Category Archive: Aspose.Words Product Family

I am glad to share that we have improved the evaluation of Microsoft Word fields when the document is rendered. There is a number of fields recalculated during rendering, such as PAGE, NUMPAGES, SECTIONPAGES and so on. Now imagine that you need to display, for example, different text on the last page of document. The following condition can be used:

{ IF {PAGE} = {NUMPAGES} “This is the last page” “See next page” }

Until the 9.4 release the … Continue Reading

Lots of customers have been waiting to get their hands on Aspose.Words that does not lose DrawingML and Structured Document Tags (SDT, content controls) when processing DOCX documents.

Finally, it is here. The release page with full details is here http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/entry258045.aspx

I can only add that in this release you can only expect DrawingML and SDT to be preserved during DOCX open/save and also during document assembly (copying nodes between documents, joining documents together etc). You will be able to see … Continue Reading

In my previous post about our autoporting project I told that we achieved compile and started running unit tests on our internal Aspose.Foundation library.

Today I am happy to tell that our completely autoported Java code is now able to generate PDF and XPS documents. The documents generated by the Java version pass the same verification, compliance and rasterization tests as the ones generated by our .NET product.

The number of unit tests that pass today in Aspose.Foundation is 76% … Continue Reading

Aspose.Words for .NET 9.4. is our next release that is likely to be available early next week.

Another great feature that I can confirm is making into this release is support for Structured Document Tags (Content Controls) in your OOXML documents.

Earlier versions of Aspose.Words would just lose Content Controls if you open/save a DOCX document.

The upcoming version fully preserves Content Controls in your documents during DOCX open/save operations.

There will be a new public class StructuredDocumentTag (derives from … Continue Reading

Compiles okay = 72.1% (up only 0.4%) from last week.

Does not compile = 27.8%

Although the increase in the number of Aspose.Words autoportable C# to Java source files is rather small this week, we have great news.

Aspose.Words internally consists of two libraries/modules: Aspose.Foundation and Aspose.Words. Aspose.Foundation contains a lot of “common” code such as utility classes, platform abstraction layer, structured storage module, zip library, true type fonts module, rendering (the Aspose Paper Specification), parsing and rendering of metafiles, PDF and … Continue Reading

In my earlier post http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.words-product-family/archive/2010/08/12/when-conversion-to-pdf-in-aspose-words-for-java-will-be-fully-available.aspx I offered to post regular updates on our internal progress towards releasing a fully up-to-date (with field update, Table of Contents, footnotes etc) Word to PDF conversion in Aspose.Words for Java.

Here is an update for this week.

Compiles okay = 71.7% (up 1.7% from 70% last week)

Does not compile = 28.2%

While from this numbers you could estimate there are about 16 weeks to go to get to 100%, I think we are going to deliver much sooner. … Continue Reading

When rendering documents to PDF and XPS formats, Aspose.Words currently supports the following fonts:

• TrueType Fonts
• TrueType Font Collections
• OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines

A number of customers have reported problems that Aspose.Words cannot render some of their documents to PDF and fails with errors like “cannot find the ‘loca’ table” or changes a font to Times New Roman or to MS Sans Serif.

We have traced many of these errors to a single problem – these documents use OpenType … Continue Reading

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