Category Archive: Aspose.Words Product Family

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

RTF Import: Almost Here

Just wanted to update people who are waiting for the release of the Aspose.Words RTF importing module. As I recently posted in the support forums, currently it is ready at 70-80%. Almost all document nodes are imported very well, only shapes are not implemented yet. So I need a couple of weeks more to implement them and make sure the whole bunch of unit tests is passing. Hence January 2007 is the date of the final release.

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Aspose.Words for .NET 4.0.4 Released

Last release in 2006 here! Includes some useful new features and fixes.

New Features

  • 1372 – Import of HR elements from HTML.
  • 1413 – Export of horizontal rule shapes to HR elements in HTML.
  • 1407 – Support import of row height and padding from HTML.
  • 1401 – Attributes currently supported for <SPAN> should also be supported for <FONT> elements.

Fixes to DOC reader (all are improved resiliency for loading invalid documents actually):

  • 1388 – A document throws ‘Table seem to be badly formed’
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New Technical Writer Joins the Aspose.Words Team

I’m happy to announce that we have now got a dedicated technical writer to work on the Aspose.Words documentation.

The existing documentation for Aspose.Words includes:

All of the above documentation was created by developers of Aspose.Words. Although we tried out best, and we are proud of what we’ve done, the documentation needs to be more thorough and more user friendly. Also, we really prefer spending more time coding new features, ratther than writing.

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Aspose.Words for Java 2.0.2 Released

This is a maintenance release that includes a Java version of fixes that were made in:

To download:
https://downloads.aspose.com/words/java

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What Aspose word processing component do you need

Great, now have two components: Aspose.Words and Aspose.Editor that deal with Microsoft Word documents and I would like to take this opportunity to explain the difference between them. The difference might be already clear to you, yet I hope this post will still be useful.

The shortest descriptions I could give:

Aspose.Words is class library that enables .NET and Java applications to read, modify and write Word documents without utilizing Microsoft Word.

Aspose.Editor is a word processor control for Windows Forms .NET that displays, edits … Continue Reading

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Have you met Aspose.Editor yet?

Have you met Aspose.Editor yet?

It is a close relative of Aspose.Words because it also deals with Microsoft Word documents, but as a visual control. Here is the official description:

Aspose.Editor is a new breed of a word processor control for Windows Forms .NET that displays, edits and prints documents a lot like Microsoft Word, but inside your application. WordprocessingML, DOC and HTML are supported with a unique feature of lossless editing even for complex documents.

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Beta RTF and WordprocessingML import available for download

Aspose.Words 4.0.3.1 includes Beta of RTF and WordprocessingML import features. The download is available here http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=62813

You can try this:

Document doc = new Document(MyPath + “MyFile.rtf”);

and

Document doc = new Document(MyPath + “MyFile.xml”);

 

Note that ability to export to RTF and WordprocessingML is not Beta, these features were released in Aspose.Words 4.0.

To save in RTF or WordprocessingML do this:

doc.Save(MyPath + “MyFile.rtf”, SaveFormat.Rtf);

and

doc.Save(MyPath + “MyFile.xml”, SaveFormat.WordML);

 

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Aspose.Words for .NET 4.0.3 Released

Enhancements and Fixes

  • 1259 Rescale raster images during HTML export. Added the SaveOptions.HtmlExportScaleImageToShape option.
  • 1363 A number of resiliency fixes for reading Word documents created by Open Office.
  • A number of resiliency fixes to output valid RTF when the original DOC is not enirely valid.
  • 1378 Import of H1-H6 tags in HTML now applies Heading 1- Heading 6 styles to imported paragraphs.
  • 1382 Made public TextBox.FitShapeToText, TextBox.TextboxWrapMode.

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Open – Closed XML

The Office Open XML standard is a great thing, no questions. Lots of talks and writings about the quality of openness around, so I cannot stay away from singing about what I see too.

Office Open XML Final Draft, pages 1631 to 1686.

55! pages that describe a single ST_Border enumeration…

Doesn’t this look suspicious? Who on Earth can possibly want to deal with more than 50 pages of just a border specification? When I see something like this, I … Continue Reading

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One Million Test Documents is Coming Along

Our project to test Aspose.Words against at least one million documents has started ticking.

Dmitry Vorobyev has developed a nice tool that queries Google for Microsoft Word documents and downloads them. In short test runs we downloaded more than 3000 DOC and RTF documents of various content and formatting.

We plan to download at least one million documents to our test machine and run Aspose.Words days and nights on it to load, convert and save documents and verify that it all works … Continue Reading

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