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Keep those Trains Moving (Aspose.Words on Mercurial)

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Romank

About a couple of months ago we migrated Aspose.Words development from Subversion to Mercurial. To setup and learn and document new procedures was a bit steep, but the productivity and morale has soared. We never looked back.

We have several projects. Just Aspose.Words for .NET consists of 600K+ lines of code, it is in one repository and we have 20-30 feature branches as well as some special branches active at the same time. Switching, merging and code reviews are fast … Continue Reading

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Improvements in the “Aspose.Words Experience”

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Romank

We are planning a number of changes to our internal and external processes with the single aim – to improve the customer experience.

The first set of changes that you are going to notice starting from 1st June are:

  1. Fixed schedule of regular releases.
  2. Fixed time to make a decision on the issues you reported.

 

Fixed Release Schedule

We have always released Aspose.Words quite regularly (1-2 months), but we did not have fixed dates. We have now realized that … Continue Reading

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Aspose.Words 10.0 has its own Royal Wedding

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Romank
Today’s Aspose.Words 10.0 release is a wedding ceremony for our two flagship products Aspose.Words for Java and Aspose.Words for .NET. They have finally married for better for worse and will stay together in sickness and in health. All futher releases of Aspose.Words for .NET and Java will be released on the same day and provide the same set set of features and fixes. We are a single development team that works on two products, but on a single source code… Continue Reading
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170 Improvements and Fixes in Aspose.Words for .NET 9.8

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Romank
Check out http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/default.aspx for the latest Aspose.Words for .NET 9.8 release that delivers around 170 new features, improvements and fixes. Aspose.Words rendering of DrawingML shapes is improving with every release. Now DrawingML shapes with styles, color schemes and gradients look great when converted to PDF. Aspose.Words now fully supports Custom XML in DOC, DOCX and RTF documents during open/save and conversions between these formats. … Continue Reading
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Aspose.Words Express – a free utility to convert documents to EPUB

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Romank

We have released a free utility Aspose.Words Express 1.0 which is a small utility that allows you to easily convert DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML and ODT documents to EPUB. All you need is select a source file, a destination and click the Convert button.

You can enjoy the produced EPUB documents on your mobile devices.

Aspose.Words Express provides an array of useful options you can specify for the conversion. The options include embed fonts, relative font sizes, image resolution, navigation map depth and … Continue Reading

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Autoporting Aspose.Words for Java Progress – 15th Mar 2011

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Romank

I am happy to announce that we have achieved another great milestone on the Aspose.Words for Java 10.0 project. All 9700+ unit tests now pass in Aspose.Words for Java. The Aspose.Words for Java code is automatically ported from Aspose.Words for .NET C# source to Java using CodePorting, a tool we have developed inhouse.

What’s next?

1. We will release a limited 10.0 Beta to several customers before end of March to seek feedback.

2. We will continue with acceptance testing … Continue Reading

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Autoporting Aspose.Words for Java Progress – 24th Feb 2011

There are only 93 unit tests (out of approx 9000) failing in the autoported version of Aspose.Words for Java! We are looking forward to releasing a useable version of Aspose.Words for Java in March. If it will be “10.0 beta”, then only for a short while.… Continue Reading

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Autoporting Aspose.Words for Java Progress – 11th Feb 2011

Previous Stats Aspose.Words consists of 2744 source files. Running 311 unit tests on Aspose.Foundation for Java pass all. Running 8813 unit tests on Aspose.Words – 437 fail.
Today Stats Aspose.Words consists of 2800 files. Aspose.Foundation 398 unit tests all pass. Aspose.Words 8868 unit tests – 376 fail.
Comments You can see some great signs: 1. Aspose.Words codebase grows as the number of files and the number of tests shows. 2. All newly added code is autoportable and it is easy … Continue Reading

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Aspose.Words for .NET 9.7

We did not plan to release another Aspose.Words version so soon just under 4 weeks from the previous release, but the speed at which we are resolving issues seems to be good. 75 issues means a lot of customers will be happier, hence a new release.

Important Issues/Features Resolved

  • Some documents that contained DrawingML Charts and saved to DOCX by Aspose.Words failed to open in Microsoft Word.
  • Layout of adjacent tables in a document added extra space between tables when converting to PDF.
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There are massive 156 features/improvements in Aspose.Words for .NET 9.6

Finally available for download http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/entry279263.aspx

Have a look at our updated online demos, output to SWF Flash got a new viewer UI. Pick any demo, for example http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.words/csharp/general/dinner-invitation.aspx, select SWF at the bottom and click Submit.

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