In This Issue
- Welcome!
- Special Announcement – Our address has changed!
- **Product Spotlight – Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services
- Convert DOC, RTF, WordML and HTML documents to DOCX
- Secure your PDF documents with Digital Signatures
- Aspose.Words for Java v2.3.0.0 Released
- Latest Enhancements in Aspose.Network v3.5.3.0
- Aspose.Words for Reporting Services now supports DOCX format too
- Technical Tip – Change page orientation in RDL reports exported to Word documents
- **Aspose.Pdf for .NET v3.5.8.0 Mega Hotfix
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Welcome
Welcome to the September 2007 issue of the Aspose Newsletter! In this month’s newsletter, we will provide some introductory information about our spotlight product: Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services. We will also look at the new and exciting features offered in the recent releases of Aspose.Words for Reporting Services, Aspose.Network, Aspose.Pdf, Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf.Kit. You will learn about the latest news from Aspose along with the monthly Tech-Tip, which demonstrates how you can customize the page orientation in RDL reports that are exported to Microsoft Word documents using Aspose.Words for Reporting Services.
Special Announcement
It is to inform our valuable customers that we have recently changed our business address. The new business address is:
Aspose Pty Ltd
Suite 119, 272 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Australia
All other contact information would remain the same. The customers, who pay by checks, can send their checks at above address in future. We remain thankful for your attention.
Product Spotlight
Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is the most comprehensive .NET solution for the rendering of barcode images in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Reporting Services. Following the success of Aspose.BarCode for .NET, Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services has introduced the support of more than 25 most popular barcode symbologies including Linear (Code128, Code39, Code93, EAN13, EAN14 (SSCC14), EAN8, UPCA, UPCE, BooklandEAN, Interleaved2of5, Standard2of5, MSI, Code11, Codabar, Postnet, Planet and SSCC18 etc.) and 2D (PDF417, QR and DataMatrix etc.) barcodes.
It allows developers to display high quality barcode labels on SQL reports. These barcode labels can be rendered in four image formats i.e. Bmp, Jpg, Gif and Png. Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services can be used very easily by adding it to the toolbox of Visual Studio IDE and then dropping it on the SQL report just like windows or web controls. Please download the free evaluation version of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services to see how it fulfills your business needs.
Convert DOC, RTF, WordML and HTML documents to DOCX
The most important feature added in the recent release of Aspose.Words for .NET v4.4.0.0 is the support of exporting documents to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) format. It means that now developers can easily convert DOC, RTF, WordML and HTML documents to latest DOCX format using Aspose.Words for .NET. Moreover, now Aspose.Words assemblies and installer are also signed with Authenticode. Many important bugs regarding Word to PDF conversion, opening & saving documents and custom properties etc. are also fixed. For more details, please read the complete story.
Secure your PDF documents with Digital Signatures
In Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET v2.6.0.0, the support of Digital Signature is added that can make your PDF documents more secure by authenticating the identity of a user and contents of the document. Few improvements are also made in Form (either AcroForm or XfaForm) related features. Some bugs related to bookmarks, form fields, encryption, links & text extraction, combo box filling and flattening, XFA text fields and PdfViewer etc. are also fixed. To get more details about the improvements made in Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET v2.6.0.0, please click here.
Aspose.Words for Java v2.3.0.0 Released
Aspose has published a maintenance release of Aspose.Words for Java that includes a Java version of all those bug fixes that were made in the .NET versions (v4.2.2 to v4.3.1) of Aspose.Words. Moreover, many other improvements are also made in this release related to footnotes, file size optimization and the import of DOC & HTML files. For more details, please visit its official release page.
Latest Enhancements in Aspose.Network v3.5.3.0
With the addition of many new features and important enhancements, Aspose.Network v3.5.3.0 has just got better. New features include the support of saving linked resources of email messages locally, adding performance counters (like number of emails sent or failed etc.) for sending bulk emails, dragging & dropping files from windows explorer and launching Outlook email client with attachments etc. Besides new features and enhancements, some important bugs are also fixed in this release. To get more details about the improvements made in Aspose.Network for .NET v3.5.3.0, please click here.
Aspose.Words for Reporting Services now supports DOCX format too
It is a great pleasure to announce that Aspose.Words for Reporting Services now also supports exporting RDL reports to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML format (DOCX). So, developers can generate reports in any of the four Microsoft Word formats: DOC, RTF, WordML and DOCX. To get more details about these features and other improvements made in Aspose.Words for Reporting Services, please check its official release page.
Technical Tip
Change page orientation in RDL reports exported to Word documents
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From time to time, our customers ask us to add certain configuration settings for customizing the export of RDL reports to Microsoft Word documents via Aspose.Words for Reporting Services. So, today we are going to talk about the page orientation setting.
Suppose, you have a report containing a wide table or matrix whose right part goes beyond the edge of the page. Microsoft renderers such as PDF would wrap the table to the next page but we don’t consider this as a neat approach because such report, when printed, might confuse the reader. Basically, this is a signal to the report’s designer that the report should be reworked. But, using Aspose.Words for Reporting Services, you can simply instruct the renderer to change page orientation from portrait to landscape. Unless the table is enormously wide, this trick should remedy the explained problem.
To change page orientation, please add the following lines to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server<Instance>\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config file (the example is for the DOC renderer):
Aspose.Pdf for .NET v3.5.8.0 Mega Hotfix
In the month of August, 2007, the Aspose.Pdf team released 3 Mega Hot fixes that provide more than 30 bug fixes related to Word, RTF, HTML & XSL-FO to PDF conversion, margins, sections, underlined tabs, inline HTML, text borders, paragraphs, replaceable symbols, footnotes, text alignment and formatting etc. Be sure to check out the full list of these bug fixes through their official release pages (1st, 2nd and 3rd Mega Hot fixes). Please download the latest release (as it also includes the bug fixes of previous releases) now to make your applications work better using Aspose.Pdf.