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We have just released Aspose.Words for .NET 6.6 that (among other great things) includes a new feature that I really wanted to mention.

Support for proper rendering of cropped images has been missing for long time and requested by too many customers. An image in a Microsoft Word document can be cropped and Aspose.Words used to ignore the crop settings when rendering to PDF, XPS, Graphics or printing. I am happy to announce that rendering of cropped images is now … Continue Reading

Just a quick note about a new Aspose.Words for Java release that you can download here.

What’s New

We have updated Aspose.Words Online Demos to Aspose.Words 6.5 to show conversion of documents to Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS).

Dinner Invitation is one of the demos. Click on the Demo tab, click on the XPS option and click Submit. The generated XPS document will be sent to your browser. If you have an XPS viewer installed, it will show.

N.B. XPS (and PDF, rendering and printing) are available in Aspose.Words for .NET only at the moment. Will be available … Continue Reading

Hi all,

We are splitting all product pages including documentation of the .NET and Java versions of Aspose.Words to eliminate any confusion for customers about which features are avilable where. Each page including Case Studies, Buzz, Testimonials is going to have its own version for .NET and Java.

I have just realized we do not have even one testimonial for Aspose.Words for Java (all testimonials have been for .NET so far).

Be the first to post a testimonial for Aspose.Words … Continue Reading

For several years already we’ve been growing Aspose.Words in the following four strategic feature directions:

• Conversions
• Programming
• Rendering
• Reporting

It just came to me that this is indeed our “mantra” and it helps us to explain many things that we do, but ultimately, it helps you to understand what Aspose.Words is about and what you can expect. Here is a brief recap:

Conversions – Aspose.Words supports a number of load or import document formats and a number … Continue Reading

We have uploaded an updated version of the Aspose.Words Documentation.

There were three interesting changes:

• Programmer’s Guide reorganized to follow the Aspose.Words “mantra” (Conversion, Programming, Rendering, Reporting).
• Technical Articles grouped according to the “mantra” as well and turned into How-to sections in the Programmer’s Guide.
• Several new How-to articles published.

Programmer’s Guide Reorganized

When you are working with Aspose.Words you are doing one of the following:

• Loading, saving or converting documents.
• Programming with the Document Object Model.
• Filling a document with

We have recently released Aspose.Words for .NET 6.5.0 with great new features and fixes. You can read the usual release details here, while in this post I want to highlight some of what we’ve done.

Export to XPS (XML Paper Specification)

Aspose.Words for .NET now supports converting any document to XPS!

Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) is a fixed-layout document format designed to provide device-independent document appearance.

Aspose.Words uses the same high-fidelity page layout and rendering engine for output … Continue Reading

I have zipped and uploaded all samples for Aspose.Words to http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/category1177.aspx. There are two ZIP downloads. One for Aspose.Words for .NET and another for Java. The download for .NET includes source code in C# and VisualBasic.NET.

The downloads include:

• Source code for all articles in the Aspose.Words Documentation.
• Source code for all snippets in the Aspose.Words API Reference.
• Additional useful sample projects.

There are over 20 sample projects for Aspose.Words for .NET, many of them are new which you have … Continue Reading

The first of a series of events that will bring together implementors of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally test and discuss implementation issues of ODF with each other. All ODF implementors and/or those looking into the matter are invited to participate in this event on behalf of the Netherlands government and OpenDoc Society.

Here is the website of the event http://www.odfworkshop.nl/

Thanks to the organizers of the workshop, Aspose was invited to participate in the workshop. Although we could … Continue Reading

We have just released Aspose.Words for .NET 6.4.0 that includes the following:

• Export to PDF/A supported
• Export to ODT details are included in the documentation
• 70+ fixes

PDF/A Supported

By default, when converting documents to PDF, Aspose.Words for .NET creates PDF 1.5 comliant files. But now you can specify whether you want to have PDF 1.5 or PDF/A-1b compliance. We are planning to support PDF/A-1a in the next few months as well.

Documentation Updates

The following documentation pages were updated:… Continue Reading