aspose.cloud Newsletter February 2019: Cloud REST API & SDKs for Visio Diagrams

Aspose.Cloud Newsletter for February 2019 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It also includes information about Cloud REST API and SDKs for working with Microsoft Visio Diagrams, Reordering multiple PowerPoint slides in one Cloud REST API call, Convert HTML to Markdown and MHTML formats in cloud applications and much more.

Cloud REST API and SDKs for working with Microsoft Visio Diagrams

Manipulate Visio files without Microsoft Visio installed. Aspose.Diagram offers cloud REST API and SDKs for .NET, Java, cURL, PHP, Python, Ruby and Node.js platforms to seamlessly create, edit and convert Visio file formats without needing Microsoft Visio. It supports working with native VSD/VSDX format as well as other popular Visio formats including VSS, VST, VSX, VTX, VDW, VDX, VSSX, VSTX, VSDM, VSSM and VSTM. Download Free Trial
 
Reordering multiple PowerPoint slides in one Cloud REST API call

Aspose.Slides Cloud REST API offers separate SDKs for .NET, Java, cURL, PHP and Node.js platforms to manipulate PowerPoint presentations. The latest version now supports reordering multiple slides in a presentation in one API call. Developers can also add slides in a presentation as well copying slides from other presentation or moving to other position. Read more

Convert HTML to Markdown and MHTML formats in cloud applications

Aspose.HTML Cloud REST APIs and SDKs for popular platforms allow to dynamically manipulate HTML documents within cloud applications. The latest version supports converting HTML file to Markdown (Standard and GitLab Flavored Markdown) and MHTML formats. While converting HTML to MHTML – you can handle the resource depth level using maxDepth API parameter, scripts with javaScript API parameter, URLs with urlRestrict API parameter and use defaults API parameters for resources handling. Read more details

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Control Threshold for TIFF Binarization & Enhanced RTF to DOCX Conversion using Java

What's New in this Release?
 
Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java 19.1. It has added new property ThresholdForFloydSteinbergDithering in ImageSaveOptions class to control threshold for TIFF binarization. There are 55 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release, such as implemented the directed line caps rendering for Bezier curves in metafiles, implemented processing of the stroke properties while rendering custom line caps in metafiles, implemented support of Unicode font names while rendering to PDF, Fixed a bug that prevents rendering of horizontal lines with gradient fill in DrawingML, Fixed a bug when gradient fill is not rotated with DrawingML shapes by default, Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect rendering of DrawingML shapes inside groups when 3D rotation was applied, Fixed a bug with vertical alignment of Ruby objects while rendering, Fixed a bug that caused the creation of extra link tags in output PDF when rendering documents with footnotes, Supported dynamic table cell merging for LINQ Reporting Engine, Supported textual comments within LINQ Reporting Engine template syntax tags, Improved computation of wrap bounds of floating objects which affects position of text nearby, Improved positioning of line when it cannot fit next to floating object and has to be pushed below, Implemented navigation from footnote reference to footnote for PDF output, Fixed exception which may happen when spans are merged in paragraphs with different directionality and Fixed exception which may happen when span has null shading inside text box.  The list of most notable new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Add feature to merge table's cell vertically depending upon data structure
• Add name to foreach syntax of Linq Reporting
• Expose the threshold control for Tiff binarization  
• Arrow Heads truncate when converting DOCX to PDF
• Make footnote endnote numbers hyperlinks leading to corresponding note entry in main story
• Resolved Field code of hyperlink changed after conversion from RTF to DOCX
• Footnotes and endnotes references need to be rendered as active links
• GroupDocs: native method calls conflict.     
• Porting new API examples to Java
• Include only Required Java Modules
• The text is missing in PDF rendition
• Wrong Date Field in Java
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with text wrapping around the table
• The scaling of the second vertical axis and the placement of the grey line are changed after converting to PDF
• Images are rendering incorrectly/misplaced in Fixed Formats
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with charts' rendering
• Extra left margin is added after conversion from HTML to MHT
• DOCX to HTML conversion issue with table border
• Word to HTML Paragraph Formatting Issue
• MHTML to PDF conversion issue with text position
• Copied styles don't match the source styles
• Shape's contents are lost in output PDF
• Border color not modified when changing Accent color
• Arrow shapes do not render correctly in output PDF
• Incorrect list markers in a RTF document
• Font Name Not Properly Embedded in Converted PDF
• Text wrapping problems when saving to PDF
• Extra empty page is created after conversion from Docx to Pdf
• Position of chart is changed in output PDF
• Missing Text when converting RTF to PDF
• Gradient fill has incorrect direction while rendering rotated DML shapes
• How to merge table cells using the Linq engine
• DOCX to PDF conversion issue with list label rendering

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Control Threshold for TIFF Binarization
• Replace tag with text in a textbox inside the Worksheet

Overview: Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET, Java & Android applications to read, write and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, TOC updated/rebuilt, Embedded OOXML, Footnotes rendering and support of DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

More about Aspose.Words

• Homepage Java Word Library
• Download Aspose.Words for Java
• Online documentation of Aspose.Words

Reorder Multiple Slides in Presentation in One API Call & Add Slides to Presentation in Cloud Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Slides Cloud 18.12. It has introduced an API that let users reorder multiple slides in one API call. Moreover, Aspose team has added separate APIs for adding, cloning and reordering presentations. Please use POST /slides/{name}/slides/reorder to reorder multiple slides in a presentation in one API call. It also supports adding slides to a presentation, copy slides within the current document or from another presentation, move slides to another position,  Add Slides to a Presentation and many more. This release includes plenty of improvements & bug fixes features as listed below.

• Reorder multiple slides in a Presentation in one API Call
• Create sub-resources for adding, cloning and reordering presentations
• Add Slides to a Presentation
• Copy and Move Slides

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Cloud

Aspose.Slides for Cloud is a REST API which allows you to process presentations. It allows you to create, modify, and convert presentations and provides a wide variety of features for working with presentations in the cloud. You can convert a presentation to TIFF, PDF, XPS, PPTX, ODP, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM, HTML and image formats. Aspose.Slides for Cloud allows you to extract different elements or a presentation including slide, text, color schemes, font schemes, shapes and images etc. Aspose.Slides for Cloud’s powerful API lets your apps process Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in the cloud, saving you the time it would take to develop your own API.

More about Aspose.Cells for Cloud

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Cloud
• Download Aspose.Slides for Cloud
• Online API documentation with code examples for Aspose.Slides for Cloud

Print PDF Documents using PrintController & FlateDecode Filter for Adding Images to PDF using .NET

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is very excited to announce the new version of Aspose.PDF for .NET 18.12. This new release of API contains number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes for the issues reported in previous version(s) of the API. Latest release of the API offers PrintController Class which helps saving a System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument as PDF format. A code sample is provided to use PrintController Class and its functionality. With latest release of the API, the FlateDecode filter is supported for adding images into PDF Pages. PDF/UA functionality has been enhanced in terms of Validating Text, Creating ITaggedContent Interface, Creating Factory of Structure Elements, Managing Logical Tree of Elementsamd Setting up Title and Language of Tagged PDF Documents. There are some useful fixes and improvements which have been included in this release to improve its performance and usability,such as Enhanced PDF Optimization, Descriptive Exception is added for non-existing fonts in PDF to HTML Conversion Scenario, Performance has been improved for PDF to PNG Conversion, Improvements regarding Table data extraction have been made and Various fixes have been made for text adding/editing scenarios. Moreover, JPG to PDF, PDF to TIFF, PDF to JPEG, PDF to PNG, PDF to PDF/A-1B and PDF to PDF/UA Conversion Engines have been improved. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• PDF/UA: Validate Text
• PDF/UA: Create Factory of Structure Elements
• PDF/UA: Create ITaggedContent interface for work with Tagged PDF documents
• PDF/UA: Add ability to manage Logical Tree of Elements
• PDF/UA: Ability setup Language and Title for Tagged PDF document
• Aspose.Pdf.Generator.PrintController is missing
• Tagged PDF - Support for setting language field in tag tab of object properties
• Add support of FlateDecode for storing new images into XImageCollection
• Introduce option in Optimization to store images with FlateDecode compression
• PDF to HTML: Descriptive exception message when non existing default font is set
• PDF optimization - cannot change DCTDecode compression
• PDF to PNG conversion takes longer time
• TextAbsorber returns incorrect result
• Problem rendering different TextStates on Same Line in Table Cell
• Issue on TextFragment.Margin with justify
• Text Extraction - Text being extracted in weird manner. Columns merge and scrambled
• The image output contains the inconsistent spacing between dots
• JPG to PDF - an internal error occurred
• PDF to TIFF - OutOfMemoryException during conversion
• PDF to JPEG - Dotted background is substituted with the white one
• Performance Issue: Converting PDF to PNG
• The text in html fragment isn't properly wrapped
• Form fields get invisible
• NullReferenceException when saving PDF file
• The footer shifts down and disappear for multiple page
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException with IsLowMemoryMode
• System Hangs while processing PDF document with HtmlFragment
• PDF to PDF/A 1B - artifacts appear in the converted image
• PDF to PDF/UA - Change the tag of this structure element
• Text Extraction - Text being extracted in weird manner. Columns merge and scrambled

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.  

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extexnded security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

More about Aspose.Pdf for .NET

• Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for .NET C#
• Download Aspose.Pdf for .NET
• Read online documentation of Aspose.Pdf for .NET