Category Archive: Aspose.Words Product Family

Recently we have implemented a very important feature requested by many users, export of RDL reports to fully editable (flow layout) documents. The flow layout mode, which is now default for Aspose.Words for Reporting Services, brings a number of noticeable benefits such as:

• No textboxes anymore. Text is exported to regular paragraphs with real paragraph breaks.
• No floating objects, inline objects only. This means that when the document is edited, its contents move accordingly to the changes being applied, whereas

This hotfix release contains a critical update for the MSI installer related to installing the product on the Visual Studio 2005 Report Designer. Please upgrade if you have the installation process interrupted with an unexpected error “Could not properly install or configure Aspose.Words for Reporting Services…”

What’s fixed:

• MSI installer stops the process with an error when installing on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.

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We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Words for Reporting Services 2.0, the unique product that enables the export of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports to Microsoft Word document formats. This release finally introduces a feature that has been expected by many users – export to flow layout documents! This means now you are able to convert RDL reports to “true”, “normal”, easy to edit documents as if they were created manually by an office worker! With the version … Continue Reading

What’s New

Loading of Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) documents is now supported!

Previous release, Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.0 introduced the ability to save documents in the Microsoft Word 2007 DOCX format. This Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.1 release makes it possible to load DOCX files. Now you can open, generate, save and convert DOCX documents. This makes Aspose.Words for .NET a first document processing library on the market that provides such capabilities.

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It’s a bit shameful but until recently I was almost sure that the Visual Studio 2005 Report Designer (Business Intelligence Development Studio) does not support custom rendering extensions and the export formats are hard coded 🙂 Thanks to one of our customers, it turned out I was wrong. So, since Aspose.Words for Reporting Services is a rendering extensions allowing to export RDL reports to Microsoft Word formats, you can easily add those formats directly to your report designer. Moreover, starting … Continue Reading

This is a maintenance release.

What’s new

• MSI installer now automatically adds Microsoft Word export formats to the Visual Studio Report Designer.
• Added the support for the HideDuplicates property of textboxes.

What’s fixed

• Minor fixes.

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We have finally added code examples to the Aspose.Words for Java API Reference.

Check it out, here is a page for the Body class http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words/Api/index.html?url=com/aspose/words/Body.html

And of course I cannot resist not to tell you how cool our system for documentation generation is.

• Code examples are initially written in C# and arranged as unit tests in a class library.
• We compile and run the examples project to make sure all works and passes (you don’t see the actual unit testing asserts

We have turned a utility we use at Aspose in building of our product documentation into a public source code sample. It is available for download here http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.words/entry94733.aspx

Here is some info:

We author documentation in Microsoft Word and then use Word2Help to:

• Split DOC file(s) into topics according to Heading styles.
• Save each topic into a separate HTML file and export images into files.
• Fix hyperlinks so the hyperlinks that were internal in a single DOC file continue to work across multiple HTML files.
• Inject a predefined HTML

We often stress that the development of our products is customer-driven. This means we respond to customer requests quickly and exhaustively, making customers feel as if they directly participated in the development. This cooperation is mutually beneficial and sometimes results in brilliant ideas indeed.

Yesterday I had a conversation with a customer whose requirement was exporting RDL reports to Microsoft Word documents. The problem was that he wanted his reports to have quite a lot of inline formatting, which is … Continue Reading

This release introduces a very interesting feature. Now you can enable a special mode that will instruct the renderer to understand HTML text hosted within textboxes! This allows to apply different inline formatting such as bold or italic within the same textbox. Moreover, you can insert almost any HTML you wish! Of course, this feature won’t work in design time as well as in the formats exported by rendering extensions other than Aspose.Words for Reporting Services. However, if you want to export rich formatted reports … Continue Reading