Author Archives: Romank

DrawingML is the “new” XML language for all Microsoft Office graphics. Before DrawingML office graphics was stored in VML (with Office extensions). Before VML office graphics were stored in binary “Escher” format.

• DrawingML can describe Shapes, Pictures, Diagrams and Charts.
• DrawingML first appeared in ECMA-376:2006.
• MS Word 2007 supports DrawingML in a “limited way”. MS Word 2010 supports DrawingML more.

DrawingML in Aspose.Words – Before Today

Aspose.Words today supports only small subset of DrawingML related to pictures only. We need … Continue Reading

Current Situation

Rendering Word documents to PDF is available in Aspose.Words for Java since version 4.0 released on 30th November 2009.

We call that functionality “BETA” because of several limitations: images are only saved as JPEG to PDF, not all bitmap types are rendered correctly, image cropping is ignored, WordArt is not rendered and a few others.

Aspose.Words for Java 4.0 was followed by a couple of hotfixes, latest 4.0.2 released on 5th March 2010. More details on the releases … Continue Reading

There were plenty of heated debates when OOXML was driven to acceptance as an ISO standard. Although we have a lot of experience with OOXML on the Aspose.Words team – we did not participate much in those debates. Today’s topic is not about the reasons why we stayed away from those debates. This post is just about one thing I found interesting/funny we came across recently.

As you might know ISO/IEC-29500:2008 specifies two levels of OOXML compliance – Transitional and Strict.… Continue Reading

It has been just under a month since we released 9.2. Our release cycle has recently been close to two months and we did not plan to release next version so soon. But we have been very productive this month and managed to close 82 issues, most of them had customers waiting for significant time. We decided no need to force so many customers to wait for another month just to repeat our regular two months release pattern.

I will … Continue Reading

As you probably know we provide all our technical support in the forums http://www.aspose.com/community/forums/aspose.words-product-family/75/showforum.aspx

But Aspose.Words has grown big and popular and our support department has grown too. It becomes more and more difficult to provide efficient support via the forums.

There are many issues with the support forums including:

• It is hard for the support personnel to divide work between themselves and track who is helping which customer.
• It is impossible for the customers to see at a glance which

If you upgrade to Aspose.Words for .NET 9.2 you will get:

Performance improvements to the rendering (conversion to PDF, XPS) and field update engines. We are now pleased with testing DOCX to PDF conversion of a document 526 pages long with lots of tables and a big Table Of Contents. Compare this with earlier versions where we did not expect “fast” conversion for documents bigger than 100-200 pages.

GDI+ is no longer used for font measurement during layout and rendering. This resolves some rare 64-bit server-side exceptions … Continue Reading

Everything is Split into .NET and Java

As you might know our Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java are “twin brother” products. We code in Aspose.Words for .NET and then port that code almost line-by-line to Aspose.Words for Java. The result is the two APIs are virtually the same.

Because of this similarity of two products we had only one set of online documentation and it was called Aspose.Words for .NET and Java Documentation. But because the two products … Continue Reading

Change 1: Manual Registration Now

Aspose.Words.dll is a .NET class library, but you can use it via .NET COM Interop from many other languages such as ASP, Delphi, JScript, Perl, PHP, Python, C++ etc. In order to use Aspose.Words.dll from a COM client you need to have it registered for COM Interop.

The change is that Aspose.Words for .NET 9.1 does not register Aspose.Words.dll for COM Interop automatically during install. In earlier versions, Aspose.Words.dll has registered automatically.

While we are … Continue Reading

.NET Framework Client Profile is a subset of the .NET Framework optimized for client applications. Basically, it excludes some of the assemblies, for example, System.Web is excluded.

The Client Profile is available for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.0. You can compile your project for the Client Profile in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Studio 2010. You need to select to target the client profile in the project settings in Visual Studio.

One of the Aspose.Words’ Document.Save overloads allows saving … Continue Reading

Four of us from the Aspose.Words team attended the ODF Plugfest in Granada, Spain. Although it ended 17th April I got back home just now thanks to the volcano. Had to go back via Rome instead of London.

Anyway, I think we did well both for Aspose.Words support of ODT as well as for the OpenDocument ecosystem in general:

1. We run all previous ODF Plugfest test scenarios via Aspose.Words, logged issues where needed and started working on them already.
2. Made