various formats to PDF, and conversion of PDF to other file formats have always been our main development areas. Keeping this tradition alive, this new release provides couple of new features as well as improvements in the API for complex scenarios handling for image to PDF, PDF to image, text extraction, watermark manipulation and much more. Aspose.Pdf for Java already supports rendering PDF files to Microsoft Word (DOC) format. The DocSaveOptions class makes it possible to render a PDF file to Microsoft Word format. This class also provides numerous properties that improve the process of converting PDF files to DOC format. Among these properties, Mode enables you to specify a recognition mode for PDF content. You can specify any value from the RecognitionMode enumeration for this property. Each of these values have specific benefits and limitations. However starting this new release, Aspose.Pdf for Java also offers the capabilities to convert PDF files to DOCX format. HTML to PDF and PDF to HTML are some of the features our customers use most. During conversion, all resources (fonts, images and CSS) from a PDF file are saved in a separate folder in the same directory as the output HTML. However, we were asked to provide a feature for converting a PDF file to HTML format and generate a single HTML file with all resources embedded. The current release of Aspose.Pdf for Java offers this feature. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been numerous fixes related to HTML to PDF conversion, PDF to Excel conversion, XPS to PDF conversion, PDF to TIFF conversion, text replacement, text extraction, rendering PDF files to XPS, creating TOCs in PDF files, and printing PDFs with embedded fonts. Some important new and improved features included in this release are given below

• Support PDF to DOCX conversion
• Convert PDF to Single Web Archive (MHT file)
• Memory is not released after process completion/exits.
• Memory leak issue
• NullPointerException - When converting PDF files to JPG
• TIFF to PDF - Resultant PDF is blank
• TIFF to PDF - Exception during image conversion
• Only first frame of TIFF is converted to PDF
• Tiff to PDF throws unsupported file format exception
• TIFF to PDF - Exception during conversion
• Add a watermark to the same PDF
• Saving back to the same document throws InvalidPdfFileFormatException exception
• Multipage TIFF to PDF throws exception
• Pdf to Image conversion problems for different values of DPI
• Pdf to text: space between text increased
• PDF to PDFA: PDFA compliance fails
• XPS to PDF - Exception during conversion
• Exception while extracting text from PDF file
• PDF to Image: loses PolygonAnnotation
• PDF to HTML - Font missing exception

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for Java

Aspose.Pdf is a Java PDF component to create PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It supports Floating box, PDF form field, PDF attachments, security, Foot note & end note, Multiple columns document, Table of Contents, List of Tables, Nested tables, Rich text format, images, hyperlinks, JavaScript, annotation, bookmarks, headers, footers and many more. Now you can create PDF by API, XML and XSL-FO files. It also enables you to converting HTML, XSL-FO and Excel files into PDF.

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Save ODS File in ODF 1.2 Specifications & Insert Values in ListObjects using Offset

What’s new in this release?
We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.3.1.  It contains over 40 improvements, new features and bug fixes.  The Aspose.Cells APIs have extended support for the OpenDocument format. Now it is possible to save the ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheets) in conformance with the ODF 1.2 specifications. The Aspose.Cells APIs have exposed the methods IsStrictSchema11 for the OdsSaveOptions class to allow developers to save spreadsheets in ODS format conforming to ODF 1.2 specification. The default value of IsStrictSchema11 property is false, and means that from version 8.3.1 of the Aspose.Cells APIs, the ODS files will be saved as ODF format version 1.2 by default. For more details, please check the article Save ODS file in ODF 1.1 and 1.2 Specifications. Normally, you add values inside the ListObject/Table using the Cell.PutValue method; however, the PutValue method must be associated with an instance of a cell to identify the location the value should be inserted at. This mechanism can’t be used when you need to add values inside the ListObject using the row and column offsets. Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.3.1 has exposed the Cell.GetTable and ListObject.PutCellValue methods to allow you to access the ListObject from a cell and add values using row and column offsets. Aspose.Cells provides the DataLabels.ShowCellRange property to select or clear the option Label Contains – Value From Cells. Aspose.Cells APIs have exposed the SparklineCollection.Add(String dataRange, int row, int column) method to specify the data range and location of the sparkline group. In the new version, we have also provided enhancements for specify a prefix for image URLs in CSS and HTML files, Get/set Cell background color in Cell.HtmlString attribute and retrieve Cell.DisplayStringValue with conditional formatting. We have fixed a few exceptions that occurred while loading and opening Microsoft Excel file formats. We have also fixed the exceptions that occurred in manipulating shapes, rendering sheets, calculating formulas and manipulating pivot tables. We have also improved the performance when loading Microsoft Excel files. In this release, several important issues have been addressed. For example, issues around reading/writing Microsoft Excel file formats, printing spreadsheets, rendering HTML file format, manipulating OLE Objects, copying worksheets, manipulating shapes, manipulating rows and columns, rendering images from Excel worksheets, manipulating charts with formatting, rendering images files from charts and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. We have also fixed some issues regarding the Aspose.Cells formula calculation engine to enhance it. We have also fixed a few issues in the web based Grid control by Aspose.Cells for .NET while loading/saving an Excel file. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Specify a prefix for image URLs in CSS and HTML files
• Get/set Cell background color in Cell.HtmlString attribute
• Retrieve Cell.DisplayStringValue with Conditional Formatting
• File open performance issue
• Opening and saving E926E.xlsb file makes it corrupt
• Bullet list under the Office.com heading is not properly converted to pdf
• Rotated WordArt in Apose.Cells not rendered rotated when exported to PDF
• Row Height specified in XSL is not reflecting in the resultant spreadsheet
• Printing worksheet does not render bottom/footer contents
• (Some letters are cut off in PDF renderings
• Excel to TIFF conversion creating excessive output images
• Image quality poor in the header when converting to PDF file format
• Text is getting truncated while rendering spreadsheet to PDF format
• Printing does not respect page break and scaling setting correctly
• Image has been misplaced while rendering spreadsheet to PDF format
• Line width is not getting applied to the chart
• Line.WeightPx does not take 2.0 as a correct value
• SheetRender.ToImage not printing secondary vertical values
• Missing text on graph with Aspose.Cells
• Formulas are not calculated on a slightly complex Excel file
• Some HTML tags like Br etc. are missing in the output of Cell.HtmlString
• CalculateFormula() is causing Reference Error
• Double values change when opened by cells and saved to byte array
• Evaluation watermark sheet always included even setting a license in the code
• Sheet background image turns black in XLS format
• Range.Copy is deleting the comment of the cell from the next row
• Ole objects in last worksheet are converted into pictures
• Spreadsheet does not load with Open XML SDK 2.5 for Microsoft Office
• Ceiling formula bug
• Worksheet.Copy affects comments appearance (black background, incomplete content)
• CEWebWorksheets are not updated after calling GridWeb.ImportExcelFile
• Loading a new Excel file does not work anymore in latest Gridweb
•  Charts are showing Evaluation Watermark even when GridDesktop License has been set
• DataValidation (List) lost after saving the template Excel (GridWeb)

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
Overview: Aspose.Cells for .NET

Aspose.Cells is a .NET component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. It supports robust formula calculation engine, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects like images, OLE objects and importing or creating charts. You can also create Excel file using designer spreadsheet, smart marker or API and apply formulae and functions. It supports CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007.

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AutoCAD DWG Drawings to PDF Conversion & Data Recovery for TIFF Image Format

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release Aspose.Imaging for Java 2.4.0. This new release supports the long awaited feature for loading DWG files for conversion to PDF format. Currently we support reading AutoCAD 2004 DWG (version 16.0 Release 18) format only. We will add more DWG revisions with future releases of Aspose.Imaging APIs whereas the support for DWG 2005 and 2010 are on the top of our priority list. DWG to PDF conversion uses the PdfOptions class to specify the resultant PDF page size, and additional settings such as which Layout to render, BackgroundColor, DrawType and ScaleMethod. These properties have to be set before calling the Image.Save method for converting DWG to PDF format.  The TIFF file format stores data in strips. When a few strips are damaged, other strips may still retain the correct information, therefore it is possible to recover the correct data strips by filling the damaged strips with a background color. The data recovery module offered by Aspose.Imaging allows the user to retrieve the correct data portions (strips) in a similar fashion. In order to assist the users, Aspose.Imaging provides two data recovery modes, ConsistentRecover and MaximalRecover, which provide different results depending on the user’s data recovery needs. Aspose.Imaging provides dithering support for the RasterImage class by introducing the DitheringSettings property. The DitheringMode class, now available in the com.aspose.imaging.dithering package, specifies the dithering to be applied. Another exciting feature that is now available for public use is Raw Data Processing. Prior to 2.4.0, Aspose.Imaging used Color[] to internally store data. This approach had issues. First of all, an array of structs affected the performance during copy operations. Secondly, the Color struct required more memory for data storage because the API had to store additional system information together with 4 bytes of data. With this release, we have partially switched the internal structure to use byte[] instead Color[] in order to assist developers in getting the best performance out of Aspose.Imaging API. At the moment this system has been introduced for BMP file format only, but soon all other image formats will be supported too. Aspose.Imaging has exposed additional properties to add thumbnails to EXIF and JFIF data segments of JPEG images. Both types of segments can store only 65,535 bytes of data including the thumbnail image according to the JPEG specifications, therefore Aspose.Imaging API will throw appropriate exception in case the added image is bigger than the specified limit. Aspose.Imaging now provides the long awaited feature of image cropping for the RasterImage class by introducing the crop method. There are two overload versions of thecrop method available based on two different approaches, Shift Mode and Rectangle Mode. The main new and improved features added in this release are listed below

• Supported Autocad 2004 Dwg format                     
• Data recovery for Tiff
• Jpeg file format support
• Investigate .DWG (AutoCAD drawings) conversion to PDF
• Dithering support
• Support CompactPalette property for the IColorPalette interface
• [Dxf to Pdf] Export of only specified layers
• Request for Image Cropping Facility
• [Cad to Pdf] Add support for text rotation angle for dimension objects
• Expose Jpeg features
• Add thumbnail support to JFIF and EXIF
• [Cad to Pdf] Add support for invisible objects
• Publish PdfOptions.Layout property
• [Dwg to Pdf] Add support of rendering of specified layout
• [Java] Conversion of EMF to all Raster Image Formats
• Customer wants to convert 32bpp TIF sources to CCITT4 1bpp grayscale TIF
• [Dxf to Pdf] Fix missed labels on dimension objects.
• [Dxf to Pdf] Implement support of different linetypes for existing entities.
• An empty png image is generated when resized
• [Dxf to Pdf] Fix problem with closed polylines
• ImageSaveException: The stream reader has passed over the data boundary. The data is corrupt
• Tiff created with Aspose.Imaging does not render properly in IrfanView and ACDsee
• Incorrect file format on Image.GetFileFormat
• Infinite execution on openning gif-image
• ImageLoadException: Malformed exif section at Image.Load
• [Dxf to Pdf] Support for metric units rendering for all dimensions
• [Cad to Pdf] Fix bug with ellipses with start and end angles.
• Investigate and fix special aligned dimension rendering
• Improve rendering of text entity
• Gif image lost transparent color value after saving
• ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid, at RotateFlip
• Image Saving Failed: while merging Tiff images
• Fail to save gif after load
• Fix null reference exception during loading DXF file with old header
• Dithering algorithm sometimes produces animanted gif-s with blinks due to wrong transparent color processing.
• [Dxf to Pdf] Parse custom visibility parameter for insert object
• [Cad to Pdf] Fix bug with additional text for MTEXT entity
• Fix bug with changing of line width inside insert
• Fix bugs with damaged files during Cad->Pdf export
• Text in AttribDef object must be unvisible.
• [Cad to Pdf] Implement adjustments for ATTDEF objects
• Add support for underline text rendering for multitext entity
• ImageLoadException: Image loading failed while loading a Tiff image
• Improve colorization and interval between lines
• ImageLoadException: Image loading failed while loading a Tiff Image
• Merging TIFFs results in IFD alignment failure
• [Cad to Pdf] Hatch object is absent on a drawing
• Moving public members to internal - should not be accessible via public api
• Saved JPEG images differ from source images
• JpegImage.LoadPixels throws System.Exception: Unexpected marker
• JpegImage.LoadPixels throws System.IndexOutOfRangeException
• Metadata segments allow to write thumbnails big enough to overap upper size boundary of jpeg segment.
• Process hangs when opens Tiff file
• Moving internal members to public - should be accessible via public api
• Re-sizing a PNG results in a Blank Image
• ImageLoadException: Image loading failed while loading a Multi-Page Tiff
• ImageLoadException: Image loading failed while loading a multi-page Tiff image
• [Dxf to Pdf] Rotated texts fix
• I[Cad to Pdf] Fix viewports rendering
• Cannot encode large tiff image correctly using CCITT scheme
• [Cad] Remove Cad special data types (such as CadShortParameter)
• Support for bmp raw data processing
• Exception while exporting the Jpeg to Tiff: "An attempt was made to move the position before the beginning of the stream."
• ImageLoadException was thrown for images that have Jpeg encoding for tiff frames
• EMF to PNG, the background color has changed in the resultant PNG image
• Improved memory usage for resizing a large Jpeg image
• Incorrect rendering of an EMF image
• The export to pdf does not work as expected
• Data recovery for tiff does not work
• Incorrect conversion of WMF to PNG
• java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space, while converting EMF files to PNG
• ImageLoadException: Unable to read file. Exception:Cannot read 2 bytes from stream, while loading Aspose.Pdf's generated TIFF
• TiffImage cannot be reloaded properly after save
• Implement support for META_ESCAPE_ENHANCED_METAFILE records in WMF file
• FileNotFoundException: \home\nick\brush0 at WmfMetafileImage ctor
• Image having EXIF information returns null
• Improve Aspose watermark drawing performance on big PNG images
• [Java] Unable to read EXIF data from JPEGd

Overview:Aspose.Imaging for Java` 

Aspose.Imaging for Java is an image processing & manipulation component that allows developers to create, edit, draw or convert images in their Java application. It allows developers to convert images to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG & PSD formats. It draws images using advanced features like Graphics & GraphicsPath. The drawing feature is useful for adding shapes, building up new images or adding watermarks to images. It works well with both web & windows applications. It supports JDK 1.5 & above.

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Convert Specific PPTX Slide to PDF & Images Replacement in Presentation Using Java

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (14.9.0) has been released. Aspose team has introduced support for replacing an image in a presentation image collection with a different one. As a result of this, the image is replaced in all instances in the presentation that refers to it. This release also introduced support for setting the fill format for SmartArt nodes and devlopers can now set the fill color or pattern for SmartArt nodes. More details about this feature are available in the article Setting Fill Format for SmartArt Node in the documentation section. Aspose team has introduced support for generating a PDF for a specific number of slides. Users can find more details by visiting and reading the article Exporting Presentation to PDF in the documentation section. Support for generating HTML files for individual presentation slides has also been included in this new release. Now, Aspose.Slides for Java makes it possible to get warning callbacks for font substitution in case the used font is not available on the machine during the rendering process. Warning callbacks are helpful when debugging issues of missing or inaccessible fonts during rendering. Developers can find more details about this feature by visiting the article Getting Warning Callbacks for Fonts Substitution in Aspose.Slides. Aspose team has rectified exception issues that appeared when accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like KeyNotFoundException, UnKnownFileFormatException, NullReference, ArgumentException, and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases. It has taken a leap towards improving the presentation rendering support for exported PDF, SVG, HTML and slide thumbnails in this release. Several issues pertaining to improper text, wrong shape, improper charts, unfitting SmartArt and wrong font rendering have been addressed in this regard. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Implementation of IWarningCallback in font substitution scenario
• Convert a specific PPTX slide to PDF file
• Get warnings for Fonts substitution in Aspose.Slides
• Attaching an XLS file in a PPT file
• Detecting symbols with position in text strings
• Missing feature to replace image in presentation file in the new unified version
• Slide per file when coverting PPTX to HTML
• Setting Fill format for SmartArt node
• Support for setting the background color of individual nodes in SmartArt shape
• Implement animation timeline serialization to PPT
• Thread blocking in Aspose.Slides for Java
• PPTX to PDF takes immense memory resources
• An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary Exception is thrown while opening the PPTX file
• Double Underline in a table cell text is not working properly
• Converting PPTX to HTML and saving images as other formats rather than SVG
• Page number position is not proper in the generated PDF file
• Aspose.Slides is unable to complete the PPTX to PDF conversion process
• PPTX to HTML Conversion issue: Logo on the bottom is coming with black background
• PPTX to HTML Conversion issue: Text background color is not proper
• HTML to PDF Conversion issue: graph background color is not proper
• Bullets are coming as junk characters in generated PDF file
• Aspose.Slides escaping issue in PPTX file
• Unknown file format exception is thrown on opening the file.
• Font changes after conversion from PPT to PNG
• Pie Chart Series Labels are outside the chart in generated PNG file
• Chart Title position in generated PPTX are not same as in Original PPTX
• KeyNotFoundException on exporting to PDF
• Details required for Presentations to HTML with Externally Linked Images
• InvertIfNegative values are rendered with colors in generated PDF
• Setting fill picture for Media Player control does not work
• Concurrent processing of slides takes more time then sequential threading
• Aspose.Slides failed to work in Scala Framework
• The line links are missing for rendered smart art in generated PDF
• Hyperlinks Addresses Changing on opening and saving presentations using Aspose.Slides
• Bullet position and shadow effects lost for text in exported PDF
• Vertical text is rendered horizontally in generated thumbnail
• Unable to remove shape border
• PPT to PDF conversion issue
• Missing shapes in generated thumbnails when used in JDK 1.4
• font Typeface ignored when Bold property is used
• Text position is lost in generated thumbnail
• Table height sets successfully only if it is first read.

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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Visio Drawings Export to PDF, HTML, Thumbnail & Other Formats are Improved

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 4.6.0. In this release, we address many rendering, accurate layout and export issues that were reported for export to PDF, HTML and other supported formats in earlier versions. Similarly, there is a list of other issues fixed in this release. In some scenarios, the exported output files were missing a few types of shapes or rendering incomplete shapes. Similarly, the shapes were turned into black shapes because the API exporter was not preserving fill color. It was the case with various Visio sample drawings. There was no way to add a few shapes from a stencil file. In another scenario, users were not able to add or update shape property data because the API importer was not doing so.  Aspose.Diagram API has already supported gluing shapes inside the container.  In this release, we have also improved this area. We notice a user was not able to organize shapes inside the specific container.  During the export of Visio files to PDF or thumbnail format, the Aspose.Diagram API exporter was placing a few additional white spaces around the actual drawing or extra half ellipse shape. This new version brings fixes to reported error messages and includes various other enhancements. Please see the complete list of fixed error messages in the new version.  Here is the list of important bugs fixes in the new version.

• Verification failed of a PDF/A-1b file with Adobe Acrobat Pro X
• VSD to SVG conversion, shapes with the hyperlink is not preserved
• Shape names are changed when added a group shape
• VTX to PDF conversion, Unable to cast object error message
• Control whether the shape is added as a 1D or 2D shape
• The flag shape appears messed up.
• Can't set page route style of the Visio drawing
• VSD to pdf conversion, extra half ellipse type shapes are generted
• Layer visibility is false (VSDX), but its shapes are present in the output PNG file
• VSDX to PDF conversion, the shapes fill color is not preserved
• Add constructor Window class
• VSDX to PDF conversion, the value of title field is missing
• VSD to pdf conversion, can't update Visio document properties
• VSDX to pdf conversion, can't update Visio document properties
• Can't glue a shape inside the container
• VSD to PDF export, extra white space on the left and right side of the drawing
• VSD to PNG export, extra white space on the left and right side of the drawing
• Adding two shape data properties, but only one is visible in the MS Office Visio
• Can't add "Vlan Interface" shape from the stencil file
• Can't add "Interface Normal" shape from the stencil file
• Half visibility of second "Interface Normal" shape
• VSDX to PDF conversion, all shapes turned into black shapes
• VSDX to HTML conversion, all shapes turned into black shapes
• VSDX to PDF conversion, the arrow shapes are not preserved
• VSDX to PDF conversion, circle shapes turned into the black shapes
• VSDX to HTML conversion, the arrow shapes are not preserved
• VSDX to HTML conversion, circle shapes turned into the black shapes

Overview: Aspose.Diagram for .NET 

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure .NET alternate for MS Visio Object Model.It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files on ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio docs on a server. Developer can open files & manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.

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Send Email as TNEF, Save Contacts from Gmail Client in MSG & VCF Format

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 4.8.0. This month’s release comes with a number of enhancements and bug fixes that bring more stability to the API functionality. Improvements include saving message to HTML, a feature for saving generic contacts, sending messages as TNEF, and support for additional MAPI properties. This month’s release provides the capability to send an email in Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF).  This helps preserve the message contents that may get disturbed during transmission otherwise. The SmtpClient’s UseTnef property can be set to true for all such TNEF emails before they are sent. This month’s release provides support for some additional MAPI properties. This month’s release introduces more generic classes for saving email messages to different output formats. These include SaveOptions, EmlSaveOptions, MsgSaveOptions and MhtSaveOptions. Each of these classes provide additional options for converting messages to other formats with specific requirements. This month’s release provides the capability to save contacts, retrieved from a Gmail client, in MSG as well as VCF format. This can be achieved by calling the Contact class’ Save method. The API’s ExchangeQueryBuilder allows you to retrieve emails from a Microsoft Exchange mailbox with specified criteria. This month’s release further strengthens this functionality by specifically searching for emails between date ranges. We have also fixed a number of bugs in this month’s release which further improves the overall API functionality. These include encoding issues while conversion of messages to other formats, changes in appointment time during MSG to MHTML conversion, additional contents rendering when converting a message to MHTML and several others. The main bug fixes, new & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Provision of Saving a Message as HTML to Stream with Resources
• Provision of additional properties in MapiTask from Office 365 (.NET)
• Provide more flexible implementation of Properties
• Provision of Saving/Loading Contact
• Retrieve the mail category while fetching message from exchange
• Support for setting MapiProperty PT_MV_SHORT, PT_MV_SYSTIME, PT_MV_BOOLEAN and PT_MV_BINARY
• Create class to keep additional settings for saving MailMessage
• EML->EML: Aspose.Email removes the Multipart/mixed content type
• Exception while adding recipient to MapiRecipientCollection
• MailQuery.InternalDate.Before not working
• MSG to MHTML: Appointment time changes
• ExchangeClient: 412 Precondition Failed error
• MapiContactPhoto not present if PST is imported in Outlook
• Inline image lost while conversion from EML->EML without using FileCompatibilityMode.PreserveTnefAttachments
• Images lost if TNEF email is sent
• Text attachment contents rendered in the MSG->MHTML file (.NET)
• Task Request Issue in TNEF Eml

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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DrawingML Textboxes Support & Export MS Word Numbered & Nested Lists to HTML

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java &.NET 14.11.0.  This month’s release contains over 110 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. In previous versions of Aspose.Words, the field NameOfApplication in the document properties contained the product name with version number. Now the version number has been removed from this field.Some of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release includes, improved clipping of text frames and computation of text wrapping bounds, Public API for controlling the colors of move revisions for rendering to fixed formats, drawingML textboxes supported, improvements to exporting of numbered and nested lists to HTML, improved rendering of inline Office math equations objects, drawingML image rotation is now preserved while rendering to fixed page formats and many more.In previous versions of Aspose.Words, the field NameOfApplication in the document properties contained the product name with version number. Now the version number has been removed from this field. A public API for controlling the colors of move revisions for rendering to fixed formats has been added. The Style.Aliases property now returns all aliases of the style as string[]. If style has no aliases then empty array of string is returned.  The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Improved clipping of text frames and computation of text wrapping bounds
• Public API for controlling colors of Move revisions for rendering to fixed formats
• DrawingML textboxes supported
• Improvements to exporting of numbered and nested lists to HTML
• Improved rendering of inline Office Math equations objects
• DrawingML image rotation is now preserved while rendering to fixed page formats
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with OutlineOptions.HeadingsOutlineLevels
• Word to PDF, track changes rendered incorrectly (RevisionType.Moving)
• Provide Style.Aliases property
• Provide a property to get/set Style alias
• Shape Wrap Text property is not preserved during open save RTF
• Document does not inserted after using MailMerge.Execute method
• Merge field is not be merged in nested if field in footer or header
• Bookmark.Text removes bookmark inside Shape node
• Text Frame overlap the other contents of document after converting Doc to Pdf
• [DML] Shapes with blur shadows are rendered incorrectly
• Support counter, counter-reset and counter-increment css properties
• The text within a rotated text box isn't rotated when converted to PDF (Word 2010)
• Document.Styles return Alias Style as separate style
• Support of Style Aliases
• /compatibility 2007vs2010/ Consider rendering Text direction according to MS WORD 2010 specifications
• Doc to PDF conversion issue with text rendering
• Paragraph underline is lost upon rendering.
• Part of content is moved to the next pages upon rendering.
• Shapes with "Optimal page wrap" overlaps text after converting ODT to other formats
• Visual formatting of a frame is displaced after mailmerge.   
• Bottom borders of the table disappear during rendering.
• Content is moved from the last page to previous after rendering.
• Bottom borders of the table disappear during rendering.
• HasRevisions property returns False for ODT document which has revisions.
• After convertion xls to odt by Excel2Word font colors is changed.
• Table is converted incorrectly to from xls to odt by means of Excel2Word
• /"Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style" option for text inside cells:4/ Spacing between paragraphs is larger than desired.
• Highlighted and justified string has white holes between words. Rendering/Converting to PDF.
• Import of a picture wrap is incorrect when it is shown in MSO
• Multiline value of custom document property does not work
• MS Word 2010 displays ∉ symbol as square box in Aspose.Words generated output
• Text wrapped differently around a floating table in doc output
• Text wrapped differently around a floating table after doc roundtrip
• Test wrapped differently around a floating table after docx roundtrip
• Use latest Product Icon and graphics in Aspose.Words for .NET MSI
• Debug.Assert in SpanInserter
• Save options are not properly synchronized into the layout options
• [DML] Image rotation is getting lost during rendering to fixed page formats
• GetShapeRenderer().Save method does not work with rotated text within shapes
• Wrong scale of metafile with broken metadata.
• Charts in Docx xml markup: xml attribute order changed.
• Charts in Docx xml markup: xml child node order changed.
• Picture background becomes black during rendering
• Hebrew text in WordArt is corrupted during conversion to PDF
• Supported Charsets while saving Txt file       Enhancement
• Enhancement of New Reporting Engine on Java: improved data sources.
• Enhancement of New Reporting Engine on Java: dynamic code generation optimizations.
• Enhancement of New Reporting Engine on Java: new methods, thread-safety
• GetName() for Enumeration values.
• New Reporting Engine on Java.
• Endless loading of a document
• TestReportingPerformance: Java OutOfMemory exception occured
• Styles.AddCopy does not copy ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter value
• Styles.AddCopy does not copy Font Name/Size
• ListLevel.Font return incorrect values for font name/size
• Font color of shape's text is changed after re-saving the Docx
• Rotation settings of a DML are discarded when converting to DOCX/PDF
• UpdateFields generates error in TOC page number against a Heading1 containing a STYLEREF field
• Revisions timestamps issue with RTF document
• TextBox's Vertical TextDirection is not preserved when print or converted to Pdf
• OfficeMath node gets corrupted after resaving Docx
• Text of paragraphs is changed after conversion from Doc to RTF
• Rotation value of a DrawingML text box is not preserved during open/save a DOCX
• Line spacing rule value changes from 'Exactly' to 'At Least' during open/save and appending documents
• GroupShape issue with textboxes on re-saving Docx
• Shape's content lose text formatting on Docx re-save
• Document.UpdateFields does not update the formula field
• DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml does not stop
• Bullet number are missing after conversion from Doc to PDF/HTML
• Aspose.Words hangs while loading MHTML file
• Weird shadow appears behind picture in PDF

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 & 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.

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Visio Diagram Elements Rendering & VTX to HTML Conversion are Enhanced

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 4.0.0.  This release focuses more on the performance, flexible rendering and manipulation of Visio diagram elements. This release also improves visual appearance features by fixing error messages, bugs and including advanced techniques of enhancements. The Aspose.Diagram for Java API ensures the flexible movement of shapes inside output Visio drawings. Recently, we noticed a few cases where customers were not able to move a shape using the mouse pointer. We have now fixed these anomalies. Aspose.Diagram for Java is an easy to use API for converting, editing and manipulating complex Visio diagrams. This new release improves the appearance of the supported output file formats. In some cases, shapes were not complete, had moved from the original position, had names were changed or had issues with property data. We have fixed all these problematic areas. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Can't move a shape in the output VDX file
• Shape names are changed when added a group shape
• Can't set page route style of the Visio drawing
• VTX to HTML conversion, shapes are misplaced from the original position
• Adding two shape data properties, but only one is visible in the MS Office Visio
• Can't move shape using MS Office Visio 2013
• Can't add "Vlan Interface" shape from the stencil file
• Half visibility of second "Interface Normal" shape

Overview: Aspose.Diagram for Java 

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure Java alternate for MS Visio Object Model. It is a standalone Visio Java library and does not depend on Microsoft Office Visio. It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files and they can open files & Add   & manipulate the elements of the diagram, export Visio files to PDF, XML, HTML, images format, SVG & several other formats,  Rotate a shape, Add a hyperlink to a Visio shape, protect diagram shape and many more.  Aspose.Diagram can be used with any kind of application, whether it’s a Web Application or a Windows Desktop Application.

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Generate HTML File per Slide & WordArt Rendering in Presentation using .NET

What's New in this Release?

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.10.0. This is one of maintenance releases where we have included some new features as well. We have introduced support for WordArt rendering in this new API. Now, the generated slide thumbnails, exported PDF, Tiff and SVG will render WordArt shapes properly if they are added in presentation slides. We have also introduced the support for generating the HTML file for independent presentation slides as well in this release. Now, one can generate the HTML file per slide by following the documentation link, Converting individual Slide to HTML in a Presentation. We have also introduced support for adding the layout slides in a presentation if the desired layout type is missing in layout slides collection of used master slide. More details about this feature are available in the article adding Layout Slides to Presentation in the documentation section. We have improved the presentation rendering support and have resolved certain rendering issues incurring during generation of slide thumbnails, exported PDF, Tiff, SVG and XPS files. The issues include improper text, missing background, blank slides, missing WordArt, improper SmartArt and different charts elements rendering. We have rectified issues that appeared when accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like NullReference, ArgumentException, PptxReadException, ObjectReferenceException,and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• WordArt Support (rendering)
• Slide per file when converting PPTX to HTML
• Generating Shape thumbnail for PPTX shape
• Support for Layout Slides in PPTX
• Can the Image be modified in PPTX
• Presentation takes more than 45 minutes to render 2 slide thumbnails
• Key not found exception is thrown on opening the file
• Null reference exception loading this powerpoint
• Object reference not set to an instance of an object Exception is thrown on PPTX to PDF conversion
• Footer Text missing in Ppt the generated Pdf
• Slides are rendered blank in generated PDF
• Shape autofit not working as expected in PPTX
• First Slide in PPT is becoming blank page in PDF
• PPT to HTML conversion: Black rectangle appears instead on image in exported HTML file
• Adding chart Series/Categories makes chart uneditable in PowerPoint
• WordArt effect rendering issue
• PPTX to HTML Image background becomes black in the generated file
• Wrong images background in generated Html
• Repair file message appears on opening the generated PPTX file
• Markers are not coming fine after conversion to PDF
• WriteAsSVG changes the background of image to black
• WordArt missing in the generated PDF file
• Charts area border color is missing when converting PPTX to PDF
• Error: Powerpoint was unable to locate the linked media file \ppt\media\media1.wmv
• Axis Labels direction is not same after converting to PDF
• Red box appearing in generated PDF file
• Word Art is missing in generated PDF
• Background changes when exporting PPT to PDF
• PPT to XPS: Word Art on generated XPS file is not showing fine
• SmartArt shape failed to render in generated slide thumbnails
• Setting fill picture for Media Player control does not work
• SmartArt is missing in geneated PDF
• Title placeholder text is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• Incorrect text location after conversion to PDF
• Aspose.Slides cannot load certain PPTX files and CPU usage is 99%
• PptxRead exception on cloning slide with in same presentation
• Text missing in title slide, Text formating losing & white color appearing around the picture in header
• Chart category data cannot be removed from chart series datapoint
• Object reference not set to an instance of an object Exception is thrown on PPT to PDF conversion

Other 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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Create Multi-Layered PDF, CSS3 Support in HTML to PDF & Custom Footnote in PDF

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 9.8.0. HTML to PDF conversion is one of our most popular features and has been a key improvement area in recent releases. As there are lots of open standards for HTML, we try to support as many new HTML/CSS tags as we can with each new release. Starting with this release, Aspose.Pdf for .NET now also provides support for CSS3. The FileSpecification class provides makes it possible to add attachments to PDF documents. By default, added files are compressed. However, we have introduced changes to the API to allow developers to control files compression (by enabling or disabling it) when adding files as an embedded resource. A footnote is an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page. It can also be a note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference. Aspose.Pdf for .NET has the capability to render text information inside a PDF document with various formatting options. You might want to to add footnotes. Using this new release, you can use a custom text label for the FootNote instance and even control the formatting of the footnote line. To define style for the footnote line, create a Graph object, define the line style and pass the object to the NoteLineStyle property of the page instance. Layers can be used in PDF documents in many ways. You might have a multilingual file that you want to distribute and have text in each language appear on different layers, with the background design appearing on a separate layer. Or you might create documents with animation that appears on a separate layer. One example could be to add a license agreement to your file, and you don’t want a user to view the content until they agree to the terms of the agreement. Aspose.Pdf for .NET supports the feature to create multi-layered PDF files. Text manipulation is one of the the features that makes Aspose.Pdf for .NET so flexible. It allows developers to add, update, and remove text from PDF file. It also lets you search text inside a PDF file and replace it. During text replacement, you may also specify text formatting (change the text color, font face, size etc). Furthermore, it also provides the capabilities to create links to applications, external documents or pages within the PDF file. So, using both features, you can search for text in a PDF file and replace it with a hyperlink. Aspose.Pdf for .NET offers the feature to print PDF files using the PdfViewer class that lets you can print to any printer attached to your system as well as a network printer. When printing, you can adjust margin, paper size, page rotation, display the Print dialog, printing to file, set the number of copies and much more. Recently, we were asked to support the capability to print different pages to different page trays within a printing job. The user must be able to send a document to a printer and be sure that there are no other print jobs in between or pages. The document must be printed as one. A PDF document may contain graphics elements such as circle, rectangle, line, ellipse etc. When adding a rectangle to a PDF file, you may want to fill it with color.  As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been numerous fixes related to HTML to PDF conversion, PDF to Excel conversion, XPS to PDF conversion, PDF to TIFF conversion, conversion of PDF to PDF/A compliant documents, text replacement, rendering PDF files to XPS, creating TOCs in PDF files, and printing PDFs with embedded fonts. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• HTML to PDF Support CSS3
• Disable files compression when adding as embedded resources
• Support Rectangle fill with some color
• Insert a Page Break between rows of table in existing PDF document
• Inherit zoom while creating or editing bookmarks
• Support to control footnote line
• When viewing PDF file, bookmarks should be expanded
• Support of generating multi-layered PDF
• Search text by rules (regex) and replace it with some link
• Can not convert a PDF to TIFF B&W Gr4. compression - 300dpi
• Feature to override Footnote method to define customize label.
• Improve the performance while converting PDF file to Image
• HTML to PDF - Initial conversion attempt is Slow then subsequent calls
• PDF to Excel: Saving output excel file as xml to avoid warning messages in MS Excel version 2007 and higher
• PDF to Excel: Multiline cell data in PDF is exported in separate excel cells for each line
• InlineParagraph functionality requirement in new generator
• PdfViewer: printing different page range to different paper sourceTrays
• PDF to PNG: Chinese characters are distorted
• Concatenating XFA forms is not allowed.
• Hyperlinks not working when the files are concatenated
• PDF to HTML conversion issue
• Tiff to PDF conversion: all pages are not rendered properly
• Linearized file is corrupted after save
• HTML to PDF inline approach results an empty Pdf for wikipedia.com
• Very Slow printing v6.4.2
• File size problem after replacing text in existing PDF document
• Performance difference when using AddStamp()
• Incorrect endnote style
• An empty page is created after converting stream to image using PdfConverter
• TextFragment Annotation characters overlap issue
• PDF to PDFA: PDFA compliance fails
• Problem detecting page orientation
• Setting page zoom factor disappears page contents
• Updating ModDate property in incremental save
• PDF to TIFF - Contents missing in resultant file
• DOM generates strange ID for PDF files
• Text repalce - TextFragment bounding box width is cut in half
• HtmlFragment does not work properly in Header/Footer
• Part of Header watermark Text is missing over some PDF files
• HTML to PDF conversion doesn't render radio buttons, produces other formatting issues
• Hyperlink Creation Issue
• Replace text is not working properly
• Printing to a postscript printer
• Carriage Return and line feed both are not working in replace text
• Import FDF data issue
• #$NP symbol is not working when IsHtmlTagSupported is set to True
• Underline formatting is being lost during PDF to HTML conversion
• Conversion to XPS has the RTL issue
• PDF to XPS: An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in System.Drawing.dll
• DefaultFontName not working in XSLT
• Cell contents flowing out of border
• HTML to PDF - CSS formatting is not being honored during conversion
• SetPageSize method doesn't set the page size.
• Printing PDF with embedded font is not generating correct output
• Image used for SignatureAppearance cannot be deleted after singing the document
• line break is not being honored during text extraction from PDF document
• PdfFileInfo can't detect filetype (open/edit password) the files, encrypted with GPL Ghostscript 8.64
• PTextFragmentAbsorber: space of replaced text is not adjusted
• REFPAGE bug
• Text stamp is not honoring Italic font style with Polish characters with Helvetica font
• PDF to TIFF - Resultant files are blank
• Modifying PDF with large pagesize(A1) results into A4 size PDF
• PDF corrupted while extracting the pages
• Multiple HtmlFragments do not flow to next page
• PIssue in creating TOC for a PDF that has both portrait and landscape pages
• Usage of of multiple HtmlFragments objects

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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Assign Calendar to a Project Task & Enhanced MPP to PDF Conversion inJava Apps

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 7.3.0. This month’s release contains improvements in existing API functionality by fixing a number of bugs. This further aids to the overall reliability and functionality of the API. Since our Java version of API is automatically ported from its equivalent .NET version, all the bugs fixed in the lateral are incorporated in Java version as well. Thus, this month’s release fixes a number of bugs related to project data rendering and calculations. This includes fixing a number of issues related to project data rendering that are related to exporting the default view. This includes issues related to text alignment, changed resource names, missing columns in output and change in table contents and change in table contents during rendering of project data. Defining and assignment of a calendar to a Task functionality has long been supported by Aspose.Tasks. This month’s release brings further improvements to the functionality by fixing some identified bugs which, in turn, further enhances the API functionality in terms of reliability. Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

• Task.Calendar not set properly while writing to MPP
• Columns missed while rendering MPP to PDF
• Table contents changed while reading/writing for MPP -> PDF conversion
• Resource Name changes while MPP->PDF conversion
• Text alignment is disturbed in MPP to PDF conversion
• Read details column in usage views from mpp files
• Read details column in usage view from 2010-2013 mpp files
• Read details column in usage view from 2003-2007 mpp files
• Inserting a task through MSP in updated MPP by AT sets NA dates for existing tasks

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for Java

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Java Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats.  Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.

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Project Data Rendering, Calendar Linking with Task & MPP Writing are Enhanced

What’s new in this release?

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 7.3.0. This month’s release is sort of a maintenance release that fixes a number of bugs reported by our valued users. During the past few months, we had introduced a new feature of retaining the same project data view while rendering data to various formats. This feature was supported for Task Sheet, Task Usage, Resource and Resource Usage views. This month’s release brings further stability to this feature by fixing issues such as text alignment, changes in resource names, missing columns in output and change in table contents during rendering of Project data to PDF. Aspose.Tasks API already provides the capability to define and associate a calendar with a Task. This month’s release fixes a bug that was found while attaching a new calendar to a Task which could further effect the calculations. This, in turn, further enhances the API functionality in terms of reliability. At present, our development team is trying its best to extend the range of MPP writing functionality supported by the API.  At the same time, we are trying hard to make the API easier to understand and its use in applications. Please stay tuned for further updates in this regard.   Below is the complete list of improved and bug fixes included in this release.

• Task.Calendar not set properly while writing to MPP
• Columns missed while rendering MPP to PDF
• Table contents changed while reading/writing for MPP -> PDF conversion
• Resource Name changes while MPP->PDF conversion
• Text alignment is disturbed in MPP to PDF conversion
• Read details column in usage views from mpp files
• Read details column in usage view from 2010-2013 mpp files
• Read details column in usage view from 2003-2007 mpp files
• Inserting a task through MSP in updated MPP by AT sets NA dates for existing tasks

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.

More about Aspose.Tasks for .NET

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Aspose Released New Plugin for Maven Dependencies Integration with IntelliJ IDEA

What’s new in this release?

Aspose takes a further step in making Aspose for Java APIs in easy to use in Maven-based projects by releasing its new plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA platform, Aspose Maven for JetBrains 1.0 that creates Aspose Maven-based projects by following the steps that come with the plugin in Aspose Maven Project Wizard.  Previously, Aspose released Aspose Maven Project Archetype 1.0 for the creation of Aspose Maven-based projects in any IDE including IntelliJ IDEA (which supports Maven) or using Maven command line project archetype generation. But this Aspose Maven for JetBrains plugin provides a more sophisticated solution through fine grained and guiding UI for selecting Aspose for Java APIs and creating Maven project artifact value inputs. The plugin retrieves the latest available Maven artifacts for Aspose’s Java APIs from the Aspose server and adds them into the newly created Maven project pom.xml along with the necessary configuration for the Aspose Cloud Maven Repository. 

How to Install Aspose Maven Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

This step by step tutorial demonstrates the steps to install the plugin and use the Aspose Maven Project Wizard to create Maven-based Aspose projects. The Aspose Maven Project Wizard plugin is listed on IntelliJ IDEA’s official website, so you don’t need to download it manually and install it from disk, but this extra option still exists in IntelliJ IDEA. Aspose Maven Plugin can be easily installed from the IntelliJ IDEA CE Plugins repository enlisting the Aspose Maven Project Wizard plugin. To open it:

• Select Settings from the File menu.
• Click Plugins, then browse the repositories in IntelliJ IDEA.

This plugin will introduce a new project type – Aspose Maven for JetBrains New Plugin Released!Aspose Maven Project – into IntelliJ IDEA, which will enable you to create Aspose Java APIs maven based projects.
Aspose Maven Project
The desired Aspose APIs can be selected to include the maven dependencies in your maven based project when creating a new maven project.

• Select New Project.
• Select Aspose Maven Project
• Click Next.
• Select Aspose API(s) from the list and click Next.
• Provide a GroupId, ArtifactId and Version for your maven project and click Next.
• Provide a Project Name and Location just like when creating any Java application
• Click Finish.

This will retrieve the selected Aspose APIs latest maven dependencies references from Aspose Cloud  Maven Repository.
Congratulations! You have successfully created an Aspose Maven-based project with the selected Aspose APIs’ latest Maven dependencies and the Aspose Cloud Maven Repository configuration already present in pom.xml.
The created Aspose Maven project is ready to be extended as per your project’s requirements. Aspose Maven Project Wizard for JetBrains is open source and its source code is available on the major social coding websites listed below. Developers can extend the functionality if they want or learn from it to make their own plugins. 

About Aspose

Aspose are file format experts. At Aspose you will find a wide variety of file management components. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash & Project files. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services & JasperReports exporters. Aspose helps developers to become more productive & maximize their investments by delivering reliable solutions on time. 

More about Aspose Maven Project

Homepage of Aspose Java Components

Download Maven for JetBrains for Manual Installation

Download Source Code for Aspose Maven Project Wizard for JetBrains

Aspose.Newsletter December 2014: Get 25% Off on Aspose.Total & Much More

Aspose Newsletter for December 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, Android components & REST APIs. It includes info about special discount of upto 25% on Aspose.Total Product Family, for .NET, Java, Android, SharePoint, SSRS & JasperReports and an extra 10% off on Aspose.Total for Cloud Annual Plans.  Moreover, it also include news about DataBar recognition and generation with Aspose.BarCode, Work with VBA Macros in PowerPoint Presentations and many more.
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DataBar Recognition and Generation with Aspose.BarCode for .NET
Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.6.0 adds support for the DataBar Stacked, DataBar Expanded and DataBar Stacked Omnidirectional symbologies. Developers can now recognize and generate this family of barcodes. Find out more about DataBar recognition and generation using .NET.
Work with VBA Macros in PowerPoint Presentations
The latest release of Aspose.Slides for Java, 14.8.0, supports VBA macros. Developers can now add VBA macros to presentations, and access macros in existing presentations. Find out more working with VBA macros to presentations
Saaspose.com End-point to be Discontinued
Saaspose was rebranded Aspose for Cloud in June 2013 but we have continued to maintain the Saaspose.com end-point. The api.saaspose.com end-point will be discontinued on December 31, 2014. After that date, only api.aspose.com/v1.1 will work. Update your code to reference the new end-point before the cut-off date. For more information, read the cut-off announcement.
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HTML5 Spreadsheet Editor Showcases Aspose.Cells for Java
To illustrate the power of Aspose.Cells for Java, we have created an HTML5 spreadsheet editor. It lets you create, open and edit Microsoft Excel files online. You can open files from disk, Dropbox or a URL. To try it out, download the source code. Read more.
Removing Document Open Actions in PDF Files
Aspose.Pdf allows you to decide on which page a document should open. For example, you might want to bypass the front matter and go straight to the first chapter in a novel. This is a great feature but can give unexpected results when you combine several files. Find out how to remove document open actions with Aspose.Pdf for .NET or Java.

Updates about new Product Releases

1. Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of our latest .NET products.
2. Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.3.0 - Get a trendline’s equation text, convert chart to SVG, and fixes.
3. Aspose.Words for .NET 14.10.0 - Improved handling of mixed LTR/RTL text, table breaks and much more.
4. Aspose.Pdf for .NET 9.8.0 - HTML to PDF support for CSS3 and a range of enhancements and fixes.
5. Aspose.Slides for .NET 14.9.0 - Set fill format for a SmartArt node, convert one PPTX slide to PDF and other enhancements and fixes.
6. Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.6.0 - Introduces DataBar Stacked recognition and generation, and other improvements.
7. Aspose.Tasks for .NET 7.2.0 – Read and write WBS code fields and a number of other enhancements and fixes.
8. Aspose.Email for .NET 4.7.0 - Create TNEF mail messages from MAPI messages, and other enhancements and fixes.
9. Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of our latest Java products.
10. Aspose.Cells for Java 8.3.0 – Increased performance and a wide range of enhancements and fixes.
11. Aspose.Words for Java 14.10.0 - Improved handling of mixed LTR/RTL text, table breaks and much more.
12. Aspose.Slides for Java 14.8.0 – Support for managing VBA macros in presentations, and various fixes.
13. Aspose.Tasks for Java 7.2.1 – Read and write WBS code fields and a number of other enhancements and fixes.
14. Aspose.Email for Java 4.7.0 – Create TNEF mail messages from MAPI message, and other enhancements and fixes.
15. Aspose.Diagram for Java 2.3.0 – Various enhancements and fixes.
16. Aspose.Total for Cloud – RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
17. Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of our Android APIs.
18. Aspose.Cells for Android – Introduces DataBar Stacked recognition and generation, and other improvements.
19. Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.
20. Aspose.Total for Reporting Services – a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products.
21. Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 5.1.0 – Support for SSRS 2014 added to installer, and other fixes.
22. Aspose.Total for JasperReports – The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

In October we sponsor a number of user groups, including:

• 1-5 December: NDC London, London, UK.
• 5 December: Spring Beijing UserGroup, Beijing, China

Would you like us to sponsor your user group? Get in contact at user.groups@aspose.com

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd Suite 163,

 79 Longueville Road Lane Cove,

NSW, 2066 Australia

 Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

 Fax: 866.810.9465