Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Aspose Centralized APIs Maven Dependencies support & HTML to MS Word Export

Aspose has released v1.1 of Aspose Java for Spring (extension of Spring’s PetClinic Sample Web application) with quit few enhancements and updates in features. The latest release simplified the Aspose Maven dependencies integration with the extended Spring’s PetClinic Web Application or Any Maven based project through Aspose Cloud Maven Repository inclusion in the project maven pom.xml, as opposed to the previous approach (in v1.0), which first created the local maven repository for the Aspose Maven dependencies to be specified in pom.xml configuration file. This also dramatically decreased the project size to only 2MB from previously some 48 MB size because of the removal of local Aspose maven dependencies. UI enhancements and features that were promised in the previous release as the “Coming Soon” feature i.e a new Option / Use case of saving the current web page as MS-Word document is added for all web pages to highlight Aspose.Words Java API powerful feature of converting HTML documents into MS-WORD document format.
About Aspose
Aspose offers a powerful set of file management components with which developers can create applications which can open, edit, create and save some of the most popular business file formats. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, and Microsoft Project files. Tools allow developers to perform OCR, work with images, create and read barcodes and perform many other document conversion and management tasks. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint, as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters.


Sunday, September 28, 2014

Extract Sections, Paragraphs Fonts in Word Docs & Split Word File in Cloud

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose for Cloud 1.1.7.1. With this new release, create, read, manipulate and export features are greatly improved. You can extract sections, paragraphs, runs, page setup and fonts and update page setup and font in a Word document. You can export your documents to XAML_FIXED format using saveAs and splitDocument resources and set ImageColorSpaceExportMode, CreateNoteHyperlinks and CustomPropertiesExport options while converting to PDF using saveAs resource. useNonMergeFields parameter is also supported by mailMergeFieldNames resource to include mustache field names when extracting a list of fields.Several UI and API issues have also been fixed in this release. Following is the categorized list of enhancements.
  • Save Word Documents as other Formats – This feature allows you to save Word documents as DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOT, DOTX, DOTM, OOXML, HTML, HTMLFixed, WordML, MHTML, ODT, PDF, XPS, TIFF, EPUB, Image and several other formats. Now this feature also supports export to XAML_FIXED format. You can use saveAs resource and send a POST request (specifying save options in the request body) to convert to any supported format.
  • Split Word Documents – This feature allows you to split all or specific pages of a Word document to many formats. This feature was already supported but now it supports split to XAML_FIXED format. You can use splitDocument resource and send a POST request to split to any supported format.
  • Get all Sections – This feature allows you to get a list of all sections present in a Word document. You can use sections resource and send a GET request to get this list.
  • Get a specific Section – This feature allows you to get any section from a Word document. You can use section resource and send a GET request to get a section.
  • Get all Paragraphs – This feature allows you to get a list of all paragraphs present in a Word document. You can use paragraphs resource and send a GET request to get this list.
  • Get a specific Paragraph – This feature allows you to get any paragraph from a Word document. You can use paragraph resource and send a GET request to get a paragraph.
  • Get a specific Run – This feature allows you to get any run of any paragraph from a Word document. You can use run resource and send a GET request to get a run.
  • Get Font Information – This feature allows you to get font information from any run of a paragraph. You can use font resource and send a GET request for this purpose.
  • Update Font of a Run – This feature allows you to update font of any run in a Word document. You can use font resource and send a POST request (specifying font options in the request body) to update font.
  • Get Page Setup Information – This feature allows you to get page setup information from any section of a Word document. You can use pageSetup resource and send a GET request for this purpose.
  • Update Page Setup – This feature allows you to update page setup of any section in a Word document. You can use pageSetup resource and send a POST request (specifying page setup options in the request body) to update page setup.
  • Get mustache field names – This feature allows you to get mail merge and mustache field names. You can use mailMergeFieldNames resource and send a GET request (passing useNonMergeFields parameter in the request URI) to get all merge fields including mustache fields.
  • Aspose.Cells for Cloud codebase has been upgraded to version 8.2.0 for improved performance and better user experience.
  • Aspose.Barcode for Cloud codebase has been upgraded to version 6.4.0 for improved performance and better user experience.
Following improvements have been made to Aspose for Cloud Platform
  • Update Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
  • Update Pricing Plans.
  • [executeTemplate Aspose.Words API] This API returns JSON only and not XML.
  • Update autoclean Cloud storage process.
  • Error in uploading files to Aspose.Cloud Server.
Overview: Aspose for Cloud

Aspose for Cloud is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers that offer a unique suite of APIs to work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and email formats and protocols. It supports all features for file processing, document scanning, barcodes creation and recognition, and allows extracting text or images too. You can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.