End of the Year and a Very Special Offer

At Aspose we don’t believe in standing still. We’ve nurtured a strong sense of continual improvement in our business and our products. The literally thousands of features and enhancements that we’ve packed into our products this year stands testimony to this. We’ve also registered over 100,000 users at Aspose.com making 2010 the year we became the World’s largest file format community.

We’re hard at work putting the finishing touches to Aspose.Words version 10 which brings all the features of the .NET version to the Java version of the product. We’re planning to deliver this early in 2011. We’re also working on a few new exciting product announcements that we’ll introduce over the course of the next few months - stay tuned!

This year we’ve also introduced a brand new range of SharePoint products. Aspose.Words for SharePoint, Aspose.Cells for SharePoint and Aspose.Slides for SharePoint deliver the power and flexibility of our document conversion technology to the end users of your SharePoint solutions. It’s never been easier to give your users the documents they need in the formats they want them in.

As a thank you to all our loyal customers for making 2010 such a great year for us we have a one-off special offer to allow you to start 2011 with some exciting new technology tricks to embed in your applications. Until the 31st of January 2011 we are taking 25% off the price of our Aspose.Total suites. This brings the Aspose.Total price to less than the cost of two of our individual products. Yes, you get all our products for less than the price of two. To take advantage of this offer, please use coupon code XMAS2010NL at the checkout. You can read all about Aspose.Total on our website.

Many thanks,

John Owens, Aspose Scotland Team Leader
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Product Spotlight – Aspose.Cells for SharePoint

Aspose.Cells for SharePoint lets you convert Microsoft Excel files from within your SharePoint application. It supports the most common spreadsheet formats as well as HTML, XML and TXT for output so that you can help your colleagues share business critical information in the format that suits them best. This month’s technical article, below, explores the benefits for Aspose.Cells for SharePoint and how it can be used.

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Technical Article – The Benefits of Aspose.Cells for SharePoint

Aspose.Cells for SharePoint has been developed to support the business functions that your SharePoint site supports. Specifically, it allows you to work with Microsoft Excel documents stored in a document library on a SharePoint server. This technical article looks at SharePoint document libraries, the benefits that Aspose.Cells for SharePoint brings and how to convert Microsoft Excel documents to other formats using Aspose.Cells for SharePoint.

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Tutorial Video – Converting PPT and PPTX Files to other Formats

With Aspose.Slides for SharePoint it is easy to convert Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to other formats. Whether you need to archive presentations or share them with colleagues who don’t have access to PowerPoint, Aspose.Slides can help. This video tutorial shows you how to export PPT and PPTX files to a variety of different formats quickly and easily using Aspose.Slides for SharePoint.

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New Release – Aspose.Network for Java v 2.0!

We got a lot of great customer feedback when we released Aspose.Network for Java version 1.0.0. Always keen to respond, we can now share that we’ve added PST support to the product. Aspose.Network for Java version 2.0.0 allows you to build PST support into your Java applications. Do you need to extract emails, email content or attachments from your organisation’s PST files? Now you can.

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New Feature – Support for Reporting in Aspose.Words for SharePoint 2.0.0

Aspose.Words for .NET has long had powerful reporting features. We have now implemented these same fatures in Aspose.Words for SharePoint. This means that you can now create a report based on a Word template and an external data source from within your SharePoint application.

Read more in our blogs.

New Releases and Updates

  1. Aspose.Words for .NET 9.5.0 - introduces digital signature verification, customer XML markup support and saving as SWF or XAML, among other new features and enhancements.
  2. Aspose.Cells for .NET 5.2.0 - adds support for digital signatures and pivot tables as well as enhancements and fixes.
  3. Aspose.Pdf for .NET 4.8.0 - adds PrintDocument to PDF conversion, Base64Bit image to PPDF conversion and stable support for the BindFO feature.
  4. Aspose.Slides for .NET 4.4.0 - adds PPT to PPTX conversion, pattern image extraction and getting auto shape properties among other enhancements.
  5. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 5.0.0 - allows you to remove text based on a regular expression and remove watermark and contains a number of fixes.
  6. Aspose.Task for .NET 3.4.0 - adds read capability for a number of values and data from MPP files and adds other read enhancements.
  7. Aspose.Report for .NET 3.2.0 - adds a number of general enhancements.
  8. Aspose.Cells for Java 2.4.2 - adds support for array parameters for setting formulas, adding linked pictures, saving cell data directly to a stream as well as a number of other enhancements.
  9. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 3.5.0 - allows you to replace text based on a regular expression, import images from an XML file and fixes a couple of issues.
  10. Aspose.Words for Reporting Services 3.3.1 - maintenance release with improved multi-column report support, licensing change and fixes.
  11. Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 3.7.0 - adds enhanced support for SQL Server 2008 R2 and a number of fixes.
  12. Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 1.9.0 - introduces support for text justification and fixes a couple of issues.
  13. Aspose.Flash for Reporting Services 1.2.0 - adds support for SQL Server 2008 R2.
  14. Aspose.Words for JasperReports 1.3.1 - a maintenance release that improves frames handling, header/footer detection and fixes a coupld of issues.
  15. Aspose.Words for SharePoint 2.0.0 - adds powerful features for creating a report based on a Microsoft Word document and an external data source.
  16. Aspose.Cells for SharePoint 2.0.0 - adds support for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and adds an overwrite option to the file conversions settings page.