Create Visio diagrams from scratch in your .NET applications

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.9.0 has been released. This release includes support for creating diagrams from scratch. You can now add masters from stencils, templates or other diagrams and set properties of newly added shapes in your diagrams using Aspose.Diagram for .NET’s very simple API. In this release, we have improved several XML, PDF, image and XPS rendering features. Some important fixes have also been included. To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.
February 3, 2012 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Extract hOCR Text or Recognize Characters from Images in your Java Applications

We are pleased to announce our new product Aspose.OCR for Java. Aspose.OCR for Java is an optical character recognition component that allows developers to extract text from image files. You can extract text in hOCR format which not only gives you the extracted text but other text information (font and style etc.) as well. Aspose.OCR for Java is aimed at the developers who need to add OCR functionality in their Java applications and provides a better performance.
January 16, 2012 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Change tasks progress or read Active, DisplayAsSummary, StartText and FinishText from MPP files

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.0.0 has been released. This release supports changing tasks’ progress. A new API Task.SetPercentComplete has been included for this purpose. This release also supports reading Active, DisplayAsSummary, StartText and FinishTex values from MS Project 2010 MPP files. The release further includes the most recent bug fixes. To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET, please visit the download page.
January 10, 2012 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Set Flowchart and CompactTree layouts or TIFF’s page size in your diagrams

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.8.0 has been released. This release includes support for auto layout features. You can set different styles of Flowchart and CompactTree layouts in your diagrams. You can set the page size when rendering to TIFF format. Image and PDF rendering features have also been improved in this release. To view a complete list of new features and fixes, and to download the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .
December 29, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Render Visio Diagrams with Shape Shadows and Anti-Aliasing Effect using C#

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.7.0 has been released. In this release, PDF and image rendering features have been improved. You can now render diagrams with shape shadows. Some new options have been included in the ImageSaveOptions class so that you can render diagrams with high quality and anti-aliasing effects. To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET, please visit the download page
November 15, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Render page layouts and inserted bitmaps to PDF, image, XPS and Visio XML formats

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.5.0 has been released. PDF, image, XPS and XML rendering features have been improved in this release. This release also supports page layouts and inserted bitmaps when rendering the diagrams to different formats. We have added support for several line ends (arrows). This release also includes the most recent bug fixes. To see a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.
September 6, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Extract French and Spanish as well as Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New text from images

Aspose.OCR for .NET 1.1.0 has been released. This release supports French and Spanish text and allows you to extract French or Spanish text from BMP and TIFF images. This release also supports Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana and Courier New fonts. You can extract 32pt +/- 20% sizes of the mentioned font families from BMP and TIFF images. The accuracy of the extracted text is above 90% and is 100% in some cases.
August 24, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Export MS Visio Diagrams to XPS or PDF/A Formats in C#

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.4.0 has been released. This release supports ‘Export to XPS’ feature and allows you to export MS Visio diagrams to XPS format. PDF rendering has also been improved in this release and different security, compression, compliance and digital signing features have been included. Now you can render MS Visio diagrams as PDF/A15, PDF/A1a and PDF/A1b. You can also change security and compression settings when rendering diagrams to image or PDF.
July 29, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Read custom field values selected from lookup table

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 3.9.0 has been released. This release supports reading custom field values (extended attributes) which are selected using a lookup table in MS Project 2003 MPP files. Now you can read manually entered custom field values as well as the values selected from a lookup table. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes. To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.
July 20, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz

Read resource’s availability and cost tables and resource assignment''s cost rate table values from MPP files

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 3.8.0 has been released. This release supports reading availability and cost table (RateTable, RatesFrom, RatesTo, StandardRate, StandardRateFormat, OvertimeRate, OvertimeRateFormat and CostPerUse) values of a resource as well as CostRateTable value of a resource assignment from MS Project 2003/2007/2010 MPP files. This release also supports some new MS Project 2010 specific properties like NewTasksAreManual, UpdateManuallyScheduledTasksWhenEditingLinks and KeepTaskOnNearestWorkingTimeWhenMadeAutoScheduled. Reading number of pages, pages in height and pages in width when rendering a project to image has also been supported in this release.
June 6, 2011 · 1 min · Muhammad Ijaz