Category Archive: Aspose.Words Product Family

Today’s Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.6 release contains the following fixes and new features (most interesting new features are highlighted):

DOC

• 3192 – Document throws “Unable to read beyond the end of the stream.
• 3184 – Document throws “Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: “1062” Key being added: “1062”.
• 3147 – Image in header is ignored.
• 3119 – ‘Unknown structure of an INCLUDEPICTURE field’ exception on document load. 
• 3094 – Support versions in DOC.
• 3089 – UpdateFields should take

This is the first significant release of Aspose.Words for Reporting Services since the project was launched (exactly two months ago). We are happy to notice how it evolves and we are especially happy to participate in its development.

Starting with this release, you are free to choose between automatic installation (using MSI installer) and manual installation (that was offered from the beginning). MSI installer deploys the product to the default instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and … Continue Reading

A set of great development practices allows the Aspose.Words Development Team to confidently release new maintenance versions as soon as there are enough fixes or new features ready. The effect of this is most of the issues reported by customers and evaluation users are resolved quickly, in a matter of days.

In the three months March – May 2007 we’ve released five maintenance versions of Aspose.Words for .NET with over 80 enhancements, new features and fixes.

Today’s Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.5 release … Continue Reading

This is a maintenance release that addresses several issues reported by Aspose.Words customers in importers/exporters as well as some new features.

The highlight of this release is the support of CSS shorthand attributes in HTML import. The very populat “font”, “margins”, “padding” and “background” attributes are now supported.

HTML

• 3061 – Support “font” shorthand CSS attribute in HTML import.
• 3054 – Import generic font families from HTML.
• 3042 – Support “padding” shorthand CSS attribute in HTML import.
• 3041 – Support “margins”

As you probably know, it is quite possible to use Aspose.Words in classic ASP applications. Aspose.Words assembly gets registered for COM Interop during setup and it is then possible to use it from classic ASP.

The following articles provide an interesting example of how to create Aspose.Words powered ASP application without even having Visual Studio installed.

• Utilize Aspose.Words from COM Clients (ASP, VB, VBScript
• ASP/ASP.NET without Visual Studio – an Instant Primer

However, recently one of our customers reported a problem … Continue Reading

This is a maintenance release, here is what’s been done:

New Features

• API documentation now shows values of enumerations. This is helpful for customers who use Aspose.Words from classical ASP.
• Vertical text in table cells and textboxes is now exported to PDF.
• Footnotes and endnotes are now exported to PDF.
• The size of generated files is optimized – if the same image occurs multiple times in the document it is written to DOC, HTML and PDF files only once.
• All CSS

This release addresses several minor issues reported by customers. In particular, rendering of complex nested subreports was improved. Nested subreports containing tables often result in a deep hierarchy of nested tables in Microsoft Word documents. Starting with v1.0.4, the tables are “really” nested (containing each other) which fixes the layout and simplifies editing – for example, inner (child) tables are moved together with the outer (parent) table when positioning it in the document.

The next release will be more significant and will introduce MSI installer that … Continue Reading

Have you checked Aspose.Editor – our word processing control for Windows Forms and ASP.NET?

I’m proud to announce that the latest version of Aspose.Editor runs seamlessly in Internet Explorer so you can build ASP.NET applications that feature WYSIWIG editing of Microsoft Word documents in the browser.

Forget about using HTML editors to edit Microsoft Word documents – it ain’t gonna work. Use a specialized control that’s been designed exactly for Microsoft Word documents.

When loading the demo page it might … Continue Reading

In this release:

• Added support of nested subreports (those located in table cells and containing tables as well).
• Added proper building of tables containing different report items (images, charts etc) that are immediate children of table cells.
• Added full support of all possible image sizings and paddings.

Besides, the release includes the fixes of various layout and formatting issues reported by customers.

To download http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Words.Reporting.Services/Default.aspx… Continue Reading