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I’m inviting you to participate in shaping up of the Aspose.Words API again.

Brief Description of the Problem

DOCX is macro-free files and .DOCM is the macro-enabled format and Microsoft Word 2007 is quite serious about enforcing the “file extension vs actual file type” relationship.

Rename a .DOCM file with a VBA project into a .DOCX file and open in MS Word, it will fail to say the document is invalid. It will not give any other explanation, it will … Continue Reading

As you might already know we are working hard to provide great support for Office Open XML in Aspose.Words.

Here is a bit of timeline:

• 2007-08-22 Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4 with export to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) released.
• 2007-10-13 Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.1 with import of DOCX files Beta released.
• 2007-12-27 Aspose.Words for Java 2.4 with export to DOCX released.

Since the release in October 2007, import of DOCX files is still in Beta, but we are successfully finalizing … Continue Reading

Here is a next release with improvements and fixes to DOCX import (which is still in Beta) and others.

Notes

• A great new feature is support for picture bullets. It was highly demanded by users. Picture bullets are custom images used for bullets instead of text bullets or numbers. Picture bullets are now supported in DOC, RTF, WordML, DOCX and export to PDF formats in Aspose.Words.
• An important fix for defect 4091 where hyperlink targets in imported DOCX files were altered by Aspose.Words.

For information about what’s fixed and to download, please see http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.words/entry103596.aspx

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What’s New

Loading of Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) documents is now supported!

Previous release, Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.0 introduced the ability to save documents in the Microsoft Word 2007 DOCX format. This Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.1 release makes it possible to load DOCX files. Now you can open, generate, save and convert DOCX documents. This makes Aspose.Words for .NET a first document processing library on the market that provides such capabilities.

Please note that loading DOCX files is … Continue Reading

We have finally added code examples to the Aspose.Words for Java API Reference.

Check it out, here is a page for the Body class http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words/Api/index.html?url=com/aspose/words/Body.html

And of course I cannot resist not to tell you how cool our system for documentation generation is.

• Code examples are initially written in C# and arranged as unit tests in a class library.
• We compile and run the examples project to make sure all works and passes (you don’t see the actual unit testing asserts

We have turned a utility we use at Aspose in building of our product documentation into a public source code sample. It is available for download here http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.words/entry94733.aspx

Here is some info:

We author documentation in Microsoft Word and then use Word2Help to:

• Split DOC file(s) into topics according to Heading styles.
• Save each topic into a separate HTML file and export images into files.
• Fix hyperlinks so the hyperlinks that were internal in a single DOC file continue to work across multiple HTML files.
• Inject a predefined HTML

This is a call for Aspose.MVPs and all customers who have good experience with Aspose.Words.

We have a customer in US, NJ who wants an online training for their Aspose.Words developers.

We cannot do ourselves and thought delegating to someone with experience could be a good idea.

Let us know if you are interested. All terms will be between you and the customer once we get you in touch.

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What’s New

• Export to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) format.
• Aspose.Words installer and assemblies now come signed with Authenticode.

Fixes

• 3615 – “System.StackOverflowException” occurs during saving document.
• 3608 – Office2007 crashes during opening document generated by Aspose.
• 3602 – “This property is only allowed for list styles” exception occurs during saving document. 
• 3591 – “Unsupported version of the stylesheet” exception occurs during opening document.
• 3566 – Implement LabelFontName in the numbered lists in PDF export.
• 3551 – Support non-breaking space in PDF export.
• 3393

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Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java are successful commercial products, but our philosophy is to develop them using our unique “open-source feel” approach. In other words, we at Aspose are extremely customer driven and this shows in:

• Aggressive development, frequent hotfixes and releases (at least 1-2 a month).
• Features shaped and prioritized according to your requests.
• Unlimited free technical support to paid customers and evaluation users.
• Support in the forums directly by the developers working on the project.