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Support for adding slides with different layouts and improved chart rendering added in Aspose.Slides for .NET 6.5.0

We like to share the announcement of new release of Aspose.Slides for .NET 6.5.0. This is primarily a maintenance release but also includes some new features. A method that supports clearing the chart data sheet has been added, as has support for setting gap width and depth for 3D column charts. The long awaited support for adding slides in PPTX with different slides layouts has been introduced in this release.
August 4, 2012 · 1 min · Mudassir

Add table in existing PDF, tooltip for form field and better memory management

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 7.1.0. This new release version provides a long awaited feature to add a table inside an existing PDF document. With the introduction of this feature Aspose.Pdf for .NET can add a table while generating PDF document from scratch, and it supports adding tables inside existing PDF documents. This release version also supports the feature to add a tooltip to a form field.
July 23, 2012 · 1 min · Codewarior

Read/Write MHTML Files and Apply Themes to Charts in Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.3.0

[![Aspose.Cells logo][1]. In this release, we have included some valuable new features, enhancements to existing features and resolution of the reported issues. One of the new features introduced in this release is the ability to open and save MHT files. We have also introduced a feature that lets you apply Microsoft Excel themes and colors to charts. Another one is a long awaited feature: support for XML maps. Our development team has worked to improve sheet to image and Excel to PDF conversions.
July 16, 2012 · 1 min · Amjad Sahi

Export Visio diagrams to SVG format in your .NET or Mono applications

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.4.0 has been released. This release supports exporting Microsoft Visio diagrams to SVG format and allows you to set page size and page index to export a specific page to SVG. Auto-layout shapes feature has also been improved in this release and creates 90 degree connectors instead of straight connectors. This release also supports creating new diagrams and exporting existing diagrams in Mono applications because some Mono related issues are fixed in this release.
July 13, 2012 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Improved presentation access and rendering support provided in Aspose.Slides for .NET

We have released Aspose.Slides for .NET 6.4.0. This release is primarily a maintenance release but we have added support for adding a secondary Y-axis to charts. We’ve also updated the feature that lets you get the updated thumbnail of a presentation in Windows Explorer once updated. The major focus of this release has been improving the presentation rendering support and export to PDF. Some presentation access issues have also been addressed along with some modifications in chart support.
July 4, 2012 · 1 min · Mudassir

Aspose Newsletter, July 2012

Aspose Receives SD Times Top 100 Award For the fourth year in a row, Aspose has received an SD Times Top 100 award, this time in the Libraries & Frameworks category. The SD Times 100 is not a product award but awards leadership in a variety of software development industry areas. Nominations are submitted by SD Times readers and editors and winners are selected by the SD Times editorial board.
July 1, 2012 · 4 min · Caroline Von Schmalensee

Disable Compatibility Checker in Excel and Other Useful Enhancements using Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.2.2

We’re pleased to share the announcement of Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.2.2. We have added a new feature, disabling Microsoft Excel’s Compatibility Checker in this release. We have also added support for adding quotes around your data when saving to CSV format, as one of our customers asked us to. We have added some other useful enhancements around the Subtotals feature. The XML Map properties will now be retained when re-saving the template file.
June 14, 2012 · 1 min · Amjad Sahi

Set pre-defined page sizes or change shapes’ order in Visio diagrams with Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.3.0

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.3.0 has been released. This release supports setting pre-defined page sizes. Now you can render Visio diagrams to images after setting pre-defined page sizes including A4, Letter and many others. This release also supports setting the shapes’ Z-order. You can bring a shape to front, send it to back or place it anywhere in the Z-order. Another exciting feature this release supports is to automatically resize page to cover all the shapes.
June 1, 2012 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Slides autoporting progress, May 28, 2012

Our work to autoport Aspose.Slides for .NET to Java continues. The last time I wrote about autoporting we had worked our way through 60% of our unit tests. We have over 1000 unit tests and need to make sure that they pass on both platforms. We run these tests after we’ve ported the code using CodePorting which ports the code automatically and much more quickly than we could do by hand.
May 28, 2012 · 1 min · Caroline Von Schmalensee

Input Large Strings and Other Enhancements in Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.2.1

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.2.1. This month’s release allows you to input strings larger than 32K for text and CSV formats. We have enhanced the shapes rendering module, specifically improving Excel-to-PDF conversion. We have also improved the Smart Markers feature so that Aspose.Cells for .NET now supports nested objects in Smart Markers. Moreover, we have made some enhancements regarding PivotTables and the internal Worksheet-to-Image modules and fixed some other issues.
May 17, 2012 · 1 min · Amjad Sahi