Set Measure Unit for Open Document & Dirty Attribute of Field Support inside .NET Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for .NET 17.9.0. This month’s release contains over 76 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here is a look at just a few of the biggest features and API changes in this month’s release; Caching of shading patterns for PDF output implemented. The output size of PDF documents with the repeating images (e.g. in header/footer) is now significantly reduced, Precaching of printer settings implemented. Calling of AsposeWordsPrintDocument.CachePrinterSettings() reduces the time for the first call of Print() method making the sequential calls of Print() method uniform. Metafiles with EMR_ALPHABLEND record with 32bpp ARGB raw bitmap data rendering implemented, Improved character spacing control handling for Asian text, Improved table grid calculation when a paragraph in a cell has large indent, Improved text wrapping in narrow line band when there is a leading tab stop, added feature to set Placeholder Text of Structured Document Tag, added feature to support w:dirty attribute on a field and Updating value of SaveDate field just by doing open/save. It has added three public properties in this version of Aspose.Words related to the dirty (stale) state of the fields and controlling whether such fields should be updated. A new feature has been added in this release to specify unit of measure apply to open document content. The OdtSaveOptions.MeasureUnit property is added for this purpose. Users can set measure unit as Centimeters or Inches. It has added public method in this version of Aspose.Words to reduce time of first call of Print() method. This release has added new feature in this release to clear the contents of structured document tag and displays a placeholder if it is defined. It has added public property IsRestartAtEachSection in List class to support backward compatibility upon Mail Merge. In previous versions of Aspose.Words, if the mail merge template document contains numbered list, the numbers are not restarted for each section. You can use this property to restart list at each section. It has added a new method in this release that controls whether to update the corresponding built-in document property on document save. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

• Add feature to set Placeholder Text of Structured Document Tag
• Add feature to support w:dirty attribute on field
• Charts are lost after open/save ODT document (triaged)
• Consider updating value of SaveDate field just by doing open/save
• Print() first call taking more time than subsequent calls
• Document.UpdateFields method causes System.OutOfMemoryException
• Show Placeholder text after removal of SDT runs
• Preserve NUMPAGES fields during HTML round-trip
• Table layout issue in DOCX to PDF
• Black backgrounds appear behind OLE objects in PDF
• A blank page added in generated PDF
• /character spacing control/ Incorrect foreign language character spacing in rendered documents
• VML shape in incorrectly read from HTML
• /character spacing control/ Chinese text renders on next line in HtmlFixed
• /character spacing control/ Chinese text moves to next page after conversion from Doc to HtmlFixed
• Cell's contents are lost after re-saving RTF
• /character spacing control/ Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Chinese text
• Color of mail merge fields is changed after conversion from Docx to Doc/Pdf
• TOC fields are corrupted during open/save RTF
• /character spacing control/ A paragraph wraps to next line in fixed page formats
• Chart is changed to image after re-saving Docx
• Html to Docx conversion issue with table's border style
• Table Top Border missing in PDF
• Mail Merge - Numbered Bullet Points Incrementing
• /compressed punctuation + fullwidth characters/ Character spacing changes after DOCX to JPG conversion
• Long numbers are truncated in DOCX to HTML conversion
• CSS reader incorrectly processes @import rules that don't end with a semicolon
• Move-from/move-to revisions of run properties of a paragraph are not read/written
• Docx to Odt conversion issue with GroupShape size
• Some HTML data is missing in resultant DOCX
• Incorrect text formatting in RTF to HTML conversion
• /compressed punctuation + fullwidth characters/ DOCX to PDF conversion issue with Japanese punctuation mark
• Formatting issue in DOCX with revisions to PDFA conversion
• Justified XHTML text conversion issue
• Incorrect applying fill(Picture or texture) for bevel type of angle.
• /text wrap/ Images not aligned in PDF rendition
• Text Replacement issue with RTL text
• Incorrect applying texture (hardware rendering).
• When DOC is saved as PDF, in Arabic language 500 becomes 050
• StructuredDocumentTag.FullDate is not updating
• Assertions in CellMetrics
• The number of pages increases when saved into odt ott formats
• List number format is not rendered correctly in output PDF
• Aspose.Words throws exception at Windows XP where mscorlib.dll v2.0.50727.42 is installed
• Heading bookmarks are not created after conversion from DOCX to PDF.
• Tables count issue in RTF
• /character spacing control/ DOCX to PDF conversion issue with position of Chinese text
• Formatting issue in DOCX to SVG conversion
• Table of contents are broken
• RTF to DOC conversion loses cell background colors
• DOCX is corrupted when it is re-saved
• Hebrew text is reversed in output PDF
• Converting a landscape RTF document to PDF produces the corrupted output.
• Hidden border of table is visible after saving RTF to DOC and PDF
• Document.UpdateFields throws System.NullReferenceException
• Inconsistent results from JoinRunsWithSameFormatting
• Inconsistent results from JoinRunsWithSameFormatting
• Text becomes bold after open/save the document.
• Table is moved to the next page during rendering.
• Part of invisible content becomes visible upon rendering
• SmartArt (DrawingML) graphic is not preserved during DOCX to DOC conversion
• Table render incorrectly after conversion from Docx to Pdf
• An EMF image is rendered completely black in PDF
• Docx to Pdf conversion issue with EMF metafile

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

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 of Aspose.Words for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/products/words/net

- Download Aspose.Words for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/downloads/words/net

- Online documentation of Aspose.Words : http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsnet/Home

Aspose Pty Ltd was founded in March 2002 in Sydney, Australia. The corporate portal was firstly launched in October 2002. Aspose strives to provide the richest component choices for global .NET programmers. Thousands of organizations from tens of countries have acquired Aspose products, including Microsoft, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, DuPont, Hilton Hotels, Reader's Digest, Bank of America, Boeing, Siemens, etc.

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