In This Issue…

  • Welcome!
  • Product Spotlight – Aspose.Chart
  • Aspose.BarCode for Java = Aspose.BarCode for .NET
  • Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 2.5.1.0 is published with improved features
  • Aspose.Network now supports parsing Microsoft Outlook Message documents
  • Technical Tip – Speed up Word to PDF conversion
  • A powerful release of Aspose.Pdf.Kit 1.8.0.0 for Java developers
  • Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.5 Mega Hotfix

Welcome

Welcome to the June 2007 issue of the Aspose Newsletter! In this month’s newsletter, we will provide some introductory information about our spotlight product: Aspose.Chart. We will also look at the new and exciting features offered in the recent releases of Aspose.BarCode, Aspose.Pdf.Kit, Aspose.Network, Aspose.Pdf and Aspose.Words. You will learn about the latest news from Aspose along with the monthly Tech-Tip, which demonstrates how you can speed up the conversion of Word to PDF documents using Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf.

Product Spotlight

Aspose.Chart is a practical, no-frills charting component, which enables .NET applications to create great looking charts of 21 most popular types with some stylish effects including 3D rendering, transparency, gradients and anti-aliasing. The chart types supported by Aspose.Chart include Area, Bar, Bubble, Contour, Candlestick, Cube, Curve, Curve Area, Doughnut, Gantt, High Low Close, Line, Open High Low Close, Pareto, Pie, Pyramid, Point, Radar, Scatter, Step and Surface etc.

Using Aspose.Chart, you can create charts via API, XML or both. You can even export charts to SWF (Adobe Flash) with clickability. Please download the free evaluation version of Aspose.Chart to see how it fulfills your business needs. To learn more about its usage, please click here.

Aspose.BarCode for Java = Aspose.BarCode for .NET

With the recent release of Aspose.BarCode for Java 1.1.0, now Java developers can enjoy all features of Aspose.BarCode that are available in its .NET version. Aspose.BarCode for Java now supports barcode generation & recognition, web rendering with servlet support and various image formats etc.

There are more than 20 barcode symbologies (including 1D and 2D) supported in Aspose.BarCode for Java that include CodaBar, Code11, Code128, Code39, Code93, EAN128, EAN13, EAN14, EAN8, BooklandEAN, MSI, ITF14, Interleaved2Of5, Planet, Postnet, UPCA, SSCC18, QR, PDF417, DataMatrix and Aztec. To get more details about this new release of Aspose.BarCode for Java, please click here.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 2.5.1.0 is published with improved features

We are happy to announce a new release of Aspose.Pdf.Kit. In this recent release of Aspose.Pdf.Kit, you will find improved support of annotations, text formatting, AcroForms and PDF to images conversion etc. For more details, please visit the official release page of Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 2.5.1.0. In the month of May 2007, another release of Aspose.Pdf.Kit was also made that had many other improvements too. You may also get the details about those improvements by clicking here.

Aspose.Network now supports parsing Microsoft Outlook Message documents

In the recent release of Aspose.Network 3.5.0.0, Aspose has added the support of parsing Microsoft Outlook Message documents. Using this feature, now developers can read message properties by MAPI property tags, access recipient information, read & save attachments and read OLE objects. Moreover, features like multi-language support and RTF body decompression are also added. For more details, please read the complete story.

Technical Tip

Speed up Word to PDF conversion

A lot of customers have experienced that while converting a Word document to PDF, the conversion process takes a considerable amount of time to complete. In order to speed up this process you should add the following lines of code:

[C#]

//Enable the caching of True type font map on disk
pdf.IsTruetypeFontMapCached = true;

//Set the path of True type font map file
pdf.TruetypeFontMapPath = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();

[VB]

‘Enable the caching of True type font map on disk
pdf.IsTruetypeFontMapCached = True

‘Set the path of True type font map file
pdf.TruetypeFontMapPath = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath()

Above lines should be added before the Aspose.Pdf.Save() method is called. For example:

[C#]

//Instantiate the Word Document Object
Aspose.Words.Document doc = new Aspose.Words.Document(“WordDocument.doc”);

//Save the Word Document in XML Format that can be handled by Aspose.Pdf
doc.Save(“XMLDocument.xml”, SaveFormat.FormatAsposePdf);

//Instantiate a Pdf Document Object
Aspose.Pdf.Pdf pdf = new Aspose.Pdf.Pdf();

//Bind XML document With Aspose.Pdf Object
pdf.BindXML(“XMLDocument.xml”, null);

//Add these two lines to Speed up the conversion
pdf.IsTruetypeFontMapCached = true;
pdf.TruetypeFontMapPath = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();

//Save PDF
pdf.Save(“PDFDocument.pdf”);

[VB]

‘Instantiate the Word Document Object
Dim doc As Aspose.Words.Document = New Aspose.Words.Document(“WordDocument.doc”)

‘Save the Word Document in XML Format that can be handled by Aspose.Pdf
doc.Save(“XMLDocument.xml”, SaveFormat.FormatAsposePdf)

‘Instantiate a Pdf Document Object
Dim pdf As Aspose.Pdf.Pdf = New Aspose.Pdf.Pdf()

‘Bind XML document With Aspose.Pdf Object
pdf.BindXML(“XMLDocument.xml”, Nothing)

‘Added these two lines to Speed up the conversion
pdf.IsTruetypeFontMapCached = True
pdf.TruetypeFontMapPath = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath()

‘Save PDF
pdf.Save(“PDFDocument.pdf”)

A powerful release of Aspose.Pdf.Kit 1.8.0.0 for Java developers

With the addition of some nice features and few important enhancements, Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 1.8.0.0 has just got better. Now, developers can fill XFA fields in PDF templates without losing any action or script information. It is also possible to extract information about bookmarks & links and draw polygons in existing PDF documents. Moreover, few bugs are also fixed. To get more details about the improvements made in Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 1.8.0.0, please click here.

Aspose.Words for .NET 4.2.5 Mega Hotfix

In the month of May 2007, the Aspose.Words team released 3 Mega Hot fixes that provide about 37 bug fixes related to RTF, DOC, WordML, HTML, PDF and Model. Be sure to check out the full list of these bug fixes through their official release pages (1st, 2nd and 3rd Mega Hotfix). Please download the latest release (as it also includes the bug fixes of previous releases) now to make your applications work better using Aspose.Words.