It contains over 87 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes such as support of Saving Shape and OfficeMath Nodes to SVG, added Feature to Get-Set Shape’s Aspect Ratio, support for RC4 encryption, reworked Public API for PlainTextDocument Creation, renamed and improvement of Transparent Image Rendering to PDFA-1.


Lane Cove, NSW, Australia., April 22, 2016 - (PressReleasePoint) -

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java & .NET 16.3.0. This month’s release contains over 87 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. Here is a look at just a few of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release, support of Saving Shape and OfficeMath Nodes to SVG, added Feature to Get-Set Shape’s Aspect Ratio, support for RC4 encryption, reworked Public API for PlainTextDocument Creation, renamed GetOpaqueRectangleInPixels to GetOpaqueBoundsInPixels in NodeRendererBase and improvement of Transparent Image Rendering to PDFA-1.  It has introduced new feature in this release to save OfficeMath formulas to image separately from whole document. Now it is possible to pass SaveFormat.Svg into ImageSaveOptions, so OfficeMath and Shape nodes can be save to SVG. It has introduced Shape.AspectRatioLocked property in this release. Plase none that it is possible to get/set AspectRatioLocked for child shapes (mimic MS Word behavior), but AspectRatioLocked has effect only for top level shapes. It has renamed GetOpaqueRectangleInPixels to GetOpaqueBoundsInPixels for names consistency and introduced GetBoundsInPixels method for consistency with other properties. PDF/A-1 specification prohibits transparency. In order to provide better output Aspose.Words blends transparent images with white background. Previously images were blended only with PdfImageCompression.Auto. With PdfImageCompression.Jpeg transparent images were rendered by simply stripping alpha channel. Now images are blended for both PdfImageCompression.Auto and PdfImageCompression.Jpeg. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

    Provide API to convert OfficeMath node to pictures (SVG, Raster images)
    Support Shape.Title property
    Provide API to convert Shape and OfficeMath nodes SVG
    Provide way to get FolderPath for SystemFontSource
    Provide API to set the Aspect Ratio to Scale
    Support RC4 CryptoAPI encryption
    Support of RC4 encrypted documents created by MS Word 2007/2010/2013
    Implement rendering Dml glow effect for semi transparent and transparent areas
    Implement rendering Dml soft edge effect for semi transparent and transparent areas.
    The document is encrypted using the RC4 CryptoAPI Encryption and this not currently supported.
    DOCX to HTML margin issue with paragraphs that have hanging indent
    Implement rendering Dml shadow effect for semi transparent and transparent areas.
    Take 'display' style into account when importing HTML elements
    Counter-increment is not producing the expected output
    InsertOleObject does not insert default icon and name for html file
    Render square shapes with texture as images to preserve the texture source format. // Losing signature quality when converting word to tiff
    Author property returns incorrect text
    Incorrect border of a horizontally merged cell
    Shape.TextBox report incorrect margin for a DML shape
    Shapes become invisible after saving Rtf to Doc/Docx/Pdf
    Implement rendering Dml inner shadow effect for semi transparent and transparent areas.
    REF fields are still being looked up from our IMailMergeDataSource
    WMF images are displayed incorrectly after converting to DOC/DOCX
    ImageData.ImageType returns incorrect image type
    Text with font "Arial Narrow" become thick in output Png
    Transparent Emf contains black regions in output Pdf
    Watermark (shape) does not render correctly in output Pdf
    GroupShape is rendered as black in output Pdf
    /asian typography detection/ Chinese wraps to the next line when English and Chinese characters combined in one paragraph
    /asian typography detection/ A line starts with a punctuation mark in PDF
    Shape.TextBox doesn't keep its internal margins on save
    lternate row background color (shading) is not correct in PDF
    Incorrect shadings applied in rendered PDF
    Table moves to left in generated PDF
    Large comment text truncated. SaveAs PDF with MS Word shows more data
    Removing content from Cell changes Font
    /strike through shape anchor/ MS Word to PDF: Extra line is added to the bottom of the image
    Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Shape rendering
    Document.UpdateFields does not update Section field
    Docx to Pdf Conversion modifies Hyperlinks with the Local Path of Docx
    /tab stops/ Text alignment is lost after DOCM to PDF
    /asian typography detection/ Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Chinese text rendering
    Text shape is transformed to text box or frame
    Text boxes positions are changed after re-saving Docx
    Image in content control is not rendered in output Doc/Pdf
    Repeating section content control displays wrong data in PDF
    Document.UpdateFields does not update REF field.
    RTF to Pdf conversion issue with PdfImageCompression.Jpeg
    Rotated text box (inside GroupShape) are not rotated when saved to PDF
    One Row Tables within a SDT are ignored
    Aspose.Words reads MHTML as a text file
    Document.UpdateFields lose the bold formatting of Ref fields
    Shape's text color is changed from white to black in output Pdf
    Unexpected page breaks appear in output Pdf
    Aspose Words Document save to PDF distorts inserted Shape
    Mergefield TableStart inside an IF field are processed although the IF condition is false
    Contents are lost after saving Rtf to Docx
    Aspose.Words.Document hangs while loading Odt
    Replacement of URL (UNC) is losing \ and breaking links (FieldHyperlink.Address)
    FieldHyperlink.Address ignores slashes ("\") while replacing hyperlinks
    The space between the bullet and starting text is not uniform
    Rtf to Docx conversion issue with table's border
    Chinese text is wrapped incorrectly
    Quote fields in the header of Pdf are rendered incorrectly
    Some Paragraphs have more left indentation during importing MHT
    Creating TOC for text with non-BodyText OutlineLevel works unexpected
    SVG image is rendered as a blank picture while importing HTML document
    X-Axis labels are wrapped up into 2 lines in output Doc/Pdf
    “NullReferenceException” occurs when move to Header/Footer after linking header to previous.
    Investigate Run properties

  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.

    How to Add Group Shape into a Word Document
    How to Use Control Characters

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET, Java & Android 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. Users can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

More about Aspose.Words

    Homepage Aspose.Words for .NET
    Homepage of Aspose.Words for Java
    Download Aspose.Words for .NET

22 April 2016