Monthly Archives: July 2011

Extract Text from PDF Including Images in C# using Aspose.PDF and Aspose.OCR

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

Extract text and images from PDF using C# .NET

Extracting text from a PDF file is a common requirement of the developers working with PDF files. Aspose.PDF for .NET already allows you to extract text from the PDF file using C# in your .NET applications. The only limitation was that the text couldn’t be extracted from the images contained by the PDF file.

Well, with the introduction of Aspose.OCR for .NET in our .NET product suite, we have moved towards removing this limitation. In this post, I’m going to … Continue Reading

Read custom field values selected from lookup table

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 3.9.0 has been released. This release supports reading custom field values (extended attributes) which are selected using a lookup table in MS Project 2003 MPP files. Now you can read manually entered custom field values as well as the values selected from a lookup table. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET, please visit the … Continue Reading

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Red Gate used Aspose.Total for SharePoint to convert management reports available to external advisers in PDF format

Posted on July 19, 2011 by John Owens

About Red Gate

Red Gate needed a simple solution for sharing management reports in a portable format with internal and external advisers. Converting spreadsheets and presentations to PDF was taking up valuable time. To streamline the process, Red Gate implemented Aspose.Total for SharePoint, giving all their users the ability to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF with a click of button.

Red Gate chose Aspose.Total for SharePoint because it was easy to use, worked from the start and had

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SalamanderSoft uses Aspose.Words for SharePoint for education solutions

Posted on July 14, 2011 by John Owens

Glasgow, Scotland – June 14, 2011 – Information technology exists to make sharing information and performing many business tasks, from presenting data to storing records, easier. Microsoft SharePoint is one of the many applications that aim to help businesses streamline how they store and share data. It is used by organisations large and small across the globe. One of SharePoint’s great strengths, its flexibility, also means that it can take organisations a lot of work to get the system so … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Words Product Family, Case Studies, News Release | Tagged Aspose review, Microsoft Word, SharePoint

Specify access privileges, text rotation, text and rectangle alignment support

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Nayyer Shahbaz

We are very much excited to announce the release of another version of Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports. This new version provides some new exciting features including specification of access privileges over resultant PDF (setting user and owner password, restrict printing, restrict copying of data and much more). We have also added the support for a Rotation parameter for TextElement, so you can either use Left or Right value. This new version gives you the leverage to specify text and rectangle alignment … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.PDF Product Family, Nayyer Shahbaz | Tagged Adobe Acrobat, jasperreports, product release, text alignment, text rotation

SmartArt rendering and improved charts support included in Aspose.Slides

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Mudassir Khan

We feel happy to announce the news of release of Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.3.0. This is one of major product release that has included the maiden support for SmartArt rendering. Another great thing about this product is that Aspose.Slides for .NET is no longer dependent on Aspose.Cells for .NET for rendering charts. The chart support has been completely rewritten and sample codes can be found in the documentation. The missing support for scattered charts with multiple series and markers support … Continue Reading

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

Seven Good Reasons to Migrate to Merged Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

You’re probably aware of the fact by now that merged Aspose.Pdf for .NET has been released. Our development team has been putting a great deal of effort into merging the two PDF components we offered, and improving the mechanism along the way. The main motivators for the merger of both Aspose.Pdf for .NET and Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET were the suggestions and the requirements we have been receiving from you for quite some time.

As the merged version is out now… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.PDF Product Family, Shahzad Latif | Tagged .NET, Adobe Acrobat, Merged Aspose.Pdf

Read MS Visio VDW, VST and VTX formats using Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.3.0

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Nausherwan Aslam

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.3.0 has been released. This release supports reading MS Visio VDW, VST and VTX formats. Using this new release, you can also read undocumented functions in MS Visio VSD format.

This release allows you to render text with transformation to most popular image formats as well as save them as PDF. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download new release of Aspose.Diagram … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Nausherwan Aslam | Tagged .NET, Microsoft Visio, product release

Get Font List from PDF using Java

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

We have released Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 3.9.0. In this version, we have introduced a new feature to get a list of all the fonts available in the PDF file. The PdfExtractor class now supports this feature. You may find a working example in the following help topic: Get List of the Fonts from the PDF File. We have also improved the features related to PDF to JPEG and TIFF conversion, form filling, fonts, and text rendering.

You may download the … Continue Reading

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New annotation styles, greater performance and better non-English text support

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Nayyer Shahbaz

Be the first to download and take advantage of latest release version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 5.4.0 as it provides superb performance while generating large PDF documents and provides better & stable support for rendering non-English text such as Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, etc. This version is equally stable while placing non-English contents from XSL-FO, XML or through code into product Document Object Model. Adding more to the great list of annotation styles already supported, we now have introduced some … Continue Reading

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