Barcode Detection from PDF & Enhanced Codetext Alignment with Custom Scaling using .NET

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 18.2.0 has been released. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby Aspose team has resolved certain issues incurring in API and some of which were reported by Aspose valued customers. This release also supports enhanced process of codetext alignment with custom scaling. It was observed that text rendering is different on systems (having custom display scaling). In this release the enhanced process of text rendering has been incorporated. This release also fixes exceptions that were reported by Aspose valued customers, such as Barcode recognition process have been improved to detect barcodes from PDF files, Functionality to recognize barcode from images has been enhanced. The functionality has been enhanced in such a way that if API encounters a situation in which metadata of barcode indicates that barcode has 19 lines but actually it has 18 lines. Algorithm will act accordingly and returns correct recognition result. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version.

• Unable to recognize the barcodes from images
• Wrong codetext alignment on systems with custom scaling
• Aspose.BarCode is unable to detect barcode from PDF 
  

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Managing BarCode Text Appearance
• Optimized Scan for Barcode Recognition

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.

More about Aspose.Report for .NET

• Homepage of C# & VB.NET Barcode Component Aspose.BarCode for .NET
• Download of Aspose.BarCode for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Convert PDF File to Excel Format, Manipulate Tables in Existing PDF in Android Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is excited to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for Android via Java17.12.0..It has been released for android platforms and ready to be used in Android Applications. It offers the feature to search and parse simple tables which already exist in PDF document. This new feature in the API has come with the addition of new class com.aspose.pdf.TableAbsorber which provides the capabilities to search and manipulate the tables in PDF documents. The usage of TableAbsorber is very much similar to existing TextFragmentAbsorber Class. This release has implemented support for gradient color in Aspose.PDF for Android via Java 17.12, in order to apply gradient color to the Graph. The feature can be used with new property PatternColorSpace and class GradientAxialShading which has been added into com.aspose.pdf.drawing Package. The code snippet on blog announcement page demonstrates the usage of new added properties and classes, in order to apply gradient color. Since Inter-File Formats Conversion has been an interesting feature of the APIs offered by Aspose – Aspose team has added support to convert PDF file into Excel format. This new release of the API offers two different methods which can be used according to users requirements regarding conversion, Using com.aspose.pdf.SaveFormat Class and Using ExcelSaveOptions Class. Along with the new features, which have been shared above, it has also made some bug fixes in this release of the API – which can be seen in release notes section of the API documentation. Some important features and enhancements included in this new release are listed below

• Implementation com.aspose.pdf.TableAbsorber
• PDF to EXCEL conversion support
• Handle extracted text based on columns
• PatternColorSpace support in new generator
• Checking the status of Concatenation
• java.lang.NullPointerException when creating com.aspose.pdf.engine.commondata.text.segmenting.TextSegmenter
• Adopted TextFragmentCollection for Java Iterable interface"
• Pdf to text: space between text increased
• The extracted text from pdf is incorrect

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for Android documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Convert PDF File to Excel format
• Convert PDF File to EPUB

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for Android

Aspose.Pdf for Android is a PDF document creation & manipulation c omponent that enables Android applications to read, write & manipulate PDF document without using any other third party application. It allows PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, support for graph objects, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks, create table of contents, add, update, delete attachments & annotations, import or export PDF form data, print PDF docs &  much more.

More about Aspose.Pdf for Android

• Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for Android
• Download Aspose.Pdf for Android
• Read online documentation of Aspose.Pdf for Android

Renumber WBS Codes & Getting Page Count for Specific Dates inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 18.2.0. This new version of API introduces a new feature of renumbering WBS Codes for tasks like Renumber function of Microsoft Project. It also provides an enhancement to get page count from a document for defined start and end dates. Aspose.Tasks for .NET API lets users work with WBS codes associated with tasks in a project. This latest release of API introduces a new feature of Renumbering WBS codes for tasks like Microsoft Project’s Renumber functionality. It lets users renumber all or selective WBS codes of tasks in a project as shown in the code sample on the blog announcement page.  This release also introduces an enhancement for getting number of pages based on specified Start and End dates. This feature can be used to get specific page count for specified dates even during conversion to various output formats. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Implement a feature for Renumber WBS codes
• Provide descriptive error messages when opening corrupted MPP files
• Implement GetPageCount overload depending on Start and EndDate dates
• Recalculate raises exception for the attached project
• Incorrect Link Type generated while saving project to MPX
• Saving project file corrupts the output file
• Mpp gets empty after mpp write
• ResourceAssignment.GetByUid() function does not select proper entry
• Project data lost after loading and saving MPP 2016 file
• Exception raised while loading project from memory stream
• GanttBarStyle not set for summary task
• Tasks with custom time-phased data have different finish date while opened in MSP (.NET)

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.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Insert Style Separator to Put Different Paragraph Styles
• Specify Metafile format When Exporting Document to HTML

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

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

More about Aspose.Tasks for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Tasks for .NET
• Download Aspose.Tasks for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Specify Metafile Format When Exporting Word Document to HTML in Android Apps

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Android via Java 18.2.0.  This month’s release contains 100+ useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Aspose.Words for Android via Java has full functionality of Aspose.Words for Java with few limitations, minor API changes and additional requirements.  In this version of Aspose.Words, it has added the support of style separator to put different paragraph styles in the same printed paragraph. Style Separator can be added to the end of a paragraph using the Ctrl+Alt+Enter Keyboard Shortcut into MS Word. This feature allows for two different paragraph styles used in one logical printed paragraph. It has added HtmlSaveOptions.MetafileFormat property to specify in what format metafiles are saved when exporting to HTML, MHTML, or EPUB. By default metafiles are rendered to raster PNG images. HtmlMetafileFormat enumeration has added to indicate the format in which metafiles are saved to HTML document. It has added new property FontSettings.EnableFontSubstitution in this version of Aspose.Words to specify whether to enable or disable font substitution. There are some important enhnacements and bug fixes also part of this release, such as support to insert Style Separator to put different Paragraph styles, HtmlSaveOptions.MetafileFormat property added, KeepSourceFormatting logic improved, rendering of SVG graphics elements embedded into DrawingML objects (svgBlip) implemented, added option to disable the internal font substitution mechanism and use the default font instead while rendering to PDF, Fixed “Compound lines are not supported” warning generation, fixed problem with path gradient brush scaling while rendering metafiles, spacing  between legend items in DrawingML Charts rendering fixed, the data series line with “Round” cap type is rendered properly when exporting DrawingML Charts into PDF now, rotated VML text boxes with non-default alignment rendering fixed, auto-size calculation of rotated VML text boxes with vertical layout fixed, Implemented none wrapping for text frames, improved paragraph spacing computation with hidden paragraphs, improved custom tab stops handling around hidden paragraphs, improved line wrapping around dashes, improved character spacing control for complex code point sequences, improved processing of out-of-order footnotes, implemented mirror margins and gutter position handling when page orientation changes, improved performance of reflow when document is large and has fields in headers/footers and fixed text box width issue with left-aligned RTL text. Aspose.Words for Android via Java’ is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native Android applications. Aspose.Words for Android via Java API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats.  The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

• FontSettings.EnableFontSubstitution option added
• Support to insert Style Separator to put different Paragraph styles
• HtmlSaveOptions.MetafileFormat property added
• KeepSourceFormatting logic improved
• Rendering of SVG graphics elements embedded into DrawingML objects (svgBlip) implemented
• Added option to disable the internal font substitution mechanism and use the default font instead while rendering to PDF. (FontSettings.EnableFontSubstitution)
• Fixed "Compound lines are not supported" warning generation
• Fixed problem with path gradient brush scaling while rendering metafiles
• Spacing  between legend items in DrawingML Charts rendering fixed
• The data series line with "Round" cap type is rendered properly when exporting DrawingML Charts into PDF now
• Rotated VML text boxes with non-default alignment rendering fixed
• Auto-size calculation of rotated VML text boxes with vertical layout fixed
• Implemented none wrapping for text frames
• Improved paragraph spacing computation with hidden paragraphs
• Improved custom tab stops handling around hidden paragraphs
• Improved line wrapping around dashes
• Improved character spacing control for complex code point sequences
• Improved processing of out-of-order footnotes
• Implemented mirror margins and gutter position handling when page orientation changes
• Improved performance of reflow when document is large and has fields in headers/footers
• Fixed text box width issue with left-aligned RTL text
• WordArt objects are rendered incorrectly
• List numbers are changed after re-saving Docx
• Top/Bottom margins are not correct in a 2 pages per sheet layout
• Content is misplaced after DOCX to HtmlFixed
• Tables touch left page edge in generated PDF
• Table is not rendered correctly in the output PDF
• Consider removing script suffix from font name on RTF import
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with SVG rendering
• Too many styles in resultant merged document
• DOC to PDF Number of Pages Increased
• DOC to PDF Issue with Art Fonts and Image Shading
• FontSettings.DefaultFontName priority over FontInfo
• The paragraph format has been lost in PDF output
• Shape is not resized properly
• SonarQube issues
• More improvements need in WORDSNET-8414
• File paths get saved incorrectly in content.xml
• Background is incorrect when WrapMode.CLAMP is used
• PathGradient disappeared
• Incorrect result while calculation in FieldFormText
• HtmlReader can't find installed font by its font's family
• The string with the French (Switzerland) currency symbol cannot be parsed
• Some fields containing functions returns '!Syntax Error'
• Incorrect Russian months names
• Incorrect PathGradient's pattern

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.Words for Android documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Insert Style Separator to Put Different Paragraph Styles
• Specify Metafile format When Exporting Document to HTML

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables 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. Users can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

More about Aspose.Words

• Homepage Aspose.Words for Android
• Download Aspose.Words for Android
• Online documentation of Aspose.Words

Barcode Image Generation in Vector Format & Enhanced Saving Barcode in SVG using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.1.0. The major development in this release is the support to save the generated barcode image in Vector format. This release also supports enhanced process of drawing barcode text when font is specified in the code snippet. Enhanced working of CodeLocation property has also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.BarCode for Java now supports the functionality to generate barcode images in vector format. Two new properties Emf and Svg has been introduced in com.aspose.barcode.BarCodeImageFormat class which can be set before saving barcode image. How a developer can save barcode image in vector format is quite simple and is demonstrated in the code snippet given below. The code snippet contains comments that makes it self explanatory. There are some important enhancements also part of this release, such as Process of setting license has been improved. Now API will show correct exception message in case license subscription is expired. Set license execution time has also been improved, Inaccurate barcode text was displayed when font is specified while saving the barcode image in vector format. The enhancement has been made to draw barcode text properly, Setting big text size with com.aspose.barcode.StringAlignment.Far option, it was noticed that the barcode text disappears. Now the issue has been fixed and  working of setCodeLocation property has been improved.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

• Add support to save barcode in SVG
• Add support to save barcode in any Vector image format
• Support to generate and recognize EPC QR coded barcode
• Improved drawing text when font is specified
• Mark BarCodeReader API as obsolete
• Barcode is rendered without text
• Incorrectly saving a picture to a file
• Property CodeLocation works incorrectly

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Control the Appearance of Code Text
• Create QR Barcode with Logo

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.

More about Aspose.BarCode for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.BarCode for Java
• Download of Aspose.BarCode for Java
• Online Documentation for Aspose.BarCode for Java

Apply Metered License Mechanism & Enhanced HTML File Rendering to Image inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is happy to announce the new release of Aspose.Html for .NET 18.2.0. It has incorporated support for metered license mechanism for the customers who want to be billed based on the usage of API features. This version of the API has been enhanced to render an HTML file in WYSIWYG mode. It has been ensured by including support for media commands i.e. @print and @screen. Both of these can now be parsed as per user requirements, thus improving the rendering of HTML files to several other file formats. Aspose.HTML for .NET 18.2 has improved support for rendering a HTML file to image file. It can efficiently render a HTML file to a PNG or TIFF image as few issues which were incurring in previous releases have also been rectified. Aspose team has reorganized caching mechanism and increased the document loading performance in Aspose.HTML for .NET 18.2. Below is the list of new and improved features added in this new release

• Support for metered license
• HTML to PNG image conversion
• Support for media commands @print and @screen
• The RequestMessage.Method property does not work
• <input> elements of HTML5 type is not rendered

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Html for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Html for performing different tasks like the followings.

• HTML to Image Conversion
• Apply Metered License

Overview: Aspose.Html for .NET

Aspose.Html for .NET is an advanced HTML manipulation API that enables developers to perform a wide range of HTML manipulation tasks directly within .NET applications. This API offers the capabilities to create as well as manipulate HTML files within your .NET applications. It also provides the features to iterate through HTML elements, Nodes, extract CSS information, edit or remove HTML nodes, configure a document sandbox which affects the processing of CSS styles, rendering of HTML to PDF, XPS or raster image formats and much more.

More about Aspose.Html for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Html for .NET
• Download Aspose.Html for .NET
• Online documentation Aspose.Html for .NET

New Cryptographic Algorithms Addition & Improved API Performance inside C++ Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.PDF for C++ 18.1.0 Users can have detailed overview of the API changes and improvements in the release notes section of API documentation. As per regular monthly update process of the API, Aspose team always aspire to provide enhancement and performance improvements in the API. In Aspose.PDF for C++ 18.1, it has added some cryptographic algorithms, in order to create digital signatures, such as RC2, TripleDES and RSAPKCS1SignatureFormatter. In this release of the API System::Security::Cryptography namespace is extended with above classes. Along with that it has also improved performance of the API, in order to make it more efficient and productive. The list of new and improved features in this release are listed below

• System::Security::Cryptography namespace is extended with following classes:
•     RC2
• TripleDES
•  RSAPKCS1SignatureFormatter
• Performance improved
• Add, replace or remove text and images;
• Custom font handling;
• Add or remove bookmarks;
• Split, concatenate, extract or insert pages;
• Transform pages to image.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for C++ documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Formatting PDF Document
• Working with Images

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for C++

Aspose.Pdf for C++ is a native C++ library that enables the developers to add PDF handling capabilities to their C++ applications. The library allows to perform a wide range of document processing tasks including creation & management of forms, text & page manipulation, management of annotations, custom font handling and much more. It allows transforming each page of a PDF file into conventional image formats such as BMP, JPEG & PNG, with highest possible fidelity. It offers the capabilities to add form fields to the PDF document, that is; you can dynamically create form fields in PDF documents.

More about Aspose.Email for iOS via Xamarin

• Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for C++
• Download Aspose.Pdf for C++
• Online documentation of Aspose.Pdf for C++

Aspose.GIS for .NET is Released! Work with ESRI Shapefile & GeoJSON File Formats inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose is proud to expand its .NET APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.GIS for .NET. It enables developers to access and manipulate geographic information from vector based geo-spatial data formats. Developers can read, write & convert most popular GIS file formats such as ESRI Shapefile & GeoJSON from within .NET applications without requiring any additional tools or software. It allows users to work with several different geometry types that can further be added as Features to Geo files. Aspose.GIS for .NET is available for download from nuget.org. Users can use Microsoft Visual Studio’s Nuget Package Manager or use the console manager to use the API in their .NET application as explained in the installation guide. Users can get detailed information about the API by visiting the Aspose.GIS for .NET documentation. It is a complete guide about the API which helps users understand the requirements and features offered by the API. The documentation will be extended with more code samples and information with monthly releases of the API.This initial launch of Aspose.GIS for .NET supports working with ESRI ShapeFile and GeoJSON formats. ShapeFile a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems (GIS) and GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures. Aspose.GIS for .NET supports wide range of geometry types. These include Point, Multipoint, LineString, MultiLineString, Polygon and MultiPolygon. The API lets users work with any of these geometry types in an applications. Users can also make use of multiple geometry types to create the feature of their interest. The documentation section, Working with Geometries, presents ready to run code samples that users can refer to for trying the same at their end. The API’s uniform model for working with ShapeFile and GeoJSON lets users work with these file formats without worrying about the internal file structure of these two formats. It provides the capability to Single API for reading multiple Geographic file formats, create ESRI Shape and GeoJSON File Formats, read ESRI Shape File and GeoJSON files, get features count from Shape File, retrieve Attributes information from Shape File, Iterate over all features of a layer, Get values of feature attributes from a layer, filter features by attribute value, extract features from Shape file and export to GeoJSON format, Specify attribute value length, Check feature for null values and convert polygon shape file to string shape file. Not only Aspose.GIS for .NET supports working with ShapeFile and GeoJSON file formats, it also provides the capability to inter-convert between these two formats. it allows to Convert between ESRI ShapeFile and GeoJSON file formats with few simple lines of code and Control Attributes information adjustment during conversion from GeoJSON to Shape File.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.GIS for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.GIS for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Product Overview
• Working with Layers

Overview: Aspose.GIS for .NET

Aspose.GIS for .NET enables users to access & manipulate geographic information from vector based geospatial data formats. Users can read, write & convert most popular GIS file formats such as Shapefile & GeoJSON from within their .NET applications without requiring any additional tools or software. It not only supports loading GIS file formats for manipulation & conversion but it also provides the capability to create GIS files from scratch. .NET developers can use the API to create basic geometries such as Point, MultiPoint, Line, MultiLine, Polygon and so on, which can be further used to generate complex features.

More about Aspose.GIS for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.GIS for .NET
• Download Aspose.GIS for .NET
• Online documentation Aspose.GIS for .NET

Convert OneNote Documents to HTML Format with Resources in Separate File using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is very excited to announce the new release of Aspose.Note for Java 18.1.0.  This new release includes a new feature of exporting OneNote data to HTML file format. Documents can also be saved to Html format in Byte array. This latest release of Aspose.Note for Java introduces the capability of converting OneNote documents to Html file format. This is a long-awaited feature that was in our To-Do list for quite some time. The implementation of this feature lets users to save OneNote documents to file on disc as well as output Byte array. The feature is available in three variants. The sample code is provided on the blog announcement page. Bellows is the list of new and enhanced features included in this new release.

• Support saving to stream in html format
• Add support of saving to file in html format
• Saving to Byte Array with Embedded Resources
• Save to Byte Arrary with Callbacks
• Save to File With Resources in Separate Files
• ArgumentNullException Parameter name: trueTypeFont

Newly added documentation pages and articles
 

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Note for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Note for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Conversion of OneNote Documents to HTML
• Printing Documents

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.

More about Aspose.Note for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.Note for Java
• Download Aspose.Note for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Note for Java

Set Image Quality While Exporting Project Data to JPEG & Enhanced Loading MPP Files using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 17.11.0.This release includes a new feature that allows users to set image quality while exporting project data to JPEG format. It also includes several other improvements as result of bug fixes that further enhance the API functionality. This release of Aspose.Tasks for Java API includes a new feature that lets users set the image quality while exporting project data to JPEG. The setJPEGQuality method of ImageSaveOptions lets users achieve this by providing image quality at a scale from 0 to 100, as shown in code sample on blog announcement page.  This version also includes other improvements in terms of bug fixes that add to the overall improvement of the API in terms of expected behaviour. These include exceptions while loading certain MPP files, Errors while converting Project data to PDF, Calculation issues with Calendar times set to 24 hours, Task reading exceptions while loading MPP files, Wrong calculation of Finish date and Percent Complete in MPP files, Problem with setting working days, Missing time span with SplitParts collection and Improvements in manual calculation of tasks data.  Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

• Add option to set image quality when saving as JPEG
• Enum GanttBarFillPattern should have value 11 corresponding to fill pattern in MSP 2016
• Exception raised while loading the mpp file
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception if 24 Hours Calendar is set
• Program hangs while setting Tsk.Start for a Task
• Wrong Actual Finish date in MPP as compared to XML output
• Exception raised while saving MPX as PDF
• Child tasks are not rendered in PNG without saving the project first
• All values of BarStyle's From and To fields are changed
• Loading project file raises Exception
• Saving into image by page not working properly
• Percent complete not set properly in MPP
• Setting Project Start date raises ArgumentOutOfRangeException (Java)
• Assignment Cost is not displayed for Cost resources in Microsoft Project 2013
• Text extended attribute created by formula is read as date by Aspose.Tasks (Java)
• Project recalculation throws an exception with cleared ActualStart and ActualFinish properties
• MSP 2010 raises error while updating and saving MPP created by Aspose.Tasks
• Recalculate() is updating manually scheduled tasks
• Wrong finish date calculated for ElapsedDay type duration (Java)
• Prevent recalculation of manually scheduled tasks
• Wrong Actual Duration in MPP file
• SplitParts collection misses time span
• Sub-tasks not rendered while converting MPX to PdfA1b
• Wrong Finish date in XML file
• Wrong Percent complete in MPP as compared to XML output
• MPP shows a warning after resaving
• Loading project raises ProjectReadingException
• TaskReadingException while reading the MPP file
• MSP 2010 raises error while updating and saving MPP created by Aspose.Tasks
• Problem with a setting of working days

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Exporting Project Data to JPEG
• Reading Project Data from Microsoft Project Database

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.

More about Aspose.Tasks for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.Tasks for Java
• Download Aspose.Tasks for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Tasks for Jvaa

PDF Bookmark Creation for Chart Sheet & Export Document Properties in Excel to HTML Conversion using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 18.1.0. It has added some useful features and enhancements regarding Pivot Tables, Charts and Excel to HTML renderings. The previous versions has  create PdfBookmarkEntry for normal sheets only. But now Aspose.Cells can also create PdfBookmarkEntry for chart sheet. Since, chart sheet does not have any other cell except cell A1, so it will create PdfBookmarkEntry for cell A1 only. The following sample code loads an Excel file which has four sheets in it. Two of them are normal sheets and others are chart sheets. It creates four bookmarks, one for each sheet. Microsoft Excel file may contain many unnecessary unused styles. When users export the Excel file to HTML file format, these unused styles are also exported. This could increase the size of HTML. Users can exclude the unused styles during the conversion of Excel file to HTML using the HtmlSaveOptions.ExcludeUnusedStyles property. When Microsoft Excel file is exported to HTML using Microsoft Excel or Aspose.Cells APIs, it also exports various types of Document, Workbook and Worksheet properties. Users can avoid exporting these properties by setting the HtmlSaveOptions.ExportDocumentProperties, HtmlSaveOptions.ExportWorkbookProperties and HtmlSaveOptions.ExportWorksheetProperties as false. The default value of these properties is true. A Pivot table may use other pivot table as a data source. Such a Pivot table is called a child or nested Pivot table to its parent Pivot table. You can find the children Pivot tables for a parent Pivot table using the PivotTable.GetChildren() method. When users create a Pivot Table, Microsoft Excel takes a copy of the source data and stores it in the Pivot Cache. The Pivot Cache is held inside the memory of Microsoft Excel. When users load an Excel file inside the Workbook object, users can decide whether it also want to load the records of Pivot Cache or not, using the LoadOptions.ParsingPivotCachedRecords property. The default value of this property is false. If Pivot Cache is quite big, it can increase the performance. Aspose.Cells.GridDesktop has introduced two new events i.e. AfterDeleteColumns and AfterDeleteRows. These events are fired when you delete column(s) and row(s) respectively. There are some other enhancements also included in this release, such as Handle Automatic Units of Chart Axis like Microsoft Excel, Render Interactive Scrollbar in GridWeb, Handled IndexOutOfRangeException while converting XLSX to HTML, Handled exception when rendering image of the chart and Handled an exception when setting HtmlString on a cell to specific value. This release has also fixed several important bugs and other issues, for example, issues around reading/writing MS Excel file formats, manipulating Ole Objects in Excel file, rendering Excel to HTML and vice versa, converting SpreadsheetML to XLSX, import custom objects to Excel sheet, rendering and manipulating charts, manipulating PivotTables, rendering images from Excel worksheets, rendering images files from charts and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below                                   

• Find the children Pivot Tables of parent Parent Pivot Table
• Handle automatic axis units like Microsoft Excel
• Read and write tableSingleCells of XLSB file
• Add events after deleting rows and columns in Aspose.Cells.GridDesktop
• GridWeb does not render Scrollbars correctly
• Unsupported external stylesheet during round-trip conversion
• XLS format should match with MS Excel 2016
• FontSettings are overwriting each other while MS Excel keeps both of them
• Filtering in GridDesktop does not work properly or like Microsoft Excel
• Shape text is rotated in Excel to PDF conversion
• Characters overlap when converting to Image
• XLSB file dealing with Power Pivot corrupts on opening and re-saving
• Borders are not shown when export from HTML to Excel
• Gridlines do not appear when HtmlSaveOptions.ExportActiveWorksheetOnly property is set to true
• Support exporting the separate stylesheet for a single-tab document
• Image properties (Title and Subject) are lost after converting XLSX to PDF
• Rendering Excel cuts the right border with some data loss
• Converting Excel to PDF cuts word with apostrophes when using RTL language
• Chart is stretched up after saving to XLS format - "mouseover event - embedded.xls"
• Chart.Calculate is hanging when QAR_symbol is set as "丿.兀."
• Charts could not be exported when custom format is using "mm" format
• Sheet having chart shows changes when the Excel file is opened and re-saved
• Graph size is changed in a specific XLS file
• Excel Graph changed after load and save
• Legend entries have moved slightly down after simple resave
• Second vertical axis label is missing when converting chart to image
• Error when copying sheet from one book to another
• SpreadsheetML to XLSX - Aspose.Cells sets protection settings
• MS Excel prompts an error message when opening the re-saved file into it
• Left graph i.e. "Seasonal Adjustment" - the Bars size changes in the output Excel file
• Spreadsheet XML gets invalidated because it contains elements with double prefix
• Cell.R1C1Formula returns null when referencing named range(s)
• Embedded Pdf Image is broken after inserting OLE object
• Calculation chain part missed after conversion (XLSB -> XLSM)
• ImportCustomObjects does not import field names when list count is zero
• Invalid formula error on opening the file
• Vertical alignment is not applying to the range of cells
• Absolute path changes to relative path when re-saving an XLSX file
• RGB(255, 0, 0) is not a valid value for Int32 on HtmlString assignment
• Re-saving the XLS stretches the chart vertically
• Conversion from XLSB to XLSM: Resulting file does not contain xl\queryTables\queryTable1
• When click on cell A1, it jumps to other cell and focused cell position is wrong
• Group status is wrong after collapse/expand - Aspose.Cells.GridDesktop

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.Cells for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Exclude Unused Styles during Excel to HTML conversion
• Export Document Workbook and Worksheet Properties in Excel to HTML conversion
  

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.

More about Aspose.Cells for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Cells for .NET C#
• Download Aspose.Cells for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.Cells for .NET

PDF to Word Document Conversion Further Enhanced in Aspose.Words for Cloud 18.1.

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Words for Cloud 18.1.0. This release includes improvements and bug fixes regarding PDF to Word conversion. There was a bug that when a PDF Document is converted to Docx, sometimes the formatting gets messed up and the converted word document had only one character per line. This bug has been fixed in this release. The Word Cloud API supports document conversion to DOC, DOCX, XPS, TIFF, PDF, HTML, SWF, PCL and many other formats. You can choose to render a complete document or a single page to image formats including JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF. The API also provides the facility to render only the drawing shapes present inside the documents to image formats. Aspose.Words 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.  The list of new and enhanced features added in this release are given below

• PDF to DOCX conversion: Each character of the Word Document has its own line
• Semi-transparent images
• SDK is fully in sync with the API, all missing methods are added
• Better security

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.

More about Aspose for Cloud

• Learn More about Aspose.Words for Cloud
• Download latest release of Aspose.Words for Cloud
• Online Documentation for Aspose.Words for Cloud
• Ask technical questions/queries from Aspose Support Team

PPTX to PDF Conversion, Improved Slides Cloning, Chart & Images Rendering using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 18.1.0. This is a maintenance release whereby we have resolved some incurring issues in API. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes part of this release, such as  Ink pen object is missing in PNG (and jpg) output, Null reference exception rises when cloning slides, The chart is missing in the output PDF, When PPTX is converted to PDF, the color of graph title and axis text is changed, Images in the output PDF are blurred, When PPTX is converted to PDF, the text in chart legend is changed, Text of WordArt object is not changed, Legend is shifted and incorrect formatting when saving PPTX as HTML, Ink objects are not shown when converting PPTX to PNG, PPT not properly converted to PDF, PPTX to PDF number alignment incorrect, Hyperlink not working if save as PDF with int array parameter and many more. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Null reference exception rises when cloning slides.
• Ink pen object is missing in PNG (and jpg) output.
• When PPTX is converted to PDF, the color of graph title and axis text is changed.
• The chart is missing in the output PDF.
• The poor quality image in the output PDF.
• The chart axis label has been changed in PDF output.
• The chart axis labels text color has been changed in PDF rendition.
• Images in the output PDF are blurred.
• Combo charts with the custom combination have been omitted in output PDF.
• While loading the presentation an exception ‘Index was out of range’ occurs.
• When PPTX is converted to PDF, the text in chart legend is changed.
• Text of WordArt object is not changed.
• StackOverflowException occurs when resizing a chart in PPTX file.
• Legend is shifted and incorrect formatting when saving PPTX as HTML.
• Excessive shape on slides in PPT files.
• Ink objects are not shown when converting PPTX to PNG.
• Grey Scale image is rendered instead of Colored Image.
• UnSuported FileFormat on loading Extracted Ole data using Aspose.Words.
• PPT not protected properly.
• GDI exception on extracting images from presentation.
• PPT not properly converted to PDF.
• Exception on loading presentation.
• PPTX to PDF number alignment incorrect.
• Increasing memory consumption using Japanese characters.
• NullPointer Exception on saving presentation.
• Modifying Header has no effect in exported PDF.
• Hyperlink not working if save as PDF with int array parameter.
• Shape background changes in exported PDF.
• InvalidCastException on loading Presentation.
• Internal hyperlinks are lost in exported PDF.
• Position of line changes when converting to image.
• HyperlinkQueries count property is wrong.
• Exception on loading presentation.
• NullReference exception is thrown on saving presentation.
• Unable to change color of text element.

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.

• Render comments when saving Presentation into Image
• Implementing End Paragraph Run Properties for Paragraph

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

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for .NET
• Downlaod of Aspose.Slides for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for .NET

Find Children PivotTables of Parent Table & Parse Pivot Cached Records While Loading Excel File using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Java 18.1.0. This release includes many new features and enhancements along with some critical bug fixes that further improve the overall stability of the APIs.  Sometimes, one pivot table uses other pivot table as a data source, so it is called a child pivot table or nested pivot table. Users can find the children pivot tables of a parent pivot table using the PivotTable.getChildren() method. The code sample on blog announcement page finds the children pivot tables of the pivot table using the PivotTable.getChildren() method and then refreshes them one by one. When users create a Pivot Table, Microsoft Excel takes a copy of the source data and stores it in the Pivot Cache. The Pivot Cache is held inside the memory of Microsoft Excel. When users load an Excel file inside the Workbook object, users can decide whether it also want to load the records of Pivot Cache or not, using the LoadOptions.ParsingPivotCachedRecords property. The default value of this property is false. If Pivot Cache is quite big, it can increase the performance. When Microsoft Excel file is exported to HTML using Microsoft Excel or Aspose.Cells APIs, it also exports various types of Document, Workbook and Worksheet properties. Microsoft Excel file may contain many unnecessary unused styles. When users export the Excel file to HTML file format, these unused styles are also exported. This could increase the size of HTML. Users can exclude the unused styles during the conversion of Excel file to HTML using the HtmlSaveOptions.ExcludeUnusedStyles property.  Early versions of Aspose.Cells were not able to handle automatic units of chart axis properly when chart is rendered to image or pdf. Now, Aspose.Cells supports the handling of automatic units of chart axis. There is no code change. Just convert chart into image or pdf and it will render chart axis just like Microsoft Excel renders it. Earlier, Aspose.Cells would create PdfBookmarkEntry for normal sheet. But now Aspose.Cells can also create PdfBookmarkEntry for chart sheet. Since, chart sheet does not have any other cell except cell A1, so it will create PdfBookmarkEntry for cell A1 only. Below are some important new features, enhancement and bug fixes part of this release.

• Provide an option to decide whether exporting workbook properties (parent issue id: CELLSJAVA-42471)
• Provide an option to decide whether exporting document properties (parent issue id: CELLSJAVA-42471)
• Create a PdfBookmarkEntry for a Chart sheet
• Fix needed for all ActiveX controls (parent issue id: CELLSJAVA-42442)
• Exclude unused styles when exporting Excel file to HTML (parent issue id: CELLSJAVA-42471)
• Parts of images are truncated or missing and they do not match with original source images
• Image protrudes from the Shape in the output PDF
• Element shape is incorrect in the output HTML
• Excel to Html - Wrapping text is ignored
• XLSB file gets corrupt after opening and saving
• HTML output discrepancy - Issue with spaces
• Irrelevant data included when saving to HTML
• XLSB corrupted after re-saving
• 15 digits numbers do not match what is in MS Excel
• Margins and layout differences when comparing the output PDF (by Aspose.Cells) with the MS Excel generated PDF
• Feature does not work in Java - ResultSet
• NullPointerException occurs while loading the MS Excel file

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.Cells for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Find and Refresh the Nested or Children Pivot Tables of Parent Pivot Table
• Parsing Pivot Cached Records while loading Excel file

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

More about Aspose.Cells for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.Cells for Java
• Download Aspose.Cells for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Cells for Java

Clone Visio Page from Visio Drawing& Enhanced VSDX to PDF Conversion using Jav

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java & .NET 18.1.0. The recent version 18.1 has added support of cloning the Visio page to another page instance. The recent version 18.1 also covers enhancements and regular bug fixes. Aspose team recommend the clients to incorporate the latest upgrade of Aspose.Diagram API to take benefit of improved functionality and bug fixes. With the recent version 18.1 of Aspose.Diagram API, developers can retrieve a page, and then clone to another page instance. In order to achieve this, the Copy method has been added in the Page class. This release includes several enhanced features and bug fixes as listed below

• Add support to duplicate / clone a diagram page
• The command button is missing after removing a page from VSDM
• VSDX to PDF - the shadows are being ignored on process shapes
• An error occurred after removing a page from VSDM
• VDX to VSDM - the connecting lines are not properly connected  
• VDX to VSDM - the connecting lines are not properly connected
• Output VDX - placing all Visio shapes on the concurrent point
• Output VDX - incorrect layout of the shapes

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Diagram for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Copy Visio Page to another Page instance
• Exporting VSD to VDX

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.

More about Aspose.Diagram for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.Diagram for Java
• Download Aspose.Diagram forJava
• Online documentation of Aspose.Diagram for Java

SMTP, POP3 & IMAP Functionality Improvements with Enhanced EMLs to XPS Conversion using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 18.1.0. This monthly release of API includes functional improvements related to various features of the API. These include internal enhancements to SMTP, POP3 and IMAP clients of the API as well as fixing several bugs. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of API documentation. This release includes several improvements to the overall API functionality which further add to the overall stability and performance of the API in terms of expected output, such as retaining message body font after setting html body, issue with retrieving email’s HTML body text, Loss of data while resaving Calendar EML, conversion of inline images to regular attachments, Issue with reading recipients and sender information from EML, Conversion of message body to encoding strings while resaving EML, Creation of multiple EML files in MBox while adding EML with attachmentsn and Exception with conversion of EMLs to XPS. The main bug fixes & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Create common queue for group and simple operations for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP clients
• Font changed after setting the html body of email
• Error while retrieving MailMessage.HtmlBodyText
• Calendar EML resaved loses all data
• Inline images become part of attachments collection after removing the signature
• Mapi message body html has invalid namespace declarations in html tag
• From/To not read properly from EML
• Resaving EML to EML loses turns body content into encoding
• Issue saving messages using MapiMessage   
• Adding EML to Mbox creates multiple emails in Mbox
• Printing mails raise exceptions

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Email for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Email for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Working with POP3 Client
• Working with Exchange EWS Client

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.

More about Aspose.Email for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Email for .NET C#
• Download Aspose.Email for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.Email for .NET

Aspose.Slides for C++ is Released: Create & Manipulate PowerPoint Presentations in C++ Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is excited to expand its APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.Slides for C++.  Aspose.Slides for C++ is a native code API that will empower developers to create and manipulate PowerPoint presentations without relying on Microsoft PowerPoint. The API has been be ported from latest available Aspose.Slides for .NET API and is enriched with all features available to date. The shared release of Aspose.Slides for C++ API include all basic features to create new as well as managing existing PowerPoint documents. At present Some important features are offered by the API, such as Load and save presentation, Managing shapes on slides including AutoShapes, Picture Frames and Video Frames etc, Managing Text including WordArt in presentation decks, support for PowerPoint Tables, support for MSO Charts, support for ActiveX and OLE Objects, support for SmartArt shapes, Support for VBA Macros, Adding, deleting and cloning slides inside presentation decks and SVG and exporting presentation files to PDF, HTML and XPS.. The list of new and improved features in this release are listed below

• Load and save presentation.
• Managing shapes on slides including AutoShapes, Picture Frames and Video Frames etc.
• Managing Text including WordArt in presentation decks
• Support for PowerPoint Tables.
•  Support for MSO Charts.
• Support for ActiveX and OLE Objects.
• Support for SmartArt shapes.
• Support for VBA Macros.
• Adding, deleting and cloning slides inside presentation decks.
• Applying animations and slides transition effects.
• Rendering presentation files to thumbnails and SVG.
• Exporting presentation files to PDF, HTML and XPS.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for C++ documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Product Overview
• Creating, Saving and Converting a Presentation

Overview: Aspose.Slides for C++

Aspose.Slides for C++ is a presentation processing library that enables the C++ applications to manipulate, render & convert PowerPoint presentations without requiring Microsoft PowerPoint application. It supports most of the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and slideshow file formats including PPT, POT, PPS, PPTX, POTX, PPSX & ODP. It has its own rendering engine, specially designed for rendering with highest of fidelity to the Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature allows to export presentations to standard formats such as PDF and XPS with results identical to the original presentation.

More about Aspose.Slides for C++

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for C++
• Download Aspose.Slides for C++
• Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for C++

Aspose.Newsletter February 2018: Native C++ APIs Released for Email Programming & Other News

Aspose Newsletter for February 2018 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It includes information about launching Native C++ APIs for email programming, Export Visio Shape to PDF and HTML formats in .NET, signing PDF documents in .NET standard 2.0, exporting Visio shape to PDF and HTML formats in .NET, PDF Text Extraction error reporting in Java Applications, Generate QR Barcode with Version Setting in Java or JasperReports & more.
Native C++ APIs for Email Programming
Aspose.Email for C++ allow developers to create, read, edit and convert Outlook and other popular email message formats (MSG, EML, EMLX and MHT) programmatically without the requirement of Office Automation. Some other advanced email features such as management of the message storage files including PST & OST are also supported. Download Free Trial
Signing PDF Documents in .NET Standard 2.0
Aspose.Words for .NET is the most advanced word documents processing API allowing to manipulate documents within any types of .NET applications. Saving to BMP image formats and signing of PDF documents is now supported in .NET Standard 2.0. Read more details here
Export Visio Shape to PDF and HTML formats in .NET
It was observed that the TextAbsorber class was not retrieving the text correctly when a PDF document used PDF Type 3 fonts. Now Aspose.Pdf for Java 17.12 implements a functionality in the PDF API to report text extraction error that has been implemented for TextAbsorber and TextFragmentAbsorber classes. Read more details here
Generate QR Barcode with Version Setting in Java and JasperReports
Aspose.BarCode allows developers to generate QR coded barcode by setting its version number in JasperReports and Java applications. A new property BarCodeBuilder.setQRVersion has been introduced in Java to define these settings.
How to: Preserve Meta Characters in a Word Document During Find & Replace Process?
Aspose.Words 18.1 supports preserving meta-characters beginning with “&” during find and replace process within Java and Android via Java applications. Developers can use FindReplaceOptions.PreserveMetaCharacters property to perform this operation.
How to: Read and Write External Connection of Excel XLSB file?
Aspose.Cells for Android via Java already supports reading and writing external connection of XLSX files but now it enhances the support further for XLSB file format. However, the code is same for both types of format. Try out fully functional code examples.
How to: Export OneNote Documents to HTML Stream in .NET?
Aspose.Note for .NET 18.1 allows exporting OneNote document to file as HTML. The HtmlSaveOptions now introduces the capability to save resources associated with document as embedded resources of converted HTML or save explicitly on disc. Try out fully functional code examples.
How to: Save Barcode Image in Vector Format?
Aspose.BarCode supports the functionality to save the generated barcode image in vector format within SQL Server Reporting Services and .NET applications. Two new values EMF and SVG has been introduced in Aspose.BarCode.BarCodeImageFormat enumeration which can be set before saving barcode image.
Updates about new Product Releases

1. Aspose.Total for Cloud – RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
2. Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of Aspose Android APIs.
3. Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of Aspose latest SharePoint products.
4. Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of Aspose latest Reporting Services products
5. Aspose.Total for JasperReports – The latest versions of Aspose JasperReports products.
6. Aspose.Total for C++ – The latest versions of our C++ products packaged into one product suite.
7. Aspose.Words for Reporting Services and JasperReports 17.12 – Upgraded Aspose.Words for Reporting Services and JasperReports to the latest version of Aspose.Words for .NET and Java respectively.
8. Aspose.Pdf for Java 17.11 – Improved memory usage in multithreaded environment and text manipulation.
9. Aspose.Slides for .NET and Java 17.12 – Improved WordArt, charts and images rendering support.
10. Aspose.Slides for .NET, Java, SSRS, SharePoint and JasperReports 17.11 – Improved PowerPoint presentation comments rendering support available now.
11. Aspose.Email for Java 17.11 – Support for working with extended attributes of messages using API’s Exchange Web Service (EWS) client.
12. Aspose.Slides for SharePoint, SSRS and JasperReports 17.12 – Improved text rendering support when exporting to PowerPoint or other formats.
13. Aspose.BarCode for .NET and SSRS 17.12  – Version number setting in QR coded barcode supported now.
14. Aspose.Imaging for .NET and Java 17.11 – Improved support for SVG, ODG files and JPEG export options.
15. Aspose.Html for .NET 17.12 – Improved processing of CSS styles and HTML to PDF conversion feature.

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

• February 21 – 23: DevNexus 2018 – Atlanta – GA, USA
• March 24th: DDD Wales – Swansea – Wales, UK

Sponsor a user group? Get in contact: user.groups@aspose.com
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PPTX to PNG Conversion & Enhanced Presentation Rendering Support are Enhanced inside Java Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for Java 18.1.0. This is a maintenance release whereby we have resolved issues incurring in API.  There are some important enhancements part of this release, such as PPTX to PNG:Grey Scale image is generated instead of Colored Image, Cloning slide into new presentation does not transfer SVG images, Unexpected underline in HTML, Exception on loading Presentation, Shape background changes in exported PDF, NullPointer Exception on saving presentation, Hyperlink not working if save as PDF with int array parameter and en-RS is not a supported culture. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• PPTX to PNG:Grey Scale image is generated instead of Colored Image.
• Cloning slide into new presentation does not transfer SVG images.
• Unexpected underline in HTML.
• Exception on loading Presentation.
• Shape background changes in exported PDF.
• NullPointer Exception on saving presentation.
• Hyperlink not working if saves as PDF with int array parameter.
• en-RS is not a supported culture.

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.

• Converting Presentation to PDF
• Exporting media files into html file

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.

More about Aspose.Slides for Java

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Java
• Downlaod Aspose.Slides for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for Java