TrueType Fonts Implementation during PostScript to PDF & Image Conversion using .NET & Java APIs

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce latest release of Aspose.EPS for .NET and Java 19.1. In this new release, limitations related to rendering of TrueType Fonts have been removed. There were some limitations in earlier version(s) of the API where Type1 Fonts were used to be rendered as outlines instead of text resulting the restrictions that users cannot perform text search operations over obtained PDF documents. However, those restrictions are removed in latest version of the API and conversion of TrueType Fonts in PS to PDF and Images has been implemented. Furthermore, PS to PDF Conversion Engine is also optimized in this release of the API. The list of new and improved features in this release are listed below

• Implement conversion of TrueType font to PDF
• Implement conversion of TrueType font from PS to APS
• PostScript to PDF - output PDF file has blank page

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Convert PostScript File To PDF Document
• Convert PostScript File To Image

Overview: Aspose.EPS for Java

Aspose.ZIP for .NET is a flexible documents compression and archive manipulation API for standard zip format. API enables .NET applications to achieve files compression/decompression, archiving files as well as folders and encryption of archives. It provides protection via user-defined passwords and traditional encryption using ZipCrypto or AES encryption such as AES128, 192 and AES256. Aspose.ZIP for .NET is implemented using Managed C# and can be used with any .NET language like C#, VB.NET, J# and so on. It can be integrated with any kind of application, from ASP.NET web applications to Windows applications.

More about Aspose.EPS for Java

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

Redact or Hide Your Confidential & Sensitive Data with Ease using Our New .NET API

What’s new in this release?

We are proud to expand out .NET APIs family with the addition of a new product known as GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET. As we have mentioned in the pre-release blog post, GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET is an API to redact, hide or remove sensitive content & metadata from word processing documents, worksheets, presentations, ‎and PDF files within your .NET applications. The API provides a single ‎format-independent interface supporting various redaction types such as text redaction, metadata ‎redaction, annotation redaction, and tabular document redaction. Some documents contain confidential and sensitive content that needs to be protected. In many instances, it is required to remove the classified information from these documents before they are shared among different users. In such cases, it is impossible to process a bunch of documents manually. Here comes GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET to automate and simplify the process of information redaction within the documents. The list of important features are provided below

• Search and redact exact matches of a search string
• Search and redact using regular expressions
• Use textual (exemption codes) or graphic (colored rectangles) redactions
• Save document in its original format or as a PDF with raster images of original pages
• Wipe out metadata or redact metadata values
• Remove annotations or redact their texts
• Control redaction process and skip specific matches
• Integration interface for implementing custom redactions and formats
• Built-in support for office formats and PDF

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Product Overview
• Add Gradient in XPS Document

Overview: GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET

GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET is an API library that helps users erase sensitive and classified data from ‎various file formats, such as, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF. Our Redaction API’s single ‎format-independent interface supports redaction of various types, e.g., text redaction, metadata ‎redaction, annotation redaction, and tabular document redaction. GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET API ‎also allows you to redact password protected files. You are allowed to save the document in its original ‎format as well as create a sanitized PDF document with raster images of original pages.‎‎

More about GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET

• Homepage of GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET
• Download GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET
• Online documentation GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET

Convert PDF to EMF, Improved PDF Text Editing & Replacement using Java & .NET APIs

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for Java and .NET 19.1. API has already been published and is available for download and to be used in both .NET and Java Applications. In this release of API, more than 30 improvements have been included along with various enhancement in existing functionalities. Here are the highlights of worth mentioning enhancements in this release of the API. Converting PDF into EMF was already supported in Aspose.PDF API. However, using new revision of the API, you can achieve better results as new improvements have been made to PDF to EMF Conversion Engine to produce fine images. As mentioned above, there are various improvements which have been included in this release of the API to increase its usability factor and performance. some of these includes improvements have been made for Text editing and replacement scenarios, PDF Security features have been optimized, Memory consumption has been improved further, PDF Flattening feature has been further improved, Concatenation operations of PDF Documents have been optimized for better performance and many more. Some important Conversion Engines have been improved this release, such as PDF to TIFF, PDF to Image, HTML to PDF, PDF to SVG, PDF to PPTX, PDF to HTML, PDF to PDF/UA, PDF to PDF/A and PCL to PDF. Some important improved features included in this release are given below

• PDF/UA: Support Inline Text Elements
• PDF/UA: Support Block Text Elements
• PCL to PDF - The content is shifting to right side on subsequent pages
• Support for JDK 1.6
• NullpointerException on HTML to PDF
• closing File Stream after concatenation
• PDF to EMF/WMF conversion
• Large Pdf file to Tiff conversion performance issue
• PDF to Jpeg conversion consuming a lot time
• PDF to Image conversion takes much time    Bug
• Text replacement results in formatting issue
• Line break is not honored during text replace
• Persian text search problem
• HTML to PDF - Footer content alignment issues
• PDF to SVG - Unable to save output in Stream instance
• PDF file gets corrupted while locking it.
• Aspose.PDF taking long time to convert PDF->Image
• StackOverFlowException was occurred while loading the PDF Document.
• OOM thrown when ImagePlacement using
• Saving to EPUB format is taking too long.
• Saving to APS takes too long Bug
• PDF to PPTX - multiple text boxes and different text alignments in output PPTX
• PDF to HTML - Alignment issues occur when viewing HTML in IE11
• Incorrect underline in PDF file
• Simultaneously repeated rows and columns produce the incorrect output.
• PDF/UA: Using custom tag name for Structure Elements
• Flattening a PDF document is not working for a particular document
• An exception raises while converting PDF source to PDFA_2A compliant output
• Merging multiple documents using PdfFileEditor is taking too much time
• PDF/UA. Validator doesn't recognize error "Inconsistent entry found" for Structural parent tree
• PDF/UA. Validator recognize structure errors in correct document
• PDF/UA. Validator doesn't recognize warning "Inappropriate use Figure structure element"
• Incorrect decoding of an Chinese string
• PDF to PDF/A - Regression issue - image loading exception
• PDF to PDF/A - Regression issue - image loading exception
• NullPointerException when calling XImage.Grayscaled

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.

• Convert PCL file to PDF format
• Optimize PDF Document for the Web

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

List Email Messages while Working with Pop3Client & MSG Contact to MHT using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 19.1, This release includes few enhancements in API and overall functionality of the API has been improved as a result of several bug fixes. This release includes few enhancements to the API’s functionality. These enhancements include listing messages while working with Pop3Client, loading and saving of VCF contact and reading of OLM and MBX files. This release includes several improvements in term of bug fixes, such as improved working with EWSClient while UpdateItems, Improved formatting of HtmlBodyText in output, Improved working with loading EML, Improved working with date in header using MapiMessage to display in MHTML output, Improved working with ImapClient.ListMessagesByPage, MSG contact to MHT conversion is enhanced, Improved working with signed MSG, MailMessage to HTML conversion is enhanced, VCF to MSG conversion is enhanced, PST to MBOX conversion is enhanced and MSG to MHTML is enhanced The main bug fixes & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Pop3Client.ListMessages taking too much time
• Unable to update email using EWSClient.UpdateItems
• Loading and saving VCF contact skips some information
• No bullets added to the output of HtmlBodyText
• MailMessage.load throwing exception with EML     Bug
• Update date in header using MapiMessage to display in MHTML output
• ImapClient.ListMessagesByPage retrieves last email even if the page does not exist
• MSG contact to MHT conversion issue
• MapiMessage.fromMailMessage throws exception
• Issue while reading MBOX file
• Empty body in a signed MSG
• MailMessage to HTML conversion generates wrong HTML format
• Issues with VCF to MSG Conversion
• Issue with duplicate attachment after converting calendar mail
• Folder Skipped While Converting PST to MBOX
• MSG to MHTML - non-ASCII characters are transformed to question mark
• The appointment content is improperly encoding
• Issue while reading OLM File
• MapiMessage.FromMailMessage throws Exception
• Aspose.Email IgnoreSmtpAddressCheck does not allow %20 sequence
• How to set MapiTask DateCompletion before Start Date
• Unable to open EML file with MailMessage
• Converting MSG to MHT throws exception

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.

• Getting Total Number of Messages from MBox File
• Export Microsoft Visio Drawing to PDF

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

3D Scene Export to Compressed AMF Format & UV Generation using .NET & Java APIs

What’s new in this release?

Aspose is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.3D for Java & .NET 19.1. It includes long awaited support to export a scene to AMF format, in compressed mode as well as in uncompressed mode. Moreover, you can manually generate UV and associate it with the mesh with latest version of the API. In order to implement this functionality in applications, please check the demonstration in documentation of the API. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• UV atlas algorithm
• AMF Exporter
• Archive-based file format detection
• Create geometry by extruding shapes

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Export Scene to Compressed AMF Format
• Generate UV

Overview: Aspose.3D for Java

Aspose.3D for Java is a feature-rich Gameware and Computer-Aided-Designing (CAD) API that empowers Java applications to connect with 3D document formats without requiring any 3D modeling software being installed on the server. It supports most of the popular 3D file formats, allowing developers to easily create, read, convert & modify 3D files. It helps developers in building mesh of various 3D geometric shapes; define control points and polygons in the simplest way to create 3D meshes.  It empowers programmers to easily generate 3D scenes from scratch without needing to install any 3D modeling software.

More about Aspose.OCR for Java

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

Read/Write Projects Created using MS Office 365 Project Online Service using .NET APIs

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 19.2. This release includes support for Microsoft Project Online,  MPP files saved with Microsoft Office 365 cloud are supported now. Also fixes few issues reported with the API that further enhance the stability of the API. Aspose.Tasks for .NET API now supports Microsoft Office 365 Project Online Services. Now the users shall be able to read/write projects created using Microsoft Office 365 Project Online Service. There were various important improvements are implemented with this release. The support of setting CSS prefix for HTML export has been added and API is enhanced in working with Primavera DB. The feature to set custom date format while exporting to PDF format has also been implemented in this release. There are some important enhancements introduced in this release, such as Working with hyperlinks, scheduling, Chinese timestamps and lookup values are improved while re-saving MPP files and Improved reading of resources in MspResourceMapper and MpdResourceMapper.  This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Implement the Adding of Page Prefixes in CSS Classes when Saving MS Project into HTML
• Support for Microsoft Office 365 Project Online Service
• Implement an informative exception when trying to open a non-existing project from Primavera DB
• Implement a feature to set custom date format while exporting to PDF format
• Fix extra text in the hyperlink note after the MPP file being re-saved
• Fix missing hyperlinks after the MPP file being re-saved
• Fix error when a project with incorrect formula is saved to XML
• Fix reading of resources in MspResourceMapper and MpdResourceMapper
• Fix schedule differences after the MPP file being re-saved
• Fix displaying of lookup values after the MPP file being re-saved
• Fix Chinese timestamps after the MPP file being exported to PDF in US locale

  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
• Saving Project Data as 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

Aspose.Newsletter February 2019: Enhance Productivity using JDK 11 Compatible PDF API & More

Aspose Newsletter for February 2019 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It includes information about Enhancing productivity & performance using JDK 11 compatible PDF API, Loading Excel workbook efficiently without loading VBA project, Use latest version of Aspose.PDF for C++ with new codebase changes, Create PST folder hierarchy with string notation, Detect archive-based file format and work with AMF files in .NET and Java 3D applications and more.

Planning to move PDF applications to Java 11 or 10?

Enhance productivity & performance using JDK 11 compatible PDF API. Aspose.PDF for Java offers native API to generate, manipulate, convert, compress, render, secure and print PDF documents without needing Adobe Acrobat. Developers can also create new PDF documents directly through the API or via XML templates. With just a few lines of code – Convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images and many other file formats. Download Trial

Loading Excel workbook efficiently without loading VBA project

Aspose.Cells APIs provide the ability to create, manipulate, convert or render Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Excel files might have large number of macros but sometimes, it is needed to load worksheets only without loading these VBA projects just like extracting the sheet names from loaded workbook. Aspose.Cells has introduced a filter option LoadDataFilterOptions.VBA within Aspose.Cells for .NET, Java and Android via Java APIs that can load/skip VBA projects.

Use latest version of Aspose.PDF for C++ with new codebase changes

Aspose.PDF for C++ is a native C++ API to create, read, edit or render PDF documents from within C++ applications. The latest version announces entire codebase change, ported from Aspose.PDF for .NET to C++ API this making it more exciting and appealing for developers along with improved performance and stability. Read more details

Email API for .NET & Java – Create PST folder hierarchy with string notation

Aspose.Email offers native email formats processing APIs to create, edit, convert and transmit emails without using Microsoft Outlook. This release adds an overload to AddSubFolder(string name, bool createHierarchy) and CreatePredefinedFolder(string name, StandardIpmFolder defaultFolder, bool createHierarchy) functions that enable you to create folder hierarchy using string notation within any type of .NET and Java applications.

Detect archive-based file format and work with AMF files in .NET and Java 3D applications

Aspose.3D API seamlessly supports manipulating 3D documents without using any 3D modeling and rendering software. The latest version now announces support of standard 3D printing format i.e. AMF along with a new feature to detect archive-based file format within .NET and Java applications. Read more details

Code Example: Applying custom formatting for Time field and control threshold for TIFF binarization in .NET and Java

Aspose.Words offers market-leading APIs for word documents processing on any platform. Aspose.Words for .NET now supports a new feature to apply custom formatting to Time field as per customer requirements. A new property ThresholdForFloydSteinbergDithering in ImageSaveOptions class is also introduced to control threshold for TIFF binarization within .NET and Java applications.

Code Example: Printing PDF documents using PrintController of Aspose.PDF for .NET

Aspose.PDF for .NET is an advance PDF files processing and parsing API to create, edit, protect and convert PDF documents. The latest release of PDF API offers PrintController class that helps saving a System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument as PDF format. Read more 

Code Example: Convert Word document to HTML format in SharePoint Apps

Aspose.Words for SharePoint supports converting and combining word documents within Microsoft SharePoint applications. The entire codebase is optimized to improve the overall functionality. Using the latest version – users can convert Word document to HTML format now. Read more

Read dotted barcodes from TIFF images in JasperReports

Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports is a flexible JasperReports and JasperServer extension to generate and display high quality barcode labels in your applications. The latest version adds the ability to read dotted barcodes from Tiff images within JasperReports. Read more

Code Example: Rendering IGES and PLT drawings to PDF in .NET and Java applications

Aspose.CAD APIs allow developers to convert CAD files to PDF, XPS and raster images in .NET and Java applications. The latest version now supports exporting IGES and PLT files to PDF using CadRasterizationOption and PdfOptions

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 18.12 – Upgraded Aspose.Words for Reporting Services to Aspose.Words for .NET 18.12.
8. Aspose.Slides for .NET 18.12 – Improved fonts and EMF images rendering.
9. Aspose.Diagram for .NET and Java 18.12 – Improved conversion of VISIO diagrams to PDF, PNG and GIF file formats.
10. Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.12 – Upgraded Aspose.Words for JasperReports to Aspose.Words for Java 18.12 and fixed issue related to table cell height.
11. Aspose.Tasks for .NET 19.1 – Fixed reported issues and improved reading MS Project files.
12. Aspose.Slides for Java 18.12 – Improved PowerPoint file formats rendering issues.
13. Aspose.Note for .NET 19.1 – Improved refactor rendering for underline text and rich text while saving .ONE documents to PDF.
14. Aspose.Slides for C++ 18.12 – Improve EMF/WMF format processing.
15. Aspose.HTML for .NET 19.1 – Improved cascading style sheets (CSS) processing for high fidelity rendering.

Collect a copy of Aspose Newsletter, February 2018 edition

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Cascading Style Sheet Processing, HTML & MHT Rendering Enhancements using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is happy to announce the new release of Aspose.HTML for .NET 19.1. In this version, Cascading Style Sheet Processing has been improved so users can render the files with high fidelity. You will notice improved performance of the API as we have made some changes to decrease memory consumption while ensuring better performance. A few HTML and MHT rendering issues have also been resolved in latest version. An overview of public API changes and improvements can be found in Release Notes of the API.  Below is the list of new and improved features added in this new release.

• Problems converting HTML to PDF
• Memory leak upon MHT conversion
• Alignment problem with HTML to Image
• HTML table rendered improperly

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
• HTML to PDF Conversion

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

Manage PLT, IGES, DXF & AutoCAD DWG 2018 File Formats inside .NET & Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.CAD 18.2. It has included improved support for managing PLT and DXF files & rectified certain rendering issues incurring in API for exported DWG and DXF files as well. There are some important features have been introduced in this release, such as Support block clipping, DXF version not supported, Convert DWG to DXF, Support for DXF Version, Add support of DWG AutoCAD 2018 file format, Colors from DWG drawing are not rendered, Extend PLT support with HPGL specification, Exporting DXF layers to respective PDF layers and Add ATTRIB and MTEXT objects support. Some important improvements are also part of this release, such as Hang during export of DWG with lwpolyline, Aspose.CAD conflict with Aspose.PDF, PDF-files are damaged after export, DWG file to PDF not properly conver, Load of DWG file hangs on, 3D Drawing Rendered Incorrect in PDF, Extra Border When Creating PDF/TIFF, DWG file not properly converted to PDF, DWG reading bug, Export failed to JPEG, Support hatches with holes, Implement support for DWG 2018, Support for twist angles for 2D drawings and many more. The main new features added in this release are listed below

• Support block clipping.
• DXF version not supported.
• Convert DWG to DXF.
• Support for DXF Version.
• Add support of DWG AutoCAD 2018 file format.
• Colors from DWG drawing are not rendered.
• Extend PLT support with HPGL specification.
• Exporting DXF layers to respective PDF layers.
• Add ATTRIB and MTEXT objects support.
• Hang during export of DWG with lwpolyline.
• Aspose.CAD conflict with Aspose.PDF.
• PDF-files are damaged after export.
• DWG file to PDF not properly converted.
• Load of DWG file hangs on.
• ImageSave exception on saving DWG to PDF or TIFF.
• 3D Drawing Rendered Incorrect in PDF.
• Extra Border When Creating PDF/TIFF.
• DWG file not properly converted to PDF.
• DWG reading bug.
• Export failed to JPEG.
• Support hatches with holes.
• Implement support for DWG 2018.
• Support for twist angles for 2D drawings.
• DWG to PDF not properly converted.
• Text is missing in exported DWG.
• CadWipeout object is read as ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY.
• Fix drawing of dashes.
• Verify reading of CadLeader for DWG.
• DWG to PDF not properly converted.
• When converting DWG to PDF, output PDF cannot be opened in Acrobat Reader.
• DWG to Raster conversion is not working properly.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Export PLT to PDF
• Exporting Specific Layer of DXF Drawings to PDF

Overview:Aspose.CAD for .NET

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

More about Aspose.CAD for .NET

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

Aspose.Diagram Cloud is Launched: Create, Manipulate & Convert Visio Diagrams

What’s new in this release?

Aspose is proud to extent its cloud family with the addition of a new API known as Aspose.Diagram Cloud. It is a platform independent REST API, that allows developers to work with Microsoft Visio files in their application without installing Microsoft Visio. It seamlessly enhances your application with the capability to create, read and manipulate Microsoft Visio files using a simple set of requests. It supports working with native VSD/VSDX format as well as other popular Visio formats including VSS, VST, VSX, VTX, VDW, VDX, VSSX, VSTX, VSDM, VSSM and VSTM. First version of Aspose.Diagram Cloud includes some important features, such as Create a Visio file from scratch, Get pages’ info of Visio file, Get Visio file information, Save Visio file to other Visio formats and Convert Visio to images and fixed-layout formats. Aspose.Diagram Cloud REST API provides feature to convert the diagrams to other popular formats for quick and easy information sharing across the organization.  The Aspose.Diagram Cloud REST API is secured and requires authentication using an app access key ID (appSID) and app secret access key with OAuth 2.0 or URL Signing authorization header.  Aspose for Cloud REST APIs comes with a web based API Explorer as well. It is the easiest way to try out our API right away in your browser. It is a collection of Swagger documentation for the aspose.cloud APIs. So simply, first users need to sign up with aspose.cloud, get APP key and SID and start testing Aspose.Diagram Cloud REST API in user’s favorite browser interactively. It also comes with SDKs for different platforms to use this REST API in your specific project effortlessly. An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets users focus on writing code specific to your particular project. Below is the list of important new features introduced in this new release.

• Creates diagrams from scratch.
• Exports diagrams (VSD, VSDX, VSS, VSSX, VTX, VDX, VDW, VST, VSTX and VSX) to popular image formats (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, EMF, SVG and PNG).
• Exports diagrams to PDF.
• Exports diagrams to HTML.
• Exports diagrams to XML Paper Specification (XPS).
• Exports diagrams to Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF).
• Exports diagrams to XAML.

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

• Product Overview
• Get Diagram Document Information

Overview: Aspose.Diagram Cloud
Aspose.Diagram Cloud is platform independent REST API, that allows developers to work with Microsoft Visio files in their application without installing Microsoft Visio. It seamlessly enhances user’s application with the capability to create, read and manipulate Microsoft Visio files using a simple set of requests. It supports working with native VSD/VSDX format as well as other popular Visio formats including VSS, VST, VSX, VTX, VDW, VDX, VSSX, VSTX, VSDM, VSSM and VSTM. Aspose.Diagram Cloud REST API comes with SDKs for different platforms to use this REST API in users specific project effortlessly.
More about Aspose.Diagram Cloud

• Homepage of Aspose.Diagram Cloud
• Download Aspose.Diagram Cloud
• Online documentation Aspose.Diagram Cloud

OneNote Documents to PDF & Improved Image Visibility in Chrome Browser using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Note for .NET 19.1. This release includes improvement in terms of quality and performance with refactor rendering for underline text and rich text while saving .ONE documents to PDF. This new release of API introduces some important enhancements while saving .ONE documents to PDF and also improved image visibility while saving as HTML. It has enhanced quality with refactor rendering of underlined text for PDF format, Improved performance with refactor rendering to PDF and Image visibility improved in Chrome browser.  The list of new and enhanced features added in this release are given below

• Refactor rendering of underlined text for PDF format to improve quality
• Refactor rendering to PDF to improve performance
• Image is not visible in Chrome browser

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

• Specify OneNote Save Options
• Converting OneNote Document to PDF

Overview: Aspose.Note for .NET

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

More about Aspose.Note for .NET

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

Load any HTML with Self-Closing Tags & Convert It to Excel File inside Android Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Android via Java 18.12. 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 users 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 users 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.  Aspose.Cells provides rich features to manage shapes in the spreadsheet. Sometimes there is needed 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. Pivot tables are very common reports which are present in the workbooks. These reports are updated time by time and it is important to know the last time when report was updated for better decision making. Aspose.Cells has provided this feature by introducing property RefreshDate. Similarly name of the person who updated the pivot table is also provided as property RefreshedByWho.  Smart art is used for better representation of information however earlier the text in the smart art shapes was fixed. This limitation is gone now as now smart art text can be updated. For this purpose shape.setText() function is introduced which sets new text in the smart art shape. Data validation is done in variety of ways to control the input in the Excel file. Like limit can be defined for a cell within which some number can be entered, otherwise error message is raised. Issues were faced for validation of large numbers like 12345678901 etc. in the past but now this much large numbers are supported by Aspose.Cells. Aspose.Cells has introduced rendering active worksheet in a workbook to SVG. For this purpose load an Excel file into workbook object and set the active sheet index like for Sheet2, set index to 1. Then save the Workbook as SVG which will render active worksheet to SVG. Workbook can have multiple sheets which are rendered as multiple tab pages when converted to HTML using Excel. Similarly if a workbook contains single sheet, it shows one tab page when converted to HTML using Excel. This conversion was working fine for multiple sheets while using Aspose.Cells. However for single sheet workbook, there was no tab page and only HTML file was created without creating the separate folder containing CSS. Now Aspose.Cells has enhanced its library to create similar output for single sheet workbooks as compared to output created by Excel. In complex Excel files (XLSM/XSLB) there can be large amount of macros which can be very very long. Many times there is a need to load the workbooks without loading these VBA projects like just extracting the sheet names from loaded workbook. In this case we need a filter which can load VBA projects in when they are actually required. This time Aspose.Cells has introduced a filter option LoadDataFilterOptions.VBA which can be used for this purpose. Textbox is very common control which can be used in a worksheet. This is not necessary that text in the textbox is fixed. It may have tags which can be replaced with some text at runtime. It helps users to configure the controls as per the data on the sheet or from some other source. Worksheet.replace can be used for this purpose and textbox can be set with the desired text. It can convert worksheet to HTML but rendering entire sheet at once may not be required always. Users may require just a selected area of the sheet to be rendered to HTML. Worksheets contain page setup where print area can be set. A worksheet can have different types of validations including dropdown. There can be a need where user may want to detect the type of validation and take some decision based on this information. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

• Change returned value for getting Connection points
• Provide ability to export range as HTML
• Data bars are missing when XLSX is converted to HTML
• Value still exists when XLSX is converted to HTML
• 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
• Wrong count of validation values is read from XLSX
• Issue while treating consecutive delimiters as distinct
• Date format is incorrect for Japanese locale
• LightCells API fails to load huge file
• 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
• Chart line is missing in XLSX->PNG conversion
• Problem with getActualChartSize method
• SmartArt doesn't copy when workbook is copied
• Text formatting is missing in HTML output of excel range
• Icon Sets become misaligned when XLSX is converted to HTML
• Exporting named range data is not correctly rendered to HTML (Java)
• Named Range Issue
• Validation always returns true for 'getInCellDropDown()' method
• Wrong culture custom format gets returned for different locales (Germany, French, Italy and Spain)
• Excel To PDF conversion - Gauge chart rendering issue
• PDF rendition throws OutOfMemoryError exception

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

• Recognise self-closing tags
• Get Connection points from shape

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Android

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

More about Aspose.Cells for .NET

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

JDK 11 Compatibility & Enhanced Conversion Engine for PCL to PDF using Java

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for Java and .NET 18.12. As per regular monthly update process, attractive features and enhancement have been introduced in the latest release of the API to improve its usability and make it more user friendly. This release has added support for JDK 10 and 11. Now the API is compatible with latest JDKs and environment friendly. The API has been completely optimized to be compatible with both Java Versions and all maintenance tests were executed fine. Since the API is fully optimized to be used with Java 11 however, for some classes users should add external dependency to add classpath of the Class javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.HexBinaryAdapter, which was deleted from JRE. Furthermore, some API Classes are using JDK internal API i.e. java.base and java.desktop but, removal of such dependencies has been scheduled already and will be modifying API code accordingly to make it more efficient. Along with the features mentioned above, there are some useful enhancements and bug fixes also included in this release of the API, such as License Setting mechanism has been improved, Text Extraction Scenarios have been made better, PCL to PDF Conversion Engine has been improved and Font handling and rendering has been improved further. Some important improved features included in this release are given below

• Test compatibility with JDK 10
• Aspose.PDF compatibility with JDK 11
• NullPointerException while extracting text
• BadPaddingException while setting a license
• PCL to PDF - Resultant file is not correct    
• The bold style configuration for some fonts isn't accepted.  
• java.lang.ClassCastException while saving PDF

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.

• Optimize PDF File Size
• Optimize PDF Document for the Web

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

Unix Standard TAR & GZIP Archives are Supported inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.ZIP for .NET 19.1. This release introduces support for working with TAR and GZIP. Aspose.ZIP for .NET now supports USTAR archives as most modern TAR programs read and write archives in the UStar (Unix Standard TAR) format, introduced by the POSIX IEEE P1003.1 standard from 1988. It has introduced additional header fields and older TAR programs ignore the extra information (possibly extracting partially named files), while newer programs will test for the presence of the “ustar” string to determine if the new format is in use. The UStar format allows for longer file names and stores additional information about each file. The maximum filename size is 256, but it is split among a preceding path “filename prefix” and the filename itself, so can be much less. GZIP is a popular file format used by software application for file compression and decompression which is now fully supported by Aspose.ZIP for .NET with this latest release. The list of new and improved features in this release are listed below

• Implement Unix Standard TAR archive
• Implement GZIP archive
• Path Traversal Vulnerability

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Encrypt Files with AES Encryption
• Compressing Multiple Files

Overview: Aspose.ZIP for .NET

Aspose.ZIP for .NET is a flexible documents compression and archive manipulation API for standard zip format. API enables .NET applications to achieve files compression/decompression, archiving files as well as folders and encryption of archives. It provides protection via user-defined passwords and traditional encryption using ZipCrypto or AES encryption such as AES128, 192 and AES256. Aspose.ZIP for .NET is implemented using Managed C# and can be used with any .NET language like C#, VB.NET, J# and so on. It can be integrated with any kind of application, from ASP.NET web applications to Windows applications.

More about Aspose.ZIP for .NET

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

Convert Visio Diagram to Image & Enhanced Rendering of Shapes in Diagram using Java & .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET & Java 18.12.  In this revision of the API, several enhancements have been incorporated as well as various fixes to earlier reported bugs have been included. It is always recommended to go through the release notes of the API before using it in your environment. There are some important enhacements included in this release, such as VISIO Diagram to Image conversion method,  Rendering of Shapes in diagram has been taken care for better results, Loading of Visio Diagrams has been improved & more. VISIO to PDF, VISIO to PNG and VISIO to GIF Conversion Engines have been further improved.  Here is the list of important enhancements and bugs fixes in the new version.

• The text content isn't centralized in the inserted block interval shape          
• Dynamic connector not connecting the exact shape
• Shape.ToImage generates incorrect images for some Timeline and Calendar shapes
• API name is not showing agains PDF Producer/Creator field while generating PDF from VISIO diagrams
• VST to PDF export - the resultant PDF has two empty pages
• VSDX to PDF - Text color is incorrect in output
• Shapes are getting out of page boundaries
• Failure loading Visio file
• VSD to PNG/GIF - Parameter is not valid
• Number was less than lower bound
• Index out of bounds loading Visio
• Visio to PDF - missing shapes in output PDF
• Visio to PDF - incorrect shapes in output PDF
• VTX to HTML conversion, double line effect on shapes text items
• Corrupted file generated from GitHub example code

  Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Export Visio to HTML
• Export Microsoft Visio Drawing to PDF

Overview: Aspose.Diagram for .NET 

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

More about Aspose.Diagram for .NET

• Homepage of .Net Visio Component Aspose.Diagram for .NET
• Download Aspose.Diagram for .NET
• Online documentation of Aspose.Diagram for .NET

Create a Folder Hierarchy in PST Files using String Notation inside .NET Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 18.12. This release adds an overload to AddSubFolder(string name, bool createHierarchy) and CreatePredefinedFolder(string name, StandardIpmFolder defaultFolder, bool createHierarchy) functions that enable users to create folder hierarchy using string notation as shown in the code example on blog announcement page. By setting the second parameter of AddSubFolder() to true, users can create folder hierarchy using string notation. Backslash (“\”) is used as the path separator. This release includes several improvements in term of bug fixes, such as Fetching messages with ImapClient, Converting email message to MHTML, Reading Distribution Lists, Working with ICS, Working with MapiMessage attachments and Working with EMLX files. The main bug fixes & improved features added in this release are listed below

• Create folder hierarchy in PST using string notation
• Customers solution for Inline Attachment Detection to be investigated
• An exception raises while fetching messages using ImapClient
• Message to MHTML: Numbering is disturbed
• Error Reading Distribution List
• String Format Exception While Loading ICS
• VCF to MHT ignores encoding
• Newly created MapiContact missing some information is VCF which is present in MSG
• System Argument Exception While Loading EMLX
• File format detected as Unknown
• MapiMessage Attachment reading issue

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.

• Creating a New PST File and Add Subfolders
• Saving Message as HTML

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

Control Threshold for TIFF Binarization & Enhanced RTF to DOCX Conversion using Java

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java 19.1. It has added new property ThresholdForFloydSteinbergDithering in ImageSaveOptions class to control threshold for TIFF binarization. There are 55 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release, such as implemented the directed line caps rendering for Bezier curves in metafiles, implemented processing of the stroke properties while rendering custom line caps in metafiles, implemented support of Unicode font names while rendering to PDF, Fixed a bug that prevents rendering of horizontal lines with gradient fill in DrawingML, Fixed a bug when gradient fill is not rotated with DrawingML shapes by default, Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect rendering of DrawingML shapes inside groups when 3D rotation was applied, Fixed a bug with vertical alignment of Ruby objects while rendering, Fixed a bug that caused the creation of extra link tags in output PDF when rendering documents with footnotes, Supported dynamic table cell merging for LINQ Reporting Engine, Supported textual comments within LINQ Reporting Engine template syntax tags, Improved computation of wrap bounds of floating objects which affects position of text nearby, Improved positioning of line when it cannot fit next to floating object and has to be pushed below, Implemented navigation from footnote reference to footnote for PDF output, Fixed exception which may happen when spans are merged in paragraphs with different directionality and Fixed exception which may happen when span has null shading inside text box.  The list of most notable new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Add feature to merge table's cell vertically depending upon data structure
• Add name to foreach syntax of Linq Reporting
• Expose the threshold control for Tiff binarization  
• Arrow Heads truncate when converting DOCX to PDF
• Make footnote endnote numbers hyperlinks leading to corresponding note entry in main story
• Resolved Field code of hyperlink changed after conversion from RTF to DOCX
• Footnotes and endnotes references need to be rendered as active links
• GroupDocs: native method calls conflict.     
• Porting new API examples to Java
• Include only Required Java Modules
• The text is missing in PDF rendition
• Wrong Date Field in Java
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with text wrapping around the table
• The scaling of the second vertical axis and the placement of the grey line are changed after converting to PDF
• Images are rendering incorrectly/misplaced in Fixed Formats
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with charts' rendering
• Extra left margin is added after conversion from HTML to MHT
• DOCX to HTML conversion issue with table border
• Word to HTML Paragraph Formatting Issue
• MHTML to PDF conversion issue with text position
• Copied styles don't match the source styles
• Shape's contents are lost in output PDF
• Border color not modified when changing Accent color
• Arrow shapes do not render correctly in output PDF
• Incorrect list markers in a RTF document
• Font Name Not Properly Embedded in Converted PDF
• Text wrapping problems when saving to PDF
• Extra empty page is created after conversion from Docx to Pdf
• Position of chart is changed in output PDF
• Missing Text when converting RTF to PDF
• Gradient fill has incorrect direction while rendering rotated DML shapes
• How to merge table cells using the Linq engine
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with list label rendering

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.

• Control Threshold for TIFF Binarization
• Replace tag with text in a textbox inside the Worksheet

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

Print PDF Documents using PrintController & Add Images to PDF using FlateDecode Filter

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is very excited to announce the new version of Aspose.PDF for .NET 18.12. This new release of API contains number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes for the issues reported in previous version(s) of the API.  Latest release of the API offers PrintController Class which helps saving a System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument as PDF format. A code sample is provided to use PrintController Class and its functionality.  With latest release of the API, the FlateDecode filter is supported for adding images into PDF Pages.  PDF/UA functionality has been enhanced in terms of Validating Text, Creating ITaggedContent Interface, Creating Factory of Structure Elements, Managing Logical Tree of Elementsamd Setting up Title and Language of Tagged PDF Documents. There are some useful fixes and improvements which have been included in this release to improve its performance and usability,such as Enhanced PDF Optimization, Descriptive Exception is added for non-existing fonts in PDF to HTML Conversion Scenario, Performance has been improved for PDF to PNG Conversion, Improvements regarding Table data extraction have been made and Various fixes have been made for text adding/editing scenarios. Moreover, JPG to PDF, PDF to TIFF, PDF to JPEG, PDF to PNG, PDF to PDF/A-1B and PDF to PDF/UA Conversion Engines have been improved.  The list of important new and improved features are given below

• PDF/UA: Validate Text
• PDF/UA: Create Factory of Structure Elements
• PDF/UA: Create ITaggedContent interface for work with Tagged PDF documents
• PDF/UA: Add ability to manage Logical Tree of Elements
• PDF/UA: Ability setup Language and Title for Tagged PDF document
• Aspose.Pdf.Generator.PrintController is missing
• Tagged PDF - Support for setting language field in tag tab of object properties
• Add support of FlateDecode for storing new images into XImageCollection
• Introduce option in Optimization to store images with FlateDecode compression
• PDF to HTML: Descriptive exception message when non existing default font is set
• PDF optimization - cannot change DCTDecode compression
• PDF to PNG conversion takes longer time
• TextAbsorber returns incorrect result
• Problem rendering different TextStates on Same Line in Table Cell
• Issue on TextFragment.Margin with justify
• Text Extraction - Text being extracted in weird manner. Columns merge and scrambled
• The image output contains the inconsistent spacing between dots
• JPG to PDF - an internal error occurred
• PDF to TIFF - OutOfMemoryException during conversion
• PDF to JPEG - Dotted background is substituted with the white one
• Performance Issue: Converting PDF to PNG
• The text in html fragment isn't properly wrapped
• Form fields get invisible
• NullReferenceException when saving PDF file
• The footer shifts down and disappear for multiple page
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException with IsLowMemoryMode
• System Hangs while processing PDF document with HtmlFragment
• PDF to PDF/A 1B - artifacts appear in the converted image
• PDF to PDF/UA - Change the tag of this structure element
• Text Extraction - Text being extracted in weird manner. Columns merge and scrambled

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
• Online Demo for Aspose.Pdf for .NET

GIF Saving Support & Enhanced Performance of Exporting Presentation to PDF in Android Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to share the release announcement of Aspose.Slides for Android via Java 18.12. This is one of maintenance release whereby we have resolved certain issues incurring in API. This release has introduced some important new features, such as support of Gif saving for Android and Slow performance when exporting presentation to PDF. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes included in this release, such as Text is not exported to PDF, Exception on loading presentation, Exception on loading presentation, Exception on loading presentation, Date Changed after saving PPT to PPTX, Wrong outline gradient direction, Font changed after converting PPTX to PDF, Spaces lost in generated Thumbnail, Font substitution not rendering non-latin character-based languages correctly, PPTX not properly converted to PDF and PPTX not properly converted to PDF. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Add support of Gif saving for Android
• Slow performance when exporting presentation to PDF
• Text is not exported to PDF.
• Exception on loading presentation.
• Exception on loading presentation.
• Exception on loading presentation.
• Date Changed after saving PPT to PPTX.
• Wrong outline gradient direction.
• Font changed after converting PPTX to PDF.
• Spaces lost in generated Thumbnail.
• Font substitution not rendering non-latin character-based languages correctly.
• PPTX not properly converted to PDF.
• PPTX not properly converted to PDF.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Converting Presentation to HTML
• Converting Presentation to PDF using the Default Options

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Androidvia Java

Aspose.Slides for Android via Java is a PowerPoint File Manipulation API for mobile application programmers. Android developers can perform a wide range of presentation processing tasks including reading, writing, manipulating & converting PowerPoint presentations. It is a standalone Presentation Android API therefore it does not have any dependency on any other product including Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports almost all of the native PowerPoint file formats as well as ODP. Presentation elements such as SmartArt shapes, MSO charts, ActiveX components and OLE frame objects can be accessed via the public API for management and manipulation.

More about Aspose.Slides for Android via Java

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

Reading Project File of MS Project 2016 & Enhanced Resource Assignment using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 19.1. This release includes various improvements in reading project from MS Project 2016 and fixes few issues reported with the API that further enhance the stability of the API. This release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET API has enhanced reading and writing of BackgroundColor in TextStyles. Most importantly, the project reading functionality while reading project file of MS Project 2016 has improved with this release.  Moreover, the resource assignment is also enhanced by removing a set of actual fields while assigning the resources.  This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Exception in Aspose.Tasks is thrown on project saving
• Fix writing/reading of BackgroundColor=Automatic in TextStyles
• AT throws InvalidCastException while reading project from Project Server 2016
• Remove a set of actual fields while assigning the resource
• Implement a feature to customize styles of custom fields

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.

• Reading Project File from Stream
• Microsoft Project MPP File Update

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

Load Workbook without Loading VBA Project & Export Print Area Range to HTML using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 18.11. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby we have resolved certain issues incurring in API. There are some important new features included in this release, such as added support for Strict Open XML format, Implement serialization with Strict Open XML format compliance, ChartData SetRange on a Pivot Table, Support to get effects by text-box paragraphs and Setting Callout for Doughnut chart. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes are part of this release, suchas  the extra space added after bullet list item, Extra space added in the slide title after open/save presentation, When presentation is loaded and saved, Shape.OfficeInteropShapeId property is changed, Glows effects lost on exporting to PDF, Gradient and shadow effects are lost for SmartArt shape in PDF, EndOfStreamException on loading PPT with macros, Logo missing on generated PDF, Background of image changes to blue in generated thumbnail, Exception on presentation load, Soft edges effects are lost in generated thumbnail, Exception while PPTX to PDF/A-1b conversion, Missing Navigatorshape in PDF and HTML, The footer’s font has changed after loading and saving, PPTX not properly converted to PDF, Issue on converting PPTX file to PDF, PDF not properly generated after addclone and many more. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Add support for Strict Open XML format.
• Implement serialization with Strict Open XML format compliance.
• ChartData SetRange on a Pivot Table.
• Support to get effects by text-box paragraphs.
• Setting Callout for Doughnut chart.
• The extra space added after bullet list item.
• Extra space added in the slide title after open/save presentation.
• When presentation is loaded and saved, Shape.OfficeInteropShapeId property is changed..
• Glows effects lost on exporting to PDF.
• Gradient and shadow effects are lost for SmartArt shape in PDF.
• EndOfStreamException on loading PPT with macros.
• Logo missing on generated PDF.
• Background of image changes to blue in generated thumbnail.
• Exception on presentation load.
• Soft edges effects are lost in generated thumbnail.
• Exception while PPTX to PDF/A-1b conversion.
• Missing Navigatorshape in PDF and HTML.
• The footer’s font has changed after loading and saving.
• PPTX not properly converted to PDF.
• Issue on converting PPTX file to PDF.
• PDF not properly generated after addclone.
• PptRead exception on loading presentation.
• Transparency not applied in generated result.
• Missing Puzzle Shape in generated PDF.
• PPTX to PDF not properly converted.
• Aspose.Slides creator information of deleted comments disappears.
• PPTX not properly converted to PDF.
• PPT to html not properly converted.
• Blank image appearing in exported PDF.
• PPT Chart values are getting changed.
• Animations getting lost while changing text in a placeholder.
• Exception on adding sections.
• OverflowException on saving presentation.
• InvalidDataException on saving presentation.
• Images are improperly rendered in generated PDF.
• Wrong chart data point fill color is returned on accessing.
• Bacground rendered wrong.
• PptxReadException on loading presentation.
• Chart lines are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail.
• Exception on saving charts from PPTX to PPT.
• PPT file failed to load and throw exception “An entry with the same key already exists”.
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated PDF.

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

• Support to get effects by text-box paragraphs
• Setting Callout for Doughnut chart

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

Read Dotted Barcodes from TIFF Images & Enhanced XML Serialization using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.12. The new release of Aspose.BarCode adds the ability to read dotted barcodes from Tiff images. The code sample is provided on blog announcement page that show how to read such barcodes.  Other than the ability to read dotted barcodes from Tiff images, XML serialization was enhanced and made compatible between .NET and Java. Salient features of this new Barcode generation includes

• Not able to read dotted BarCodes from TIFF images
• An exception occurs for tests related to XML serialization
• Unable to Read Complete BarCode Text
• Restore compatibility of serialized XML code between .NET and Java
• Improved the recognition of a 3D-distorted and rotated 2D-barcodes

 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.

• Read Barcodes in a Specific Order
• How to Read Barcode from Multi-page TIFF Images

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

Work with AMF Files & Archive Based File Format Detection inside .NET/Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.3D for .NET & Java 18.12. This release includes long awaited support for standard 3d printing format i.e. AMF. Additive manufacturing file format has been added to Aspose.ThreeD.FileFormat class. Moreover, Archive-based file format can also be detected with latest version of Aspose.3D API. Issue with AssetDirectory for relative path, and some other internal fixes have also been incorporated in this release. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

• Add support for standard 3d printing format AMF
• Archive-based file format detection
• Relative path not working for ImageRenderOptions.AssetDirectory           
• Resolved Problem with Embedded Textures
• Improve FBX import performance

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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.

• Specify 3D File Load Options
• Detect format of 3D file

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

Fonts & EMF Rendering & Enhanced Table Appearance While Converting PPT to PDF using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 18.12. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby Aspose team has resolved certain issues incurring in API. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes part of this release, such as Font rendered by version 17.10 is no longer found by 18.7, EMF images are rendered wrong, Wrong font substitution, Cell borders are missing on thumbnail when it is generated in original size, PPTX not converted properly to PDF, Table disappears while converting PPT to PDF and many more. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

• Font rendered by version 17.10 is no longer found by 18.7.
• OutOfMemoryException on generating thumbnail (metafile rendering).
• EMF images are rendered wrong.
• Wrong font substitution.
• Cell borders are missing on thumbnail when it is generated in original size.
• PPTX not converted properly to PDF.
• Table disappears while converting PPT to PDF.
• Exception on saving PPTX.
• Wrong values returned by IPortion GetCoordinates().
• Corrupt Embedded excel file in PPTX.
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated PDF.
• Presentation repair message on loading Aspose generated presentation.
• PPTX not properly converted to PDF.
• Chart is improperly rendered in generated PDF.
• Heading with URL removed in saved presentation.
• PPT text box changed from one line to two lines.

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 HTML
• Converting Specific Slide to PDF

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