In our previous post we announced the release of the Aspose Visual Studio plugin. This post is the announcement of the same plugin but for the Eclipse IDE. This plugin is for those Java developers who don’t want to leave their Eclipse IDE to try out Aspose Java components. Using the Aspose Eclipse plugin you can download components and examples and easily explore powerful libraries for documents manipulation. Download the plugin from the Eclipse marketplace.
Announcing the release of Aspose Visual Studio Plugin
We are happy to announce the release of Aspose Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.0. This plugin is for those busy developers who want to try out Aspose .NET components quickly without leaving their Visual Studio IDE. It is your own playground for quickly learning and playing with Aspose .NET components: it reduces the learning curve. The Aspose Visual Studio plugin is a wizard which allows you to create new Aspose projects. Download it from Codeplex.
SmartArt Rendering and Tight/Through Wrapping Support in Aspose.Words 11.11.0
We are pleased to announce the release of this month’s version of Aspose.Words for .NET and Java. This release contains 161 improvements to Aspose.Words.
You can immediately download our latest Aspose.Words release from the following links:
Aspose.Words for .NET 11.11.0 Aspose.Words for Java 11.11.0 Partial Support for Rendering SmartArt in Word Documents SmartArt is a feature first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. It was designed to create simple and effective diagrams, organization charts or flow charts with many more options than previous versions of Microsoft Word.
Sparklines and Display Right-to-Left (RTL) Languages in Excel to PDF using Java
Aspose.Cells for Java 7.3.5 has been released. This month’s release supports rendering sparklines and displaying RTL (right-to-left) languages in generated PDF files (Excel to PDF conversion).
We have added more methods (for example Validation.getValue1() and Validation.getValue2()) to obtain DateTime values for custom needs. Moreover, we have enhanced the performance of PDF rendering by providing the valuable PdfSaveOptions.CheckFontCompatibility option; the conditional formatting feature is also improved.
This release is also a maintenance release where several important issues have been fixed.
Convert Multiple Files at a Time with Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint 1.6
We are pleased to inform you that Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint 1.6 has been released. This version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint provides support for conversion of several selected files to PDF files with a single conversion operation.
Please check out the documentation link for more information regarding conversion of multiple files at a time to PDF files. Please visit the following link to download the latest version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint v1.
Better XML to PDF conversion and improved image transformation engine in Aspose.Pdf for Java 3.3
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Java 3.3.0 which provides a better and enhanced XML to PDF conversion feature. In this release, the image transformation engine has been rewritten and is based on ImageIO. The main benefit of the new engine is better support for different image formats and from now on, Aspose.Pdf for Java should work faster due to optimised operations with images.
Besides this, we also have resolved the issues related to image to PDF conversion and XML transformation to PDF format.
Save Project Data as PDF with Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.7.0
We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.7.0. This release includes an exciting new feature that lets you save Microsoft Project data to PDF. In addition to this feature, this release also includes some important bug fixes and enhancements. For more details, please visit the download page.
Remove Fonts from PDF and Extract Form Fields from Particular PDF Region in C#
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for .NET 7.3.0 which provides a new feature to remove duplicate/unused fonts from PDF documents. In order to replace fonts please use the following approaches:
Use TextFragmentAbsorber. Use TextEditOptions.FontReplace.RemoveUnusedFonts parameter for TextFragmentAbsorber. (The above parameter removes fonts that become unused during font replacement). Set font individually for each text fragment. The following code snippet replaces font for all text fragments of all document pages and removes unused fonts.
Aspose.Pdf for SSRS 2.5 supports Visual Studio 2010 Report Viewer control
We are more than happy to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 2.5.0. This release specifically includes the support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Report Viewer control. With this release version, Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services can be integrated with Microsoft Report Viewer 2005, 2008 an 2010.
Please visit the following link for further details on what’s new and fixed in Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 2.5.0.
Optimal PDF to Image and Improved HTML to PDF Conversion in C#
We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.PDF for .NET 7.2.0 with optimal support for converting PDF files to image formats. Please note that recently we have fixed many issues with PDF to PNG, JPEG, and TIFF conversion to improve the memory use and performance of this feature. The product has been tested in a multi-threaded environment. The text extraction feature is also improved to where it can easily extract non-English characters from PDF files.