Images & Attachments Support While Manipulating Microsoft OneNote Online File Format using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is very excited to announce the new release of Aspose.Note for Java 16.12.0. Ported form its equivalent .NET version, this month’s release provides support for images and attachments data in Microsoft OneNote Online file format. It also fixes several bugs as part of porting from its equivalent .NET version. Fixing these bugs brings further improvements to the API functionality. Aspose team is pleased to share that Aspose.Note for Java now provides support for images and attachments while manipulating Microsoft OneNote online file format. Such flies can be created using Microsoft SharePoint online. We provided support for this file format in one of our earlier releases with the limitations that images and attachments could not be read from such documents. As a result, a file of this type read and saved back using the API also lost any such data. With this new release, we were successful in interpreting these two types of data and now users can manipulate such document without any loss. There are no public API changes for incorporation of this functionality in applications and the feature can be used readily with this new version of the API. This month’s release also fixes certain issues that were reported with the last version of the API. This further improves the API functionality in terms of reliability and performance. Bellows is the list of new and enhanced features included in this new release.

• Add support for images and attachments in OneNote Online files.
• Number of pages in Aspose.Note Document does not match original amount in *.one file.
• Saving OneNote document loses images.

Overview: Aspose.Note for Java

Aspose.Note is a feature-rich Java class library that enables java applications to programmatically interact with OneNote documents without requiring MS Office OneNote having installed on the server. This Java API empowers developers to Create, Read, Export and Manipulate the contents of the Microsoft OneNote file format by working with attachments, text, hyperlinks, tables, tags and text styles. Easily extract images from OneNote documents and convert them to PDF, BMP, JPG, GIF and TIFF image formats.

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Add Text inside Graph Object & Reference Single Image Multiple Times in PDF Files using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.1.0. This month release introduces some new features. Some of these are to add reference of an image for multiple times, break text for a table broken across the pages and to set different TabLeaderType for different TOC levels along with an enhancement to add text inside the Graph Object. This release also contains the fixes of bugs reported in previous versions by Aspose valued customers that improve the API functionality. Some of Aspose customers have requirement to use same image reference for multiple times in a PDF, it helps to reduce the PDF document file size. Aspose team has introduced XImageCollection.Add(Ximage) method in this release. It helps to refer existing image instance in the PDF document instead new Image. Previously, it has to use a single TabLeaderType for all the TOC entries. With the release of current version, now users can set different TabLeaderType for different TOC Levels. For this functionality, This release can set LineDash property of TOC Level with required value of TabLeaderType enum.In legacy generator (Aspose.Pdf.Generator), it has supported table break text to set some text string at the end of the page for the Table broken in two pages. This release, has implemented same feature in new generator (Aspsoe.Pdf). A customer requested an enhancement to add text inside a Graph object, for his business need. This release has added a text property in Graph object to add text inside the shape.  The list of important new and improved features are given below

• Referencing XObjects for multiple times
• Add a row containing some text at the end of page if table is broken in two pages
• Set different TabLeaderType for different TOC Level
• Multiple reference to same image
• Add text inside Rectangle object
• Alignment of radio button text and checkbox text is not proper
• doc.Pages[1].Resources.Images.Names and doc.Pages[1].Resources.Images[0].Name returns different names for same image.
• Jumbling words when converting Pdf to Html with UseZOrder = true
• Pdf file is not compilant with PDF/A-1a format (transparency and missing objects)
• Pdf file is not compilant with PDF/A-1a format (transparency)
• PDF to HTML - Links are converted into plain text
• PDF to HTML- Text Selection flickers
• PPDF to HTML - Missing characters and invalid format of resultant file
• PPDF to HTML - Missing characters and invalid format of resultant file
• Load single image instance for multiple times
• Stamp text alignment issue
• When PDF is converted to DOCX, the text formatting changes.
• XFA form conversion failure
• PDF to PDF/A - Formatting issues in resultant file
• PDPDF to PDFA: transparent background is being rendered as black
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is not correct
• PDF to PPTX - Text on first page is absent
• HTML/PDF to PPTX conversion issue
• HTML to PPTX: Missing white Text form HTML to PPTX
• Text position of TextFragment
• PDF to PDFA: compliance fails (soft mask in image)
• PDF to JPEG - Some characters rendered wrongly

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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Insert Online Video in Word Document & Public API to Get Position of Frame 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 17.1.0. This month’s release contains over 80 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here is a look at just a few of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release, added public API to insert online video, new public API class FrameFormat available in Paragraph.FrameFormat, support for DOCX roundtrip of multiple MS Word 2013 native document options added, supported DOCX roundtrip of Effect Container element, DOCX Roundtrip of Extension lists supported for Charts and other graphics, Shape texture brush with EMF image rendering implemented, Shape positioning inside tables precision improved, Improved space shrink logic for Asian text, Improved Unicode normalization performance during layout, Improved handling of invalid hyphenation dictionaries, Improved handling of collapsed table rows, Improved extracting document outline when TOC headings contain hidden entries, Fixed positioning issue with Arabic list labels and Fixed height issue with LTR list labels in RTL paragraphs. Starting from this version, Aspose.Words provides the functionality to use metered licensing mechanism. Aspose.Words allows developers to to apply metered key. It is a new licensing mechanism. The new licensing mechanism will be used along with existing licensing method. Those customers who want to be billed based on the usage of the API features can use the metered licensing. Following code example shows how to set metered public and private keys.When dealing with very large and complex documents Aspose.Words sometimes had problems during saving resulting in out of memory exceptions, disk swapping and generally failures. It has introduced an option (SaveOptions.MemoryOptimization) to optimize memory consumption during these scenarios. When its value is set to true it will improve document memory footprint but will add extra time to processing. This optimization is only applied during save operation. It has introduced new property in this release. This property provides access to the paragraph formatting properties via FrameFormat class. This class exposes all frame properties of paragraph in “readonly” mode. It also supports inserting online video into the document. Four overloads of InsertOnlineVideo method have introduced in DocumentBuilder class. The first one works with the most popular video resources and takes the URL to the video as parameter. It has introduced new public property that affects only page breaks that are inserted explicitly into a document. It is not related to page breaks that MS Word automatically inserts at the end of each page. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Added public API to insert online video via DocumentBuilder.InsertOnlineVideo
• Support for DOCX roundtrip of multiple MS Word 2013 native document options added
• Supported DOCX roundtrip of Effect Container element
• DOCX Roundtrip of Extension lists suppororted for Charts and other graphics
• Shape texture brush with EMF image rendering implemented
• Shape positioning inside tables precision improved
• Implemented support for 'FitText' attribute
• Improved space shrink logic for Asian text
• Improved Unicode normalization performance during layout
• Improved handling of invalid hyphenation dictionaries
• Improved handling of collapsed table rows
• Improved extracting document outline when TOC headings contain hidden entries
• Fixed positioning issue with Arabic list labels
• Fixed height issue with LTR list labels in RTL paragraphs
• Add feature to insert online video     
• Provide API to get position of Frame           
• Add feature to support Frames in Aspose.Words
• Support USERADDRESS, USERINITIALS and USERNAME fields
• Loosing page number information while converting RTF to DOCX
• Generate report from syntax like <<[Person.Related.Car.Model]>>
• Add feature to remove embedded fonts from Word documents
• Document.Compare does not work correctly with tables
• Images are lost after re-saving mhtml
• The font of Chinese text is incorrect when Txt is imported into DOM
• MhtmlReader does not support text parts without type.
• High-level access to the fields in existing document
• Aspose.Words 16.10 creates only one page in text(txt) document
• Issue with SVG using Linq Reporting engine
• Aspose.Words hangs during loading the RTF
• Document.RemoveAllChildren doesn't reduce the file size
• TOC is built incorrectly
• /hidden cell break/ Docx to Pdf conversion issue with table border
• /LTR font metrics for RTL paragraph list/ A paragraph incorrectly renders at the end of previous page in PDF
• /LTR font metrics for RTL paragraph list/ Extra page after DOCX to image
• Document.AcceptAllRevisions incorrectly removes some text from document
• /fitText + spacing/ Text in table cells is wrapped incorrectly after DOCX to PDF
• Html to Docx/Pdf conversion issue with table's border
• Shape in table is rendered improperly.
• Cell's width is lost after conversion from Docx to Html
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with hidden shape
• LTR font metrics for RTL paragraph list/ Hebrew text is rendered on previous pages in output Pdf
• /hidden field result/ Images are duplicated after conversion from html to Jpeg
• Incorrect font name in XE field
• Uppercase characters are converted to lowercase in output Pdf
• Shape is rotated after conversion from Doc to Pdf
• Image borders added in the PDF rendition
• /LTR font metrics for RTL paragraph list/ Same program with same aspose jar produces different outputs in different machines
• LineStartArrow and LineEndArrow attributes are confused after DML->VML conversion.
• List labels are changed after conversion from Doc to Odt
• Chart losts its content during open/save a docx
• Footnote numbers are wrapped incorrectly after conversion from Docx to Pdf
• Radio buttons are not showing as 'selected' or 'checked' when converting to fixed html
• Document based on a template loses normal style after saving with Aspose.Words
• /LTR font metrics for RTL paragraph list/ Text is rendered on previous page in output Pdf
• Custom font formatting applied via Template gets lost in PDF
• Word to HTML: Issue with table border color output
• Document.UpdateFields does not update REF fields
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Arabic list labels
• Paragraph alignment in cells in a TFG data table is incorrect
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with image rendering
• TOC not updating correctly
• List Labels are incorrect after conversion from Docx to Pdf
• Shape is rendered on previous page in output Htmlfixed
• Dml shape in TestJira14534 is rendered improperly.
• Diagram embedded in a word document gets modified when transformed to PDF
• MailMerge.UseWholeParagraphAsRegion does not generate the correct result when its value is false
• Text is disappeared in output Pdf
• Doc to Pdf conversion issue with GroupShape rendering
• Incorrect text alignment in Cells in PDF
• Rendering of Lines at the end and last page are missing 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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Convert EMF Metafile to WMF Format, Reading PSD Layers & Processing Dicom Images using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release Aspose.Imaging for Java 16.12.0.  The major development in this release is support for exporting images in multi-threaded environment. It supports converting EMF metafile to WMF format and support for DNG format.  Aspose.Imaging for .NET ensures the optimized performance of operations during execution of code in multi-threaded environment. All imaging option classes (e.g. BmpOptions, TiffOptions, JpegOptions, etc.) now implement IDisposable interface. Therefore it is a must that developers properly dispose off the imaging options class object in case Source property is set. It also supports SyncRoot property while working in multi-threaded environment. Developer can use this property to synchronize access to the source stream. Using this release developers can convert EMF to WMF format. It also adds support the DNG (Digital Negative) image format (.dng). It is a publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. DNG helps ensure that photographers will be able to access their files in the future. Aspose.Imaging for .Net provides the DngImage class to load DNG files and same can be used to convert the DNG to raster formats. It includes some important enhancements, such as Process of reading PSD layers, Processing of JPEG format images, Processing of Dicom format images, Functionality to convert WMF to PNG format, Process of rendering images in PSD file, processing of saving TIFF frames, Compatibility of image saved using Aspose.Imaging on MS Windows 8 has been improved and Process of reading JPEG pixels has been greatly improved. The main new and improved features added in this release are listed below

• Convert EMF to WMF
• ThreadSafe API support stage 1
• DNG format support
• Thread safe API for TIFF images
• Could not read layers in PSD file.
• JPEG format performance improvents
• Remove Imaging Drawing engine
• Iamprovements of performance and memory usage for Dicom
• Converting WMF to PNG format is not showing correct output [.Net]
• Exception when opening image in separate thread
• Aspose.Imaging 4.0.0: Image.Load method is not thread-safe nt
• Improve performance of jpeg file format
• Aspose.Imaging is not showing correct resolution of PSD image
• License as Embedded resource is not working
• Incorrect saving result while using Image.Save(string path, ImageOptionsBase options, Rectangle boundsRectangle).
• Unify Metered API usage. Enable COMPACT configuration for Dynabic.Metering module.
• Can't do subsequent resizing of rotated WEBP image
• Converting WMF to PNG format destroying vertical text on Y-axis
• Exception in PNG encoder
• Jpeg pixels read by Aspose.Imaging differs from pixels read by System.Drawing
• Saved jpeg is displayed incorrectly on Windows 8
• Random ImageSaveException: Cannot decode strip 0. Details:, at TiffFrame.Save

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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Draw DGN as Part of AutoCAD DWG & Access Underlay Flags for DWG Format inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.CAD for .NET 16.12.0. The major development in this release is implementation of the feature drawing DGN format as a part of DWG format. Underlay flags for DWG format are implementation in this release. Reading insert coordinate and rotation angle for DGN underlay feature also been incorporated in this release. It allows users to export a DWG file with embedded DGN underlay inside. Code sample demonstrating how to access the DGN underlay inside a DWG file while exporting the DWG file is provided on blog announcement page. It has implemented the underlay flags for DWG format and allows developers to access them. It also includes important enhancements, such as converting DWG to PDF format has been improved and converting DWG to PNG format in multithreading has been improved. The main new features added in this release are listed below

• Update Dynabic.Metered functionality
• Implement Underlay Flags for DWG format
• Implement drawing of DGN format as a part of DWG
• Converting DWG to PDF is showing incorrect results
• Implement reading insert coordinate and rotation angle for DGN underlay.
• Converting DWG to PNG in multithread is throwing exception

Overview:Aspose.CAD for .NET

Aspose.CAD for .NET enables developers to convert AutoCAD DWG and DXF files to PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and GIF image formats. It is a native API and does not require AutoCAD or any other software to be installed. Developers can also convert the selected layers and layouts from the AutoCAD files. The conversion to PDF and Raster images is of very high quality. Developers can also remove entities from DWG and DXF documents. It also adds support for leader’s entity for DWG format.

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Create New Word Document in Storage & Specify Additional Graphics Quality Options in Cloud Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Words for Cloud 16.12.0. This release contains a new feature, an enhancement to Aspose.Words for Cloud and a couple of bug fixes. Aspose.Words core library has also been updated to version 16.12.0. This release adds support of creating new documents and allows specifying additional Graphics quality options. This release also enhanced gets or sets a value that specifies how composited images are drawn to this Graphics, Gets or sets the rendering quality of composited images drawn to this Graphics, Gets or sets the interpolation mode associated with this Graphics, Gets or sets the rendering quality for this Graphics, Gets or sets text layout information (such as alignment, orientation and tab stops) display manipulations (such as ellipsis insertion and national digit substitution) and OpenType features and Gets or sets the rendering mode for text associated with this Graphics. The list of new and enhanced features added in this release are given below

• Support of creating new documents
• It allows to specify additional Graphics quality options.
• Error on split html: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
• System.IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown while saving Docx to pdf

Start a free trial today – all users need is to sign up with the Aspose for Cloud service. Once signed up, users 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. Users can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.

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Export Selective Visio Shapes in Output Formats & Enhanced VSDX to PDF Conversions using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 17.1.0. The new version of the API allows developers to export the Visio drawing with selective shapes into any other supported format. Aspose team is constantly improving Aspose.Diagram API for better performance and quality. Recently, it has improved the export quality of Visio drawings. The recent version also covers a number of regular bug fixes and enhancements. Using Aspose.Diagram API, developers can already convert Visio drawings to other supported formats. All these formats are listed in the documentation section known as Save Visio Diagram. Using the latest version  or higher, developers can now select specific shapes, and then save the Visio drawing into any other supported format. The output drawing keeps only the selected shapes, since this feature adds more control over the way of exporting Visio drawings. This version also incorporates the fixes of injecting additional shapes in the Visio drawing, partial rendering of shapes, duplicate hyperlinks, and the general formatting problems of the diagram. These enhancements and bug fixes improve performance and accuracy of Aspose.Diagram API. Here is the list of important enhancements and bugs fixes in the new version.

• Save only the area of visible shapes not the whole page.
• Export only selective Visio shapes to the SVG format.
• VSD to PDF conversion, incorrect date format in the title shape.
• The background color of the tables is black on saving VSDX to PDF.
• The transparent background of images turns into white color on converting VSD to PNG.
• The color of shapes is not being preserved on converting a VSDX to PDF.
• The formatting of rectangle shape is missing on converting a VSDX to PNG.
• The shadow of shapes is not being rendered properly on converting a VSD to SVG.
• The color of callouts and text is not being preserved on converting a VSDX to PNG.
• A Microsoft Sharepoint Workflow shape is missing on converting a VSDX to PNG.
• Missing text items on converting a VSDX to PNG.
• Can't retrieve the fill color of rectangle shape from a VSDX diagram.
• Incomplete rendering of the dynamic connectors on converting a VSD to HTML.
• The rounded rectangle shapes are changed on converting a VSDX to PNG.
• The text items are displaced on converting a VSD to PDF.
• The functions of the cross-functional flowchart are missing on loading and saving a VSDX.
• Set custom property does not work.
• Duplicate hyperlinks are being added while converting a VSD to PDF.

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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Metered License Support for OMR Operations & Enhanced Processing of Distorted Images using Java

What’s new in this release?
Aspose development team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.OCR for Java 16.12.0. The major development in this release is support for metered license mechanism for OMR operations. The new licensing mechanism will be used along with existing licensing method. Those customers who want to be billed based on the usage of the API features can use the metered licensing. Furthermore overall performance of the API has also been improved in this release. Aspose.OCR for Java provides the functionality to use metered licensing mechanism for OMR operations. It has introduced Metered class in API to accomplish this job. There are some enhancements part of this release, such as processing of distorted images has been improved and mechanism of applying filters on the supplied image has been improved. This release includes plenty of new & enhanced features as listed below

• Support Dynabic.Metered license for OMR
• Images distorted in preprocessing
• Fix filtering usage
• Rename ExtractData method  

Overview: Aspose.OCR for Java

Aspose.OCR for Java is a character recognition component that allows developers to add OCR functionality in their Java web applications, web services and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for controlling character recognition tasks. It helps developers to work with image files from within their Java applications. It allows developers to extract text from images, Read font, style information quickly, saving time & effort involved in developing an OCR solution from scratch.

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PDF/A_2U Format Support & Rendering Specific PDF Page Region to Image in Java Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Java 16.12.0. As Java version of Aspose.Pdf is ported version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET, so it includes all the enhancements and improvements from the corresponding .NET version(16.12.0) along with the fixes of the bugs reported in previous versions of Aspose.Pdf for Java reported by Aspose valued customers that makes it more stable and reliable release as compared to previous releases. It has improved PDF to DOCX, PDF to PPTX feature, PDF to PDFA standard conversion along with many other bug fixes. It has introduced new PDFA standard, PDF/A_2U. and has included a new value PDF_A_2U in PdfFormt enum. Please check code snippet for this new feature on blog announcement page. This release has improved the PDF optimization feature with introduction of some new properties in OptimizationOption class. Mainly resizing of the embedded images reduces the PDF file size, ResizeImages and MaxResolution properties for the purpose along with RemovePrivateInfo. It has a requirement to render a specific PDF page region to image. We have introduced following new methods in ImageDevice and TiffDevice classes. Some important improved features included in this release are given below

• Support PDF/A_2U format
• Rendering a particular section of PDF document to Image
• PDF to PDF/A - resultant file size gets 17 times of the original PDF size
• Text replace changes text Alignment to Left Aligned
• Missing methods in HtmlSaveOptions.HtmlPageMarkupSavingInfo
• PDF to JPEG: incorrect text characters rendering
• CallBack approach to load ResourceLoadingStrategy is showing errors
• PDF to DOCX - Right indent is not being honored
• PDF to DOCX: Paragraph indent values are not retained
• XPS to PDF - conversion process takes too much time
• PDF to PDF/A - Highlight box hides the image in PDF
• PDF to PPTX - Line spacing is lost
• Annotation Modified date set to 12:00 AM instead provided date
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is not compliant
• Chinese Locale throws ExceptionInInitializerError exception
• flatten() method throws NPE     

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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Load 3D File & Save Meshes in Custom Binary Format & Import an Existing PLY File in .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.3D for .NET 17.01. The new version adds support of importing PLY models. Developers can import PLY (ASCII and Binary) models into the Aspose.3D API, and then export them in any supported 3D format. The new version also integrates the feature of writing 3D file in the custom binary mode. All the regular bug fixes and enhancements have also been included. Using Aspose.3D for .NET API, developers can already load all supported 3D files. Developers can also retrieve meshes and the new public API changes allow to save the meshes in custom binary format. The binary file size remains same as the data we store like the minimum workable size. This feature would also help Aspose clients manipulate bigger 3D models more effectively. PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. It is one of simplest format to read and write a 3D mesh. Using Aspose.3D API, developers can now import any existing PLY (ASCII or Binary) model. Developers would also be able to load a PLY file, and then save in any supported 3D file format. Please check these help topics to know how to import an existing PLY file: Reading a 3D Scene and Specify Load Options of 3D PLY. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Add support of importing the PLY models
• Load 3D File and Save Meshes in Custom Binary Format
• Import an Existing PLY File into the Aspose.3D API
• Add support of importing the DXF.

Overview: Aspose.3D for .NET

Aspose.3D for .NET is a feature-rich component and class library for .NET that empowers Mono and .NET application including ASP.NET, Windows Forms and Web Services to connect with prevalent 3D document formats automatically without the 3D modeling and rendering software being installed on the server. It supports FBX (ASCII, Binary) and STL (ASCII, Binary) file formats and developers can easily create, read, convert, modify and control the substance of these 3D document formats using Aspose.3D API.

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Get Duration of Extracted Video from Presentation & Set Distance Between Tick Mark using Java

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java 16.12.0 has been released. This is a maintenance release whereby we have resolved several issues incurring in product. It has improved the charts support by including feature for setting the custom distance between tick mark positions of horizontal axis. It has also included the support for getting and setting the picture compression for exporting HTML and SVG in HTMLOptions and SVGOptions classes respectively. The support for setting and getting external fonts handlings has also been included in SVGOptions class as well. This release has rectified several issues for presentation decks that earlier resulted in different exceptions like ArgumentException and PptxReadException on saving or accessing the presentation. We have improved the presentation rendering support as well in this release and have rectified several rendering issues related to charts, text and shapes rendering in export SVG, PDF, thumbnails and HTML. It has made several enhancements to the new API. Please refer to Aspose.Slides for Java 16.12.0 Release Notes for further reference. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Set distance between tick mark on horizontal axis
• Getting duration of extracted video from presentation
• AnimationEffect.Disappear is unavailable in Aspose.Slides
• Exception on generating thumbnails
• Font size distorted when converting PPTX to JPG
• Exception on saving presentation
• Hang cpu when converting from pptx file to JPG
• Exception on saving presentation
• Presentation not saving
• Exception on loading presentation
• Missing table on Notes Master
• Different Footers placeholders recognized in ppt and pptx
• Exception on loading presentation
• Error: Converting Slides with charts to svg
• PptxReadException while loading presentation
• Incorrect thumbnail of slide with chart
• Wrong display units for value axis is displayed for Scatter chart in exported PDF
• The value axis values direction changes in exported PDF

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

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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Export Images in Multi-Threaded Environment & Converting EMF to WMF Format in .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Imaging for .NET 16.12.0. The major development in this release is support for exporting images in multi-threaded environment. This release supports converting EMF metafile to WMF format. Support for DNG format has also been incorporated in this release. It now supports exporting images in multi-threaded environment. Aspose.Imaging for .Net ensure the optimized performance of operations during execution of code in multi-threaded environment. All imaging option classes (e.g. BmpOptions, TiffOptions, JpegOptions, etc.) in the Aspose.Imaging for .Net now implement IDisposable interface. Therefore it is a must that developer properly dispose off the imaging options class object in case Source property is set.  Aspose.Imaging now supports SyncRoot property while working in multi-threaded environment. Developer can use this property to synchronize access to the source stream. Developers can convert EMF to WMF format using this release. Moreover, it also supports the DNG (Digital Negative) image format (.dng). It is a publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. DNG helps ensure that photographers will be able to access their files in the future. Aspose.Imaging for .Net provides the DngImage class to load DNG files and same can be used to convert the DNG to raster formats. It also enhanced  reading PSD layers, processing of JPEG format images, Processing of Dicom format images, functionality to convert WMF to PNG format, rendering images in PSD file, saving TIFF frames, Compatibility of image saved using Aspose.Imaging on MS Windows 8 and reading JPEG pixels has been greatly improved. The main new and improved features added in this release are listed below

• Convert EMF to WMF
• ThreadSafe API support stage 1
• DNG format support
• Thread safe API for TIFF images
• Could not read layers in PSD file.
• JPEG format performance improvents
• Remove Imaging Drawing engine
• Iamprovements of performance and memory usage for Dicom
• Converting WMF to PNG format is not showing correct output [.Net]
• Exception when opening image in separate thread
• Aspose.Imaging 4.0.0: Image.Load method is not thread-safe
• Improve performance of jpeg file format
• Aspose.Imaging is not showing correct resolution of PSD image
• License as Embedded resource is not working
• Incorrect saving result while using Image.Save(string path, ImageOptionsBase options, Rectangle boundsRectangle).
• Unify Metered API usage. Enable COMPACT configuration for Dynabic.Metering module.
• Can't do subsequent resizing of rotated WEBP image
• Converting WMF to PNG format destroying vertical text on Y-axis
• Exception in PNG encoder
• Jpeg pixels read by Aspose.Imaging differs from pixels read by System.Drawing
• Saved jpeg is displayed incorrectly on Windows 8
• Random ImageSaveException: Cannot decode strip 0. Details:, at TiffFrame.Save

Overview:Aspose.Imaging for .NET

Aspose.Imaging for .NET is an image processing & manipulation component that allows developers to create, edit, draw or convert images in their .NET application. It allows developers to convert image files to PSD, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats. Moreover a set of pens, brushes and fonts can be used to draw images or add new elements & text to existing images. Aspose.Imaging for .NET works well with both web & windows applications. Moreover, it adds the support for Silverlight platform.

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CodabloackF Barcode Support, Enhanced DataMatrix & Aztec Barcodes Processing using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 16.12.0. The major development in this release is the enhancements incorporated in Aspose.BarCode API to improve the overall performance of the API. Improved recognition speed of Aztec coded barcode, improved processing of DataMatrix and support of CodabloackF coded barcode recognition with AllSupportedTypes property are top of the list. Processing of rotated DataMatrix barcode has also been improved in this release. There are some important enhancement part of this release, such as barcode recognition from a BMP image, Datamatrix barcode generation of type DataMatrixEccType.Ecc200 , reading Code39standard coded barcode, CodablockF coded barcode, ITF14 coded barcode,  Metered licensing mechanism, Process of Aztec barcode recognition, Processing of CodabloackF barcode and Processing of rotated DataMatrix barcode has been greatly improved.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

• Reading problem of DataMatrix barcode
• Improve recognition speed for Aztec
• Improve recognition speed for Aztec by reducing the number of passes
• Include CodablockF and Coupons in Silverlight control
• Incorrect recognition of CodabloackF with AllSupportedTypes
• Reading Barcode from a BMP image is generating exception
• Remove line offset for CodablockF (GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
• The recognition performance of rotated DataMatrix barcodes has been improved
• Too small quiet zone for ITF14 when border type is Frame or FrameOut
• Creating a Datamatrix barcode with DataMatrixEccType.Ecc200 throws a null reference exception
• Barcode reader is unable to recognize the barcode on an image
• Unable to recognize PDF417 barcode from a drivers' license image
• Dynabic.Metered: Aspose.BarCode has to be adjusted to the latest Dynabic.Metered version

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

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

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Access Underlay Flags for DWG Format & Drawing DGN as Part of AutoCAD DWG using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.CAD for Java 16.12.0. The major development in this release is implementation of the feature drawing DGN format as a part of DWG format. Underlay flags for DWG format are implementation in this release. Reading insert coordinate and rotation angle for DGN underlay feature also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.CAD for .NET has implemented the underlay flags for DWG format and allows developers to access them. It also enables developers to  export a DWG file with embedded DGN underlay inside. Sample code demonstrating how to access the DGN underlay inside a DWG file while exporting a DWG file is provided on blog announcement page. There are some important enhancement part of this release, such as process of loading DWG file, Process of converting DWG to PDF format, Process of converting DWG to PNG format in multithreading and many more. The main new features added in this release are listed below

• Implement Underlay Flags for DWG format
• Implement drawing of DGN format as a part of DWG
• Converting DWG to PDF is showing incorrect results
• Implement reading insert coordinate and rotation angle for DGN underlay.
• Converting DWG to PNG in multithread is throwing exception
• Loading a DWG file using CadImage.load() method is throwing exception

Overview:Aspose.CAD for Java

Aspose.CAD for Java enables developers to convert AutoCAD DWG and DXF files to PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and GIF image formats. It is a native API and does not require AutoCAD or any other software to be installed. Developers can also convert the selected layers and layouts from the AutoCAD files. The conversion to PDF and Raster images is of very high quality. Developers can also remove entities from DWG and DXF documents. It also adds support for leader’s entity for DWG format.

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Metered License Support for OMR Operations & Enhanced Processing of Distorted Images using .NET

What’s new in this release?

We are proud to announce the new release of Aspose.OCR for .NET 16.12.0. The major development in this release is support for metered license mechanism for OMR operations. The new licensing mechanism will be used along with existing licensing method. Those customers who want to be billed based on the usage of the API features can use the metered licensing. Furthermore overall performance of the API has also been improved in this release. Aspose.OCR for .Net provides the functionality to use metered licensing mechanism for OMR operations. Aspose team has introduced Metered class in API to accomplish this job. The code sample on the blog announcement will demonstrate, how to calculate the consumed OMR API requests. There are some important enhancements also part of this release such as, processing of distorted images has been improved and mechanism of applying filters on the supplied image has been improved. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Support Dynabic.Metered license for OMR
• Images distorted in preprocessing.
• Fix filtering usage
• Rename ExtractData method

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Overview: Aspose.OCR for .NET

Aspose.OCR for .NET is a character recognition component built to allow developers to add OCR functionality in their ASP .NET web applications, web services and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for controlling character recognition tasks. It helps developers to work with image (BMP, TIFF) files from within their own applications. It allows developers to extract text from images quickly & easily, saving time & effort involved in developing an OCR solution from scratch.

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JasperReports Library 6.4.0 Support & Exporting Reports to PDF Format in Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for JasperReports 16.12.0 has been released. The new release has been built on the basis of latest Aspose.Slides for Java API and can now support Jasper Library 6.4.0 as well when exporting reports using Aspose.Slides for JasperReports. It has also included support for exporting report to PDF in this release as well. Now users can easily export PowerPoint presentation (PPT) and PPS formats reports to PDF format using this new release. The list of improved features in this release are listed below

• Implement PdfExporter
• Add the support of JasperReports Library 6.4.0
• Aspose slides for JRPptExporter not working with Jboss6

Overview: Aspose.Slides for JasperReports

Aspose.Slides for JasperReports is an external exporter for JasperReports that allows to convert reports in PowerPoint presentation (PPT) and PowerPoint slideshow (PPS) formats in your java applications. It supports Java 2 platform standard edition 5.0 and JasperReports 2.0, 3.0 and higher. It is built with extensive development efforts making it possible to export reports to PowerPoint formats like original reports. Now you can also integrate Aspose.Slides for JasperReports with JasperServer.

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Add images & Attachments Data for Microsoft OneNote Online File Formats using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Note for .NET 16.12.0.  This month’s release provides support for images and attachments in Microsoft OneNote Online file format. It also fixes a number of bugs as reported in our last month’s release that further improves the API functionality. provided support for OneNote Online SharePoint file format. Support for this feature enabled the API users process OneNote online file formats without the need of installing Microsoft SharePoint on the machine. However, this feature had few limitations, such as Images from document were not supported and any attachments in documents were also not supported. Resultantly, a document loaded and saved with Aspose.Note API used to lose the images and attachments data contained in the document. This month’s release of Aspose.Note API, however, now removes these limitations and provides support for images and attachments data for Microsoft OneNote Online file formats. With this capability, OneNote Online files can be read as well as saved back without losing the images and attachments data. It has also fixed several bugs in this month’s release that further improves the API functionality. Specifically, the issues were related to the number of pages in the saved document and the loss of images. The list of new and enhanced features added in this release are given below

• Add support for images and attachments in OneNote Online files.
• Number of pages in Aspose.Note Document does not match original amount in *.one file.
• Saving OneNote document loses images.

Overview: Aspose.Note for .NET

Aspose.Note for .NET is a set of .NET components that enables developers to work with Microsoft Office OneNote files in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It allows developers to open files & manipulate elements of OneNote books, from text, images & properties, to more complex elements, & then export to PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP or PDF formats. It is a pure .NET alternative to the MS OneNote Object Model & supports OneNote 2010, OneNote®  2010 SP1 & 2013 files.

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Create Custom Subtotal Labels & Add Glow, 3D Effects for Shapes in Worksheet inside Android Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Android v16.12.0. This release includes a number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes that further improve the overall stability and usability of the API. It has added the support for the creation of custom subtotal labels allowing the application developers to customize the labels according to the region or personal preferences. In order to provide this feature, the latest version of the Aspose.Cells for Android has exposed the GlobalizationSettings class offering the following 2 methods which can be overridden in a custom class to get desired labels for the Subtotals. The GlobalizationSettings class also offers the getOtherName method which is useful to give the “Other” label of Pie charts a custom value. Sometimes, application requirement could be to load just a particular type of objects while loading existing spreadsheets in Aspose.Cells’ object model. For instance, users may require to load only the cells along with formulas & formatting or just the document properties. Aspose.Cells APIs now provide a flexible yet comprehensive mechanism to achieve such requirements by exposing the LoadFilter class. The LoadFilter class along with LoadOptions.LoadFilter property can control the type of data/objects to be loaded while initializing an instance of Workbook from a template file. The constructor of the LoadFilter class can accept constant(s) from the LoadDataFilterOptions enumeration that specifies the type of objects to be loaded. It has added the support for reflection effects for a Shape object as Excel provides it via Effects tab under Format Shape dialog as shown on the blog announcement page. It has also added the support for Shadow Effects for a Shape object as Excel provides it via Effects tab under Format Shape dialog. It also supports the Glow Effects for a Shape object and 3-D Formats for Shape objects as Excel provides it via Effects tab under Format Shape dialog. Aspose.Cells for Android APIs now supports to add WordArt objects with built-in styles. In order to provide this feature, it has exposed the ShapeCollection.AddWordArt method along with PresetWordArtStyle enumeration which together allows to add preset WordArt objects since Excel 2007. It has fixed a few critical bugs as well as enhanced its core for more stability. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

• Support Subtotal/Total labels in other languages
• Specify Chart points' positions
• Refreshing PivotTable is not working in the rendered PDF file
• XLSM becomes corrupted by simple load and save operation
• Hyperlinks are not working as expected after converting spreadsheet to HTML
• Some characters do not render in the output PDF
• Order of chart legend changed in Chart's PDF
• Z order of high-low lines is not correct in PDF
• Spreadsheet becomes corrupted after re-saving with Aspose.Cells
• Formula is changed after inserting to a cell
• Strange behaviour with simple bean using Smart Markers
• Cell's text overflows to next cell
• CalculateFormula has issue to recalculate cells with reference to cells with formulas
• Hebrew control characters are not rendered correctly in PDF
• XLS to PDF conversion is taking too much time
• Layout problem when converting spreadsheet to PDF
• X-axis labels are overlapping with Legend when rendered to PDF
• Picture does not scale well and its SVG file is not correct
• Incorrect rendering of Chart while converting spreadsheet to HTML
• Spaces are omitted from text in PNG output of Chart
• Selection or check state not saved when saving to PDF
• Text and text alignment is messed up in the file
• Extending MS Excel table/ list object changes cells formatting
• Adding Arc to a new Workbook generates a potentially unsafe spreadsheet
• Table column resolving broken if containing '['
• Issue with extending Excel Table/List Object content regarding formulas
• Incorrect formula returned from a worksheet cell
• XLSM becomes corrupted after re-save operation
• DataBar width is not correct while converting spreadsheet to HTML
• Orange Row is not included in the Sum of Pivot Table
• Image is cut off in the output HTML
• Chart is missing while converting spreadsheet to HTML
• Row height is not correct while converting XLSX to HTML
• DCOUNTA Excel formula is not evaluated fine by Aspose.Cells formula calculation engine
• Issue with DataBar Conditional Formatting when Saving an XLSM file as PDF
• The space between certain characters gets removed at a few places in the output PDF file
• Chart labels are not displayed/rendered the same (as per the original Excel file) in the output PDF file
• Issue with font attributes of TextBox in the output PDF
• TextBox's content color & size is changed while converting worksheet to EMF
• TextBox's content color & size is changed while converting spreadsheet to PDF
• Hebrew words are not rendered correctly when converting an Excel file to PDF file format
• Content in TextBox is clipped while rendering spreadsheet to PDF
• Arrowed lines are misplaced while rendering spreadsheet to PDF
• Issue with the SVG image of the Chart in the rendered HTML file
• Font substitution does not seem to take effect for Chart legend while using Chart.toPdf
• Legend overlapping with text in Chart's PDF
• Incorrect ChartPoint's ShapeXPx & ShapeYPx values
• Incomplete rendering of the Rectangle shape while converting XLS to HTML
• Text is getting truncated while converting spreadsheet to PDF file format
• Extra pages are added due to some pages are not rendered completely in one PDF page
• SheetRender - Invalid column index
• Extending Excel Table modifies data
• Opening and saving the file while using SheetRender corrupts the output Excel file
• Setting the shape text changes the text style
• Text of some cells like C2 and C3 gets unbold
• Worksheet.autoFitColumns method does not seem to take effect when required font is not present in Linux
• Unexpected background color applied to TextBoxes while rendering spreadsheet to PDF

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

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Android

Aspose.Cells for Android is a MS Excel spreadsheet component that allows programmer to develop android applications for reading, writing & manipulate Excel spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX, XLSM, SpreadsheetML, CSV, tab delimited) and HTML file formats without needing to rely on Microsoft Excel. It supports robust formula calculation engine, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, custom charts, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects like images, OLE objects & importing or creating charts.

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Modify Gradient Fill Data of Visio Shape & Improved Export of VSDM Drawing in Linux using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java 16.12.0. A gradient fill is a graphical effect that produces a three dimensional color look by blending one color into another. Multiple colors can be used, where one color gradually fades and changes to the other color. Using Aspose.Diagram API, developers can retrieve and modify the gradient fill data as per their needs. Developers can also get the gradient stops from each gradient fill to set the position, color and transparency. Aspose.Diagram API has support of opening VSDM drawings, and then save back into the VSDM format. In few reported use cases, Aspose.Diagram API was not preserving VBA module as well as showing an error of incorrect code syntax. These problems were occurring in the Linux based working environments. We have enhanced the export of VSDM drawings in perspective of Linux systems. All these problems are now fixed internally in this latest version without any public API change. Aspose.Diagram API allows developers to group shapes in the Visio drawing. It was making a single group shape from multiple ungrouped shapes. Clients were not able to use a group shape as the subshape of another group shape. We have enhanced the feature of grouping shapes. Developers can now use a group shape to make another single group shape. We auto port Aspose.Diagram for .NET to Java to give developers perfectly same features on both platforms, so this version incorporates the bug fixes and enhancements from its equivalent .NET version. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Can't group shapes second time in a Visio Drawing page.
• The VBA is not being initialized due to the editing of a VSDM drawing on Linux Systems.
• VSD to PDF export - the extra white space is generated on the left side of the drawing.
• VSD to HTML export - the extra white space is generated on the left side of the drawing.
• VSD to SVG export - the background color of container turns into black.
• The group shape becomes invisible on adding circular shapes in a VSDM.
• Page.AddShape method shows an invalid error on adding a dynamic connector.
• Additional Line break and distance in the shape text on exporting a VSDM to PDF.
• The text of the shapes is not at the center position when exporting a VSDM to PDF.
• Editing of a VSDM drawing disappears a VBA module on Linux Systems.
• Editing of a VSDM drawing shows an error of incorrect code syntax on Linux Systems.
• Open and save routine of a VSDX includes an additional text.
• A shape text is being converted to the dummy characters.
• Improper resizing of a group shape in the output VSDM.
• The wrong text position of shapes on saving in the PDF format.
• DThe wrong font size on saving a VSDM in the PDF format.
• The text items are being overlapped on converting a VSD pages to SVGs.

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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Set Custom Tick Mark Spacing for Chart Axis & Enhanced Presentation Cloning in .NET Apps

What's New in this Release?
Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.12.0. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby we have rectified many issues incurring in product along with inclusion of some new features. It has improved the MSO charts support in this release and now users can set the custom distance between tick mark positions of horizontal axis. It has also enhanced the HTML export by providing options like imaging compression, picture cropped area and external fonts handling in HTMLOptions and SVGOptions classes. Aspose team has resolve the issues related to presentation saving which earlier resulted in missing or wrong fonts, missing headers, improper text, missing hyperlinks and wrong line styles for shapes in saved presentations. This release has also addressed the presentation access and saving issues have been rectified for many presentation decks that resulted in exceptions including KeyNotFoundException, ArgumentException, NotImplementedException and PptxReadException in previous releases. The presentation to SVG export has also been improved in this release and issues related to rendering as well as export exception issues have been rectified. This release has improved the presentation rendering support as well and has rectified several rendering issues including improper charts rendering, missing slides, improper or missing text, wrong chart elements, wrong fonts and low quality images export SVG, PDF, thumbnails and HTML file formats. It has also addressed the presentation cloning issues which earlier resulted in incorrect text rendering in cloned slides.  This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Set distance between tick mark on horizontal axis
• Getting duration of extracted video from presentation
• ArgumentException on saving presentation
• Missing slides while converting pptx to pdf
• KeyNotFoundException on loading presentation
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated SVG
• Presentation not saving
• Exception on saving presentation
• Exception on loading presentation
• Wrong Data Table offset and legend key size
• Ppt size increase after saving
• Presentation changed after saving
• Fill of an object change after saving ppt
• Header Footer removed after saving ppt
• Font changes from Calibri to MS PGothic after saving ppt
• Exception on saving presentation
• Pptx changed after converting to pdf
• Font changed from Calibri to Arial after saving presentation
• Hyperlink removed after saving ppt
• Line style was changed after saving ppt
• Arc Drawing is removed after saving ppt
• Shapes do not clipped during render if they are outside of a chart area
• a * character is added to each slide after saving ppt
• NotImplementedException on saving presentation
• Powerpoint slide to png conversion issue
• Evaluation watermark showing up in powerpoint files
• High memory consumption while converting pptm to pdf
• Date and slide number are lost in the footer of resaved PPTX to PPT during thumbnail generation
• Different Footers placeholders recognized in ppt and pptx
• Missing table on Notes Maste
• Exception on saving presentation
• Font type changes after converting pptx to png
• Incorrect character positioning in HTML representation of the presentation document in Safari for iOS
• Images are less clear after converting Pptx to html
• Quality of image changes after exporting to svg
• Chart data fail to open in Edit mode on saving presentaiton
• Links are not preserved for added ole frame
• PptxReadException while loading presentation
• Incorrect text rendering with slide cloning
• Text rendered incorrectly in PDF
• Bubble chart is drawing wrong on thumbnail generated from pptx
• Highlight missing in generated PDF
• PptxReadException thrown on loading pptx
• The chart axis labels appear differently after saving
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
• The chart is rendered half of its width in thumbnail and PDF
• Wrong display units for value axis for Scatter chart in exported PDF
• The value axis values direction changes in exported PDF
• Bullet Text are not coming fine after conversion from PPT to PDF
• PPTX to PNG Conversion: Chart Missing in the generated PPTX file
• Category axis values scales are different in generated PDF

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Replacing Images inside Presentation Image Collection
• Save Presentation with Password Protection

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.

More about Aspose.Slides for .NET

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• Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for .NET

Show/Hide Pivot Items of Pivot Field & Resize List Object or Table in a Worksheet using REST APIs

What's New in this Release?
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Cells for Cloud 16.12.0 with important new features and improvements. With Aspose.Cells for Cloud users can work with all aspects of spreadsheets e.g. worksheets, rows, columns, cells, text, data, images, links, comments, formulas, charts and save them to PDF, HTML, XPS and many other formats. It is a complete solution for performing any operation users can wish to perform on Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice spreadsheets in the cloud. This release now supports to show or hide pivot items of pivot field inside the pivot table. Article on the blog announcement and resource API explain how to show or hide pivot items of pivot fields. Users can also resize list object or table inside the worksheet using this release. Documentation articles on the blog announcement page explain how to utilize this feature. Following are the important features and enhancements included in this release.

• Show/Hide the PivotItems of PivotField
• Support to Resize Table in Aspose.Cells for Cloud API
• Shape to image error while converting spreadsheet to PDF file format

Start a free trial today – all users need is to sign up with the Aspose for Cloud service. Once users have signed up, users 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. Users 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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PDF/A_2U Standard Support, PDF Size Optimization & Rendering XML Stream to PDF using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 16.12.0. A new feature, the support of PDF/A_2U standard along with number of enhancements and improvements are included in this release. Some of the enhancements are improved PDF Optimization and support of XML stream conversion to PDF. It also contains number of fixes of bugs reported in previous versions by Aspose valued customers, that makes it more stable release as compared to previous releases. Some of them are PDF to PPTX conversion issues, PDF to PDFA standard conversion issues along with many other bug fixes. Aspose team has introduced new PDFA standard, PDF/A_2U in this release. It has included a new value PDF_A_2U in PdfFormt enum. This release has also improved the PDF optimization feature with introduction of some new properties in OptimizationOption class. Mainly resizing of the embedded images reduces the PDF file size, ResizeImages and MaxResolution properties for the purpose along with RemovePrivateInfo. Some of customers have requirement to render XML stream to PDF instead file. So Aspose team has introduced a new constructor of BindXml() that support Stream parameter. Recently, Aspose team has introduced a new XML schema of Aspose.Pdf(new generator). XSD includes in MSI installer. It has introduced HTML text support in new XML schema. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• Support PDF/A_2U format New
• PDF optimization size issue
• File Optimization for web size difference between Adobe and Aspose.Pdf
• PDFA Validation error list
• XML to PDF: BindXml constructors with stream
• XML to PDF: Hyperlink text rendering issue
• Exception when setting XmpPdfAExtensionValueType to PDF file
• OutOfMemory exception when using OptimizeResources(..) method
• PDF to PDFA conversion rotates images, but working fine in 11.2.0
• PDF to PDF/A - Images get distorted
• Text Replacement regression issue in 16.10.0
• When PDF is converted to HTML, the resulting HTML file has long scrollbars in Microsoft Edge
• When PDF document is converted to XPS, the second page shows "This page cannot be displayed" message
• Failed to load Tex file from stream
• When PDF is saved as DOCX, System hangs and CPU goes high
• PDF to PDF/A - resultant file size gets 17 times of the original PDF size
• PDF to TIFF - Blank images are not being skipped
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is large size
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file contents get corrupted
• PDF to PDF/A - Formatting issues in resultant file
• PDF to HTML: heading text characters render incorrectly
• Non-Searchable PDF is converted to incorrect Searchable PDF
• PDF to PDFA conversion results invalid output
• API throws NullReferenceException upon loading a PDF document
• PDF file is not being optimized
• PDF to PPTX: Space between words increased
• PDF to PPTX: text alignment issue
• PDF to DOCX: text alignment issue in table row
• PDF to DOCX: bullets and associated text alignment issue
• PDF to PPTX - Line spacing is lost and the data is not rendering correctly
• PDF to DOCX: Paragraph indent values are not retained
• PPDF to PDF/A - Highlight box hides the image in PDF
• Editing PDF document overlaps text characters Bug
• In evaluation mode only, dispose method throws IndexOutOfRangeException
• API throws ArgumentException while resizing PDF document without setting license
• Text replace changes text position
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is not compliant
• When PDF converted to PDF_A_1B, the document has glyphs missing in embedded fonts error
• PDF with hieroglyphs is converted to the JPEG with corrupted symbols
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file gets corrupted (error on openning and missing content)
• The flattened file from XFA form cannot be opened in Chrome or Firefox

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.

More about Aspose.Pdf for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for .NET C#
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Aspose.Newsletter January 2017: Special Holidays Offer on Aspose.Total & Other News

Aspose Newsletter for January 2017 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. Special Holidays Offer of 25% Off on Aspose.Total has been extended and now ends on January 31st, so hurry up.  It also includes information about the improved Namespace structure availability in Aspose.Email for .NET, All of the Aspose for .NET and Java documentation is reorganized and improved for readability, support for new User Groups & Conferences and other information.
Hurry! Offer ends January 31st.
Get 25% off Aspose.Total for .NET, Java, Android, SharePoint, SSRS and JasperReports. Quote HOL2017NSL when placing your order. Buy Now
Aspose.Email for .NET with Improved Namespace Structure is Available Now!
As users are aware from the previous post, Aspose team was working on the improvements in Aspose.Email for .NET and now glad to inform that these improvements in namespace restructuring are now done and the latest revamped version is available for users to try. Please have a look and make plans to get advantage of these improvements soon as Aspose team plan to phase out the legacy version in next three months.
All of the Aspose for .NET and Java Documentation is Reorganized and Improved for readability
Aspose team has worked on the documentation of all of our .NET and Java APIs to reorganize and restructure the contents and examples, so that the appropriate contents are grouped and linked for quick and easier access. This effort will improve the readability of the documentation as well. Please go through the documentation as per users needs and experience the improvements:
Updates about new Product Releases

1. Aspose.Total for .NET – a compilation of our latest .NET products.
2. Aspose.Cells for .NET 16.12.0 – Improved Object Filtering Mechanism for Template Loading Supported
3. Aspose.Words for .NET 16.12.0 –REVNUM and INFO Fields, “people” Part (Word 2013 feature) Supported.
4. Aspose.Pdf for .NET 16.12.0 – Support of PDF/A_2U standard and Improved PDF Optimization.
5. Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.12.0 – Support for XML parts and Handout Master.
6. Aspose.Email for .NET 16.12.0 – Filtering Tasks by Status supported with Aspose.Email for .NET
7. Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of our latest Java products.
8. Aspose.Words for Java 16.12.0 - REVNUM and INFO Fields, “people” Part (Word 2013 feature) Supported.
9. Aspose.Cells for Java 16.12.0 - Improved Object Filtering Mechanism for Template Loading Supported.
10. Aspose.Pdf for Java16.12.0  – Support of PDF to PPT conversion.
11. Aspose.Email for Java16.12.0 – Filtering Tasks by Status supported with Aspose.Email for Java
12. Aspose.Slides for Java 16.12.0 –Support for XML parts and Handout Master.
13. Aspose.Total for Cloud – RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
14. Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of our Android APIs.
15. Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.
16. Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products
17. 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:

• Jan 18-23: DNN Summit, Denver, CO - US

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