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Aspose.Words for .NET 4.3.1 Released

This hot fix mainly improves reading of inconsistent/corrupted DOC files such as resumes. For more info on this see end of the post.

Although this release includes a lot of fixes, most of them are actually for a single customer of ours, who uses Aspose.Words heavily in processing of resumes.

What’s New

  • 3490 – Added ShapeBase.AllowOverlap property.
  • 3212 – Added PageSetup.BorderSurroundsHeader and PageSetup.BorderSurroundsFooter properties.
  • 3191 – Added public Document.FootnoteOptions and Document.EndnoteOptions with properties to control numbering and position of footnotes
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Aspose.Words for Java 2.2.1 Released

What’s New

  • Aspose.Words for Java now supports Java 1.6.

Fixes

  • 3407 – AW 2.2 under java 1.4 implicitly demands backport-util jar.
  • 3406 – Error cloning documents under JDK 1.4 + AW 2.2
  • 3361 – Move the StAX library into external libs.

To download: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.words/category1201.aspx

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Aspose.Words for .NET 4.3.0 Released

What’s New

  • 64-bit Windows operating systems are fully supported. Fully tested on Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2003 x64.
  • Windows Vista is fully supported. Fixed the installer to install smoothly.
  • Demo projects for Visual Studio 2003 (.NET 1.1) and Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0) are now included.
  • Fully tested with ASP.NET 2.0 64-bit.
  • The installer now automatically uninstalls previous Aspose.Words versions. You no longer need to uninstall manually when upgrading.
  • Added more information to the Feature Overview regarding supported platforms, development environments
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RTF and Culture

From what I can tell RTF and Culture do not mix.

If you have English culture selected in your regional settings, create a document in Microsoft Word and save as RTF, then double values (in custom document properties) will be written as 123.45. When you open this document in Microsoft Word it seems to use the current culture. So if you culture is English, the document will load okay.

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NUnit Thoughts

Here is short blurb on our experience with NUnit. Goods and not so goods.

We are using NUnit for Aspose products on our team. We’ve been using it from the start. Aspose.Words for .NET at the moment has around 5000 unit tests.

Aspose.Words is a class library and to run the tests, we have its project settings set to fire up NUnit Gui executable and pass Aspose.Words.dll as a command line parameter. When NUnit Gui starts, it loads the Aspose.Words.dll debug … Continue Reading

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Yet Another 64-bit Surprise

Some of the Aspose.Words (and other components) demo projects and unit tests retrieve data from a Microsoft Access .mdb database. I’ve been trying to get everything working on Windows Vista 64-bit and was getting “Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 not registered” error.

According to various articles this is due to the fact my project is compiled for the AnyCPU platform and runs as a 64-bit application, but there are no Microsoft Access database drivers for 64-bit.

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 4: Support for the RTF Format

This is the 3rd post in the series. Previous post see here.

Rich Text Format (RTF)

The Rich Text Format (RTF) is one of the document formats supported by Microsoft Word and many other word processing applications. RTF is a human readable word processing format intended for interchange between different applications on various platforms and it has been around for 20 years. The new XML-based formats are becoming more common, but RTF is still being supported and updated by Microsoft. Continue Reading

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 3: Support for the DOCX Format

This is the 3rd post in the series. Previous post see here.

Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX)

Office Open XML Overview

Office Open XML is the new XML-based format introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 applications. Office Open XML is a container format for several specialized XML-based markup languages. WordprocessingML is the markup language used by Microsoft Office Word 2007 to store its documents.

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 2: Support for the DOC Format

This is the 2nd post in the series. Previous post is here.

This post is about support for the Microsoft Word DOC binary format in Aspose.Words.

Microsoft Word (DOC)

DOC is a popular file format used by all versions of Microsoft Word to store word processing documents. It is a proprietary binary format developed by Microsoft. DOC is a not a single format, but a family of formats that evolved with every new Microsoft Word version.

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Aspose.Words for Java 2.2.0 Released

We are happy to announce that Aspose.Words for Java now supports HTML/XHTML import.

The HTML import code in Aspose.Words for Java 2.2 matches Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.1.

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