Convert Collada Scene to Other 3D Formats & Apply Visual Effects on 3D View Using Aspose.3D for .NET 2.0.0
It enables developers to automatically set up one or multiple viewports in a single screenshot. Using multiple viewports technique can help in visualizing some large sized 3D scenes. Developers may also import an existing Collada scene, and then save in other supported 3D file formats. It has also added four built in visual effects also known as post-processing effects. They’ll allow developers to customize the post-processing algorithms in the future versions. - August 25, 2016
Add/Remove Embedded Fonts in Word Files & Save Document Page in GIF Using Aspose.Words for Java & .NET 16.7.0
It contains contains over 132 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes, such as save document page in GIF Format, exposed more String and Number Formats for Expression Results in LINQ Reporting Engine, support of adding and removing embedded fonts, improved font substitution rules, added advanced Range.Replace methods and added Overload of DigitalSignatureUtil.Sign to specify a password for decrypting document. - August 24, 2016
Detect Visio File Type from Input Stream & Modify Event Cells of Visio Shape Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 6.7.0
This new release of Aspose.Diagram for Java enables Java Developers to determine the type of a Visio file from an input stream. Developers can already detect the type of a Visio file by passing a complete local file path which also includes the filename and extension. It enhanced the way of retrieving and updating the event cells in macro-enabled Visio file formats. - August 21, 2016
Convert PDF to DOCX, PDF to PDFA & XFA to Standard Form Conversion Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 11.9.0
It is a maintenance release where the Aspose team has improved the API functionality by fixing a number of bugs, reported by Aspose valued customers in previous versions. It improved the PDF to DOCX conversion feature. It has also improved algorithm that reads XFA configuration sections & several issues with positioning and rendering of XFA Draw elements were fixed. There have been specific improvements regarding HTML to PDF, PDF to HTML, XML to PDF and PDF to PPTX. - August 20, 2016
Split PST File Based on Search Criterion & Detection of Message as TNEF using Aspose.Email for .NET 6.8.0
It further enhances the capability to split PST based on defined criterion. The API now provides support for specifying multiple criterions. It also provides the capability of detecting whether the loaded email message was originally TNEF. This release further enhances the POP3 Client of the API to retrieve message summary information from the server using this unique id of the message. It also fixes a number of bugs that were reported with the previous version of the API. - August 18, 2016
Aspose Launces New Java APIs for Working with AutoCAD DWG & DXF Files in Java Apps
Aspose is proud to expand its APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.CAD for Java. It enables developers to convert AutoCAD DWG and DXF files to PDF and Raster images. It allows conversion to PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and GIF image formats. It is a native API and does not require AutoCAD or any software to be installed. Users can also convert the selected layers and layouts from the AutoCAD files. The conversion to PDF and Raster images is of very high quality. - August 17, 2016
Filter Data Type While Loading Spreadsheets & ActiveX Controls Support in Android Apps
It has provided the ability to add & manipulate the ActiveX Controls in spreadsheets. It Updates References while Deleting Blank Rows & Columns and provide the ability to export spreadsheet contents in HTML format as per the standards opted by Excel apps. Moreover, it allows refreshing OleObject’s image if the contents/data of underlying object has been changed, allowing get/set comments for an instance of ListObject, specifying default font name for rendering spreadsheets in image formats. - August 14, 2016
Notebook to PDF Conversion, Adding & Removing Child Nodes from Notebook Using Aspose.Note for Java 2.4.0
This new release introduces new feature of reading/writing support for Microsoft OneNote Notebook file formats (.onetoc2). It also provides the enhancement of determining Microsoft OneNote document format for differentiating between OneNote and OneNote online file format. Users now can create and save OneNote notebook files & can also add and remove child nodes from a Notebook. - August 12, 2016
Project Data Export to HTML & Performance Improvement While Creating Tasks Using Aspose.Tasks for .NET 9.5.0
It brings performance improvement while creating a large number of tasks using the API. It provides control to avoid exporting this information to output HTML file if not required. This month’s release also fixes a number of issues related to loading Primavera project files, change in predecessor’s information while loading and saving MPP file, and setting task notes to Chinese language. - August 11, 2016
Render PDF Document Layers Separately in PDF to HTML & PDF to PNG Conversion Using Java
It introduced rendering PDF document layers separately in PDF to HTML conversion & improved performance for PDF to PNG conversion. Now users can easily create a Graph Object with dashed line. It also improved XPS to PDF conversion performance & addressed some important bug fixes reported by Aspose valued customers. - August 10, 2016
Apply Font Settings for Metafiles (EMF) & Convert SVG to Raster Image Using Aspose.Imaging for Java 3.7.0
It supports the SVG image format (.svg). It provides the SvgImage class to load SVG files and same can be used to convert the SVG to raster formats. Developers can apply font settings for metafiles (EMF). Some important enhancements have been introduced in this release, such as, process of loading WMF files and Aspose.Imaging drawing engine has been improved. Calculation process of Horizontal and Vertical resolution values has also been improved. - August 07, 2016
Add Videos from YouTube & Improved Presentation Document Properties Using Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.6.0
It improved the presentation Documentation properties management in this product release. Now users can work with document properties in a better way. Now Users can also add the video from web source like YouTube inside your presentation. It has improved the text management in this product release and have resolved certain pending issue like improper fonts, wrong alignment, improper and wrong bullets, wrong slide numbering and improper bordering. - August 06, 2016
Updated Configuration Option to Control Table Position & Hyperlinks Export in Word Reports Using Aspose.Words for JasperReports 2.7.3
Aspose.Words for JasperReports 2.7.3 includes fix of issue related to section breaks in exported documents. It also includes fix of issues related to hyperlinks and sub-reports in exported documents. We have introduced a new configuration option USE_POSITIONING_TABLES to control table position. - August 05, 2016
Aspose.Newsletter August 2016: Manipulate OneNote Files in .NET, Java Apps & Other News
Aspose Newsletter for August 2016 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It also includes information about manipulating OneNote file without office automation, working with CAD formats like DWG and DXF, OneNote Notebook TOC Format Support, Support for Two New Barcode Formats in the Latest release of Aspose.Barcode for .NET, Convert Excel Worksheet or Workbook to XPS Formats & Manipulating Calendar Exceptions in MS Project. - August 04, 2016
Change OLE Object in a Visio Diagram & Edit Codebase in VBA Project Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 6.6.0
It enables Java Developers to transform their macro-enabled diagrams to macro-free diagrams or vice versa. Moreover, it gives developers a mechanism to programmatically retrieve OLE objects from a Visio, and then change it with its modified version. Developers can also access and modify the source code of the whole module in the VBA project. Users may embed documents on a Visio diagram, displayed as icons. - August 03, 2016
Manipulate Embedded OLE Objects, Load & Save Macro Enabled Visio Files Using Aspose.Diagram for .NET 6.6.0
It allows developers to retrieve VBA project and modify the source code of modules as well as import and export macro-enabled Visio files. Developers may also retrieve an OLE object to modify it, and then save back in the Visio diagram. Developers can change the icon of an OLE object. This version also addresses the issues of changing color of shapes, missing text items, the alignment problem of the shapes, additional circular shapes and accuracy in size of the shapes. - July 28, 2016
Document Insertion to LINQ Reporting Engine & Fast Extraction from DOC in Java/.NET Apps Using Aspose.Words 16.6.0
It contains over 113 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes such as added Support for outer document insertion to LINQ reporting Engine, Fast extraction from DOC format via PlainTextDocument Class is faster by a factor of Ten (at a cost), saving DOCX as ISO 29500 Strict OOXML format is Available now, added feature to insert empty Values in Chart Series, added MailMerge.GetRegionsByName() Method & Added Field.GetFieldCode() Overload. - July 27, 2016
SSL Mode Auto Detection for Servers & Retaining Content Disposition Using Aspose.Email for Java 6.7.0
It includes SSL Mode Auto Detection for Servers. The SecurityOptions mode offered by the API included None, Auto, SSLImplicit and SSLExplicit options. It adds another option of SSLAuto to this Enumerator that avoids setting the security options to none while selecting between the two SSL options at the same time. The API now retains the content-transfer encoding strings while loading email & then saving it back. It also includes all the bug fixes as inherited from its equivalent .NET version. - July 24, 2016
Add ActiveX Control Support, Comments for ListObjects & Rendering Grid Lines to HTML Using Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.8.3
It provides the ability to add & manipulate the ActiveX Controls in spreadsheets. The APIs provide the ability to export spreadsheet contents in HTML format as per the standards opted by Excel application. It has exposed a property which allows refreshing the OleObject’s image if the contents/data of the underlying object has been changed. It allows getting and setting the comments for an instance of ListObject. It has enhanced Specifying text spacing for shapes &Loadlnd spreadsheets etc. - July 23, 2016
PDF Layers Rendering in HTML Conversion & Dash Line Style Support for Graph Objects Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 11.7.0
It introduced PDF document layers support in HTML conversion, new dash line style of Graph objects and some other features. It also improved the XPS to PDF conversion performance & stated new improvements. Some of these are PDF to HTML, HTML to PDF, rendering of XFA form to Static form, use of OTF fonts in HtmlFragment. - July 21, 2016
Read VBA Project References, Modules & Module Attributes Information from MPP Using Aspose.Tasks for Java 9.4.0
It provides the capability to read VBA project information from a Microsoft Project document. Module information from a VBA project of a document can be retrieved using the getModules() method of the VbaProject class. Moreover, it also supports reading references Information from VBA and module attributes information from VBA. - July 20, 2016
Load OneNote Netbook & Read Rich Text Nodes from Microsoft OneNote File Using Aspose.Note for Java 2.3.0
It includes new feature of providing support for Microsoft OneNote Notebook (.onetoc2) file format. It lets users load Notebook files and retrieve the documents information from these files. With this month’s release, developers can now use the API to read the child documents of a Notebook. Besides the major new feature of supporting OneNote notebook, this month’s release also fixes a number of bugs related to the API functionality. - July 17, 2016
Manage Paragraph Picture Bullets in PPTX & Rendering of Hidden Slides Using .NET
It introduced the support for adding picture bullets for text frame paragraphs. It has also included the support for rendering of hidden slides inside exported PDF, XPS, TIFF, SWF and HTML. Moreover, it has addressed many shapes rendering issues including missing SmartArt, charts, improper table text, missing text effects, on shapes in exported PDF and slide thumbnails have been rectified in this release. - July 16, 2016
Crop EMF Image & Specify Font Folder While Converting EMF to Raster Image Using Aspose.Imaging for .NET 3.7.0
It supports for Scalable Vector Graphics image & allows to Crop EMF Image. It also supports to specify font folder while converting EMF to raster image has also been incorporated in this release. This release also introduced some important enhancements, such as Process of loading DICOM image, Processing of Horizontal and Vertical resolution values of an image and process of drawing image has been greatly improved. - July 14, 2016
Render Hidden Slides in Presentation to PDF Export & Adding Picture Bullet Using Aspose.Slides for Java 16.5.0
It has introduced the long awaited support for rendering of hidden slides inside exported PDF, XPS, TIFF, SWF and HTML. The support for inserting picture bullets for text frame paragraphs has also been made part of this release. It has improved the presentation rendering features and have resolved many rendering issues that earlier resulted in missing or improper images, missing charts, missing tables, improper text rendering, improper gradient effects, missing shadow effects & more. - July 13, 2016
Create Bookmark Over 40 Characters & Suppressed Endnotes in Fixed Page File Using Aspose.Words 16.5.0
It contains over 72 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes such as support of Bookmark Over 40 Characters in Exported PDF, added Explicit Support of Multiple Data Sources in LINQ Reporting Engine, Support of Suppressed Endnotes in Fixed Page File Format, support Special Handling of Backslash for IF Fiel, improved reflow performance for large paragraphs, improved SVG output with IE compatibility and improved Asian text line breaking in fixed page file format. - July 03, 2016
Retrieve Comments from VSD File & Render Visio Text with Subscript/Superscript Using Aspose.Diagram for .NET 6.5.0
It allows developers to automate the task of retrieving comments from VSD diagram. It retrieves connection points of shape from VSS stencil and brings improvements in the rendering of text styled as subscript or superscript. This new version brings improvements in rendering of text styled as subscript or superscript. This version also addresses the issues of missing text items, partial rendering of the dynamic connectors and radio boxes as well as the resolution change of the output graphics. - July 02, 2016
Faster Image Rotation & Skew Image Correction in OMR Template Editor Are Enhanced Using Aspose.OCR for .NET 3.5.0
This release includes improved mechanism to correct skewed image imported in OMR template editor. Faster image rotation algorithm has also been incorporated in this release. Skew image correction in OMR template editor was already supported. However the skew image correction process has been improved further. - June 30, 2016
Read Code32 & Datalogic2of5 Barcodes, Use Manual Hints to Skip Rotated Barcodes Using Java
It supports generating Code32 and Datalogic2of5 barcodes. Developers can also read Code32, Datalogic and MICR barcodes as well as to turn off the rotation algorithms and increases the recognition speed. Some impotent improvements are also parts of this release, such as, 417 barcode recognition, Path IV barcode recognition, DataMatrix barcode recognition and Aztec barcode recognition has been improved. - June 29, 2016
Delete Messages in Bulk from PST & Copy Multiple Messages Using IMAP Client Using Aspose.Email for Java 6.6.0
It includes the new feature of deleting multiple messages in bulk from a PST file & provides the capability to update messages’ properties in bulk within a PST file as well. This release also enhances the IMAP client of the API for deleting set of messages from the mailbox using a single API call. It enhanced the IMAP client of the API for copying multiple messages across mailbox folders & supporting IMAP4 Extensions and extended list command. - June 26, 2016
Create/Edit OneNote Notebooks, Export Notebook to PDF & Image Format Using Aspose.Note for .NET 2.4.0
It includes read/write support of Microsoft OneNote notebooks (.onetoc2). It provides the capability to create and manipulate notebooks. The API lets users create, save and export notebooks to a number of different formats. It also supports adding and removing child nodes from a notebook. This month’s release also fixes a number of bugs that were reported by Aspose valued customers while working with the previous version of the API. - June 25, 2016
Convert PDF to TIFF Using Bradley Algorithm & Add Page Number as Stamp Object Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 11.6.0
It supports PDF to TIFF conversion using Bradley algorithm. It has been supporting the feature to convert PDF to TIF using LZW compression and then with the use of AForge, Binarization can be applied. The PageNumberStamp class offers the feature to add Page Number information as stamp object inside PDF document. There have been specific improvements regarding PDF to PDF/A, PDF to HTML, XPS to PDF, PDF to XPS, HTML to PDF and Image placement/manipulation in PDF document. - June 23, 2016
Create Data Validation for GridCell & Set Shadow as Text Effect for Shapes Using Aspose.Cells for Java 8.8.1
It supports data filtering at the time of template loading. The API has exposed another overloaded method for converting chart to PDF. It provides the ability to set the shadow as text effects for any shape. It adds and remove create Data validation for GridCell. The most notable enhancements in this release includes, ability to create custom command buttons for Aspose.Cells.GridWeb for Java & ability to directly calculate the custom functions without inserting the function in worksheet. - June 22, 2016
Add or Search Hidden Text in PDF Document & Change Annotations Orientation Using Aspose.Pdf for Java 11.4.0
It introduced the capability to add and search hidden text in PDF document. It also has introduced the capability to use PDF file objects after calling ProcessPragraphs() method. A new Rotate(...) method is added for annotation which provides the capabilities to change annotations orientation. There have been specific improvements regarding Text extraction from PDF, image placement inside PDF, PDF to HTML, HTML to PDF & more. - June 15, 2016
Optimized Font Styles & Preserve Original Layout in Visio Diagram Export Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 6.4.0
It enables Java Developers to convert Visio Diagram with optimized font styles. This version focuses on the conversion quality of Visio diagrams and mitigates the problems of altering the font name, font size, font style, line style and so on. It also covers the aspects of partial rendering of the shape or losing the structure of the shapes in output diagram. It also addressed some important bug fixes, such as VSD to PDF conversion, Open and save routine of a VSDX diagram and many more. - June 12, 2016
Read VBA from MPP Files & Arithmetic Operators Support in Formula for Date Field Using Aspose.Tasks for .NET 9.4.0
It introduces one of the most demanding features by Aspose clients such as support for working with VBA in a Project document. The API now supports reading VBA contents from the document. It also provides the capability of read/write additional extended attribute fields and implements arithmetic operators support of date fields in formula for Extended Attributes. - June 11, 2016
Filter Data Type While Loading Template File & Set Shadow as Text Effect for Shapes Using Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.8.1
It supports filtering the data type while loading spreadsheet. Filtering data at the time of loading can improve the performance tremendously, especially when used with LightCells APIs. It also provides the ability to set the shadow as text effects for any shape such as TextBox. Issues around reading, writing and manipulating Microsoft Excel file formats, converting spreadsheets to HTML files and vice versa, manipulating and rendering charts and shapes are also addressed in this release. - June 09, 2016
Get Text Element Position, Control Chart Legends Entries & Presentation Export to SWF using Aspose.Slides for Java 16.4.0
It introduced the long awaited support of exporting presentation to SWF format. It also included support for getting the coordinates for paragraphs and portions holding text inside presentation slide. It has improved the presentation rendering features and have resolved many rendering issues that earlier resulted in missing or improper images, missing charts, missing tables, improper text rendering and broken hyperlinks for exported PDF and slide thumbnails. - June 08, 2016
Convert AutoCAD DWG & DXF Files to PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF & GIF Formats using Aspose.CAD for .NET
Aspose is proud to expand its APIs family with the addition of a new product known as Aspose.CAD for .NET. Aspose.CAD product family offers CAD APIs to export AutoCAD drawings to PDF and other image file formats within .NET applications including ASP.NET, Windows Forms and Web Services. Converting CAD layers and layouts to PDF and raster image formats has also been supported by this release. It also enables users to remove specific entities from CAD drawings. - June 04, 2016
Presentation Export to SWF & Showing/Hiding Chart Legends Entries Using Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.4.0
It introduced support for generating SWF for presentation. You can save the presentation as SWF by using SaveFormat.SWF enumerator in Presentation.Save() method now. We have also introduced the support for getting X, Y coordinates from paragraphs/portions inside any text frame. We have improved text rendering support in this API and now issue like improper fonts loading, wrong formatted text in tables/AutoShapes, shadow effect, font heights and text alignment have been resolved in this API. - June 02, 2016
Add Event to Secondary Calendar of Office 365 & Bind SMTP Client to Specific IP Address
It introduces a new feature of working with Secondary Calendar folder on Office 365 server. It supports binding SMTP client to specific IP on source having multiple IPs. It also enhances the functionality of adding headers to a message’s header collection. It now provides the capability of inserting the new header at a specific location. It also fixes a number of bugs that were reported with the last version of the API. - June 01, 2016
Online OneNote Files Reading Support & Adding Alternative Text for Image Using Aspose.Note for Java 2.2.0
It supports Microsoft OneNote online file format. In addition, it provides support for adding alternate text for images as well as set different page splitting algorithms. It also includes some important bug fixes, such as, Exception while loading OneNote files, Output OneNote page has wrong layout in the evaluation mode, long solid text cannot be saved to OneNote format & many more. - May 29, 2016
Get Warning for Font Substitution & Retrieve PDF Form Fields in Tab Order Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 11.5.0
It supports showing warning for font substitution. This is a useful feature in tests, as it allows failing the tests faster if the font is missing, rather than having to track down why the result looks incorrect. It also supports retrieving form fields in Tab order. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been specific improvements regarding PDF to PDF/A, PDF to HTML, XPS to PDF, HTML to PDF, FootNote rendering, Text manipulation and Image manipulation in PDF. - May 28, 2016
DICOM Image Support, EMF to PDF Conversion & Import Image to PSD Layer Using .NET
It adds support for DICOM image and support for EMF format. This release allows bluring an image and import image to PSD layer. Support to apply correction filters on images has also been incorporated in this release. There are some important enhancements, such as Process of digital signing of assembly has been improved, Processing of PSD file has been improved, DXF to PDF conversion, JPG to JPG2000 format conversion process and Processing of YCBCR format have been improved. - May 26, 2016
Split Mesh by Material & Convert a Mesh with Custom Memory Layout of Vertex Using Aspose.3D for .NET1.5.0
It enables developers to split the mesh of scene by material, get mesh of the primitives, create a scene from the primitive 3D models and convert a mesh to triangle mesh with custom memory layout of the vertex. Besides all the new features,it has enhanced the support of flipping coordinate system in Universal 3D files. Aspose.3D for .NET is now more robust, feature rich and easier to use. - May 22, 2016
Work with Events on Secondary Calendar of Office 365 & Add Header at Specific Location Using Aspose.Email for .NET 6.5.0
It included support for working with secondary calendar items on Office 365. It Provides insert method for adding Header at specific location. It also binding SMTP Client to specific IP on source having multiple IPs and saving EML has date with weekday abbreviation. It also fixes error while loading EML file, missing email address while saving EML, Conversion of a Bad MIME to Good one & many more. - May 19, 2016
Identify Visio File Format & Prevent Export of Hidden Visio Pages Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 6.3.0
It enables Java Developers to show or hide pages of a Visio diagram in various output files like SVG, XPS, Image, HTML and PDF. They can also identify the format of a Visio file by content. It also addressed some important bug fixes, such as VDX to VSDX export, Open and save routine to VSDX, Open and save routine of VSDX changes text font and boldness and many more. - May 18, 2016
Microsoft OneNote TOC Files Reading & Enhanced User File Loading Using Aspose.Note for .NET 2.3.0
It includes a new feature for supporting Microsoft OneNote .onetoc2 file formats. This file format contains saved table of contents. The API introduces the NoteBook class to load this new file format. In addition, it also fixes a number of issues related to the API functionality. - May 14, 2016
Control Export of Hidden Visio Pages & Detect Visio File Type Using Aspose.Diagram for .NET 6.3.0
It enables developers to control the export of Hidden Visio pages in output files. The check of hiding the Visio pages is implemented for the output SVG, XPS, Image, HTML and PDF formats. Developers can also detect the Visio file type by its content and export diagrams with Arabic and Hebrew text. This new version also addresses the issues of losing textual style of the shapes, partial rendering of the text, missing shapes, wrong position of the shape and more. - May 12, 2016
Presentation Export with Custom Slide Size & Thumbnail Generation of SmartArt Node Using Aspose.Slides for Java 16.3.0
It adds support for setting and getting the slide size while exporting a presentation to PDF or PDF notes. It also added a new feature of setting second series plot options by adding new methods. They have also added support to generate thumbnail of SmartArt node. The issues related to HTML generation, including incorrect text alignment, missing images, missing background and incorrect color of text box have been fixed in this release. - May 08, 2016