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Aspose.Newsletter August 2017: Manipulate HTML Files Programmatically within Any Type of .NET Apps & Other News

Aspose Newsletter for May 2017 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases.  It also includes information about It also includes information adding Professional Word Documents Processing capabilities in Android Applications, Aspose Android APIs are Renamed to “Android via Java” and “Android via Xamarin”, Exporting Excel File to Any Supported Format, Apply Checksum Validation on Codabar Coded Barcode in .NET Applications, AutoFit Cells in Worksheet and Set Excel Page Breaks in Cloud Apps, How to Render Microsoft Outlook VCard Contacts to MHTML and many more.

Add Professional Word Documents Processing capabilities in an Android Applications

Read, Create, Edit and Convert Word Document Formats with Aspose.Words Android APIs. Aspose.Words products family is growing! We are pleased to officially launch Aspose.Words for Android via Java – enabling Android developers to perform pro level word document manipulation tasks directly within Android Apps. Whether it is document formatting, reporting, mail merge, rendering or conversion to some other file formats – Aspose.Words processing engine is super-efficient to perform with high-fidelity. Download Free Trial

Aspose Android APIs are Renamed to “Android via Java” and “Android via Xamarin”

Aspose Android APIs are ported from their Java APIs as they are subset components that include all the important and useful features present in their native Java APIs. Aspose.Words, Aspose.Cells and Aspose.Email for Android are following this new product naming structure now (example: If users are building native Android apps using Android Studio, the right product is Aspose.Words for Android via Java and if users are using Xamarin platform, users can use Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin, to build mobile apps).

Apply Checksum Validation on Codabar Coded Barcode in .NET Applications

Aspose.BarCode for .NET API now exposes the CodabarChecksumMode enumeration to specify the checksum mode. EnableChecksum property of the BarCodeBuilder class is needed to be set to TRUE before setting the checksum mode. Read detailed examples here

AutoFit Cells in Worksheet and Set Excel Page Breaks in Cloud Apps

Process Excel files using Aspose.Cells for Cloud – platform independent REST APIs. Developers can import an Excel file, autofit rows and columns of any worksheet and then save to any supported file format. Continue reading here

How to: Export PowerPoint Presentation to HTML in .NET and Java?

Aspose.Slides for .NET and Java now support converting a PowerPoint presentation to HTML with embedded audio and video data. Access fully functional .NET and Java code snippets here

How to: Render Microsoft Outlook VCard Contacts to MHTML?

Aspose.Email provides support for email threading and conversion of Outlook VCard contact information to MHTML within .NET and Java applications. This can be achieved with MhtFormatOptions.RenderVCardInfo enumerator while saving the message to MHTML. Access .NET and Java code snippets here for quick reference

How to: Permanently Delete Email Messages from PST File in .NET and Java Apps?

Aspose.Email for .NET and Java allows deleting emails from PST files on permanent basis that no other email recovery or forensic tools can retrieve ever. This feature comes handy in some legal matters where private and privileged messages are supposed to be removed prior to access. Check out .NET and Java source code examples for further illustration:

How to: Print Microsoft OneNote Documents From .NET Applications?

Aspose.Note for .NET 17.3 allows programmers to print OneNote documents from within their .NET applications. The Document.Print method allows sending the loaded document to default printer but users can also specify printer settings for printing the document using the PrintOptions class. View the source code here

Updates about new Product Releases

Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of our latest .NET products.

Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of our latest Java products.

Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of our Android APIs.

Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.

Aspose.Total for Reporting Services – a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products

Aspose.Total for JasperReports – The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.4.0 – Improved PDF to PDF/A conversion with added text manipulation features.

Aspose.Words for .NET 17.4 – Custom formatting of Field Results along with 12 new feature improvements.

Aspose.Imaging for Java 17.4 – Improved support of image resizing and rate control algorithm implementation.

Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin 17.4 – Improved support of linear gradients rendering as well as reading of GIF files.

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.3 – Improved formula value calculations within Microsoft Project files.

Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 17.3 – Support for working in SharePoint 2016 integration mode.

Aspose.OCR for Java 17.03 – Improved processing of skewed image to deskewed.

Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 17.3 – Support for working in SharePoint 2016 integration mode.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

May 10-12: Microsoft Build 2017 – Seattle – WA, USA

May 15-18: Visual Studio Live! Austin – Austin – TX, USA

To sponsor a user group? Get in contact at user.groups@aspose.com

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Aspose.Cloud Newsletter August 2018: REST APIs for Office, PDF & Email Formats in Cloud

Aspose.Cloud Newsletter for August 2018 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It includes information about Aspose REST APIs for working with MSOffice, PDF and Email Formats. It also includes information about preserving Bookmarks while PDF to Word conversion, support of Format validation for Image Resource, Recognize Marks Data from PDF, Barcodes and QR-Codes, Detect Keywords in the HTML Document Text Content, code example for exporting Shape in Slide to SVG Format in Cloud.

Aspose REST APIs for Office, PDF and Email Formats Manipulate Documents using Any Language, Any Platform

Aspose.Total Cloud Product Family is a collection of REST based APIs for document generation, conversion, rendering and automation in cloud. Web and mobile apps developers take full control to manipulate Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, PDF, Email, Barcode, OCR, OMR, HTML, Video and commonly used image file formats. The REST API can be called from any platform: .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Rails, Salesforce, Amazon and many more.  Start a free trial

Preserve Bookmarks while PDF to Word Conversion in Cloud

Aspose.Words Cloud API provides new SaveOptions and support for preserving bookmarks in PDF to Word conversion. The Word Cloud API also supports document conversion to DOC, DOCX, XPS, TIFF, PDF, HTML, SWF, PCL and many other file formats. Read more details

Support of Format Validation for Image Resource in Aspose.Slides Cloud API

Aspose.Slides Cloud is a REST API for processing Microsoft PowerPoint file formats. You can easily create, edit and convert presentation files in cloud. The latest version now supports format validation for image resource as well as using PDF, SWF and TIFF formats instead with NotesPosition export option for adding PdfNotes. Read more Recognize Marks Data from PDF, Barcodes and QR-Codes in Cloud

Aspose.OMR Cloud has the capability to capture human-marked data from PDF documents and recognize images in PDF Format with high accuracy. You can add Barcodes, QR-codes and Aruco codes onto your template and recognize Barcodes and QR-codes in documents like surveys, questionnaires, examination paper. Read more

Detect Keywords in the HTML Document Text Content using REST APIs

Aspose.HTML Cloud is a REST API to create, manipulate, convert and render HTML files in cloud. The latest version adds support for getting HTML document keywords using the keyword detection service or reference the URL of the document on web as an argument.

Code Example: Detecting Headers and Footers while PDF to Word Conversion using REST APIs

Aspose.Words Cloud offers advanced REST APIs to create, edit, convert or render Microsoft Word document formats. The latest version allows to perform text and document classification using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. Moreover, sections of PDF pages containing page numbers and document names will be converted as headers and footers in Word document that do not affect rest of the page layout and are not moved while the document is being edited.

Code Example: Export Shape in a Slide to SVG Format in Cloud

Aspose.Slides Cloud now adds SVG to shape export formats. Just specify export options in request body for POST method of SaveAs resource for a shape. Moreover, position parameter added to shapes, paragraphs and portions APIs that allow users to insert an item to a list at the specified position instead of just at the end of the list.

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Get Floating Table Position & Dynamic Shape Fill Color Setting for LINQ Reporting Engine using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for .NET 17.9.0. This month’s release contains over 102 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. There are some important features and API changes in part of this month’s release, such as LINQ Reporting Engine supports dynamic shape background coloring, Improved optional hyphen handling and fixed related infinite loop issue, Improved floating table re-breaking in specific scenarios where content of a table used to be lost outside of a page, Improved table grid computation when cells contain tab characters, Further improved character spacing control handling, PCL documents rendering improved. UCS-2 symbol sets can now be mapped to the printer built-in fonts – it allows to print non-ascii symbols with built-in fonts if supported by printer, A ‘cosmetic’ pen (i.e. pen with fixed 1-pixel width) rendering improved in metafile output documents, Font metrics calculation affecting the vertical positioning of text for GDI+ output rendering improved, Added fallback for strokes with unsupported binary raster operations in metafile rendering, Gamma-correction flag is now taken into account while rendering metafiles brushes and Metafile warnings improved. This release has introduced new feature for setting the fill color of Shape node using LINQ Reporting. Please refer to the  article Setting Background Color Dynamically for more detail in the documentation section. A new constant is added into the MsWordVersion enumeration type. It can be passed into the CompatibilityOptions.OptimizeFor method to optimize the document contents as well as Aspose.Words behavior to match MS Word 2016 version. Aspose team has added public property OleFormat.OlePackage to provide ability to set file name, extension and display name for OLE Package when inserting ole object using MemoryStream. Please refer to the article Set File Name and Extension when Inserting Ole Object for more detail. A new feature has been added in this release to get the position of floating table. It has removed following obsolete public methods from DigitalSignatureUtil class. Instead, the methods with SignOptions class should be used. Added warnings for unsupported binary raster operations. Also added fallback to bitmap rendering in this case on .NET platform. Changed type of warnings about unsupported metafile records from DataLoss/Unexpected Content to more appropriate MinorFormattingLoss. It has removed warnings about unsupported metafile records, which do not affect the output. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

Table width is changed after conversion from Docx to Pdf.

Add feature to include all styles in Resources\AllStyles2007.docx from StyleIdentifier Enum

Shifted text in a document after conversion from MS Word to PDF

When DOCX is saved as PDF, table columns have incorrect width

Add feature to fill shape (text-box) color in Linq Reporting Engine

Built-in styles in MSW 2013 are different than in MSW 2007.

Provide method that returns Text in the same order as we see in MS Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice etc

Applying a radial gradient fill (hardware rendering).

Applying a rectangular gradient fill (hardware rendering).

Implement support of transform for radial gradient fill (hardware rendering).

TOC line spacing is changed in PDF output.

Empty table appears in ouput PDF

Get position of floating table in public API

/revision marks/ Support revision marks upon rendering

Shape gets overlapped due to its incorrect position

Applying simple textures (such as Color, Gradient, Picture, etc.) for 3D shapes (hardware rendering)

Issue when loading HTML with incorrect namespace declarations

Incorrect table position in DOM API and resultant HTML

To set file name and extension when inserting ole object using MemoryStream

Support to evaluate IF condition

Shading.BackgroundPatternColor returns incorrect value after updating Theme color

Demo code of Page Splitter has to be simplified and reviewed.

Contents move down to the page after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Position of table's rows is changed after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Table truncates in PDF - only one page in rendered

Font changed in saved .rtf document

Table on edge of page is mangled in PDF

Multipage table content cutting off on transforming Word to PDF

Blank pages appear in generated ODT

/character spacing control/ Chinese text moves to next line after conversion from Doc to HtmlFixed

Row's contents are truncated after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Row's contents are truncated after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Docx to Pdf conversion issue with table's rendering

Cell's contents are truncated at the bottom of page in output Pdf

Table's cells are completely lost after re-saving Odt

Html save as Odt - tables display incorrectly

Distance between list item marker and text increases after saving to HTML

"DOCX to WML" conversion result has wrong output.

DOCX to PDF conversion losing pages

Incorrect table/page layout // DOCX to PDFA: some text is missing in resultant PDFA document

TOC paragraph spacing difference in Aspose.Words and MS Word

MS Word 2016 shows page number incorrectly in status bar after saving RTF To DOCX

Formatting issue in PDF printing

Process hangs during rendering DOCX to PDF

/character spacing control/ Position of line break changes in rendered document

DOCX to PDF conversion issue with Khmer text

Text is wrapped to next line in table after conversion from DOCX to PDF

Images are overlapped after conversion from DOCX to HtmlFixed

List label values are incorrect after joining documents

DOCX to PDF conversion issue with SmartArt rendering

DOCX to PNG conversion issue with text formatting

DOCX to Image conversion issue with text formatting

Greek letter µ converted to M when DOCX saved as PDF

Text overlaps on header row border in resultant Image

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

Optimize Document to Particular MS Word Version

Setting Background Color Dynamically

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET applications to read, write and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, TOC updated/rebuilt, Embedded OOXML, Footnotes rendering and support of DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

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Aspose.Words for iOS via Xamarin is Released! Create, Edit & Convert Word Docs in iOS Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin 17.7.0.  Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ has full functionality of Aspose.Words for .NET with few limitations, minor API changes and additional requirements. There are some Major fixes and improvements part of this release, such as Rendering into PCL format (Printer Command Language) was implemented, New saving format introduced – “SaveFormat.Pcl”. Please note that custom fonts are not yet supported, the proper algorithm for rendering of shapes with automatic size textboxes (i.e. closest to MS Word output) implemented, The rendered PDF documents can now show the document title in the title bar of the viewer. This is controlled by “PdfSaveOptions.DisplayDocTitle” property, Improved font rendering in PDF documents for Adobe Illustrator limitations, Improved rendering of fonts with simulated bold style, Vertical text rendering in DrawingML textboxes improved, Problem with rendering of numbers on horizontal axis in DrawingML Charts fixed, Implemented support for “Wrap trailing spaces to next line” option., Implemented support for footnote continuation notices, Improved text wrapping logic for “2013 and later” documents, Improved non-breaking space width calculation, Improved Asian text justification logic and many more.‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native Android applications. You can integrate this API through Xamarin framework for Android applications. ‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats.  The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

Rendering into PCL format (Printer Command Language) was implemented. New saving format introduced – “SaveFormat.Pcl”. Please note that custom fonts is not yet supported.

The proper algorithm for rendering of shapes with automatic size textboxes (i.e. closest to MS Word output) implemented.

The rendered PDF documents can now show the document title in the title bar of the viewer. This is controlled by “PdfSaveOptions.DisplayDocTitle” property.

Improved font rendering in PDF documents for Adobe Illustrator limitations.

Improved rendering of fonts with simulated bold style.

Vertical text rendering in DrawingML textboxes improved.

Problem with rendering of numbers on horizontal axis in DrawingML Charts fixed.

Implemented support for "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" option.

Implemented support for footnote continuation notices.

Improved text wrapping logic for "2013 and later" documents.

Improved non-breaking space width calculation.

Improved Asian text justification logic.

A Picture moves towards the top page edge in PDF

DOCX to PDF conversion issue with shape's text when it is opened in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

Improve comparison of language attributes

Improve cell formatting comparison. #2

Improve row comparsion. #3

Incorrect oval shape width/height for shape with word wrap off, auto-fit on

A Table is moved from middle of page to the top in PDF

/table grid/ Table's layout get corrupted after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Table's position is changed after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Docx to df conversion issue with shape position

Textboxes partially render beyond right edge of page in PDF

/wrap trailing spaces to next line compat option/ Spaces from the start of second line of Paragraph are lost in PDF

/footnotes + continuation notice/Text flows to the previous page (Doc to Pdf conversion)

GroupShape does not render correctly in Pdf

Document.Compare generates extra revisions

Doc to Pdf conversion issue with GroupShape

Compare works incorrectly since 16.10 version

/footnotes+continuation notice/Docx to fixed page format conversion issue with text position

Issue with HTML to Word Conversion - Textarea Border

Number index in Word gets changed after converting from html (DOCX-HTML-DOCX roundtrip)

/footnotes+continuation notice/Page is broken incorrectly if last paragraph on page is divided on two pages

Aspose.Words incorrectly works with font family lists in HTML import.

Document.Compare generates unnecessary delete and insert revisions for table

GetChildNodes returns extra nodes

Superscript and subscript are lost in output HTML and PDF

Table cell RTL text alignment issue

Docx to Pdf conversion issue with image's rendering

Table text is splitting into two lines

Document.Compare generates extra revisions

Shape is flipped after conversion from Docx to Pdf

/text wrap/ Formatting issue with floating paragraph

/wrap trailing spaces/ Some lines are pushed from page bottom to next page in resultant PDF

Document.UpdateFields does not update the formula field

System.InvalidCastException is thrown while saving DOCX to PDF

Scale of charts is changed in resultant PDF

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

File Formats and Conversions

Rendering and Printing

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native Android applications. You can integrate this API through Xamarin framework for Android applications. ‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats. Developers can generate, modify, convert and render documents. It allows developers to use standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields in reports.

More about Aspose.Words

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Render Word File to PCL & Display Document Title in Title Bar of PDF Viewer in Android via Xamarin

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin 17.7.0.  Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ has full functionality of Aspose.Words for .NET with few limitations, minor API changes and additional requirements. There are some Major fixes and improvements part of this release, such as Rendering into PCL format (Printer Command Language) was implemented, New saving format introduced – “SaveFormat.Pcl”. Please note that custom fonts are not yet supported, the proper algorithm for rendering of shapes with automatic size textboxes (i.e. closest to MS Word output) implemented, The rendered PDF documents can now show the document title in the title bar of the viewer. This is controlled by “PdfSaveOptions.DisplayDocTitle” property, Improved font rendering in PDF documents for Adobe Illustrator limitations, Improved rendering of fonts with simulated bold style, Vertical text rendering in DrawingML textboxes improved, Problem with rendering of numbers on horizontal axis in DrawingML Charts fixed, Implemented support for “Wrap trailing spaces to next line” option., Implemented support for footnote continuation notices, Improved text wrapping logic for “2013 and later” documents, Improved non-breaking space width calculation, Improved Asian text justification logic and many more.‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native Android applications. You can integrate this API through Xamarin framework for Android applications. ‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats.  The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

Rendering into PCL format (Printer Command Language) was implemented. New saving format introduced – “SaveFormat.Pcl”. Please note that custom fonts is not yet supported.

The proper algorithm for rendering of shapes with automatic size textboxes (i.e. closest to MS Word output) implemented.

The rendered PDF documents can now show the document title in the title bar of the viewer. This is controlled by “PdfSaveOptions.DisplayDocTitle” property.

Improved font rendering in PDF documents for Adobe Illustrator limitations.

Improved rendering of fonts with simulated bold style.

Vertical text rendering in DrawingML textboxes improved.

Problem with rendering of numbers on horizontal axis in DrawingML Charts fixed.

Implemented support for "Wrap trailing spaces to next line" option.

Implemented support for footnote continuation notices.

Improved text wrapping logic for "2013 and later" documents.

Improved non-breaking space width calculation.

Improved Asian text justification logic.

A Picture moves towards the top page edge in PDF

DOCX to PDF conversion issue with shape's text when it is opened in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

Improve comparison of language attributes

Improve cell formatting comparison. #2

Improve row comparsion. #3

Incorrect oval shape width/height for shape with word wrap off, auto-fit on

A Table is moved from middle of page to the top in PDF

/table grid/ Table's layout get corrupted after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Table's position is changed after conversion from Docx to Pdf

Docx to df conversion issue with shape position

Textboxes partially render beyond right edge of page in PDF

/wrap trailing spaces to next line compat option/ Spaces from the start of second line of Paragraph are lost in PDF

/footnotes + continuation notice/Text flows to the previous page (Doc to Pdf conversion)

GroupShape does not render correctly in Pdf

Document.Compare generates extra revisions

Doc to Pdf conversion issue with GroupShape

Compare works incorrectly since 16.10 version

/footnotes+continuation notice/Docx to fixed page format conversion issue with text position

Issue with HTML to Word Conversion - Textarea Border

Number index in Word gets changed after converting from html (DOCX-HTML-DOCX roundtrip)

/footnotes+continuation notice/Page is broken incorrectly if last paragraph on page is divided on two pages

Aspose.Words incorrectly works with font family lists in HTML import.

Document.Compare generates unnecessary delete and insert revisions for table

GetChildNodes returns extra nodes

Superscript and subscript are lost in output HTML and PDF

Table cell RTL text alignment issue

Docx to Pdf conversion issue with image's rendering

Table text is splitting into two lines

Document.Compare generates extra revisions

Shape is flipped after conversion from Docx to Pdf

/text wrap/ Formatting issue with floating paragraph

/wrap trailing spaces/ Some lines are pushed from page bottom to next page in resultant PDF

Document.UpdateFields does not update the formula field

System.InvalidCastException is thrown while saving DOCX to PDF

Scale of charts is changed in resultant PDF

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

File Formats and Conversions

Rendering and Printing

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native Android applications. You can integrate this API through Xamarin framework for Android applications. ‘Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin’ API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats. Developers can generate, modify, convert and render documents. It allows developers to use standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields in reports.

More about Aspose.Words

Homepage of Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin

Download Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin

Online documentation of Aspose.Words

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Calculate Table PDF Width & Embed Media Files inside PDF Document using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.3.0. This month release includes new feature to calculate Table width and embed media files(audio and video) in PDF document along with some other important features. Aspose team has also enhanced Footnote feature and HTML text support in this version in addition to many other bug fixes reported in old releases that improves the APIs functionality. Aspose team has implemented a new annotation RichMediaAnnotation in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.3. It is used to embed media files within PDF document. In fact RichMediaAnnotation is container for SWF (Flash) script. Due to license restriction Aspose team cannot include third-party flash scripts in our product, so users should provide their own script for playing video or audio. For example users can use VideoPlayer and AudioPlayer shipped with Adobe Acrobat. Please check documentation link for sample code and details to embed video/audio files in PDF document. In some scenarios, users have not hard coded the Table width in PDF document and later users want to know its width for some post processing. This release introduced a new method GetWidth() to calculate Table width in this release. Aspose.Pdf supports insertion of HTML string in PDF document. If HTML specified fonts are available on host system then it uses same fonts, otherwise it uses system default fonts for HTML string. It has received some requirements to support font overriding feature for HTML string. This release implemented TextState object in HtmlFramgent class, now users can override font details of HTML string. In current release, It has also added support to set color of FootNote label(node identifier). It has implemented TextState object in FootNote class. Users can set FootNote label color using TextState.  The list of important new and improved features are given below

Support feature to calculate Table Cell width

Find table width

Movie is not embedded inside PDF file

PDF to PDF/A-2u - Support this conversion format

Setting Footnote Text color

Support of TextState in HtmlFragment

When color PDF is converted to grayscale, the text stays in color while the picture is black-white

When PDF is converted to TIFF, the output file has black boxes

When PDF converted to PDF_A_1B, the first page is missing a picture

PDF to PDFA1b: compliance failure due to CMYK error

PDF to PDF/A - white image background overlaps background image

PCL to PDF: incorrect output is generated

Incorrect ColorType information is being returned

Pdf file is not compilant with PDF/A-1a format (transparency and missing objects)

PDF to PDF/A - Conversion process takes too much time

PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is too large

Page color is being detected BlackandWhite instead RGB

RgbToDeviceGrayConversionStrategy convert RGB to black and white instead grayscale

Hyperlink is not working in FloatingBox

Character's size issue when rendering pdf into html

Line Spacing Increased on Multiline Textbox

Latest Aspose.Pdf don't show correct ImagePlacement.Rotation

PDF to PDF/A - Missing contents and formatting issues

PDF to DOCX: TOC alignment issue

When PDF is converted to PDF_A_1B, output file is still PDF

When PDF is converted to PDF_A_1B, output file is still classic PDF

Conversion Pdf to Pdfa - output not compliant

When PDF is converted to HTML, produced HTML looks bad and some letters are stretched

PDF to JPEG - Some symbols look like different in resultant file

Additional characters (curly braces) when converting XPS to PDF

PDF to HTML - Color filling isn't displayed for some objects

XFA form is not being converted to Standard Acro Form

PDF to DOCX - Resultant text appears to be in Russian

PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file gets corrupted

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide users riefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Adding RichMediaAnnotation

Add SWF File Annotation to PDF Document

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

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