DrawmingML Charts Rendering, Textbox Wrapping & SVM Image Support in ODT using Java & .NET

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java & .NET 15.9.0. This month’s release contains over 94 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. Here is a look at just a few of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release, Creation of EditableRange objects in DocumentBuilder, SVM image support in ODT, DrawingML textbox wrapping is now rendered correctly (while cold rendering i.e. using DmlRenderingMode.DrawingML), Bookmark hyperlinks are now rendered correctly into PDF/A standard documents, Overlapping problem while rendering of Chinese characters into HTML Fixed format resolved, Improvements to DrawmingML Charts rendering and many more. It added options to control image stretching for LINQ reporting engine. Previously, there was a lack of documentation about using of charts with LINQ Reporting Engine, although this feature was included to 15.6 as per WORDSNET-10922. Now it is fixed. We have added following methods in DocumentBuilder class in Aspose.Words in this release. This release also added reportingEngine.Options Property. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Creation of EditableRange objects in DocumentBuilder
• SVM image support in ODT
• DrawingML textbox wrapping is now rendered correctly (while cold rendering i.e. using DmlRenderingMode.DrawingML)
• Bookmark hyperlinks are now rendered correctly into PDF/A standard documents
• Overlapping problem while rendering of Chinese characters into HTML Fixed format resolved
• Improvements to DrawmingML Charts rendering
• /svm/ ODT to PNG conversion issue with image rendering /triaged/
• Root - Odt to Pdf conversion issue with 'signature' image (svm)
• /svm/ An image is not preserved during open/save an ODT
• Stretched Images produced with ReportingEngine issue
• ReportingEngine.buildReport throws exception no value is passed for a field in template
• Allow spesifying "Thai Distributed" paragraph alignment
• Implement support for new AbsolutePositionTab model node.
• /svm/ Images in ODT are not preserved during rendering (triaged)
• Add an ability to define new EditableRanges in API
• /svm/ Clustered column charts are not preserved in PDF
• /svm/ Support import of ODT specific SVM (Star View Metafaile) format into the model (triaged)
• AcceptAllRevisions removes the contents from document and MS Word does not
• ImageData.GrayScale not taking any effect
• ImageData.GrayScale does not work for Docx
• Make DmlRenderingMode.DrawingML as default rendering mode.
• Incorrect text font issue
• Incorrect font size causes incorrect row height on conversion to docx, pdf
• Comparing word documents - showing image differences
• Incorrect inline shape position when rendering to pdf
• Replace all bullets in the document with “\u2022” during converting to TXT.
• “NotImplementedException” exception occurs during saving in HTML format/Rendering under MONO.
• Bookmark inserted disappears during save
• Language of noLineBreaksAfter/noLineBreaksBefore should be present in document model
• Add RowFormat.Hiddden property.
• Doc to html conversion; The floating blue background image is mis-aligned.
• Custom Xml markup is read incorrectly.
• Printer tray information gets lost when printing with AsposeWordsPrintDocument
• Docx conversion to html is not working properly on my Linux Enviorment
• Missing ODT chart while saving to Png.
• DataTable does not propagate any changes to ResultSet
• DataColumn has invalid type when DataSet was created from XSD schema
• DataSet.readXmlSchema: date-time expression does not evaluate the date correctly
• Linq reporing engine with XML datasource do not merge field
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue wiht SmartArt rendering
• Document.AcceptAllRevisions does not remove revision containing mail merge field
• Document.UpdateFields does not update the TOC field correctly
• Drawing Canvas is changed to GroupShape after re-saving the Docx
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with shape's position
• [hr] elements exported to HTML by Aspose.Words are rendered incorrectly in modern browsers
• Text is overlapped in Pdf file after replacing text
• Table is missing after conversion from Doc to Docx/Doc/Pdf
• Word to Pdf Conversion - Bookmark hyperlinks are not seen if zoom level is around 200%
• Arabic text rendering issue in output Pdf
• Data is missing after DOCX to PDF
• Table from header is missing in generated PDF
• Docx to fixed file format conversion issue with Chinese text rendering
• BASE tag is not honored during HTML to Word conversion
• Document.UpdateFields does not update LastSavedTime
• Number Format of Calculation type Text Form Field is not correct in PDF
• Html to Pdf conversion issue with shape rendering
• Doc to Pdf conversion issue with list labels
• Content controls are missing after re-saving Docx
• Extra Paragraph is inserted when open/save a RTF
• Font changes during open/save a RTF
• Document.compare API not working when Table content is modified
• Shapes are misaligned
• Paragraph.InsertField creates invalid field
• Paragraph.InsertField NullReferenceException
• Document.Compare issue with list numbers
• Chart conversion/drawing issue in rendered document
• Min/Max series data points not considered during rendering
• Few x-axis labels are missing in converted SVG
• Extra x-axis labels are created in converted SVG
• Y-axis labels number are different in SVG image
• StyleCollection.AddCopy ignores style font size
• Chart labels itself missing in X axis in rendered document
• Highlight color is incorrectly applied to whole document during open/save a RTF
• INCLUDETEXT field returns Error! Not a valid filename
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with spacing between the rows of the table
• Large number of duplicated styles in generated document
• MacroButton text is not displayed during converting to text.
• InvalidOperationException: Cannot remove because there is no parent. in CommentValidator

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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Enhanced Presentation Export to PDF, HTML & Get/Set Hole Size in Doughnut Chart using .NET

What's New in this Release?

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.8.0. This month’s release includes improvements that further enhance the overall API functionality. It also fixes a number of bugs related to rendering support which earlier resulted in an improper PDF. The long awaited feature to get and set the size of the hole in Doughnut charts is now supported, as the property DoughnutHoleSize has been added to ChartSeries class. Please visit the documentation article Specifying Doughnut chart hole size for more details and sample code. The presentation rendering support has been enhanced for exporting to PDF, PDF Notes and HTML formats. The issue of missing charts and its entities like charts legends in generated PDF and slide thumbnails have been rectified in this release. We have also addressed the performance related issues to improve the performance of Aspose.Slides because some issues about memory consumption and memory leakage have been taken care of, and this release has improved performance as we have conducted performance tests on our end. We have also improved the support for presentation decks that were unable to be manipulated using previous releases because of the exceptions including NullReferenceException, OutOfMemoryException, PptxEditException and ArgumentException while loading and saving the presentations. We have made several enhancements to the new API. Please refer to the article Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes in Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.8.0 for further reference.  This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Setting Doughnut hole size
• Set Doughnut Hole Size in Doughnut Chart
• Background fill of shape is lost after saving ODP to HTML
• Slide background is lost after saving ODP to HTML
• Hyperlinks are missing in generated HTML file
• Password protected XLTM file opening cause extreme memory leak
• theme.xml for master is not removed
• After saving .ppt files there are some loss of information
• Unable to create presentation with embedded video
• NullReference Exception on deleting table column
• Exceptions on loading zero KB presentation
• Chart missing on generated PDF
• User shape does not appear in presentation
• Presentation repair message on opening presentation with video
• The Media player controls does not appear by default for linked video
• Loop Until Stopped is affected on cloning slide with video
• Chart in pdf is rendered half in size
• Incorrect bullets on presentation load and save
• Incorrect shapes on load and save presentation
• Incorrect text boxes on presentation load and save
• ArgumentException: Opening streams containing same presentation
• Incorrect table rendering pptx to pdf
• Rendered chart font height depends on DPI Scale setting
• Chart data table improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• Bullet appearing with text on saving the presentation
• Wrong slide background in pdf and html generated from ODP
• Slide Notes rendered incorrectly in PDF
• Text is lost when converted to pptx or a thumbnail is generated
• Locking effects are lost in generated presentaiton
• Wrong tables rendering in generated Pdf and Html
• Text turn white after slide cloning
• Wrong text wrapping in generated Pdf
• Paragraph positioning is not fine in the generated PPT file
• Paragraph positioning is not fine in the generated PDF file
• Chart missing in PDF
• Wrong fill type returned from shape
• Category axis text is improperly rendered in generated PDF
• Wrong labels rotation of category axis
• Charts are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• Master slide is improperly applied on the slides
• Charts missing in generated thumbnail

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 users can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in their 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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Generate & Recognize 1D, 2D & Postal Barcode Images Using Aspose.BarCode Cloud SDK for PHP

What's New in this Release?

Aspose.BarCode Cloud for PHP allows quick and easy generation and recognition of barcodes in PHP based application. It helps us to generate barcode images from scratch in linear (1D), two dimensional (2D), and postal formats. Generate barcode images in a variety of image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and many others. Also Recognize barcodes from different image types. Aspose.BarcCode for Cloud allows you to generate barcode images from scratch. You can create barcodes of linear (1D), two-dimensional (2D) or postal types and generate an output image, which can be used with any product or item where you want to attach a barcode. To recognize barcodes from images Aspose.BarCode is equipped with the above Symbologies. With these symbologies reading and recognizing of different type of barcodes with precision and accuracy is very easy. Aspose.BarCode for Cloud provides you all the required features to recognize barcodes from different types of images. This REST API can recognize linear barcodes, 2D barcodes and postal barcodes. It can also read the barcodes either from a file on the disk or from a stream. A detailed documentation to get familiar with the resources and operations of Aspose.Slides for Cloud REST API is available for the developers. Start a free trial today – all you need is to sign up with the Aspose for Cloud service. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by Aspose for Cloud. It supports important Barcode Symbologies, such as

• Australia Post
• Code93 Standard
• IATA 2 of 5
• Planet
• Aztec
• DataMatrix
• Interleaved2of5
• Postnet
• BooklandEAN
• Deutsche Post Identcode
• Italian Post 25
• PZN
• Codabar
• Deutsche Post Leticode
• ITF14
• QR
• Code11
• EAN128
• MacroPDF417
• SSCC18
• Code128
• EAN13
• Matrix 2 of 5
• Standard2of5
• Code39 Extended
• EAN13
• MSI
• UPCA
• Code39 Standard
• EAN14(SCC14)
• OPC\
• UPCE
• Code93 Extended
• EAN8
• PDF417
• USPS

Overview: Aspose for Cloud
Aspose for Cloud is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers that offer a unique suite of APIs to work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and email formats and protocols. It supports all features for file processing, document scanning, barcodes creation and recognition, and allows extracting text or images too. You can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.
More about Aspose for Cloud

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Load Specific Type of Messages & Paging Support for Listing Folders or Email Messages

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 5.8.0. It includes enhancements and bug fixes to a number of API functional areas. Specifically, it provides the capability of paging while retrieving information from Exchange Mailbox and offers new load options for loading specific type of messages.  The Exchange Web Service (EWS) client of the API now supports enumerating folders with paging support. This feature provides the capability to retrieve the list of folders from the exchange server in multiple server responses. User can now specify the maximum number of folders information to be retrieved from the server in a go. The API provides the paging support for listing messages as well in addition to listing sub folders. This is very helpful where the mailbox has a large number of messages and requires a lot of time for retrieving the summary information about these. This month’s release provides new message loading options for specific message types. This standardizes loading messages with standard load options that can be used to specify the message specific arguments. Old classes for loading messages have been marked as deprecated and will be removed in subsequent versions. Our documentation article, importing and exporting messages, gives detailed example of using these new message loading options. We have also fixed a number of bugs reported with our last month’s release. Our product download page lists all of these along with new features and enhancements. The main bug fixes & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Receive messages and folders using paging in EWS client
• Provide loading MailMessage with particular types of LoadOptions (mark MailMessageLoadOptions as obsolete, remove it from code)
• Provision of setting GZip encoding in IEWSClient
• Accented characters garbled while conversion from EML to Mhtml
• Text Formatting lost in Mapi Items
• MapiContact.ElectronicAddresses.Email1.AddressType not preserved in the PST
• Weekly appointment recurrence not created properly
• Html body of message not retrieved properly from MSG file
• Recurrence Information not shown in Outlook's List View for Calendar
• Wrong dates generated by Aspose.iCalendar.RecurrencePattern.GenerateOccurrences()
• MSG to EML: Digital Signature is not preserved

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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Read Additional Data Fields from MS Project DB & Export/Import Project Data as HTML

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 8.7.0. It includes the same new features, enhancements and bug fixes as were part of its equivalent .NET version. This month’s release provides the capability to retrieve Project data from Microsoft Project Database. The MspDbSettings and SqlConnectionStringBuilder classes can be used to accomplish this purpose. Microsoft Project 2016 preview version has already been released. We are pleased to share that Apose.Tasks API supports this new version MPP format as it is based on the 2013 file format. Aspose.Tasks API now supports performing risk analysis on a Project data file. Based on the Monte Carlo simulation, that supports different probability distributions and correlations, the functionality has been provided via the RiskAnalyzer class. The whole process consists of the steps like, Preparing Analysis Settings, Identifying the Input of Analysis, Analyzing the Risks and Using the Results of the Analysis. We have also fixed a number of bugs, resulting in further improvement in API functionality. These include exceptions while saving project with Gantt Chart View, rendering project data to PDF and loading certain MPX files. Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

• Implement Project data reading from MS Project DB
• Add support for MS Project v2016 file format
• Implement risk analysis tool
• Null reference exception raised while saving the project while using GanttChartView
• NullReferenceException when Saving Project To PDF
• Loading MPX file raises exception

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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Create & Manipulate PDF Documents in Cloud using Aspose.Pdf Cloud SDK for Python

What's New in this Release?

This is a major revamp release for Aspose.Pdf Cloud SDK for Python. It covers all the Aspose.Pdf Cloud APIs. This SDK provides a complete solution to manipulate PDF (Portable Document Format) in Python using powerful Aspose.Pdf Cloud APIs, so you can perform any operation on PDF files in the cloud seamlessly.Aspose.Pdf for Cloud’s platform independent document manipulation API is a true REST API that can be used with any language: .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, jQuery and many more. You can use it with any platform — web, desktop, mobile, and cloud. With Aspose.Pdf for Cloud you can work with all aspects of PDF (portable document format) file: read, write, convert, split, merge and many more options to manipulate PDF documents. Aspose.Pdf for Cloud is a complete solution for performing any manipulation you can wish to perform on PDF files in the cloud. Complete source code of this release of Aspose.Pdf Cloud SDK for Python is freely available on your favorite GitHub and Codeplex repositories. Aspose.Pdf Cloud SDK for Python is also available as released package in the PyPI (Python Package Index). You can bypass source code repository and depend directly on the released package by installing from PyPI. In order to manipulate any files, you first need to upload them to the Aspose cloud storage or 3th party cloud storage using Aspose.Storage Cloud SDK for Python. Aspose.Pdf for Cloud Documentation is available to guide developers to get familiar with the specific resources and operations within the Aspose.Pdf for Cloud REST API. Start a free trial today – all you need is to sign up with the Aspose for Cloud service. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by Aspose for Cloud.  

Overview: Aspose for Cloud

Aspose for Cloud is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers that offer a unique suite of APIs to work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and email formats and protocols. It supports all features for file processing, document scanning, barcodes creation and recognition, and allows extracting text or images too. You can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.

Assign Macro to Form Controls & Manipulate Spreadsheet Document Properties using .NET

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.6.0. Aspose.Cells for .NET APIs have exposed the WorkbookMetadata class that is light weight as compared to Workbook class and allows to load the spreadsheet in order to manipulate the document properties in a simpler & more efficient way. In addition to the aforesaid class, it has also exposed the MetadataOptions class and MetadataType enumeration that can be used to specify the type of properties to be updated. Aspose.Cells for .NET now provides the Shape.MarcoName property to assign the macros to any control in the spreadsheet. This property is useful in scenarios where application requirement is to add modules and assign them to the controls for user interaction. This new release has exposed a new property that can be used to control the generation of scripts such as Frames & Document Properties while exporting the spreadsheets in HTML format. The aforesaid Boolean type property has the default value of true that means; the resultant HTML will contain the scripts related to the frames as per standards of Excel application. Moreover, the resultant HTML code will contain the conditional comments that detect the browser type and handle the layout accordingly. However, setting this property to false will direct the Aspose.Cells APIs not to generate the frame scripts and conditional comments. In this case the resultant HTML can be viewed in any browser but it cannot be imported back while using Aspose.Cells APIs. In the new version, we have also provided a few enhancements, e.g Exposed a property that can be used to update the PageSetup.Zoom if PageSetup.FitToPagesWide and/or PageSetup.FitToPagesTall properties have been used to control the Worksheet scaling, Supported – users may use Aspose.Cells for .NET to run it in the Medium Trust environment. We have handled some exceptions when reading/writing Excel spreadsheets, rendering Excel spreadsheets to PDF file format, refreshing Pivot tables and rendering Excel files to HTML file format. In this release, several important issues have been addressed. For example, issues around reading/ writing Microsoft Excel file formats, manipulating Pivot Tables, copying ranges, embedding Ole objects, combining workbooks, manipulating shapes, applying PageSetup options, rendering images from Excel worksheets, manipulating charts, rendering images files from charts and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. We have further improved the Aspose.Cells formula calculation engine and fixed a few issues in this regard. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Assign macro to form controls
• Worksheet.Shapes.UpdateSelectedValue throwing CellsException sometimes
• Including a Font Directory with CellsHelper, doesn't seem to work
• Hyperlink.TextToDisplay is not updated
• XLSX document size increases with every save
• Aspose.Cells is not able to run in the Medium Trust
• Wingdings symbols do not render correctly while converting certain spreadsheet to HTML
• Excel always repairs the resultant spreadsheet after adding the PivotTable
• HTML to Excel - CSS Styling Ignored
• Chart changes in resultant spreadsheet after refreshing the Chart
• Workbook.CalculateFormula never returns
• Aspose.Cells Row Insertion Error
• characters overlapped and converted to ######## in Excel to PDF rendering
• Superscript and subscript shifted up too much when generating image
• Chart Axis labels are rendered in jagged text
• WordArt Boxes are balcked out when XLSX is converted to PDF
• SmartArt boxes are coming as black.
• SmartArt layout heading is overlapping with underline under Picture heading.
• Text is being truncated/wrapped in the generated PDF
• Spreadsheet document produces multiple documents when converted
• OLE link ObjectSourceFullName could not be updated
• PageSetup.Zoom has changed after opening and saving the workbook
• Some cell formulas are lost when row is copied
• Double read of Carriage Return Line Feeds
• Combining two XLSM workbooks produces a corrupted workbook
• Images in the spreadsheet do not render while converting to PDF
• Linked Picture is not inside the chart after instantiating the Workbook object and saving it
• Range.CopyData works but Range.Copy is not working
• Adding more than 2084 characters in hyperlink corrupts the output xlsx file
• Excel function renders with #NAME? error on Sheet 1
• Gridweb Print on Chrome does not work correctly

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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Optimizing Barcode Generation Process & Border Types Support for ITF14 Barcode using .NET

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 7.3.0 has been released. Barcode generation using encoding standard like UTF8, border types for ITF14 barcode and optimizing barcode generation process are the top of the list of this release. It also includes encoding and decoding improvements based on the clients’ feedback. Some problems were noticed with Code16K barcode and extra white space at the bottom with UPCA barcode encoding was detected. All such issues have been fixed. Also, new feature to define the settings for involving multi-threading & number of processor cores to be used to optimize the performance of BarCode Recognition Process has been introduced. Many reported bug fixes have also been included. This release comprises a number of key fixes that help in generating barcode and barcode recognition capabilities. Some of them includes Custom encode mode for DataMatrix in order to support Encoding standard like UTF8, Optimize BarCode Recognition Process, Minimum height specification for ITF14 barcode is not followed, Recognition problem with Code16K barcode, Extra white space at the bottom of UPCA barcode, Recognizing DataMatirx barcode from the PDF file and many more. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version.

• The minimum height specification for ITF14 barcode is not followed
• HRI code is not visible on GS1DataMatrix barcode
• HRI code is not visible on GS1Code128 barcode
• HRI code is not visible on DatabarStackedOmniDirectional barcode
• HRI code is not visible on ITF14 barcode
• Other barcode scanners read GS1Code128 barcode as Code128
• Can't recognize QR code from the TIF format
• Can't recognize QR code from the TIF format
• Reading problem of UTF-8 encoded DataMatrix barcode
• Recognition problem with Code16K barcode.
• UPCA barcode encoding, the extra white space at the bottom of barcode picture
• Can't recognize DataMatirx code from the PDF file
• Incorrect recognition of Pdf417 code from the tif image
• Incorrect recognition of Pdf417 code from the tif image
• Can't recognize Code39 barcodes from the PDF document
• Can't recognize Code39 code from a PDF document
• EAN13 not found with 5.8

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


Overview: Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Aspose.BarCode is a .NET component for generation and recognition of Linear and 2D barcodes on all kinds of .NET applications. It supports WPF with 29+ Barcode symbologies like OneCode, QR, Aztec, MSI, EAN128, EAN14, SSCC18, Code128, Code39, Postnet, MarcoPDF417, Datamatrix, UPCA etc. Other features include barcode insertion in PDF, Word and Excel documents. Also take image output in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and WMF formats. You can also control image styles such as background color, bar color etc.

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Get/Set Size of Hole in Doughnut Charts & Enhanced Presentation Rendering to PDF, HTML

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java 15.8.0 has been released. This month’s release includes improvements that further enhance the overall API functionality. It also fixes a number of bugs related to rendering support which earlier resulted in an improper PDF. This release comes with a feature support to get and set the size of the hole in Doughnut charts. Methods like getDoughnutHoleSize(), setDoughnutHoleSize(byte) have been added to ChartSeries class. Please visit the documentation article , Specifying the size of the Hole in a Doughnut Chart for more details and sample code. We have enhanced the presentation rendering support to PDF and HTML in this release for hyperlinks, charts and quality of images. Issues related to Slide Master cloning and wrong fill type for shapes have also been rectified in this release. The issues related to ODP to HTML conversions as disturbed layouts, incorrect indentation and improper slide layouts have been fixed in this release. Many chart rendering issues including missing charts and its entities like legends and titles have been resolved in this release. We have also addressed the presentation access issues as well which resulted in exceptions including NullReferenceException, OutOfMemoryException, PptxEditException and ArgumentException in this release. We have made several enhancements to the new API. Please refer to the article Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes in Aspose.Slides for Java 15.8.0 for further reference. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Presentation file formats rendering
• Support for embedding video for Media Player ActiveX control
• SAXParseException on set license method
• Hyperlink is returned in two portions of text
• Incorrect slide design rendered on odp to html conversion
• Disturbed layout on odp to html conversion
• Background and hyperlink color is lost on odp to html conversion
• slide is not rendered while converting odp to html
• getFontName method returns incorrect font name
• After saving .ppt files there are some loss of information
• User shape does not appear in presentation
• Chart last category missing if data points are blank
• Exceptions on loading zero KB presentation
• InvertIfNegative values are rendered without color in saved presentation
• FirstSliceAngle set and get is not working
• replaceFont method not working
• themes.xml for master is not removed
• Custom combination chart is lost in generated thumbnail
• Text is lost when converted to pptx or a thumbnail is generated
• ms.pbdb106a0.bw Exception thrown odp to html conversion
• PptUnsupportedFormatException exception on conversion from odp to html
• Text Improperly rendered in generated HTML
• PPTX to PDF Conversion: Poor Image quality
• Image quality is not good when converting PPTX to PDF
• Axis Label Alignment is not proper in the generated PDF file
• PPTX to PDF Conversion: Charts are blur as compared to the PPTX file
• Category axis text is improperly rendered in generated PDF
• Setting Sufficient Resolution property does not work Aspose.Slides for Java
• Wrong fill type returned from shape
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• Master slide is improperly applied on the slides
• The Media player controls does not appear by default for linked video
• Chart series labels are improperly rendered in generated PDF
• The thumbnail is improperly rendered if it is lesser then slide size

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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Set Font Folder While Converting WMF File & Get Font Information inside Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release Aspose.Imaging for Java 3.0.2. Using Aspose.Imaging for Java, developers can specify the font folder path used while converting WMF file. FontSettings class has been introduced to manage font settings. Using FontSettings class you can specify the font folder. Using Aspose.Imaging for Java, developers can get information about the font used in the WMF file while converting WMF file. FontSettings class has been introduced to get font information. Using FontSettings class you can get list of font names accessible to Aspose.Imaging API, List of font names used in the metafile and List of font names that are missing in the environment with respect to WMF file loaded. Using Aspose.Imaging for Java, developers can specify the substitute fonts instead of original font while converting WMF file. FontSettings class has been introduced to manage font settings. Using FontSettings class you can specify the substitute fonts that should be used instead of original font while converting WMF file. If you are planning to upgrade the API to the latest revision, we strongly suggest you to check the Public API Change section to know what has been changed in the public API since your current version. The main new and improved features added in this release are listed below

• Provide means to detect that metafile to raster image conversion has font related problems
• Set Font Folder While Converting WMF file
• Get Font Information
• Specify the substitute fonts instead of original font while converting WMF file.

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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Copying & Formatting Rows/Columns & Exporting Reports with Large Data Sets are Enhanced

What’s new in this release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 2.3.0 has been released. We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 2.3.0. This is a long awaited maintenance release which contains some useful enhancements and other fixes. In this release, several issues have been addressed. For example, issues around licensing, copying and formatting rows and columns, saving and publishing reports, blank rows insertion and formatting cells have been resolved. We have also enhanced the performance when exporting reports with large data sets. The new version includes some important bug fixes, such as Error occurred while exporting the report. Error message: “Could not find the file”, blank row inserted in the rendered Excel file, Aspose Cells for SSRS exports takes a long time to export the file, License in the development machine does not work, Change default font in Data Only export, When copy any column and paste it into other columns, It takes about 2 minutes, Aspos.Cells for Reporting Services Report Designer support SSRS 2014 and Retrieving Report Failed – Date Parameter issue. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

• Error occurred while exporting the report. Error message Could not find file
• Blank row in data with excel export
• Exporting high row count report in Excel gives error
• cells for reporting services - change default format
• Aspose Cells for SSRS export taking a long time
• Opening the reports (.rdl) in excel using the Aspose.Cells to modify the formulas but everything is blank
• License in the development machine does not work
• Change default font in Data Only export
• Fourth row is hidden in the Excel export
• When copy any column and paste it into other columns, It takes about 2 minutes
• Aspos.Cells for Reporting Services Report Designer support SSRS 2014
• Retrieving Report Failed - Date Parameter

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

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services

Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services allows you to export native Excel reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Unlike the built-in renderer for Excel based reports, Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services provides an extended feature set and allows RDL reports to be converted to: Excel 97-2003 binary XLS format, SpreadsheetML or the Excel2007 XLSX format. With Aspose.Cells Report Designer tool, users can design & deliver reports into MS Excel directly without using Visual Studio IDE.

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Aspose Releases New IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Robust Barcodes Generation & Recognition

What’s new in this release?

Aspose releases New IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for its robust barcodes generation and recognition API — Aspose.Barcode for Java. The plugin aims to facilitate the use of Aspose.Barcode for Java API in Maven based java projects in IntelliJ IDEA. By using the plugin developer can easily create java projects for reading (recognition), generating and manipulating barcodes. Plugin lets developers to create Aspose.Barcode for Java API based Maven projects and also download various useful Example Source Codes in Java that shows how to do generation, recognition and manipulation of barcodes using the library – Barcode API. Aspose.Barcode for Java supports most established barcode standards and barcode specifications. It has the ability to export to multiple image formats including: BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WMF within the IntelliJ IDEA.  The plugin provides two wizards to help developers to work with Aspose.Barcode for Java API. Aspose.Barcode Maven Project wizard lets you create Maven project and also configures Aspose.Barcode for Java API latest maven dependency reference and the Aspose Cloud Maven repository configurations in the project’s pom.xml. The wizard also allows you to download latest available API’s Example Source Codes from GitHub repository. Aspose.Barcode Example wizard lets you import / copy latest downloaded Example Source Codes into the project along with the required resources for the execution of examples. Every time the wizard runs it checks for new available examples and downloads them. Start a free trial today – all you need is to sign up with Aspose. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try powerful file processing features offered by Aspose file format APIs. Your feedback is very important to us. Please feel free to provide feedback and raise feature requirements. We are keen to implement customer driven features since we are a 100% customer driven company.

About Aspos

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.  

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Create Email Message from HTML File & Adding Headers to EWS Requests using .NET

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 5.7.0. This month’s release brings new features, enhancements and a number of API improvements as a result of bug fixes. This month’s release includes a new feature of creating MailMessage from HTML file. The message is created with the specified html file and can include any inline images that are part of the html page. For this purpose, the resources on disc need to be specfieid using the load options. IMAP protocol in itself supports IDLE command. This month’s release enhances the IMAP client functionality and includes the support for this feature of IMAP protocol. The feature allows you to establish a connection and wait for a trigger when some message is received. This helps avoid polling the server all the time for any new incoming messages. The ImapClient’s StartMonitoring and StopMonitoring methods can be used to achieve this functionality. Microsoft Exchange Web Server (EWS) provides the facility of adding headers to the EWS client, in order to manage different Exchange level functionality. One such example is adding HttpHeaders such as X-AnchorMailbox that helps deal with the throtlling issues on Exchange Server. This month’s release enhances the API’s EWS Client to which headers can be added now.  Aspose.Email API provides the capability of creating/sending messages with dynamic content such as first name, last name, signature, etc. This is achieved using the API’s TemplateEngine class that adds the dynamic contetns and results in MessagesCollection. This month’s release further enhances this functionality by allowing row-wise mail merge. This gives control over the information added to the message as a single record and can be used to create meta-data about the generated message. This month’s release also fixes a number of issues with the API in the form of bugs and exceptions, such as adding Calendar items to IPF.Note folder of PST, issue with saving contents of an Outlook Contact, problems with loading Aspose.Email’s generated messages in third party application, exceptions related to Recurrence patterns and Problem with ListMessages method of the API’s EWS Client. The main bug fixes & improved features added in this release are listed below

• MailMessage from HTML creation
• IMAP IDLE command supporting
• Callback or Trigger like option for each record being merged during mail merge operation
• Add ability to add HttpHeaders in ews requests
• 'IPM.Microsoft.FolderDesign.NamedView', 'IPM.Configuration.Calendar' and 'IPM.Microsoft.WunderBar.Link' items not extracted from PST/OST
• Updating the service reference removes the KnownTypeAttributes if Aspose.Email reference is added in the project
• Problem with adding IPM.Schedule.Meeting.Request MSG to IPF.Note folder
• Unable to set information of MapiContact
• Wrong body extracted from EML after conversion from MailMessage to MapiMessage
• MSG created using MapiMessage can't be loaded in 3rd party Content Server
• Extra white spaces added while creating message body from template doc file
• Missing emails from generated PST
• EML to XPS: Problem with Arrows

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

Overview:Aspose.Email for .NET
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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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Assign Macros to Shapes & Restrict Generation of Frame Scripts for Spreadsheet to HTML Conv.

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Java 8.6.0. This month’s release contains many useful features and improvements along with some critical bug fixes. Aspose.Cells for Java API has exposed the WorkbookMetadata class that is light weight as compared to Workbook class and allows to load the spreadsheet in order to manipulate the document properties in a simpler & more efficient way. In addition to the aforesaid class, the Aspose.Cells for Java 8.6.0 has also exposed the MetadataOptions class and MetadataType enumeration that can be used to specify the type of properties to be updated. Aspose.Cells for Java now provides the Shape.MarcoName property to assign the macros to any control in the spreadsheet. This property is useful in scenarios where application requirement is to add modules and assign them to the controls for user interaction.  Aspose.Cells for Java 8.6.0 has exposed the HtmlSaveOptions.ExportFrameScriptsAndProperties property that can be used to control the generation of scripts such as Frames & Document Properties while exporting the spreadsheets in HTML format. The aforesaid boolean type property has the default value of true, that means; the resultant HTML will contain the scripts related to the frames as per standards of Excel application. Moreover, the resultant HTML code will contain the conditional comments that detects the browser type and adjusts the layout accordingly. Setting this property to false will direct the Aspose.Cells APIs not to generate the frame scripts and conditional comments. In this case the resultant HTML can be viewed in any browser but it cannot be imported back while using Aspose.Cells APIs. The most notable enhancements in this release includes, exposed OoxmlSaveOptions.UpdateZoom property that can be used to update the PageSetup.Zoom if PageSetup.FitToPagesWide and/or PageSetup.FitToPagesTall properties have been used to control the Worksheet scaling, Improved the HTML & PDF rendering engines for alignment, layout and shape rendering while handling ODS and other spreadsheet formats and improved the calculation engine to provide support for CORREL, RSQ , STEYX Excel functions.  This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Provide a property for HtmlSaveOptions that could control the generation of JavaScript and Conditional Comments
• Detecting Chart changes before Rendering
• Apply macro to a button
• Cannot move to next cell when pressing Enter key in input mode for a cell
• Cannot copy empty cell in GridWeb (JAVA)
• Text Alignment is lost when spreadsheet is converted to HTML
• Cell E4 is not set overflow:hidden in output HTML
• Height of the cell does not shrink in output HTML
• Painted rectangle loses its background color in the output HTML
• Correl() function is not able to calculate correct result
• Function RSQ is not calculated correctly
• Function STEYX() not supported by formula calculation engine in Apose.Cells
• Wrong layout when rendering PDF from an ODS file
• ODS to HTML Conversion - Font size and color issue
• Workbook.copy loses ListBox controls' formatting and properties
• No image is getting populated in the pdf
• Chart data point size is wrong in output HTML
• CellsException - If there is only a series on the primary axis, you could not plot the series to the second axis
• Deleting a column corrupts the resultant spreadsheet beyond repair
• PageSetup.Zoom has changed after opening and saving the workbook
• Background color for the sheet changed when reloading the GridWeb
• Aspose.Cells.GridWeb (JAVA) - cannot scroll to the last line in Google chrome

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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Change Milestone of Project Timeline in Visio Diagram & Improved VDX to PNG Conversion

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 5.6.0.  We’re incorporating small and gradual changes to have a positive usability impact. To lead the goal, we’ve added a new feature in this release. It allows developers to change the milestone of the project on its timeline shape programmatically. We’ve also added optimization, bug fixes and many other enhancements to existing APIs. It is a common phenomenon in the system development life cycle to list out project milestones and then create a visual mapping of them in a timeline diagram. Aspose.Diagram APIs allow to configure Visio Timeline shapes. From this release version, users will also be able to update a particular Milestone shape’s date. MilestoneHelper class allows to do so. Please refer to the documentation help topic, Refresh Milestones on the Timeline using MilestoneHelper class. Some important bug fixes included in this release includes, VDX to PNG conversion, incorrect fonts in the output PNG file, Can’t determine connected shapes in the VSD diagram, VSDX to SVG conversion, the shape’s text lines are interchanged & many more.This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Change Milestone of the Project Timeline
• VDX to PNG conversion, incorrect fonts in the output PNG file
• Can't determine connected shapes in the VSD diagram
• VSDX to SVG conversion, the shape's text lines are interchanged
• VSDX to SVG conversion, "&" character in the text appear as "&"
• Warning message when opening resultant VDX diagram
• Invalid attribute error message occurred when saving stencil file in VDX format

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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Optimized Performance While Creating & Manipulating Existing PDF File in.NET Apps

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.8.0. The more you do with our API, the more you wonder how you have done without it. Likewise in every release, the intent has always been to build and present a release which is more powerful and robust as compared to its earlier release versions. In this release, we have made enhancements and improvements at architecture level and as a result, you get an optimized performance when creating as well as manipulating existing PDF files. We have made changes at architecture level and as a result, a more stable release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET has become available. Our customers have created stunning applications with vibrant set of features and all these features can be accomplished with few set lines. Not like other third party API’s where you have to write huge code snippet to even accomplish smaller features, this API has been Astounding because you can accomplish vast variety of features with couple of code lines. Please get change to download and try using latest release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.8.0 and start creating applications which can surprise your customers with vast variety of features. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• PDF to PDFA1B: compliance failure
• Incorectly converting international characters from text file
• Footnote does not reflect as expected when document expand to second page
• Inline image rendering issues
• FootNote does not render correctly when using LineSpacing
• Linespacing issue with multiple TextFragments containing hyperlinks
• TextReplace moves page contents
• PDF to APS : text is converted incorrectly(weird chars appear in result APS).
• FloatingBox ignores the margin setting of TextFragment with IsInlineParagrapsh property set to true
• PDF to HTML results incorrect output
• PDF to HTML - Text is overlapped in Header section
• Text wrapping in FreeTextAnnotation
• Image to PDF - Evaluation watermark appears when setting IsBlackWhite as True
• Auto font size of form field is not being honored after Aspose.PDF API fill
• To replace attachments in PDF file
• TOC split while using the heading property IsInNewPage
• Linespacing issue of first line with IsInlineParagraph property
• HTML to PDF: HTML file with SVG image throws exception
• HTML to PDF: HTML containing svg
• PDF to DOCX - Images are flipped in resultant files
• PDF to PDFA preflight verification failed
• Repeating Header row of table has left Alignment, instead of Center
• Table issue in FloatingBox
• EPUB to PDF: PDF page is trimmed
• Doc to PDF and then PDF to Image does not show Chinese Text
• Form Fill: Fields associated with drop down are not appearing
• XML to PDF: Tab stop issue
• PDF to HTML: square characters are rendered in resultant HTML
• PDF to HTML conversion takes too much time
• Exception when trying to convert XFA to Standard format
• PDF to HTML: results encoding issue
• XPS to PDF throws exception while using Aspose.Pdf for .NET net4.0 dll
• PCL to PDF conversion: Text postion
• HTML to PDF: Checkboxes are not visible

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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.NET Quote Generator for Dynamics CRM: Create Quotation Template in CRM & Attach to Quote

Aspose .NET Quote Generator is open source add-on used to generate and export quotation from CRM. You can design quotation template in CRM and and generate quote as you want. Template provides rich text editing option and you can also insert CRM fields in it. This add-on can also resolve option set and look-up fields. In addition it can provide functionality to edit the original quote before attaching with quote under notes. Aspose .NET Quote Generator can be used with CRM on-premises and CRM Online. The release of this add-0n supports the following features.

• Create Quote Template inside CRM. (without using the out of box Templates functionality)
• Allow options to insert rich text HTML into the quotation template.
• Allow option to insert CRM Fields.
• Can resolve Option set values and Lookup names.
• Generate Quote from HTML to word using the templates.
• A ribbon button is provided to choose the template and generate quote.
• View the generated Quotation and Edit its HTML before generating it.
• Automatically attach Generated word document with the Quote.

Start a free trial today – all you need is to sign up with Aspose. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try powerful file processing features offered by Aspose file format APIs. Your feedback is very important to us. Please feel free to provide feedback and raise feature requirements. We are keen to implement customer driven features since we are a 100% customer driven company.

More About Aspose

Aspose offers a powerful set of file management components with which developers can create applications which can open, edit, create and save some of the most popular business file formats. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, and Microsoft Project files. Tools allow developers to perform OCR, work with images, create and read barcodes and perform many other document conversion and management tasks. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint, as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters.

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Export Slides to Graphics Object & Enhanced Presentation to HTML, PDF & Images using .NET

What's New in this Release?

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.7.0. We have included the support for exporting presentation slides to Tiff by setting custom Pixel format. Please visit the documentation article Converting Presentation to TIFF with Custom Image Pixel Format for further reference. We have also included the support for exporting slides to Graphics. For more details, please visit the documentation article Converting Slides to Graphics Object for further reference. The support for exporting to HTML and images have been improved for images, text and slides notes have been improved in this release and many incurring issues have been rectified in this regard. We have also resolved issues pertaining to loss of table and charts data upon cloning slides within presentations as well. The presentation rendering support has been enhanced for exporting to HTML, PDF and images in this release as well for object like tables, AutoShapes, charts, text and SmartArt shapes. Many chart rendering issues including missing or improper chart axis, InvertIfNegative property colors, plot area and legends have been rectified. The issues of missing charts including issue of improper chart leader lines have also been rectified in this release. We have also addressed the rendering issues related to AutoShapes and tables as well in this release. We have improved the support for presentations access and their saving that resulted in generation of corrupted presentations and raising presentation repair message when opened in PowerPoint. The presentation access and saving issues have been rectified for many presentation decks that earlier resulted in exceptions including ArgumentOutOfRangeException, ArgumentException , IndexOutOfRangeException, PptException, Unexpected Font Parsing and PptUnsupportedFormatException in previous releases during saving and exporting to Pdf.  This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Exporting slides to Graphics Object
• Support for reading password protected file in read only mode
• Feature to specify the vary color by point option when setting the fill format of datapoints
• DPI Setting for TIFF image
• Import from HTML Slide Text appearing White
• Incorrect PDF is generated
• FirstSliceAngle set is not working for Pie3D charts
• Chart last category missing if data points are blank
• InvertIfNegative values are rendered without color in saved presentation
• ReplaceFont method not working
• Missed text in Html generated from odp
• Saving presentation changes the font used for bullet points
• Source directory must exist exception on new Presentation()
• Chart data point color set to black on cloning slide
• Changing chart type corrupts the presentaiton
• IndexOutOfRangeException on presentation load
• Table and chart loses frame data when slide layout changed to newly cloned layout
• Improperly text rendering on thumbnail generated from Odp
• Presentation repair message on saving presenatation
• Incorrect notes rendering pptx to html
• Generated pdf is appearing blur
• Chart failed to get opened in edit mode for saved presentation
• Chart legends are improperly rendered in exported PDF and thumbnail
• Fill color lost in ODP converted from Pptx
• PptxReadException on ODP loading
• Improper text rendering in pdf and html generated from ODP
• Text missing in Pdf and Html generated from ODP
• Odp to Pptx conversion: result presentation corrupted
• Can not load pptx file
• Text is discloacated in generated thumbnail
• Horzontal Error Bars are significantly thinner via Aspose PDF export.
• PptReadException on presentation loading
• Y-Axis values in PDF file are not proper as in PPTX file
• Empty space left after removing the category from the chart in PPTX
• Fonts information is extracted only from first slide of PPTX file
• Couldn't read "PowerPoint Document" record on PPT opening
• Portions LatinFont is null in loaded Ppt
• Unexpected font parsing exception on PPTX presentation opening
• Chart improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException on importing HTML to PPTX
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException reading resaved PPTX with a chart
• Support for PptxUnsupportedFormatException message when loading DOCM, DOCX, DOTM, DOTX, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, SLTM, XLTX
• Support for InvalidPasswordException message when loading a password protected PPT without password
• Improper PPT thumbnails rendering
• Table Font Changes on saving the presentation file
• Presentation gets corrupted on updating the chart data
• Chart legend key appearing on setting custom labels inside chart
• Removing series label corrupts the presentation
• Presentation gets corrupted on adding new chart series for Bubble chart
• ArgumentException on thumbnails rendering
• Aspose generated chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint

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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Aspose.Newsletter October 2015: Discover the Power of Aspose.Diagram, Aspose.3D & More News

Aspose Newsletter for October 2015 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 also includes information about support for 3D file formats in the upcoming release of Aspose new product family, added features in Aspose.Diagram vs VSTO Visio new release, new plugin known as Aspose.Slides Java for IntelliJ, Aspose.Email for Java, features missing in apache POI-HSMF for dealing Microsoft Outlook and Emails, Aspose.Express a Windows App for converting word documents to EPUB for free, A different way for Mail Merge in Aspose.Words and several other features.

Discover the power of Aspose.Diagram in your applications

Aspose.Diagram for .NET and Java are native APIs that give you full control working with Microsoft Visio files. It allows developers to work with all common Visio formats, it allows you to open files and manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to VDX, VSX, VTX, XPS, HTML, SVG, SWF, XAML, image or PDF formats. Download a Free Trial
Support for 3D File Formats in the Upcoming Release of our new Product Family: Aspose.3D
We are nearing the release of the latest addition to our suite of file manipulation APIs. Aspose.3D is a component that allows software developers to add support for 3D file formats to their ASP .NET web applications, web services and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for programmatically loading, manipulating and saving common 3D file formats. Stay tuned for more news.
Announcing Aspose.Diagram vs VSTO Visio – Now with added features
Learn how easy and flexible Aspose.Diagram for .NET is to use by comparing the code in each solution required to complete common use cases. This handy tool can also help you to migrate from VSTO to Aspose.Diagram. Download for free now.
Introducing a New Plugin: Aspose.Slides Java for IntelliJ
We have just released a new Maven based plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA development environment. The plugin aims to facilitate the use of the Aspose.Slides for Java API in Maven based java projects developed using IntelliJ IDEA. Use this plugin to get started with Aspose event faster. Click to learn more.
Aspose.Email for Java, features missing in Apache POI-HSMF for dealing Microsoft Outlook and Emails
Aspose just published the new release for Aspose.Email Java for Apache POI-HSMF. The new release highlights a number of features missing in Apache POI-HSMF for managing and manipulating Microsoft Outlook and emails that can be accomplished using Aspose.Email for Java. Check out the article and code examples to learn more:
Aspose.Express is a Windows App to Convert Word documents to EPUB for free
EPUB is an XML-based distribution format for eBooks that is rapidly gaining adoption by publishers and distributors. Aspose offer a free graphical tool Aspose.Words Express to convert your documents into EPUB format. Download now and enjoy documents on the go
Check out a Different way to Mail Merge in Aspose.Words
The Mustache mail merge syntax allows you to create templates for mail merge that use plain text markers instead of merge fields commonly used in Microsoft Word documents. These markers look like this:  {{ FieldName }}
Users can enable mail merging into plain text fields by enabling a simple property and can freely mix them in your template with other merge fields. This adds native mail merge support to formats that don’t support Microsoft Word fields. Check out the documentation to learn more
Updates about new Product Releases

1. Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of our latest .NET products.
2. Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.6.0 - Various new features and bug fixes.
3. Aspose.Words for .NET 15.8.0 - Improvements in this release include a new API to work with built-in themes.
4. Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.8.0 - Improves footnote and support of inline images.
5. Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.7.0 – Supports exporting slides to a Graphic object.
6. Aspose.Email for .NET 5.7.0 - MailMessage can now be created from the HTML content with support for inline images and suppoort for IMAP IDLE command.
7.  Aspose.Tasks for .NET 8.7.0 - Implement Project data reading from MS Project DB and added support for MS Project v2016 file format.
8. Aspose.OCR for .NET 2.9.0 - Added support of multipage recognition and the ability to load the OMR Template (amr) from URL in the same way scanned image can be loaded from a remote location.
9. Aspose.Imaging for .NET 3.1.0 – Added support PSD layers loading and basic 3D entities during DXF->PDF export.
10. Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of our latest Java products.
11. Aspose.Words for Java 15.8.0 - Improvements in this release include a new API to work with built-in themes.
12. Aspose.Cells for Java 8.6.0 - Various new features and bug fixes.
13.  Aspose.Pdf for Java 10.6.2  – Moves all the internal resources and classes into com.aspose.pdf.internal package.
14. Aspose.Email for Java 5.7.0 – MailMessage can now be created from the HTML content with support for inline images and suppoort for IMAP IDLE command.
15. Aspose.BarCode for Java 7.1.0 – Various small improvements and fixes.
16. Aspose.Tasks for Java 8.7.0 – Implement Project data reading from MS Project DB and added support for MS Project v2016 file format.
17. Aspose.Total for Cloud – RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
18. Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of our Android APIs.
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.Barcode for Reporting Services 7.3.0 – Fixing the that the minimum height specification for ITF14 barcode is not followed.
22. Aspose.Total for JasperReports– The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences
Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

• 3rd October: twMVC Taiwan
• 5th October: COMU+ Tech Aid, Japan

Would you like us to sponsor your user group? Get in contact at user.groups@aspose.com
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Read Project Data from MS Project DB & MSP 2016 File Format Support inside Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 8.7.0. It includes the same new features, enhancements and bug fixes as were part of its equivalent .NET version. This month’s release provides the capability to retrieve Project data from Microsoft Project Database. The MspDbSettings and SqlConnectionStringBuilder classes can be used to accomplish this purpose. Microsoft Project 2016 preview version has already been released. We are pleased to share that Apose.Tasks API supports this new version MPP format as it is based on the 2013 file format. Aspose.Tasks API now supports performing risk analysis on a Project data file. Based on the Monte Carlo simulation, that supports different probability distributions and correlations, the functionality has been provided via the RiskAnalyzer class. The whole process consists of the steps like, Preparing Analysis Settings, Identifying the Input of Analysis, Analyzing the Risks and Using the Results of the Analysis. We have also fixed a number of bugs, resulting in further improvement in API functionality. These include exceptions while saving project with Gantt Chart View, rendering project data to PDF and loading certain MPX files. Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

• Implement Project data reading from MS Project DB
• Add support for MS Project v2016 file format
• Implement risk analysis tool
• Null reference exception raised while saving the project while using GanttChartView
• NullReferenceException when Saving Project To PDF
• Loading MPX file raises exception

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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