We have our regular monthly Aspose.Words release ready and you can download it from:
Aspose.Words for .NET 10.6 (66 fixes and improvements) Aspose.Words for Java 10.6 (77 fixes and improvements) In the rest of this post I am going to briefly talk about what’s new.
Page Layout Performance and Memory Optimizations We have done some optimizations that reduce memory usage and increase speed when converting large documents to PDF, XPS or images.
Improved text, shapes and Image rendering available in Aspose.Slides for Java 2.7.0
We have releases Aspose.Slides for Java 2.7.0. This is a maintenance release and is much stable version as compared to its predecessor. Many presentation rendering issues like improper characters, missing titles, skewed and cropped images, missing background and missing tables in generated PDF/thumbnails have been resolved. Some of presentation access issues along with slide cloning problems have also been addressed in this new release.
In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.
Utilize Smart Markers Grouping and Sorting Data Features, Support for JDK1.7 and LightCells APIs Included in Aspose.Cells for Java 7.0.2
We are happy to release Aspose.Cells for Java v7.0.2. We have made several enhancements, including improvements to the Sheet-to-Image and Excel-to-PDF features. We have also fixed number of user issues.
In this version, we provide support for group and sort data in Smart Markers feature. This feature was one that our users wanted to see and adding support for it means that the Java and .NET versions of Aspose.Cells are more in line with each other.
Disentangling email and network programming: introducing Aspose.Email
Sydney, Australia - 30 September, 2011 - Aspose.Network is changing in recognition of how our customers use it. The main change is in the name: our customers use Aspose.Network for email programming so we are changing the name to Aspose.Email.
Aspose.Network for Java will be renamed Aspose.Email for Java. Aspose.Network for SharePoint will be renamed Aspose.Email for SharePoint. Aspose.Network for .NET has been split into two products: Aspose.Email for .NET contains email programming features and Aspose.
Form Filling and Flattening and Text Extraction from PDF in Java
Aspose.PDF for Java 4.0.0 has been published. In this latest version, we have added two new features related to text extraction: extracting text to HTML and getting text formatting information along with extracted text. You can find the details and code samples in the following knowledgebase topics:
Extract text to HTML file Extract text formatting information In addition to that, we have fixed issues related to PDF flattening, annotation rendering, text replacement, form filling and flattening, PDF to image conversion, and image extraction.
PCL to PDF, better TrueTypeFont, stable image to PDF conversion
The new version of Aspose.Pdf for Java 3.0.1 has been released. It provides with you the option to convert PCL files into PDF format. PCL (Printer Command Language) is a Hewlett-Packard printer language developed to access standard printer features. With this latest version of Aspose.Pdf you can convert these files into PDF format.
Here’s a detailed description of supported commands by versions of the Aspose.Pfd for Java:
Sets of commands Support Exceptions Job control commands 2.
Render to custom graphics and useful APIs included in Aspose.Cells for Java 7.0.1
We have just released next ported version v7.0.1. It includes some useful enhancements for worksheet-to-image and Excel-to-PDF features. It now supports the “render to custom graphics” feature. We also made some valuable APIs available that were missing in the previous version.
There are some other enhancements and fixes too.
Download URL: https://www.aspose.com/community/files/72/java-components/aspose.cells-for-java/entry329168.aspx
iCalendar support added in Aspose.Network for Java
We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Aspose.Network for Java 2.3. In this version, we added the iCalendar component. iCalendar is already part of Aspose.Network for .NET, now you can generate dates according to the specified recurrence pattern in Java.
Below is an example to generate dates based on a recurrence pattern:
String pattern = “DTSTART:19970902T090000\n” +
“RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=19971007T000000Z;WKST=SU;BYDAY=SU,MO”;
RecurrencePattern recPattern = new RecurrencePattern(pattern);
// Get all the dates generated by this rule
Aspose.Cells for Java 7.0.0 released
This product has almost the same features/APIs as Aspose.Cells for .NET. We actually wanted the two products (Aspose.Cells for .NET and Aspose.Cells for Java) to be same as possible but to achieve this we had to manually port the .NET product using line by line for the APIs set to Java. This was very time consuming task but our developers continuously worked on the task to make it possible. To get the two products in line, we developed a process for porting the .
Render Word Document Pages to PNG, BMP and JPEG in Java
We have just released the first iteration of the “render to graphics” feature in Aspose.Words for Java 10.3. Rendering to graphics has been available in Aspose.Words for .NET for long time, but we managed to port it to Java only now. This functionality shines through in several important places in Aspose.Words. The following is a summary of what is now available.
Render Word Document Pages to PNG, BMP and JPEG It is now possible to convert any Microsoft Word document pages into a raster image.