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The official blog of Aspose.Words for .NET, Java and C++ that contains feature-based blog posts.

How parent/child mail merge will look like in Aspose.Words for Java

Yes, parent/child (nested mail merge regions) is one of those highly demanded features that is available in Aspose.Words for .NET and not yet available in Aspose.Words for Java. And yes, this feature is going to be available for Java very soon, when our autoporting project is complete.

BTW, there are only 16 files remain to be made autoportable.

Today a small technical article that describes challenges and solutions we came across when making the Aspose.Words MailMerge autoportable to Java.

Overview

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Does anybody use XPath in Aspose.Words?

Did you know you can use use XPath queries to find nodes in the Aspose.Words document tree?

Here is the API topic with some code examples http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/aspose.words.compositenode.selectnodes.html

On the surface it looks like a pretty cool feature. Aspose.Words loads a document (a document in almost any wordprocessing format) into a tree-like model in memory. The model resembles OOXML, but is more “refined’ meaning you don’t have to deal with relationships to other parts and other raw stuff. Then you can … Continue Reading

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Just 42 files remain to autoport for Aspose.Words for Java – 14th Nov 2010

If you are not sure what we are talking about, here is the previous post in this series.

Today’s Aspose.Words for Java stats are:

  • Total source files 2533
  • 42 files have autoporting problems
  • All other files – we automatically convert them from C# to Java using our porting tool.

What’s next:

1. We are going to sort out the remaining 42 files in the next week or so. There is basically one major porting problem now – use of ADO.NET class … Continue Reading

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Custom XML, save to SWF, save to XAML, verify digital signatures too many new things to list in Aspose.Words for .NET 9.5

Here is a screenshot of the new feature we have. You can now convert any Word document to SWF. The produced SWF embeds a little viewer that displays the document.

For the full list of features find the Aspose.Words for .NET 9.5 release page in the downloads section.

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Rendering of DrawingML shapes to PDF, XPS etc is in progress

DrawingML is used to represent the rich shapes, colors, diagrams and charts in OOXML documents.

I am happy to tell that we have a big project underway to make sure Aspose.Words can render all DrawingML into its fixed-page outputs including PDF, XPS, graphics and printing.

At the moment Aspose.Words can only preserve DrawingML during DOCX open/save cycles and not much else. Aspose.Words can render DrawingML pictures, but cannot render other DrawingML shapes.

We will be releasing DrawingML functionality in iterations, every … Continue Reading

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Reporting support in Aspose.Words for SharePoint v.2.0.0

In this version we’ve introduced report generation support based on functionality available in Aspose.Words for .NET v9.4.

Reports are being generated based on a MS Word template document and an external data source. Report template supports regions (including nested), images etc. Separate report definition file defines data source connection parameters, queries to retrieve the data, relationships between data tables returned by different queries and so on.
Three types of sources supported:
 – Relational databases (using SQL queries or OLE DB… Continue Reading
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RateSetter Generates Contract Documents for web delivery using APIs

About RateSetter

RateSetter logo

RateSetter is an innovative new web-based consumer exchange that enables people to contract directly with one another to lend to and borrow from each other. RateSetter was set up to offer people an alternative to the regular banking system for their savings and borrowing needs. To become successful, RateSetter’s key challenge was to gain the trust of a material number of consumers. That trust can be created by longevity and good reputation but in the early days, it … Continue Reading

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Gekom used .NET Word API to Generate Invoices from User Input and Word template

About Gekom

Gekom company logo

Gekom is an online web application that offers small companies and freelancers a secure, reliable, and easy way to manage their customers’ quotes and invoices wherever they are. Gekom customers can quickly create and download an invoice in order to send it by e-mail or print it out.

Requirements

During the development of Gekom, one of the major difficulties was to find the right way to handle document generation. While using a database engine to store user input … Continue Reading

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Only 214 files remain to autoport – 18th Oct 2010

It’s been only five days since my previous report, but I cannot wait to say what a great progress we had.

Today’s Aspose.Words for Java stats are:

  • Total source files 2413
  • Only 214 have autoporting problems = 8.8%
  • The rest 2199 of the C# source files are totally automatically convertable to Java.

In these five days we managed to review and make portable 311 files. Almost all document conversions modules are now portable. With all of the other supported formats, we are finally going … Continue Reading

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Autoporting Aspose.Words for Java Progress – 13th Oct 2010

Today’s stats are:

  • Total source files 2413
  • 1888 compiles on Java okay = 78.2%
  • 525 has autoporting problems = 21.7%

Comparing to the previous report we have made 47 C# files autoportable. That’s 8% of the previous 572 files still to fix. This allows to make some estimates. If we keep this pace, then we need about 12 weeks more to make all files compile in Java. That’s only all compile. We will need time to get all unit tests going, … Continue Reading

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