We continue to work on high fidelity rendering of Word documents to PDF, images and other fixed-page formats and I am happy to tell that next version of Aspose.Words for .NET will support all types of MS Word line arrows.

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It takes some effort to keep Aspose.Words and other products compatible and working on .NET 1.1. Our main target is .NET 2.0 and higher, but so far we maintained builds for .NET 1.1.

One of the things that could be possible if we drop support for .NET 1.1 is switching to using generics internally and this will reduce amount of boxing and unboxing in collections improving performance and memory footprint.

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30 days since the previous release we are happy to deliver you almost 30 fixes and enhancements, mostly to the new rendering feature.

Most of the annoying issues found during this month have been fixed including:

• Image skewed in PDF
• Export document properties to PDF
• Font looks rough in PDF
• and many others.

Check the full listing in the dowloands http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.words/entry158153.aspx

And finally, on behalf of all the Aspose.Words crew let me wish you a Happy New Year!

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Do you like this diagram? I had a great local designer drawn this up for us. We can make more.

Does it make it clear that Aspose.Words is about Document Conversions, Programming, Rendering and Reporting?

Do you think it is suitable to have on the product home page http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx?

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Just updated the product home page to mention rendering and printing: http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx

Rendering and printing also mentioned on the features page: http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/feature-overview.html

Some examples in the API reference:

Save any document to PDF

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.document.savetopdf_overload_2.html

Save one or more pages as images

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.document.savetoimage_overload_1.html

Print a document

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.document.print_overload_3.html

Preview then print

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.rendering.asposewordsprintdocument.html

The new Aspose.Words.Rendering namespace

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.rendering.html

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Many customers wanted to access page layout information in Aspose.Words. This included questions such as:

• Where does a page start or end in a document?
• Where on a page my paragraph (table, shape etc) is located?
• How can I tell how much space is left on a page?
• Can I get the page number of a bookmark?
• and so on

It was not possible to support any of these scenarios in Aspose.Words because Word documents are “flow-layout” documents and do … Continue Reading

It is finally here. What else can I say.

Check it out yourselves:

By the way, Aspose.Words is 5 years old this December.

The release is here http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.words/entry154627.aspx

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I have earlier mentioned that today, 24th Nov, we will make available an Aspose.Words for .NET release that includes the “final beta” of the new rendering engine. Yes, the one for rendering document pages to images, printing on a server and direct to PDF conversion.

There’s been a late minute change to simplify the new public API and it is going to delay the release by 2-3 days.

As a teaser, I can tell you how the new API is going … Continue Reading