Monthly Archives: August 2011

Custom XML Parts in the API and Other Goodies in Aspose.Words 10.4

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Romank

In this post, I am going to tell you what we’ve been busy with during August 2011 and how this work resulted in the Aspose.Words 10.4.0 release.

We continue to maintain the code of our .NET and Java products in sync by using autoporting so you continue to get the same set of features and fixes in both products on the same day.

As usual, you can download Aspose.Words from:

Custom XML

ITF6 barcode generation support added in Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Saqib Razzaq

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports 1.6. In this version, we have added support for ITF6 barcodes. It can also render images in both bitmap and SVG formats.

For full release notes and a link to the download, please visit http://www.aspose.com/community/files/67/jasperreports-exporters/aspose.barcode-for-jasperreports/default.aspx.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.BarCode Product Family | Tagged BMP, SVG, itf6, jasperreports, product release

Aspose.Cells for Java 7.0.0 released

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Amjad Sahi

This product has almost the same features/APIs as Aspose.Cells for .NET. We actually wanted the two products (Aspose.Cells for .NET and Aspose.Cells for Java) to be same as possible but to achieve this we had to manually port the .NET product using line by line for the APIs set to Java. This was very time consuming task but our developers continuously worked on the task to make it possible. To get the two products in line, we developed a process … Continue Reading

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

Change pivot items position, export group shapes and render conditionally formatted HTML using Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.0.0

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Amjad Sahi

We have just released the Aspose.Cells for .NET v7.0.0. In this version, we have made some enhancements regarding Pivot Tables and Smart Markers. You can now change the position of the pivot table items. Aspose.Cells’ Exception handling is improved a bit and an exception will be thrown when you try to name a worksheet with special characters (that is not allowed in MS Excel either).

You can now render HTML files applied with conditional formatting. The performance of the Formula … Continue Reading

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

ITF6 barcode generation support added in Aspose.BarCode for reporting services

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Saqib Razzaq

We have recently released Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 2.6. In this version, we added support for generation of ITF6 barcode. Besides that, there were also some bug fixes.

For release notes and download, please visit http://www.aspose.com/community/files/52/ssrs-rendering-extensions/aspose.barcode-for-reporting-services/default.aspx.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.BarCode Product Family | Tagged SSRS, barcode, itf6, rep-orting services

Extract French and Spanish as well as Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New text from images

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.OCR for .NET 1.1.0 has been released. This release supports French and Spanish text and allows you to extract French or Spanish text from BMP and TIFF images. This release also supports Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New fonts. You can extract 32pt +/- 20% sizes of the mentioned font families from BMP and TIFF images. The accuracy of the extracted text is above 90% and is 100% in some cases.

This release also includes new API to set image … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.OCR Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged Calibri, Courier New, French, Spanish, Tahoma, Verdana, optical character recognition, product release

Product release Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.4.0

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Mudassir Khan

We like to share the release announcement for Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.4.0 that includes added support for implementing chart series markers and TickLables properties of axis. The extended support modifying chart type and adding chart series labels has also been provided in this new release. This is primarily a maintenance release that has improved support for export to PDF. Some of issues related to presentation saving have also been mitigated in the release. Slide cloning along with chart rendering issues … Continue Reading

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

Convert Microsoft Office documents and other file formats to PDF and then validate for PDF-A compliance

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

About PDF

PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange created by Adobe Systems. This file format is supported by a wide variety of platforms. The PDF format is now commonly used in a large number of fields to store and exchange information. As PDF format has become an open standard and it is widely supported, it is preferred for data exchange. That’s why various file formats need to be converted to PDF so that the data … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Total Product Family, Shahzad Latif | Tagged Convert Email to PDF, Convert MS Office to PDF, Convert Tiff to PDF, convert Visio diagrams to PDF

Celebrating reaching 10,000 Customers

Posted on August 15, 2011 by John Owens

Sydney, Australia – August 15, 2011 – In 2010, Aspose proudly announced that their file format community had reached 100,000 registered users. This year, we are rapidly approaching 10,000 customers. That is a number worth celebrating! This is how we will mark the occasion:

Our 10,000th customer will get a free Developer Small Business license of Aspose.Total as well as a MacBook Air as a thank you for investing in us.

We’re offering a 25% discount on Aspose.Total* until we

Posted in Developer Community Support, News Release | Tagged celebration, discount, special offer

Merged Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.1.0 is Out Now with Some New Features and Fixes and Many Improvements

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Shahzad Latif

Second release of merged Aspose.Pdf for .NET has been published. In Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.1.0, we have introduced some new features and fixed a couple of issues. We have also improved various aspects of the component in this release. We encourage you to use this latest version, so you would be able to get all the benefits due to these improvements. The areas which have been enhanced in this release are discussed below.

We have introduced a new feature to … Continue Reading

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