Category Archive: Aspose.Words Product Family

According to many customers’ requests, we have improved design and documentation related to exceptions thrown by the Document class constructors. This is a new improvement introduced in Aspose.Words for .NET 4.1

The Document class represents a Microsoft Word document in Aspose.Words and a document is loaded from a file or stream using one of the Document constructors.

First, Aspose.Words automatically detects the format of the file (DOC, RTF, HTML or WordML) and then proceeds to load the document appropriately. When … Continue Reading

This release of Aspose.Words contains a single important new feature:

• RTF Import

Support for RTF in Aspose.Words was requested by many customers and for very long time. We are proud to announce that RTF in Aspose.Words is now fully supported. We released RTF export a few months ago in Aspose.Words 4.0 and now we complete the job by adding RTF import.

Aspose.Words was initially developed to generate, open, modify, save and convert primarily Microsoft Word DOC documents, but it later grew to … Continue Reading

Finally it is released, the thing that you were waiting for so long. Yet another format is fully added to Aspose.Words arsenal, and this is Rich Text Format. Today we have released RTF importing module, thus keeping our promises to make it public in January (although it’s 31st ).

The release does not mean, however, that working on the module is stopped. We will be polishing the code, making it more and more resilient to badly formed RTF, and fixing any formatting … Continue Reading

It would be great if there was any guideline on writing the <exception> documentation tags.

The .NET Framework Guidelines book gives plenty of guidelines on using exceptions, but nothing about documenting exceptions thrown by a method.

I fully agree and support the idea that the exception specification is not part of the C# language, but documenting what exceptions are thrown by a method in a public API is an entirely different thing and I think it must be done. The .NET … Continue Reading

We’ve been asked several times by our customers whether Aspose.Words is supported on Mono. Now we’ve done some preliminary tests running Aspose.Words on Mono 1.2 and I’m happy to tell we have not encountered any problems so far! It seems to work great.

This makes Aspose.Words the only library avaialble in the world that deals with Microsoft Word documents on Mono because as far as I can tell none of the other competing components work on Mono.

I’ve downloaded … Continue Reading

Please welcome our first Aspose.Words release in 2007. This update contains about 20 various fixes.

DOC

• 1359 – Saving combined document results in ‘This property is only allowed for list styles.’ exception.
• 1400 – Document cause ArgumentException in Styles class during ImportNode call.
• 1438 – ArgumentOutOfRangeException when openning document in Aspose.Words.

HTML

• 1375 – Inserted html table looks ugly in MS Word.
• 1417 – Html2Doc: Invalid table width when inserting it into a table cell.
• 1421 – Doc2Html: Export document

A useful article and a sample project about how to copy a bookmark into another document is here: http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=65476#65476.

A document in Aspose.Words is a tree of nodes and a bookmark in a document logically defines beginning and end of a set of different nodes, including paragraphs, tables, runs, sections etc, all depending on where the bookmark begins and ends.

Some tasks with bookmarks are easy to perform with Aspose.Words’ Bookmarks, Bookmark, BookmarkStart and BookmarkEnd classes. You can find, … Continue Reading

I had a quick look at the Fortune 500/100 2006 and at the same time went through the list of the Aspose.Words customers (partial version here).

I was happy to find that 21 companies from the Fortune 100 list use Aspose.Words, I think it is great for a product that’s barely 3 years old.

BP
DaimlerChrysler
ConocoPhillips
Citigroup
AXA
Siemens
HSBC
IBM
Bank of America
Valero Energy
Verizon Communications
Cardinal Health
Credit Suisse
Royal Bank of Scotland
Vodafone
Statoil
France … Continue Reading