Performance Test of Large File

Just wanted to share results of one of the performance tests we do right now before finalizing Aspose.Words 4.0. We think the results are very good, hence we want to share them. The test is for a quite LARGE file, so it is pretty much a stress test if you like. Most of the files you will process with Aspose.Words are likely to be smaller and process much faster.

Test Setup

  • Test file: Word2003RTFSpec.doc, size 4.78mb, 212 pages, 390,000
… Continue Reading
Posted in Roman Korchagin |

Aspose.Tasks 1.6.1.0 released!

Hot fix contains:
  • Updated: Installer to allow installation on computer with .NET 2.0 only (without .NET 1.1).
  • Updated: Assembly info to allow work in web applications with medium access rights.
  • New: Aspose.Tasks recalculates durations when read project file. New values depends also on number of work hours per day, per week and work days per month.
  • Fixed: Wrong rounding duration and cost values when read MPP files.
… Continue Reading
Posted in Alexey Zhilin |

Aspose.Chart 3.3.1 Released

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Chart 3.3.1.

  • Fixed: Exception when 3D Pie and one of values much less than other values
… Continue Reading
Posted in Oleg Korostylev |

Follow up to Drawing Objects

In the previous topic I forgot to really tell why support for drawing objects in Aspose.Words for .NET 4.0 is really AWesome.

Current support for drawing objects in Aspose.Words for .NET 4.0 is by far the most thorough and comprehensive comparing to any existing competing commercial or open source packages. Support for drawing objects is only better of course in Microsoft Word itself.

There is also the high-fidelity conversion from DOC to RTF and WordprocessingML without losing any of the formatting.

The … Continue Reading

Posted in Roman Korchagin |

AWesome Drawing Objects

I liked the AWesome line started by my colleague Dmitry Vorobyev in a post about his work on RTF export and I want to carry it on to describe what we’ve done for drawing objects in Aspose.Words 4.0.

Drawing objects in Microsoft Word documents are images, shapes (also called auto shapes), group shapes, textboxes, diagrams, OLE objects, ActiveX controls, horizontal lines and WordArt objects.

In the binary DOC format they are sometimes called “Escher”, probably an early code name from Microsoft. In WordprocessingML … Continue Reading

Posted in Roman Korchagin |

Aspose.Words for Java 1.0.5.0 Released

In this version:

  • Updated Aspose.Words for Java API Reference. It is always up to date now since it is auto-generated from C# XML documentation with appropriate changes for Java.
  • Ported the DocumentExplorer demo to Java, added as a demo project.
  • Added basic PDF export using iText to the demo projects. Note this export is very basic and is only intended to show how to extract content from a Word document using Aspose.Words. It is not suitable for production PDF
… Continue Reading
Posted in Roman Korchagin |

Aspose.Flash for .NET 1.3.1.0 released!

Hot fix contains:
  • Fixed: Reading DefineShape records.
  • Fixed: Reading Flash 7 non smoothed bitmaps.
… Continue Reading
Posted in Alexey Zhilin |

Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.6.0 Released!

Dear Customers,

   We have released Aspose.Workflow HotFix 1.2.6.0,  it contains:

Feature Added:

  • Add asyncrhonized tool agent execute, user can add “Tool.Execute.Asynchronize” to the ToolAgent extended attributes. and set the value to “true”, then the tool agent will be executed in a sperate thread. this feature requested by a customer.

Bug Fixed:

  • Change the table persistence order to avoid dead lock
  • When there is only .NET 2.0 installed, the installer will fail, now it fixed. 

Please get the newest version from … Continue Reading

Posted in Stone Well |

Aspose.Chart 3.3.0 Released

Dear Customers,

We have released Aspose.Chart 3.3.0.

  • Added: Windows Forms versions for demos projects:
  • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.Win.csproj
  • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.VisualBasic.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.VisualBasic.Win.vbproj
  • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win.csproj
  • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win.vbproj
  • Added: Example of printing chart
    • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win.csproj
    • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win.vbproj
  • Added: Example of filling of the series from a database
    • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.csproj
    • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.Win.csproj
    • [Aspose Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.vbproj
    • [Aspose.Chart install directory]\Demos\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win\Aspose.Chart.Demos.SimpleApp.VisualBasic.Win.vbproj
  • Added: Aspose.Chart.BackImage.Image
    • … Continue Reading
    Posted in Oleg Korostylev |

    Class Design: Which is the Best?

    What class design do you prefer? I assume most of you follow Microsoft guidelines, and it’s reasonable. However, practice shows that not all the recommendations should be blindly obeyed. I don’t imply here fundamental rules like “never make instance fields public” (yet this also might be broken in some rare cases – imagine you have an internal class representing a low-level data structure with several hundred fields!). I’m rather speaking of naming conventions, order of members, and some other stuff related … Continue Reading

    Posted in Dmitry Vorobyev |