RTF and Culture

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Romank

From what I can tell RTF and Culture do not mix.

If you have English culture selected in your regional settings, create a document in Microsoft Word and save as RTF, then double values (in custom document properties) will be written as 123.45. When you open this document in Microsoft Word it seems to use the current culture. So if you culture is English, the document will load okay.

If you happen to have Russian culture and save the document … Continue Reading

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NUnit Thoughts

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Romank

Here is short blurb on our experience with NUnit. Goods and not so goods.

We are using NUnit for Aspose products on our team. We’ve been using it from the start. Aspose.Words for .NET at the moment has around 5000 unit tests.

Aspose.Words is a class library and to run the tests, we have its project settings set to fire up NUnit Gui executable and pass Aspose.Words.dll as a command line parameter. When NUnit Gui starts, it loads the Aspose.Words.dll debug … Continue Reading

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Yet Another 64-bit Surprise

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Romank

Some of the Aspose.Words (and other components) demo projects and unit tests retrieve data from a Microsoft Access .mdb database. I’ve been trying to get everything working on Windows Vista 64-bit and was getting “Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 not registered” error.

According to various articles this is due to the fact my project is compiled for the AnyCPU platform and runs as a 64-bit application, but there are no Microsoft Access database drivers for 64-bit.

The recommendation I found in the MSDN forum … Continue Reading

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 4: Support for the RTF Format

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Romank

This is the 3rd post in the series. Previous post see here.

Rich Text Format (RTF)

The Rich Text Format (RTF) is one of the document formats supported by Microsoft Word and many other word processing applications. RTF is a human readable word processing format intended for interchange between different applications on various platforms and it has been around for 20 years. The new XML-based formats are becoming more common, but RTF is still being supported and updated by Microsoft. … Continue Reading

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Aspose.Grid v1.9.2 Released!

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Henry

Dear Customers,
 We have just released Aspose.Grid v1.9.2!

Introduction
This new version includes all the new features and fixes since v1.9.0

What’s New?
 Aspose.Grid.Web
 1. Supports XHTML 1.0 specification Rendering.
 2. Supports Worksheets Serialization. Now users can use StateServer or SQLServer as session store.
 3. Supports both Auto Filtering and Custom Filtering.
 4. Supports CLS Compliant.
 5. Supports dragging and scrolling.
 6. Supports displaying command bar at the top of the control.
 7. Supports displaying a “Loading…” box when PostBack.… Continue Reading

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 3: Support for the DOCX Format

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Romank

This is the 3rd post in the series. Previous post see here.

Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX)

Office Open XML Overview

Office Open XML is the new XML-based format introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 applications. Office Open XML is a container format for several specialized XML-based markup languages. WordprocessingML is the markup language used by Microsoft Office Word 2007 to store its documents.

Note that WordprocessingML defined in Office Open XML is different from the Microsoft Word 2003 XML format, … Continue Reading

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Series: Aspose.Words Feature Overview, Part 2: Support for the DOC Format

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Romank

This is the 2nd post in the series. Previous post is here.

This post is about support for the Microsoft Word DOC binary format in Aspose.Words.

Microsoft Word (DOC)

DOC is a popular file format used by all versions of Microsoft Word to store word processing documents. It is a proprietary binary format developed by Microsoft. DOC is a not a single format, but a family of formats that evolved with every new Microsoft Word version.

Aspose.Words can read … Continue Reading

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Aspose.Words for Java 2.2.0 Released

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Romank

We are happy to announce that Aspose.Words for Java now supports HTML/XHTML import.

The HTML import code in Aspose.Words for Java 2.2 matches Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.1.

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

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Aspose.Metafiles for Java 1.2.2.0 Released

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Alcrus
Aspose.Metafiles for Java 1.2.2.0 hot fix contains the following changes:
  • Fixed: Exception on reading some non standard emf metafiles (without EOF record).
Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Metafiles/1.2.2.0/Default.aspx
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Aspose.Slides for .NET 2.6.26.0 Released

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Alcrus
Aspose.Slides for .NET 2.6.26.0 hot fix contains the following changes:
  • New: Possibility to read file name of OLE1 objects.
  • New: Shape.AddTextFrame method returns created TextFrame now.
  • New: If slide notes exist but don’t have paragraphs then one empty default paragraph will be inserted automatically on presentation writing.
  • Fixed: In some cases Aspose.Slides coudn’t read correct bullet color.
  • Fixed: Numbered list treated as bulleted list in slide notes.
Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Slides/2.6.26.0/Default.aspx
… Continue Reading
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