It adds Support for setting series plot options, so that second plot options for BarOfPie or PieOfPie chart can be set. We have also included the support for exporting a presentation to PDF notes with custom slide size. Support for rendering a presentation to PDF and images has been improved for images, text and slides notes. It fixed issues reported for inconsistencies while cloning the slides, incorrect rendering of tables and misaligned or incorrect text in generated slides images.
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What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.3.0. This release comes with many new features and bug fixes. It has included the support for setting second plot options including SecondPieSize, PieSplitPosition and PieSplitBy so that second plot options for BarOfPie or PieOfPie chart can be set. It has  also included the support for exporting a presentation to PDF notes with custom slide size. Users may visit the documentation article Converting Presentation to PDF for further reference. The support for rendering a presentation to PDF and images has been improved for images, text and slides notes. It has also also taken care of issues reported for inconsistencies while cloning the slides, incorrect rendering of tables and misaligned or incorrect text in generated slides images. Issues including incorrect chart legends, improper chart axis, missing data labels and incorrect chart title have also been rectified.  It has also resolved issues pertaining to loss of table and embedded data upon cloning slides within the presentations. The presentation rendering support has been enhanced by fixing the issues related to SmartArt rendering, missing master slide and incorrect PDF notes. It has also addressed the issues related to memory leak, which has improved the performance of Aspose.Slides. It has improved the support for presentations access and their saving that resulted in generation of corrupted presentations or presentation repair message when opened with PowerPoint. The presentation access and saving issues have been rectified for many presentation decks that earlier resulted in exceptions including ArgumentOutOfRangeException, ArgumentException , IndexOutOfRangeException, PptException, Unexpected Font Parsing and PptUnsupportedFormatException in previous releases during saving or loading the presentations. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

    Support for getting parent shape name in ITextFrame
    Support to export SmartArt child node as images
    Missing information in app.xml created by Aspose.Slides as compared to xml of PP
    Support to generate PDF notes with custom slide size
    Access to object properties in presentation
    Support for Label Distance from chart Axis
    Support for removing embedded audios from presentation
    Support for series second plot options for BarOfPie chart
    PDF notes are not rendering for PPT file
    Blank PDF rendered from PPTX
    Presentation gets corrupt on cloning slides with video
    High memory consumption while loading a PPTX
    Master slide's content changed on slide cloning
    TargetSlide returns null when Hyperlink with tooltip is added in presentation
    Long presentation loading time and exception on loading the presentation
    Text improperly rendered in generated Pdf
    High CPU usage and conversion does not finish
    Exception on loading a pot file
    Exception on loading presentation from ConnectStream
    Saved PPTX presentation cannot be resaved in PowerPoint
    Unhandled exception on loading the PPTM
    Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32 exception on Ppt saving
    File corrupt message on saving with Aspose.Slides
    Slide thumbnail show duplicate values in table
    Incorrect chart on generated PDF from PPTX
    Incorrect chart on generated PDF
    MP3 file is not getting played in Slide show mode
    Incorrect rendering of numbered lists
    Incorrect effective value of FillType
    The text is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
    Images are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
    Incorrect text and color of bullets on generated PDF
    IndexOutOfRangeException on PPT loading
    Office has detected a problem error on loading and saving PPT
    Text is missing in generated PDF and slide thumbnail
    Border appears on the image
    Warning message on presentation load and save
    Presentation gets corrupt on adding slide notes
    Repair message on presentation load and save
    Inserted AudioFrame is not played automatically
    Null reference exception is thrown when notes extracted from ODP file
    NullReference exception on opening password protected presentation
    Exception: Not an Open Office Presentation on opening an ODP file
    Accessing table cell and adding text change the background fill option for the table
    Exception when cloning the slide: Index was out of the bound of the array
    The border line appearing in slide thumbnail
    Pie Chart label format changed in generated PDF
    IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown when the presentation is saved to PPTX
    Chart Title shows even if chart.HasTitle is set as false (MS PowerPoint 2007)
    SmartArt shape failed to render in generated thumbnail
    SmartArt shapes text formatting gets disturbed on cloning slides
    Setting SecondValueAxis Title throws exception
    Cone chart failed to get created using Aspose.Slides
    Chart legends are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
    Index was out of range exception on deleting column from table
    Text formatting lost inside SmartArt on cloning slide
    Setting table height to 196 failed to open table in PP2003 installed with compatibility pack

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.Slides for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

    Second plot options for Pie of Pie and Bar of Pie chart
    Converting Presentation to PDF

Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET

Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also supported. Now users can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in their presentations. Other features include saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.

19 April 2016