We like to share the release announcement of Aspose.Slides for Java 15.5.0. This is one of maintenance release in which we have resolved certain issues incurring in the product along with support for some new features.

New Features

The long awaited support for converting presentation with notes to PDF has been included in this release and now you can export the presentation with Notes to PDF. Please visit the documentation article, Converting Presentation in Notes Slide View to PDF for further details. The viewing options for generated presentation have also been improved and now you can set the default view for saved presentation. Please visit the documentation article, Setting Default Zoom Value for Presentation for further details.

The charts support has been improved in this API and some new features have been included. Now, you can set the custom position and size for chart legends. Please visit the documentation article, Setting Custom Location and Size for Chart Legend for more details and sample code. Moreover, you can also set the distance of labels from category axis. The more details about the supported feature can be found in documentation article, Setting the Label’s Distance From Category Axis.

Resolved Issues

The issues related to generation of corrupted presentations and raising presentation repair message have also been addressed in this release. The presentation access and saving issues have been rectified for many presentation decks that earlier resulted in exceptions including NullReference, ArgumentException , IOException, PptException, Unexpected Font Parsing and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases.

We have enhanced the presentation rendering to HTML, PDF and images in this release for charts, text and SmartArt shapes. Many chart rendering issues including missing or improper chart axis, plot area and legends have been rectified. The issues of missing charts including issue of improper chart leader lines have also been rectified in this release. We have also addressed the rendering issues related to AutoShapes and Smart as well in this release.

The support for working with SmartArt shapes has been improved and now hyperlinks or effects can be associated with SmartArt shapes. We have also included the text AutoFit and Wrapping support for chart data item.

We have made several enhancements to the new API. Refer to the article Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes in Aspose.Slides for Java 15.5.0 for further reference.

To see a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 15.5.0, please visit the download page.