Monthly Archives: February 2008

Aspose.Words for Java 2.4.1 Released

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Konstantin

This is an unusual release. Most releases of Aspose.Words for Java are fixes, improvements or new features ported from the Aspose.Words .NET baseline. But this one is Java-only release.

What’s New

Support for JDK1.6. Although Aspose.Words jar for JDK1.5 works fine under JVM1.6, “native” 1.6 class files can be loaded more efficiently by the Java 6 Virtual Machine. Several sources state up to 15-20% performance improvement. Therefore we now include a separate Aspose.Words jar built for JDK1.6.
No more external libraries. Since

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Requesting a Temporary License has become easier

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Merit

That is right. We have now made receiving a temporary license that much easier. Now, you don’t have to post in our forum.

Now, you create an order id number just as before but you can enter it on the page above and it will automatically be sent to your email address. It’s fast and easy. Our temporary licenses are 30-day licenses.

https://purchase.aspose.com/temporary-license

If you need any help, please let me know. We are always happy to help.

Merit Cooper… Continue Reading

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Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.1 Released

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Romank

This is a maintenance release with a good number of fixes. Thank you to the customers who reported and waited for their fixes patiently.

Issue ID	Component	Summary
4382	DOC	Document can’t be opened by MSWord 2007 after processing using AW.
4237	DOC	Table alignment does not work in created DOC files – probably FIB problem
3997	DOC	Get rid of DocPr.ExtraBytes
3690	DOC	“Unrecognized format of the form field” exception occurs during opening document.
3532	DOC	The dropdown form

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Implementing conditional logic for Word documents using Aspose.Words

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Romank

This guy Pascal (sorry cannot find any more info) has written an interesting series of articles called Implementing conditional logic for Word documents using Aspose.Words.

Basically, this is a feature we get a lot of requests for and he went out and implemented it himself. We are very impressed with the extent of work he has done. Hats off to Pascal.

This is not the first time a customer implements some required feature before we at Aspose get to implement … Continue Reading

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What People Say about Aspose.Words

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Romank

David Coletta, Buzzword
http://www.colettas.org/?p=222

Doug Mahugh, Open XML file formats
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/comments/7672750.aspx

Ryan Ackley, http://www.textmining.org/
http://collabowriter.blogspot.com/2007/08/word-file-format-as-career.html

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Xls2Doc – Convert Excel to Word using Aspose.Cells and Aspose.Words

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Romank

We have published an interesting demo project that you might find useful.

This demo project uses Aspose.Cells for .NET, Aspose.Words for .NET and about 1200 lines of custom code to convert Microsoft Excel workbooks to Microsoft Word documents.

Using this project, you can convert from any load format supported by Aspose.Cells (XLS, OOXML XLSX, SpreadsheetML, CSV and tab delimited) to any save format supported by Aspose.Words (DOC, OOXML DOCX, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML, PDF).

For more info see the download page: … Continue Reading

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Use Aspose.Words in a PHP Project

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Romank

We have a great new article about how to use Aspose.Words in a PHP project.

You can use either Aspose.Words for .NET or Aspose.Words for Java. The article discusses the pros and cons of both approaches and shows essential techniques such as creating objects, calling methods, accessing properties, using enumerations and so on.

By the way, this is also a chance to preview the new Aspose-wide documentation system.… Continue Reading

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Aspose wins 4 awards in ComponentSource’s Top 2007 Awards

Posted on February 8, 2008 by John Owens

USA, Texas – February 8, 2008 – ComponentsSource is a leading online software vendor that offers products from over 100 vendors to many thousand customers. Every year, they put together a list of the best selling companies and products that they work with. There are two categories: Bestselling Publisher Awards, and Bestselling Product Awards. This year, Aspose placed in both categories and collected four awards.

Aspose was awarded a Top 25 Publisher Award. Last year, we received a Top 50 … Continue Reading