Monthly Archives: July 2011

Render Word Document Pages to PNG, BMP and JPEG in Java

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Romank

We have just released the first iteration of the “render to graphics” feature in Aspose.Words for Java 10.3. Rendering to graphics has been available in Aspose.Words for .NET for long time, but we managed to port it to Java only now. This functionality shines through in several important places in Aspose.Words. The following is a summary of what is now available.

Render Word Document Pages to PNG, BMP and JPEG

It is now possible to convert any Microsoft Word document pages into a raster image. … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family | Tagged BMP, JPEG, PNG, Word, java, product release

Why use Aspose.Words Instead of OpenXML SDK?

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Romank

Check our new Why not Open XML SDK? article in the Aspose.Words documentation.

Also, I am happy to announce our regular monthly release Aspose.Words 10.3 both for .NET and Java with over 100 fixes and improvements:

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family | Tagged .NET, OpenXML SDK, Word, java, product release, technical article

Export MS Visio Diagrams to XPS or PDF/A Formats in C#

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.4.0 has been released. This release supports ‘Export to XPS’ feature and allows you to export MS Visio diagrams to XPS format. PDF rendering has also been improved in this release and different security, compression, compliance and digital signing features have been included. Now you can render MS Visio diagrams as PDF/A15, PDF/A1a and PDF/A1b. You can also change security and compression settings when rendering diagrams to image or PDF.

DefaultFont property has also been introduced in … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Visio, PDF/A, XPS, product release

Convert PDF to Image And Extract Text using Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 5.8.0 is now available for download. In this latest release, we have improved the PDF to image conversion, field flattening, text extraction, page extraction, filling fields with images, security and concatenation related features. We have also enhanced the feature to add multiple rows in the multiline text box using carriage return and line feed i.e. “\r\n”.

You may download the latest version from the Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET downloads section.

Please note: Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET has been … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.PDF Product Family | Tagged .NET, Adobe Acrobat, PDF, product release

Set up custom export filters for Silverlight Viewer with Aspose rendering extensions

Posted on July 26, 2011 by John Owens

Texas, USA – 26 July, 2011 – Online reports are crucial to many businesses. A well-planned and designed report helps readers visualize data and understand patterns in it. A good report gives insight that helps businesses make the right decisions. Considering how important understanding data is it is unsurprising that there are many powerful reporting and visualization tools on the market. Aspose creates rendering extensions for one of the most popular, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Silverlight and

Posted in Aspose.Total Product Family, News Release | Tagged Perpetuum Software, SQL Server Reporting Services, Silverlight, Silverlight Viewer

Product release Aspose.Slides for Java 2.6.0

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Mudassir Khan

We like to share the announcement of release of Aspose.Slides for Java 2.6.0. This is primarily a maintenance release that contains the fix for several issues shared by customers. Issues related to presentation access in PowerPoint 2010 and Linux environment have been resolved. A new parser for extracting text from PPTX using Aspose.Slides for Java has also been implemented along with support for some of missing shapes.

Support for Japanese characters rendering along with missing text rendering in exported PDF’s … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Total Product Family, Aspose.Slides Product Family | Tagged PPTX, PowerPoint, linux, presentations, product release

Introducing Enterprise Support And Other Support Changes

Posted on July 25, 2011 by John Owens

In our continued efforts to ensure that our products and services fit the needs of all customer sizes we’re introducing some changes to our Support Services.

Since introducing Priority Support just over a year ago we’ve had tremendous feedback, from this feedback we’ve gathered that our Site subscription customers demand more from our Support Services that our Developer subscription customers.

To that end, we’re introducing a more streamlined version of our Enterprise Support service, amongst other benefits Enterprise Support customers … Continue Reading

Posted in News Release | Tagged John Owens, service update, support

UPCE, UPCA, EAN128 and Other Barcode Symbologies Added to Aspose.BarCode for Silverlight

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Saqib Razzaq

We have recently published a new version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 4.2. In this version, we added new barcode symbologies to Aspose.BarCode for Silverlight component. Some of these include UPCE, UPCA, EAN128 and EAN8.

For release notes and download, please visit http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.barcode-for-.net/default.aspx.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.BarCode Product Family | Tagged .NET, Silverlight, barcodes, new symbologies, product release

Read and Write Messages to Thunderbird Mail Storage

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Saqib Razzaq

We are happy to release a new version of Aspose.Network for Java 2.2. In this version, we added support for reading and writing messages from/to MBOX file. MBOX file is a popular format to store email messages and it is used by Mozilla Thunderbird and some other email clients.

We also added support to read and write VCARD files, which is a popular format to store contact information.

Download: https://downloads.aspose.com/ … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Email Product Family | Tagged Read Messages from Thunderbird Mail Storage, Write Messages to Thunderbird Mail Storage, java, mbox, product release, thunderbird, vcard

Load Excel Files with Charts/Shapes into Grid Controls and Exception Handling is Enhanced in Aspose.Cells for .NET 6.0.1

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Amjad Sahi

We have just released the Aspose.Cells for .NET v6.0.1. In this hot fix, we have made several enhancements regarding Exception Handling and Chart’s Formatting modules. The performance is enhanced regarding Printing Worksheets and Worksheet-to-Image features.

The grid controls (GridDesktop and GridWeb) provided by Aspose.Cells for .NET, now, support to load Excel files having charts and shapes. The desktop control allows you to export MS Excel 2007 files with more than 256 columns.

There are some other enhancements and fixes too.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Cells Product Family | Tagged .NET, Excel, charts, product release, spreadsheets