Monthly Archives: May 2011

Better Non-English text support, Excellent TIFF to PDF conversion mechanism

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Nayyer Shahbaz

We just have been able to release another version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET which gives us more confidence while converting HTML pages into PDF format. There has been a remarkable improvement while converting TIFF images into PDF file and also this release version has made our product more compatible with non-English characters especially Arabic characters. Some other issues related to Table rendering, image placement while using BindFO and minor issues related to Table Of Contents are also fixed in this … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.PDF Product Family, Nayyer Shahbaz | Tagged Arabic Text rendering, HTML to PDF conversion, Hebrew text rendering, TIFF to Image conversion

Format Pivot Tables and Utilize Advanced Auto-Filter Options using Aspose.Cells for Java 2.5.4

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Amjad Sahi

We have released the Aspose.Cells for Java v2.5.4. In this version, we have added support for several advanced auto-filter types: MultipleFilter, DynamicFilter and IconFilter. Now, you can easily format a whole pivot table, toggle a pivot field’s items between hidden/shown. Moreover, you can specify axis’ properties as “Automatic” for Charts. The formula calculation engine is also enhanced, it now supports EOMONTH formula.

There are some other enhancements and fixes too.

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/72/java-components/aspose.cells-for-java/entry307071.aspx… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Cells Product Family | Tagged Excel, java, pivot table, product release

Table Of Contents (TOC) Improvements in Aspose.Words 10.1

Posted on May 30, 2011 by DmitryV

Just wanted to supplement the Aspose.Words for .NET and Java 10.1 announcement with some details about Table of Contents (TOC) update. The announcement states the release includes about 20 TOC fixes, let me tell you what the most noticeable categories are:

Performance fixes. There was a performance decrease since version 9.6 reported by our users. It is no longer there, yet there is a field for further improvements.
Appearance fixes. Aspose.Words used to construct some complex TOCs with certain issues,

Posted in Aspose.Total Product Family | Tagged Work with Table of Content in Word, Work with ToC in Word

Aspose.Words 10.1 Delivers 101 Issues Resolved

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Romank

As discussed earlier, we are now releasing Aspose.Words for .NET and Java:

Both .NET and Java versions on the same day, with the same functionality and fixes
Regularly on the 30th day of each month

You can find the downloads here:

Field Update and Table Of Contents (TOC) Improvements

Aspose.Words provides a unique feature that is not available anywhere else except in Microsoft Word itself. Aspose.Words can update most of the fields in a document and do … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family | Tagged .NET, Word, java, product release

Read and Export MS Visio 2003/2007/2010 VSD, VDX, VSS and VSX Diagrams using C#

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.2.0 has been released. This release supports reading MS Visio 2003, 2007 and 2010 diagrams (VSD, VDX, VSS and VSX formats) and saving these diagrams as VDX or VSX formats. You can read many more fields, formulas and functions in this release as compared to the previous releases.

This release allows you to render your diagrams to most popular image formats as well as save them as PDF. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Microsoft Visio, product release

Keep those Trains Moving (Aspose.Words on Mercurial)

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Romank

About a couple of months ago we migrated Aspose.Words development from Subversion to Mercurial. To setup and learn and document new procedures was a bit steep, but the productivity and morale has soared. We never looked back.

We have several projects. Just Aspose.Words for .NET consists of 600K+ lines of code, it is in one repository and we have 20-30 feature branches as well as some special branches active at the same time. Switching, merging and code reviews are fast … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family | Tagged software development, version control

Find Text in PDF and Replace it with Form Field: Combining DOM API and Facades Features

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

In this blog post, I’m going to explain two things; first one is to show you an interesting feature of the merged Aspose.Pdf — find and replace text with form field. This feature was previously not supported in Aspose.Pdf.Kit. The second one is to elaborate how you can combine the features from DOM API and Aspose.Pdf.Facades.

However, before I move forward, I would like you to have a look into my previous posts on the merged Aspose.Pdf, if you haven’t … Continue Reading

Posted in Shahzad Latif | Tagged Add Form Field, Find Text, Find and remove text in PDF, Find and replace text in PDF, Replace Text

New Features Available for Managing Exchange Server 2010

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Saqib Razzaq

We have recently released a new version of Aspose.Network for .NET 6.4. In this version, we added support for new features available via Exchange Web Services like manage inbox rules, user configuration, conversation items and get mail tips. All these features require MS Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

We also provided some other new features and bug fixes in this release. For download and release notes, please click here.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Email Product Family | Tagged .NET, EWS, excahnge web services, exchange, product release

Adding custom document properties and enhanced support for PowerPoint 2010 presentations included in Aspose.Slides for Java

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Mudassir Khan

We like to share the announcement of new release of Aspose.Slides for Java 2.5.0. This is primarily a maintenance release in which resolution for many regression issues as well as exceptions being thrown during presentations access, PDFs generations and slide cloning for both PPT and PPTX. The issues pertaining to bullets rendering have also been remedied in this new release. The compulsion of using Aspose.Metafiles for Java has also been eradicated in this release and now, one will only need … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Slides Product Family | Tagged PowerPoint, java, product release

Improvements in the “Aspose.Words Experience”

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Romank

We are planning a number of changes to our internal and external processes with the single aim – to improve the customer experience.

The first set of changes that you are going to notice starting from 1st June are:

Fixed schedule of regular releases.
Fixed time to make a decision on the issues you reported.

Fixed Release Schedule

We have always released Aspose.Words quite regularly (1-2 months), but we did not have fixed dates. We have now realized that … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family | Tagged software development