Custom Fonts Support on IBM iSeries & Enhanced HOCR to PDF Conversion using Java

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for Java 18.9.  As per regular monthly revision, quite exciting features and enhancements have been included in latest release in order to make API more user friendly and usable while creating and manipulating PDF documents. RichText is now supported in FreeTextAnnotation. Please note that rich text is HTML-like text markup and in order to use this in FreeTextAnnotaiton, users need to use setRichText() method offered by the API. If users need just plain text, then should use Contents Property instead of RictText but, Users may assign plain text to RichText and this would also work. Along with the feature mentioned above, there are some useful improvement which have been made to the latest version of the API, such as support of custom fonts is tested and verified for IBM iSeries, HOCR to PDF conversion has been improved for multithreaded maven scenarios, Text Stamping has further been improved and PDF to PDF/A Conversion engine is further improved. Some important improved features included in this release are given below

• Support of custom fonts on IBM iSeries
• Move Java APIs Code Baseline to JDK 1.8
• Exception when applying HOCR to PDF in multithreaded maven test
• HOCR text isn't properly aligned in the output document
• Output PDF - the text stamp is invisible
• NullPointerException on getNamedDestinations().getNames()
• The FreeTextAnnotation text content isn't shown in the output document.
• PDF to PDFA2a: Converting PDF, generated from Aspose.Cells, to PDFA2a fails the compliance
• An exception occurs while applying the text stamp

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Add Layers to PDF File
• Convert PDF to PDF-A format

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.

More about Aspose.Pdf for Java

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

Work with Outlook for MAC in OLM Format & Improved Compatibility with JDK 11 inside Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Email for Java 18.10. This month’s release allows you to work with Outlook for MAC in OLM format along with other enhancements to the API’s feature set. It also includes several bug fixes reported with the previous version of the API that add to the overall API stability. Being famous in market for email communication, Aspose.Email lets you work with popular data files and now the support for Outlook for MAC in OLM format has also been added. This release includes several improvements to the API’s functionality. The ability to configure SSL/TLS encryption type on email client instances has been added to the API. There are certain backward incompatibility changes as well which will need you to update the code samples with the new ones. There are some important enhancements also part of this release, such as Implementation of FindPeople Method to find all persona objects that match a specified query string,  Aspose.Email compatibility with JDK 11, Appointment datetime with MapiCalendar, EWSClient with proxy settings, Time settings for Mapi property, ClientSubmitTime, IMAP backup to PST, Reading Email Address from EML file, Copying messages from one PST to another with attachments of enclosed messages, Message encoding when the content-type is message/RFC822 and Base64 encoding is not permitted, ListMessages() agains IMAP server, Converting meeting requests to MHTML, The message body printed output, ‘SslProtocolType’ enumeration, PersonalStorageQueryBuilder Body.Contains() for OST File, EML to MSG conversion with html content, Email headers in HTML, Accented characters encoded in MapiCalendar object, Working with Appointment Time while Converting EML to MSG, Conversion of EML to EMLX including images associated with message body, Splitting of a PST, MBX to PST Conversion and Spanish accents. The main improved features & bug fixes added in this release are listed below

• Support for Outlook for Mac Data File (.OLM) using Aspose.Email
• Add ability to configure SSL/TLS ecryption type on email client instances
• Implementation of FindPeople Method to find all persona objects that match a specified query string
• Aspose.Email compatibility with JDK 11
• MapiCalendar and TimeZone Issue with appointment datetime
• MapiMessage.setBodyContent() generates exception if string ends with opening angle bracket.
• EWSClient is ignoring proxy settings.
• The inconsistent time regarding Mapi property ClientSubmitTime
• Imap backup to PST fails
• Unable to read To Email Address from EML file
• Copying messages from one PST to another leads to losing attachments of enclosed messages
• When the content-type is message/RFC822, Base64 encoding is not permitted
• ListMessages() agains IMAP server always return 0
• Issues with converting meeting requests to MHTML
• The message body is missing in the printed output.
• The specified value is not valid in the 'SslProtocolType' enumeration
• PersonalStorageQueryBuilder Body.Contains() not working for OST File
• The space character separator is missing in the MAPI property
• After EML to MSG conversion, html content does not show correctly
• Email headers are added at the wrong place in HTML
• Accented characters aren't properly encoded in MapiCalendar object
• After Converting EML to MSG, Appointment Time Shown In Local Time Instead Of UTC
• BAD responce from IMAP Yahoo server for when folder is empty (BAD CLIENTBUG FETCH Bad sequence in the command)
• After Converting EML to EMLX, the EMLX file is not showing images associated with message body
• KeyNotFoundException While Splitting a PST
• MBX to PST Conversion Issue
• Spanish accents in "From" and "Recipients" is turned into a ?
• FolderInfo.deleteChildItem method call thrown NullPointerException.
• PST modification. System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.

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

• Move Items to Other Folders in a PST
• Extract Attachments from PST Messages

Overview:Aspose.Email for Java 

Aspose.Email for Java is a Non-Graphical Java component that enables Java applications to read and write Microsoft Outlook documents without utilizing Microsoft Outlook. It enables developers to create new MSG file from scratch, update an existing MSG file, read Outlook MSG file & get it's properties like subject, body, recipients in to, cc and bcc, Adding or removing attachment, sender information and MAPI properties.  Aspose.Email for Java can be used with Web as well asDesktop Application.

More about Aspose.Email for Java

• Homepage of Oulook component Aspose.Email for Java
• Download Aspose.Email for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Email for Java

Summary Task Enhancements & Improved Import of Calendars from Primavera DB using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 18.11. This release has enhanced the type of summary task as TaskType.FixedDuration. It also fixes several issues reported with the API that further enhance the stability of the API. This release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET API includes several improvements in term of bug fixes, such as Tsk.ActualDuration field calculation on changing of Tsk.ActualWork, Timephased data in output MSP file, Duration of summary tasks with two assignments, Calculation of timephased data in particular cases, Summary tasks duration in particular cases, Reading of ResourceFlag4, Import of Tasks’ guides from Primavera DB, Import of Calendars from Primavera DB and Task Resource Assignment.  This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• The type of summary task must be fixed as TaskType.FixedDuration
• Make AT calculate Tsk.ActualDuration field on changing of Tsk.ActualWork         
• Incorrect timephased data in output MSP file
• Project Reading Exception
• Incorrect duration of summary tasks with two assignments
• Incorrect calculation of timephased data in particular cases
• Summary tasks have an incorrect duration in particular cases
• ResourceFlag4 isn't read correctly.
• Tasks' guides are imported incorrectly from Primavera DB
• Calendars are imported incorrectly from Primavera DB
• Remove a set of actual fields while assigning resource
  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.

• Saving a Project as PDF
• Writing Project Summary Information

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

Export Headers Footers to Plain Text TXT File & Java 11 Support inside Java Apps

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java 18.11. The release of this month contains number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes of the issues reported by our users in previous versions. A new feature has been added in Aspose.Words 18.11 to export all headers and footers at the end of document. We have added new property TxtSaveOptions.ExportHeadersFootersMode in this version of Aspose.Words. The main advantage of new property over the old TxtSaveOptions.ExportHeadersFooters property is that it has new headers and footers export mode: ‘AllAtEnd’. In this mode Aspose.Words acts the way similar to MS Word; all headers and footers are placed after all section bodies at the very end of a document. There are 81 improvements and bug fixes part of this regular monthly release, such as Aspose.Words for Java release jar is tested on Java 11, Compatibility with GroupDocs Total License is improved, GraphicsQualityOptions is better mapped to Java, yet another step to shrink (already small) pixel difference between .Net and Java generated images, borders, etc, JavaDoc for obsolete members become more clear, Fixed hang with autosized tables when cell has right aligned floaters, Fixed wrong visual order of text in specific cases, Fixed non-breaking space widths calculation, Implemented support for floating table metrics when calculating grid, ROP (raster operations) emulation code was improved, resulting in a significant performance boost (up to 5 times) when rendering the corresponding metafiles, Improved legacy vertical writing support in EMF rendering. Fonts with the ‘@’ prefix additionally rotate the Japanese glyphs, Improved calculation of the shape boundaries, more accurately mimicking the MS Word output,  Improved the rendering of DrawingML charts canvases overlay. Markers of the “nofill” series are rendered on the foreground, Improved rendering of DrawingML chart axes for documents created using MS Word 2007,  Fixed incorrect resolution of the system “window” color when rendering of VML shapes, fixed issue with underline/strikeout text effects in EMF/WMF rendering, Fixed a document rendering issue when font with English name could not be found in the system with a different locale, Fixed bug with rendering of DrawingML chart markers, if series data are not sorted in ascending order, Fixed a bug causing shifts of rotated shapes in DrawingML chart while rendering, provided TxtSaveOptions.ExportHeadersFootersMode property and many more.  The list of most notable new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Provide TxtSaveOptions.ExportHeadersFootersMode Property
• Removing colon between empty MERGEFIELDs
• Add Table property for 'Allow spacing between cells' option
• Implement mass copy of styles
• DOCX to HTML conversion issue with alignment of math images
• CustomBarcodeGenerator is not available for netstandard.
• Customer wants to get extensions of embedded files
• Update to SkiaSharp 1.60.3       
• TestDefect3613 Gradient fill has artifact line.
• TestJira13671 metafile is rendered improperly
• /table grid/ Docx to Pdf conversion issue with table position
• Document.Protect does not work with AllowOnlyFormFields protection type
• Rework performance tests to use the new engine
• Aspose.Words for Java - API reference doesn't contain information about obsolete properties and methods  
• Unsupported PNG image subformat while converting to PDF.
• Run Aspose.Words jdk16 jar under JDK 11
• SVG round and square
• Encrypted ODT file cannot be opened with OOo
• Non-breakable space vanishes in Online API JavaDoc.
• Absent crop on Svg Simple Stroke Line Cap.
• When DOCX is saved as PDF, images are shown as red X
• Canvas with half-tone meshing rendered unreadable
• Images are distorted in generated PDF
• Dashes in bullets list disappear in rendered PDF
• Incorrect color of the axis if WordStyle2010 is false after converting to PDF
• Empty pages are created after conversion from Docx to Doc
• Color Shading issues of Drawings in generated PDF
• Font Changed after a load/save Cycle of an RTF File
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with SAVEDATE rendering
• Combo charts with custom combination renders incorrectly
• Incorrect position of Picture in PDF
• Problem with ListNum Cross References when converting to PDF
• Image misplaced in rendered PDF
• The user shape in the chart is shifted after converting to PDF
• Aspose.Words considers TextBox shapes as Rectangles
• An evaluation mark is added to a nested document being inserted dynamically while building a report in a venture licensed mode
• FindReplaceOptions.FindWholeWordsOnly does not replace standalone word
• Some PostScript tests fail with GoldDifferenceException by circle
• Chart color is changed after using Document.AppendDocument
• A Shape in Table gets cropped when rendered to fixed page formats
• Layout looks broken when rendering barcode
• Paragraph border is lost in output ODT
• Styles.AddCopy does not copy list number style
• Shape is rendered improperly
• Some elements in charts missing when converting DOCX to PDF
• RTL text has wrong order
• The output PDF document words are getting mixed up
• Font of tab is changed after DOCX-HTML-DOCX round-trip
• Foreign language text inside WordArt rendered incorrectly in 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.Words for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Export Headers Footers to Plain Text TXT File & Java 11 Support
• Copy All Styles from Template

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.

More about Aspose.Words

• Homepage Java Word Library
• Download Aspose.Words for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Words

Read Activity Codes for XER Files & Enhanced Loading MPP Files with Project Summary using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 18.10. This release gives users the power to read activity codes for XER files and also brings several improvements to the API functionality in terms of enhancements. It also fixes issues reported with the earlier version of the API. This month’s release introduces the ability to read activity codes for XER files and added recurring task parameters validation when creating recurring task. This release also includes several improvements that further enhance the API functionality, such as scheduling of recurring daily task, Timephased data for material resource, Formula calculation, Loading MPP file, Custom fields’ values formatting while saving a project to PDF, Start of recurring task, Loading document in few threads, Loading MPP with project summary (Project 2016), Number of task links after export and Unsupported comma in task summary while exporting to MPX format.  Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

• Implement reading of activity codes for XER files
• Add recurring task parameters validation when creating recurring task
• Incorrect scheduling of recurring daily task
• Fix issues with formula calculation
• Wrong timephased data for material resource
• Loading MPP file raises Exception
• Custom fields' values are not formatted properly when saving a project to PDF
• Incorrect start of recurring task
• Aspose.Tasks throws exception when trying loading document in few threads
• Problems Loading MPP with project summary (Project 2016)
• Wrong number of task links after export
• Unsupported comma in task summary while exporting to MPX format

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.

• Writing Formulas in Extended Attributes to MPP File Formats
• Render Project to Multipage TIFF

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

Convert All Slides in a Presentation Document to SVG File in One Go inside Cloud Apps

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Slides for Cloud 18.9. This new releas has introduced a number of new features and made a few improvements. It also have made a few changes in the public API. This new release  Convert all Slides in a PPTX file to SVG files in one call. Please check Convert all Slides in a Presentation Document to SVG Format in One Go article for more details. This new release also Supports PictureOrganizationChart SmartArt layout type, Support new LightStyle1Accent5 value for TableStylePreset enum, Support new ImageTransparentColor and ApplyImageTransparent properties for PdfOptions and Support NotesCommentsLayouting.ShowCommentsByNoAuthor parameter. This release includes plenty of improvements & bug fixes features as listed below.

• Support PictureOrganizationChart SmartArt layout type
• Support new LightStyle1Accent5 value for TableStylePreset enum
• Support new ImageTransparentColor and ApplyImageTransparent properties for PdfOptions
• Convert all Slides in PPTX file to SVG files in one Call
• Support NotesCommentsLayouting.ShowCommentsByNoAuthor parameter\
• Create method to return API info
• Support optional password parameter for all methods

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Cloud

Aspose.Slides for Cloud is a REST API which allows you to process presentations. It allows you to create, modify, and convert presentations and provides a wide variety of features for working with presentations in the cloud. You can convert a presentation to TIFF, PDF, XPS, PPTX, ODP, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM, HTML and image formats. Aspose.Slides for Cloud allows you to extract different elements or a presentation including slide, text, color schemes, font schemes, shapes and images etc. Aspose.Slides for Cloud’s powerful API lets your apps process Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in the cloud, saving you the time it would take to develop your own API.

More about Aspose.Cells for Cloud

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Cloud
• Download Aspose.Slides for Cloud
• Online API documentation with code examples for Aspose.Slides for Cloud
• Ask technical questions/queries from Aspose for Cloud Support Team

Get Connection Points from Shapes in Spreadsheet & Handle Self Closing Tags in HTML using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Java 18.10. This release contains several important New feature, enhancements and bug fixes. Aspose team put effort to greater extent to make our product easy to use and error free by working hard on all the issues which are reported by the vast developer’s community. Depiction of data through HTML page is very common, however this page can be opened in variety of devices including mobiles, tabs and other hand held devices which contain small screens. The size of the columns is defined in “pt” which works in many cases. However there can be case where this fixed size may not be required. For example if container panel width is 600px where this HTML page is being displayed. In this case you may get horizontal scrollbar if the generated table width is bigger. This requirement is addressed by providing scalable units like em or percent for a better presentation. Empty tags are very common while working with HTML like we can face <td></td> or simply <td/>. Earlier self-closing tags were not supported however now this support is provided. Now you can load any HTML with self-closing tags and convert it to Excel file. Named regions can have English formulae and this file can be used in environments where  systems are configured to German Locale. There is need to translate these English formulae completely to German language for correct usage in Excel configured for German language. This feature is fully functional and can be used without any extra coding. Excel provides custom filters like filter rows which begins with and ends with some specific string. This feature is available in Aspose.Cells and demonstrated by providing working examples.  Aspose.Cells provides rich features to manage shapes in the spreadsheet. Sometimes there is need to get the connection points of a shape for aligning or placing the shapes at appropriate place. For this purpose all the connection points are required. Following code can be used to get the list of connection points of a shape where Shape.GetConnectionPoints() function is used. There are some other enhancements and exceptions handled in this new release, such as Convert left right ribbon shape to image, An exception(StackOverFlow) raises when saving to PDF output, Copy a range with PasteType.ALL (Paste options) not copying row heights properly, Invalid Russian date format output, Exception “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space” when rendering MS Excel file to PDF, Quotes appear in formula when retrieving the cell formula via Aspose.Cells and Performance degradation when using conditional formatting. Below are some important new features, enhancement and bug fixes part of this release.

• Convert left right ribbon shape to image
• Aspose.Cells for Java JavaDocs - missing package-list file
• Font is not a valid HTML5 and self-closing tag and web browsers misrepresent its contents
• An exception(StackOverFlow) raises when saving to PDF output
• Wrong value calculated by ROUNDUP()
• Copy a range with PasteType.ALL (Paste options) not copying row heights properly
• Hyperlink text formatting lost when new text is set
• Invalid Russian date format output
• Issue with SheetRender fonts
• Exception "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" when rendering MS Excel file to PDF
• Quotes appear in formula when retrieving the cell formula via Aspose.Cells
• Performance degradation when using conditional formatting
• An exception(StackOverFlow) raises when saving to PDF output   

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.

• Support for German Locale in Named Range Formulae
• Get Connection points from shape

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

Rename Packages from Aspose.Words JAR to Avoid Name Coincidence & Enhanced JRXML Export to DOC

What’s new in this release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.10 has been released. This latest release of Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.10 has upgraded this release to the latest version of Aspose.Words for Java 18.10, rename packages from Aspose.Words JAR to avoid name coincidence, and fix an issue related to table. This release also enhanced export of JRXML to DOC.  It further enhanced exporting reports from JasperReports and JasperServer to Microsoft Word document (DOC), Office Open XML (OOXML, DOCX), Web page (HTML) and plain text (TXT) formats. The list of improved features in this release are listed below

• Upgrade to the latest version of Aspose.Words for Java (18.10)
• java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: is thrown while export JRXML to DOC     
• Exception "Formatting cannot be applied..."

Starting from release 1.9.0 there are now several versions of the JAR library (this is necessary for better support of older versions of JasperReports):

• for JasperReports 6.3.0 and higher (aspose.words.jasperreports-6.3.0.jar)
• for JasperReports 5.6.0 … 6.2.0 (aspose.words.jasperreports-6.2.0.jar)
• for JasperReports 4.7.0 … 5.5.0 (aspose.words.jasperreports-5.5.0.jar)
• for JasperReports 3.7.2 … 4.5.0 (aspose.words.jasperreports-4.5.0.jar)
• for JasperReports 3.7.1 and lower (aspose.words.jasperreports-3.7.1.jar)

Please copy only one jar library according to the version of installed JasperReports.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, HTML, and TXT Export
• Compatibility Mode for DOCX output

Overview: Aspose.Words for JasperReports
Aspose.Words for JasperReports makes it possible exporting reports from JasperReports and JasperServer to Microsoft Word document (DOC), Office Open XML (OOXML, DOCX), Web page (HTML) and plain text (TXT) formats. It is written purely in Java and is provided as a single JAR file that can easily be deployed on the machines running JasperReports or JasperServer. Aspose.Words for JasperReports exports flow layout documents that are easy to further edit in Microsoft Word, if necessary.

More about Aspose.Words for JasperReports

• Homepage of Aspose.Words for JasperReports
• Download Aspose.Words for JasperReports
• Online Documentation of Aspose.Words for JasperReports

Add Hints Toolbar in Recognition View & Printer, Scanner Support in GUI OMR Editor in Cloud Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.OMR Cloud 18.10. This release has made an enhancement in OMR Kernel (Cloud) with regards to improve errors report in template generation. Moreover, it has made a number of improvements in the GUI OMR Editor (Cloud Client) such as add hints toolbar in Recognition view, and add printer and scanner support. An error report has been improved in the Generate Template function. Now in case of errors such as incorrect generation markup, users will get a full list of errors, and more detailed description for each error occurred. It has made a number of improvements in the GUI OMR Editor (Cloud Client) such as add hints toolbar in Recognition view, and add printer and scanner support. This release includes plenty of new & enhanced features as listed below

• Improve errors report in template generation
• Client Improvement: Add hints toolbar in Recognition view
• Client improvement: Add printer and scanner support
• Clip areas of interest from an image

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Clip areas of interest
• OMR API Specification

Overview: Aspose.OMR for Cloud
 
Aspose.OMR for Cloud is a REST API for optical mark recognition in the cloud. It supports recognizing most commonly used question type markers such as Check Boxes & Grid from image formats including JPEG, TIFF & GIF. Just pass specific image filename & its corresponding template to the Aspose.OMR for Cloud REST API, and it will return response in JSON format.Aspose.OMR for Cloud is equally good for scanned documents as well as photos of the documents because it can process rotated and perspective corrupted images with high accuracy.

More about Aspose.OMR for Cloud

• Homepage of Aspose.OMR for Cloud
• Download Aspose.OMR for Cloud
• Online documentation Aspose.OMR for Cloud

Link Annotation in Tagged PDF Support & Determine if Text has Underline using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is very excited to announce the new version of Aspose.PDF for .NET 18.10. As per regular monthly update process, it has incorporated new features and enhancements in the API as well as several fixes to the reported bugs have also been included in latest release. Latest version of the API has been released with the support of Link Annotation in Tagged PDFs. This support includes various functionalities i.e. adding tagged content with link tag, adding decorated link text content and gets rectangles that bounds link content. It has been working over providing full support for creating Tagged PDF content and hopefully new features would also be a part of next release. Some validations for PDF/UA Format of PDF documents have also been implemented in latest release of the API, such as XObjects Validations and Actions Validations. In order to determine if text has underline, getter for Underline property of TextState of TextFragment has been implemented. There are several serious reasons of using above option because, explicit instruction must be set for searching underlines in the document. As implementation of text underlining is not described in PDF specification, it means a great number of ways exist how text underlining may be implemented in third party documents. Therefore, we cannot give warranties that underlining of text will be found in all cases in source document. Along with the features mentioned above, there are some useful improvements and enhancements included in latest release of the API. Such as Tooltips for WebHyperlink have been improved to show correct behavior, Subscript in LatexFagment has been further improved, Non English characters rendering in PDF document is improved, PDF to PPTX conversion is improved, Text searching scenarios has been taken care of in terms of coordinates extraction, Font handling has been improved, PDF to TIFF Conversion Engine has further been improved, Image rendering while HTML to PDF Conversion is further improved, various improvements have been made for PDF to PDF/A conversion and Memory consumption has further been improvised. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• PDFUA: Add support for Link Annotation in tagged pdf
• PDF/UA: Validate XObjects
• PDF/UA: Validate Actions
• Implement Getter for Underline property
• Tooltip displays the complete URL of WebHyperlink when hovering mouse on TextFragment
• The numbering for the equation(math formulas) is missing when PDF produced using Latex script.    
• Problem with Subscript in LatexFragment
• Issues when rendering Japanese PDF document to HTML
• Out of memory error while converting PDF Document to PPTX
• PDF to PPTX - Text in output slides is overlapped
• PDF to PPTX - Output is not correct
• IndexOutOfRange exception while removing all text
• TextAbsorber extract incorrect coordinates
• Unable to use custom font
• TextFragment is not honoring Rotate angle
• The conversion PDF to MobiXml produces the corrupted output.
• Insert PNG into PDF - borders occur
• Image stamp of transparent GIF image rendered with black background
• PDF to TIFF - Barcode is missing in resultant image
• PDF to TIFF - Unable to convert PDF to TIFF
• Some columns are dropped if repeating columns are used.
• An exception raises while saving to PDFA formats.
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException during PDF to PDF/A conversion
• Vertical text renders in different order
• PDF to PDFA1B - the preflight compliance test is failed
• HTML to PDF: images missing in resulting file
• HTML to PDF throws ArgumentException
• XML to PDF - Line breaking and non-breaking space symbols are not working
• PDF to PDFA: incorrect different results in 10.9.0 and 11.4.0
• PDF to PDFA Conversion process hangs up
• PDF to PDFA: image is missing
• The FreeTextAnnotation text content isn't shown in the output document.
• Removing bookmarks do not work properly
• PCL to PDF - The content is shifting to right side on subsequent pages
• NullReferenceException during HTML to PDF conversion
• Redaction annotation throws NullReference Exception
• PDF/UA. Validator doesn't found tagged content error
• PDF/UA: Generated Tagged Pdf document doesn't compliance to PDF/UA spec        
• PDF/UA: Xmp Metadata Title problem when generate Tagged Pdf document
• PDF/UA: PDF/UA identifier problem when generate Tagged Pdf document
• PDF/UA: Logical Structure problem when generate Tagged Pdf document

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

• Get All Annotations from the Page of a PDF Document
• Update LinkAnnotation Text Color

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, extexnded 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#
• Download Aspose.Pdf for .NET
• Read online documentation of Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose Launches New Java APIs for Creating & Manipulating XPS Documents

What’s new in this release?

Aspose is proud to expand its Java APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.XPS for Java. This Java API has been built to allow developers to create, edit and save new as well as existing XPS documents. You can utilize the API in Desktop GUI Applications, Web Applications and Console Applications etc. Various features regarding creating objects in XPS documents, editing shapes and adding transparency have been offered in first version of the API. First version of Aspose.XPS for Java focuses on providing functionality to create and manipulate XPS documents. There are some important features part of this release, such as Add Gradient in XPS Document, add Image inside XPS Documents, add Pages to XPS Document, add Shapes in XPS Documents, manipulate Text inside XPS Documents, add Transparent Object inside XPS Document, Set Opacity Mask and add Grid using Visual Brush. The list of important features are provided below

• Create and Edit XPS Documents
• Add or Remove Pages of XPS Documents
• Work with Canvases, Paths and Glyphs Elements
• Create vector graphics shapes (Path element) using a set of primitives (elliptical arcs, Bezier curve segments and straight line segments)
• Create text strings (Glyphs element)
• Group elements (Canvas element) to manipulate a group as a whole
• Manipulate the appearance of graphics and text strings
• Use brushes of different types including solid color brush, image brush, visual brush etc.
• Specify colors in different color spaces including sRGB, scRGB and any space based on ICC profile
• Manipulate user intent and device configuration information (print tickets)

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Product Overview
• Add Image inside XPS Documents

Overview: Aspose.XPS for Java
 
Aspose.XPS for Java provides extensive manipulation capabilities for XPS files without requiring any additional software. Aspose.XPS for Java allows to create and edit the XPS files as well as provides the ability to manipulate document pages & elements, create vector graphics, group shapes and specifying colors in different color spaces including sRGB, scRGB, and any space based on ICC profile. Aspose.XPS for Java provides extensive support for page manipulation. Users can add a page to the end of the page list or insert it at any specified position. Java XPS API also allows to remove pages, select a page by number as “active” or create a page without binding it to the document.

More about Aspose.XPS for Java

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

Set Font Fallback Settings for Rendering & Insert Empty Field in Word Document using Java

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java 18.10. The release of this month contains number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes of the issues reported by Aspose users in previous versions. A new feature has been added in Aspose.Words 18.10 to set font fallback settings. Font fallback is used when font is resolved but it doesn’t contain a specific character. It has added new property FontSettings.FallbackSettings to set the settings related to font fallback mechanism. A new class FontFallbackSettings is also added for fallback mechanism settings. It has added new property NodeRendererBase.BoundsInPoints in this release to get the actual bounding box of the shape as rendered on the page. It has added two new properties named Style and StyleName in StructuredDocumentTag class to set or get the style applied to content control. A new feature has been added in this version of Aspose.Words to copy all styles of document into another document. MS Word allows to insert empty field into document. It has added this feature in Aspose.Words 18.10 to insert empty field into document. A new property Table.AllowCellSpacing has been added in this version of Aspose.Words to set or get the option “Allow spacing between cells” of table. It has added new feature in Aspose.Words 18.10 to insert horizontal rule into document. A new method InsertHorizontalRule() has been added to DocumentBuilder class.  There are 84 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release, such as Aspose.Words for Java is FIPS compliant now. The single sentence ‘SecuritySettings.startFipsMode()’ switches current Aspose.Words thread to the FIPS mode, Support Conholdate.Total for Java licensing system, Compatibility within GroupDocs Total package is improved, Just another Veracode Security Scan Report is fixed, Java 10/11 compatibility updates caused few bugs on some old Java Runtime Environments. We managed to fix these bugs quickly, Massive JavaDoc fixes, Aspose.BarCode compatibility changed to a new architecture that started from v.18.8. BarCode inside AW documents is more consistent now, Implemented new API to set up font fallback mechanism through XML configuration, Provide option to Use a style to format text typed into the SDT control and many more. The list of most notable new and improved features added in this release are given below

• The language detection of every Run object
• Rupee symbol does not render in PDF when old version of Arial font is used
• Provide option to Use a style to format text typed into the SDT control
• Add ability to remove paragraphs becoming empty after template extressions are evaluated to empty values
• Add feature to remove list item when data source is empty or null
• Remove empty paragraph when IF condition returns false in LINQ Reporting
• Add feature to remove last list number when HTML is inserted by LINQ Reporting
• WordArt rendering support (advanced features)
• FIPS compliant version of Bouncy Castle
• Fonts are substituted improperly
• Support 'Conholdate.Total for Java' licensing system
• GroupDocs Total License: resource name conflict after obfuscation    
• Links to internal members in public API Documentation
• Strange white thick line added to the table
• Some metadata properties are missing after document saving
• Try to render PNG images with corrupted structure // DOCX to PDF - image is lost
• Check Veracode Security Scan report
• Shapes (Math equation) do not render correctly
• Java documentation for GraphicsQualityOptions settings
• "Bad cref:" warning in public API due simplified see tag
• Missing javadoc for method with array in signature
• Links to .Net system members in Java's javadoc
• Remove '#Error Cref' warning errors from public API.
• Bad size of border around Barcode image.
• Javadoc is missing package-list file.
• Hebrew characters are not generating properly from rtf specified format
• An invalid characters encoding when saving RTF document to a string
• Links to internal members in public API Documentation.
• Generic Type is absent in public API
• PDF output is corrupted after some page
• Missing Text when converting RTF
• Space characters in an OfficeMath equation disappear after conversion to MathML
• Document is not rendered properly
• Word to PDF - Bookmark creation issue with style separator
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with English and Chinese text
• Document.PageCount returns wrong value
• Add feature to insert Horizontal Rule into document
• Aspose.Words produces invalid EPUB documents if HtmlSaveOptions.Encoding is not UTF-8 or UTF-16
• A picture at bottom right corner of first page moves inches towards left in PDF
• Incorrect rendering of X-axis labels after converting to PDF
• Converting Word to Pdf the text layout in Pdf is not correct
• Extracted Ole Object has wrong Signature and Binary values differ every time Aspose.Words code executes
• TextBox Picture are not preserved in rendered PDF
• Document.UpdateFields does not update the TOC field under Swedish culture
• Large tables flow off the side of the page when rendering
• Incorrect Table/Cell widths are exported to PDF
• Header/Footer cut off at the right side of page after conversion from Doc to Fixed file format
• Tables appear behind the Shapes in rendered PDF
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with text indentation

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

• Copy All Styles from Template
• Font substitution and Font fallback in Aspose.Words

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.

More about Aspose.Words

• Homepage Java Word Library
• Download Aspose.Words for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Words

.NET Standard 2.0 Support & Control File Compression while Saving FBX using .NET/Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.3D for .NET & Java 18.10. This release includes long awaited feature of Support for .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Core) Framework. Several other performance related enhancements have also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.3D API provides users even better control over their applications. This release has added EnableCompression property to FBXSaveOptions class, which allows users to decide if users want to enable or disable file compression while saving FBX file. It also enhanced FBX import performance and FBX Binary write performance. Few other exceptions pertaining to huge FBX file have also been rectified. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Support for .NET Core platform
• Allow user to turn off compression when saving FBX binary files  
• Improve FBX import performance
• Improve FBX Binary write performance
• ImportException while opening huge FBX files
• Problem with UnitScaleFactor property

Newly added documentation pages and articlesx

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.3D for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.3D for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Use of the FBX Save Options
• Reading a 3D Scene

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.

More about Aspose.OCR for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.3D for .NET
• Download Aspose.3D for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.3D for .NET

Read All Barcodes from TIFF & New Architecture of Barcodes Recognition Filters using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.10. This new version of API gives more power to the Barcode generation API. This new release has introduced new architecture of Barcode recognition filters, implemented UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new Barcode generation API and includes implementation to read all Barcodes from TIFF images. This release has also deprecated BarCodeBuilder. This release includes several improvements in term of bug fixes. such as DPI settings with rotation issue, Databars generation issue from GS1 string, ITF14 Barcode GS1 Verification Process failure issue, DataMatrix codes recognizing issue from the JPG image, Correction of text part in ENA13 when change resolution and Detection of all available Barcodes from PDF. Salient features of this new Barcode generation includes

• Investigate new architecture of barcodes recognition filters.
• Implement UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new barcode generation API
• Not able to read all barcodes from TIFF images
• Not able to read the barcode
• Deprecate BarCodeBuilder
• DPI settings works incorrectly with rotation
• Databars are generated incorrectly from GS1 string
• ITF14 barcode fails GS1 Verification Process
• Can't recognize DataMatrix codes from the JPG image
• Text part isn't correct in ENA13 when change resolution
• Aspose.BarCode is detecting only 1 out of 3 barcodes from PDF

 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.

• How to Read Barcode from PDF Documents
• Units based BarCode Generation

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

Document Processing Performance Improvements & Improved HTML to XPS Conversion using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is happy to announce the new release of Aspose.HTML for .NET 18.10. It has improved performance of the API by creating truly parallel mechanism that significantly contributed to improved processing of documents having lots of resources.  Users do not need to keep waiting until the HTML document is loaded, parsed and all scripts are executed, so the main thread is not blocked anymore. It has also incorporated a new namespace ‘Aspose.Html.Dom.Mutations’ which allows users to watch for changes being made to DOM tree. For in-depth details, users may visit Working with MutationObserver. Moreover, Aspose.HTML for .NET 18.10 also includes fixes for some exceptions which were incurring with previous versions of the API. Below is the list of new and improved features added in this new release

• Text alignment issues with Arabic in table cells
• HTML to XPS: Incorrect Woff signature exception
• Font-size "em"-values in at-page rules cause an exception
• Apply Header and footer during HTML to PDF

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.

• Load HTML Document Asynchronously
• Working with MutationObserver

Overview: Aspose.Html API

Aspose.Html API is an advanced HTML manipulation API that enables developers to perform a wide range of HTML manipulation tasks directly within .NET & Java applications. This API offers the capabilities to create as well as manipulate HTML files within users 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 API
• Download Aspose.Html for API
• Online documentation Aspose.Html API

Aspose.Cloud Newsletter November 2018: Excel Spreadsheets Processing REST APIs, Cloud SDKs & More

Aspose.Cloud Newsletter for November 2018 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases, such as REST APIs and Cloud SDKs for Excel Spreadsheets Processing Any Language – Any Platform, without installing Microsoft Excel, New Optimized version of Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Java is Released, PDF Cloud SDK for Swift Programming Language, PDF Cloud REST API for cURL Command Line Tool and many more.

REST APIs and Cloud SDKs for Excel Spreadsheets Processing any Language – Any Platform, without installing Microsoft Excel

Aspose.Cells Cloud Product Family includes cloud SDKs for .NET, Java, cURL, PHP, Python and Node.js to let application developers create, manipulate, covert, protect and render Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (10+ file formats) in any language or platform that is capable to call REST APIs. You can create formulas and manipulate spreadsheet aspects including worksheets, rows, columns, cells, text, data, images, links, comments, charts and many more. Download FREE 30-Days Trial

New Optimized version of Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Java is Released

Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Java is wrapper built around Aspose REST APIs. It allows developers to perform Microsoft Word documents processing tasks within Java applications quickly and easily, gaining all benefits of strong types and IDE highlights. You can create, manipulate, render and convert Word documents to several business file formats. Read more details

PDF Cloud SDK for Swift Programming Language

Aspose.Pdf offers individual Cloud SDK for Swift to enable Swift developers creating, manipulating, transforming, protecting and converting PDF files to various supported formats. The SDK supports number of useful features like: split and merge PDF files, manipulate PDF elements, PDF annotation and securing PDF documents with digital signatures. Read more details

PDF Cloud REST API for cURL Command Line Tool

Aspose.PDF Cloud for cURL allows you to create, edit and convert PDF files in the cloud. The API allows you to create PDF documents from several other file formats including PCL, HTML, XML and images. Moreover, you can convert PDF documents to various other formats including HTML, DOC, JPEG, TIFF and TXT. The PDF REST API enables extracting PDF contents including text and images from the PDF files along with the support of other advanced PDF processing features. Read more details

Cloud REST APIs to Convert HTML documents to PDF, Images and XPS

Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and SDKs allow you to manipulate and translate HTML files in any Platform. The latest version adds a group of conversion PUT methods that provide possibility to upload conversion results to specified storage folder. Easily convert HTML files to PDF, XPS and popular image file formats. Read more

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Aspose.Newsletter November 2018: Manipulate Complex XPS Files within Java Apps & Other News

Aspose Newsletter for November 2018 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It includes information about Manipulating complex XPS files easily within Java applications without requiring any additional software, support for .NET standard 2.0 (.NET Core) in Aspose.3D, rendering PowerPoint slide images – exporting to PDF, SVG and HTML in Android Apps, New architecture of Barcode recognition filters introduced in Aspose.BarCode, Cross-Package support and linking print tickets in .NET XPS documents & many more.

Manipulate Complex XPS Files Easily within Java Applications Without requiring any additional software

Aspose.XPS for Java API – a feature-rich XPS API to create, edit, parse and save existing as well as new XPS documents within any types of Java, desktop GUI, web and console applications. Add gradients, text strings, vector graphic shapes and work with different elements including pages, canvases, paths and glyphs. Explore NOW

Support for .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Core) in Aspose.3D

Aspose.3D offers .NET and Java APIs for manipulating 3D documents within your apps to let them create, read, edit or convert 3D files without any 3D modeling software installed. The latest version now supports .NET standard 2.0 framework. It supports Discreet3DS, WavefrontOBJ, FBX (ASCII, Binary), STL (ASCII, Binary), Universal3D, Collada, glTF, GLB, PLY, DirectX and Google Draco file formats. Read more details.

Rendering PowerPoint Slide Images – Exporting to PDF, SVG and HTML in Android Apps

Aspose.Slides for Android via Java offers set of APIs for manipulating PowerPoint files in Android apps. The recent version now supports creating images of a Slide in a PPTX file and converting to PDF, images, HTML and SVG formats. It also adds support of metafiles for Android based applications. Read more details.

New Architecture of Barcode Recognition Filters Introduced in Aspose.BarCode

Aspose.BarCode enables adding barcode generation and recognition features within your applications. The recent version has evolved and introduced a new architecture of barcode recognition filters by implementing UpcaGs1Code128Coupon barcode generation APIs for .NET, Java, Reporting Services and JasperReports applications. It also supports reading barcodes from TIFF images.

Cross-Package Support and Linking Print Tickets in .NET XPS Documents

Aspose.XPS for .NET offers extensive manipulation capabilities for XPS files without requiring any additional software. Along with creating and editing XPS files, developers can also modify document pages, elements, create vector graphics, group shapes as well as specifying colors. The new version allows performing cross-package operations and linking print tickets to get a document ticket and link it to another document or page. Read more
Code Example: How to Remove Empty Paragraphs in Word Reports Generated by LINQ Reporting Engine?

Aspose.Words offer advanced Word documents manipulation APIs to perform a wide range of document processing tasks within your applications. The latest version includes a number of useful features in .NET and Java APIs that include: setting the style of content control to format text typed, inserting empty fields into document and removing empty paragraphs while creating Word document reports by LINQ reporting engine.

Code Example: How to Encrypt or Decrypt an ODS File in Android Apps?

Aspose.Cells for Android via Java offers Excel spreadsheets processing APIs for Android applications. The recent version has introduced a lot of useful features including encrypting and decrypting an ODS file. An encrypted ODS file can only be opened by OpenOffice after providing the password. Aspose.Cells for Android via Java allows you to encrypt ODS file by setting the WorkbookSettings.Password value to the actual password before saving it. Read more

Code Example: How to Convert PDF File to PPTX in JasperReports?

Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports allows exporting reports to PDF format from JasperReports and JasperServer. The recent version supports Jasper Library 6.7.0 and enables exporting PDF reports into PPTX format. A new field (PPTX) has been added to the Class com.aspose.pdf.jr.SavingFormatType which can be used to generate PPTX formatted document. Read more

Code Example: How to Merge Multiple VISIO Files into Single Output?

Aspose.Diagram offers Microsoft Visio diagramming and processing APIs for .NET and Java applications. The current version now supports merging multiple VISIO files into single output file. Just add 2-3 lines of simple code to perform the file-merging operation. Read more

Code Example: How to Create Section 508 Compliant Accessible PDF Documents?

Aspose.Pdf offers PDF files manipulation APIs for any platform. Java and .NET developers can now create PDF files that are compatible with PDF/UA Standard (known as “Section 508” or “WCAG Standard”). These standards describe requirements for document contents to make it friendlier and more useful for people with disabilities and also for users with highly limited devices. Read more
Updates about new Product Releases

1. Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of Aspose latest .NET products
2. Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of Aspose latest Java products.
3. Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of Aspose Android APIs.
4. Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of Aspose latest SharePoint products.
5. Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of Aspose latest Reporting Services products
6. Aspose.Total for JasperReports – The latest versions of Aspose JasperReports products.
7. Aspose.Total for C++ – The latest versions of our C++ products packaged into one product suite.
8.  Aspose.Words for SharePoint 18.9 – Metafile rendering and output image quality improved.
9. Aspose.Slides for .NET, Java and C++ – Improved PowerPoint presentation and chart rendering as well as stability for multi-threading.
10. Aspose.Words for Reporting Services 18.9 – Upgraded Aspose.Words for Reporting Services to Aspose.Words for .NET.
11. Aspose.Email for Android via Java 18.8 – Issues with MapiContact modification and converting meeting requests to MHTML are fixed.
12. Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.9 – Upgraded Aspose.Words for JasperReports to Latest Version of Aspose.Words for Java.
13. Aspose.EPS API for .NET and Java – Performance improvement have been made in the APIs to enhance the overall usability.
14. Aspose.Note for Java 18.9 – A new feature of managing font’s environment for a document as well as providing functionality to copy a page from one document to another at a certain position.
15. Aspose.HTML for .NET 18.10 – Improved performance of the API by creating truly parallel mechanism that significantly contributed to improved processing of documents having lots of resources.
16. Aspose.3D for .NET and Java 18.9 – Optimized memory consumption while opening huge FBX files.
17. Aspose.GIS for .NET 18.10 – API performance enhanced along with new feature support for calculating the area of Geometries and calculating distance between Geometries.
18. Aspose.EPS for .NET 18.9 – PostScript/EPS to PDF conversion engine has further been improved to optimize the overall performance.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

• October 2-5: TechBash 2018 – Kalahari Resorts, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania
• October 17-19: .NET Developer Days – Warsaw, Poland
• October 18-19: DevFast Nantes – Nantes, France
• October 24-27: Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 – Shanghai, China

Sponsor a user group? Get in contact: user.groups@aspose.com
 
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