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La Jolla, CA and Nice, France — February 11, 2015 — The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) is teaming up with MadCap Software to ensure that students pursuing a master’s degree in its Applied Foreign Languages program have a strong competitive advantage in the fields of content development, technical communications, content localization, and content strategy.

UNS chose MadCap Flare–the versatile content development software that supports the ability to publish to a number of devices and formats including print, Web, desktop and mobile–to provide students with the most advanced authoring and publishing solution available today. Additionally, UNS is incorporating MadCap Lingo–the XML-based computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool–to support translation and localization best practices. As a result, students will build their expertise in modern technical writing, localization and translation techniques through hands-on experience with the software used by thousands of companies across the globe.

Understanding Modern Technical Writing and Translation

UNS is a prestigious training and research institution located in the French Riviera, which offers a range of high-quality teaching programs in a scenic study environment. With an ever-growing number of scholars and professionals from around the world, international students currently make up nearly 20% of UNS's student population.

To enhance its students’ learning experience and advance their skills, UNS has updated its "Master 2 Pro LEA Business Translation Writing" course with MadCap Flare and MadCap Lingo. The course will provide an introduction to modern approaches for technical writing using MadCap Flare’s functionality for topic-based authoring, content reuse, and single-source multi-channel publishing. Additionally, it will have students dive into real-scale projects focused on localizing modern desktop, mobile, and Web-based computer applications and then processing them for translation with MadCap Lingo.

"Since the beginning of UNS's technical writing course in 2013, we have been committed to providing our students with innovative methods and tools to thrive in the pervasive field of business content management,” said André Vanderschueren, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis technical writing instructor. “I am thrilled to have MadCap Flare and Lingo bring this course to the next level, providing our students with the skills to enable leading-edge localization practices with effective content management and reuse.”

“We are excited to join forces with UNS in giving students hands-on experience in applying modern content development and localization approaches using our cutting-edge MadCap Lingo and Flare software,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “Through our MadCap Scholar Program, we are providing students from all over the globe and regardless of location the tools that will help build their skill sets and give them a competitive advantage as they establish their careers. Our partnership with UNS highlights a shared commitment to creating a superior learning experience through state-of-the-art technical communication and translation practices.”

To view the press release in French, visit:
http://astec.be/photo/ckeditor/press-release-madcap-uns-fr.pdf

About MadCap Scholar Program

The MadCap Scholar Program offers special discounts on MadCap’s state-of-the-art technical communications software to help students, educators and universities gain access to industry-standard tools that support technical writing and documentation best practices. They include the ability to outfit labs with MadCap Software applications for free; free training, including the MAD Certification Test for teachers and professors, and discounts on software for current students. For more detail, visit http://www.madcapsoftware.com/education/scholar.aspx.

About the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS)

Founded in 1965, the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) is a comprehensive university with about 12 main campuses, 9 faculties, 4 institutes and 2 schools, including the Polytech Nice Sophia. The university offers a variety of high-level training and research courses, leading to a wide range of Masters Degrees, meeting the expectations of its students and suiting the constantly evolving labor market. At the heart of the Mediterranean Basin, UNS has developed a vivid cosmopolitan spirit, making it an attractive choice for many foreign students. To honor its location, the university will soon be changing its name to the University of Cote d'Azur. For more information, visit http://unice.fr.

About MadCap Software

MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.0.0. This new release provides some great features like insertion of Page Break inside existing PDF file, Setting of User agent string, Setting Header and Footer once for newly created PDF document or enhancement for CutomeHtmlSavingStrategy to support Stream instance as in earlier release, this property has not been supported. As a default layout, the contents inside PDF files are added in Top-Left to Bottom-Right layout. Once the contents exceed beyond page bottom margin, the page break occurs. However you may come across a requirement to insert page break depending upon requirement. In order to accomplish this requirement, a method named AddPageBreak(…) method is added in PdfFileEditor class to accomplish this requirement. When converting HTML files to PDF format, we may come across a scenario where we may have a dynamic page that generates image based on the information provided in the query string and in order to properly add images in resultant PDF, the source website requires user agent string for images. In order to accomplish this requirement, UserAgentNameOfFileWebRequests is added to Aspose.Pdf.Generator.Pdf class. The earlier release versions of Aspose.Pdf for .NET provide the feature to use a static stream variable for stream passage from caller object and return, however one of the customers requested the possibility to pass a ref stream as argument to the function SavingToStream(HtmlSaveOptions.HtmlPageMarkupSavingInfo htmlSavingInfo). Please note that the method specified below cannot be changed; just to add some additional parameter since delegate of this method must be passed to newOptions.CustomHtmlSavingStrategy. However the goal (saving of several output documents to same static output stream) can easily be achieved with following code snippet where we only need to change a bit custom handler of output saving. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been specific improvement for PDF to HTML and HTML conversion feature. Among these fixes, the PCL to PDF, PDF to TIFF conversion, conversion of PDF to PDF/A compliant documents, text replacement, rendering PDF files to XPS format are also improved. The list of important new and improved features are given below

Setting user-agent string support
Setting User agent string
Page Break in existing PDF
Setting Header/Footer once for new PDF document
PDF to HTML: support of stream parameter in CustomeHtmlSavingStrategy
Specify attachment file parameters in FileSpecification class
XSL-FO to PDF conversion quality issue
PCL to PDF: NullReferenceException is raised
TIFF to PDF - Resultant PDF is too large
PDF file is not properly being converted to PDF/A_1a format
PDF to HTML - Impossible to convert multiple pages of the same document in multiple threads to HTML
HTML to PDF - Trouble with tables and text-wrapping
HTML to PDF: Web Page to PDF conversion results ArgumentOutOfRangeException
PDF to HTML: Font caching is not working properly
PDF to HTML - Extra boxes appear in resultant file
Incorrect TextSegment.Rectangle values
When replacing text, contents overlap in resultant file
Optimizing PDF document causes image to be removed
Formatting Issues when converting HTML to PDF
PDF to DOC: Space between text is increased
Pdf document Cutts off, while Converting HTML to Pdf
PdfFileMend is not producing correct results
ExtractText() concatenate the letters in the extracted Text
Only Extract Text from PDF which is 'Marked for redaction"
Watermark text is selectable
Issue with radio buttons when index and value do not match
Ellipse.Bottom not being respected
HTML to PDF - Conversion process hangs
HtmlFragment hangs the process with large html
HTML to PDF - PDF is not being geneated
Title of PDF is not being set when setting conformance to PdfA1A
Autofiller throwing exception while saving to some strem or disk
TIF to PDF - Memory consumption increases by 600MB
PDF to HTML: OCR-Converted PDF text is not aligned/grouped to image.
Image to PDF: output PDF file is approx 6 time larger than input image

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.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

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, extended 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#
Online Demo for Aspose.Pdf for .NET
Download Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,

79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of our HTML5 PDF Editorwith more enhancements and attractive features. New version of our HTML5 PDF Editor by Aspose.Pdf for .NET has been released new features allowing the users to create new PDF files, add attachments in a PDF file, sign PDF files with free hand drawing tool online. Other useful updates include resizing of the images, highlighting of required form fields and grouping of form fields. The backend of the editor is powered by Aspose.Pdf for .NET which is very feature rich API when it comes to creating and editing PDF files and the results are precise. Following are some of the newly supported features in this release of HTML5 PDF Editor by Aspose.Pdf for .NET:

Create new PDF files
Add Attachments to PDF files
Highlight Required Form Fields
Signing a PDF file using Free Hand Drawing Tool
Resizing Signatures and Images

Download the HTML5 PDF Editor and perform different operations including creating new PDF files, adding new pages, exporting PDF file to different file format, filling forms, adding signatures and managing attachments. We will soon include more features in our upcoming releases. The application source code is available for developers to download and use at their end. Developers can use the sample application and further enhance it with more features as per their requirements.

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, extended 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

View complete list of features & Download HTML5 PDF Editor
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What’s new in this release?

The new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 6.5.0 has been released. This new release has added support of OSGi metadata to Aspose.BarCode for Java jars. The OSGi metadata enables jars to be used in the OSGi modular environment and be an OSGi Bundle. It also addresses the recognition performance, time and memory consumption issues, and brings overdue updates to resolve issues reported in the Aspose forums. Aspose.BarCode for Java 6.5.0 has exposed two new methods for the printing of barcode image. In this regard, BarCodeBuilder.setPrinterName method allows to set the output printing source by accepting a string parameter and BarCodeBuilder.print method gives printing command to the printer. We had missed this feature support in the last few releases. It was due to the new modification to the code base. Previously, users were facing issues in the code text alignment and 2D text display feature was not working properly. In this new version, we have managed to fix such issues. Now, the code text caption alignment settings and BarCodeBuilder.Display2DText method work properly. Our development team is working hard to improve the reading capability, scanning performance and accurate detection of the several barcode types. In last few releases, we have added a remarkable progress. Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Add OSGi metadata to Jar files
JavaDoc API for BarCodeBuilder class differs from actual API
builder.getCaptionBelow().setTextAlign method does not work as expected
The code text of the bar code is not in the middle.
BarCodeBuilder.print method is not available
Recognition performance issue with Code128 barcode
Test PDF417 image (PkDecode.jpg)
Unable to recognize Code128 symbol
BarcodeBuilder.Display2DText does not work in Java
Recognize GS1 Databar barcodes
Code93 recognition problem
Code128 Barcode is not recognized in jpg image.
Code39 symbology is not recognized in tif image
Whitespace requirement around barcodes
BarCodeRecognition Orientation Test: 3 symbols got recognized from a total of 6
Unable to scan barcodes from a multipage tiff
Default resolution does not change when creating barcodes
code39 image recognition issue
Location of above caption was not correct for AZTEC barcode

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

More about Aspose.BarCode for Java

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Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - The .NET and Java component
publisher

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

What's New in this Release?

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.1.0. This is major maintenance release in which we have resolved certain issues incurring in the product. It introduced support for replacing the fonts inside presentation. Aspose development team has introduced support for both explicit and rule based font replacement inside presentation. More details about this feature are available in the article Managing Fonts inside Presentation. Aspose team has also resolved the issues that appeared while accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like NullReference, ArgumentException, PptxReadException, ObjectReferenceException,and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases. The rendering to PDF, slide thumbnail, HTML and SVG has been significantly improved by addressing areas of right to left language text, improper text, missing background, blank slides, missing WordArt, improper SmartArt and different charts elements rendering. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

FontEntity class alternate / implementation in the latest version of Aspose.Slides
Support to remove macros in presentation
Feature to Convert SmartArt Shapes to Image
Feature to Join PortionEx with Same Formatting
Feature to Convert Shape to Image is required in Presentation files
Extract audio used in SlideShowTransitions
Using Aspose.Slides as COM Interop DLL
Serialization for ShapesEx
Macros detection / removal in presentations
Serialization of Group Shapes
Implement PresentationVisitor
Paragraph.BulletOffset has no effect
Hebrew text alignment is disturbed in generated PDF
External Hyperlink gets changed in Aspose.Slides saved presentation
Argument exception thrown on accessing presentation
Bullets are wrongly rendered in generated thumbnail
PowerPoint stops working with an error when a PPTX resaved from a PPT is opened
Harlow-Solid-Italic font failed to render in generated thumbnails
The chart and Table placeholder return AutoShape as shape type for selected shape
System.Exception is thrown on cloning the presentation file
Content in the output presentation file is overflowing when importing HTML to PPTX
Bullets getting changed in the output presentation file when importing HTML to PPTX
FileNotFound exception when loading a presentation from a valid path
Object reference not set to an instance of an object Exception is thrown on opening the PPTX file
X-axis values are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
PptxUnsupportedFormatException: Encrypted presentations are not supported when loading the PPT
Unable to edit chart data after creating a new chart in presentation file
The contents are getting overlapped in the generated PDF file
ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown on opening the PPT file
Graph is not rendering properly from PPTX to Image conversion
Graph is not rendering properly from PPTX to PDF
LineWidth must return NaN on accessing the presentation shape
Aspose.Slides chart failed to edit in PowerPoint
Password protected PPTX presentaiton failed to open
Legend keys appear on thumbnail
Wrong font color of legend
Wrong background color on the chart
Presentation repair message appears for Aspose.Slides cloned presentation
Shape shadow property gets changed during cloning presentation slides
PPTX file fails to open when polynomial trendline are set to order 2
Wrong merged cell border
ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception on cloning presentation slides
Adding chart Series/Categories makes chart uneditable in PowerPoint
Bullets are not properly rendered in generated PDF
Wrong lables text and position in the generated PDF file
Chart Title not coming fine after conversion to PDF
Table Rows are connecting with other table in generated PDF file.
Unknown file format exception on opening the PPT file
PPTX to PDF: Chart labels are blurry
Improper vertical axis rendering in generated PDF
Unexpected font parsing exception on loading presentations
Chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint when updated using Aspose.Slides
Ole frame failed to open after data is modified using Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Cells
Red Box doesn't fit around the text correctly after conversion to PDF
The generated PDF give error message on generating PDF
Text inside table overlaps the footer text in generated thumbnail
Slide background fill effect "From title" is processed incorrectly
Object resized after presentation saving
Hyperlink color is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
SmartArt shapes getting corrupted on saving the presentation
Graphics distortion in thumbnail
Conversion from PPTX to PPT, PPS and PDF
Create TIF file with first x page
Aspose.Slides Inter Operation with COM
PDF generation takes immense resources and too heavy when opened
Serializatiion in PPTX
SmartArt rendering issue

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.Slides for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET

Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also supported. Now you can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. Other features include saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.

More about Aspose.Slides for .NET

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Demos of Aspose.Slides for .NET

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,

79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 5.0.0. This month’s release brings improvements to the existing functionality of the API by introducing enhancements and fixing a number of bugs. This month’s release provides support for loading appointments having Byte Order Mark (BOM) characters at their start. BOM use is optional and appears at the start of the text stream when used. Earlier, this was a non-supported appointment type by Aspsoe.Email but this month’s release now adds the capability to load such type of appointments for further processing and manipulation. The same Appointment class’s Load method can be used to load such appointments. The PR_PST_PASSWORD property of a PST file represents the password protection of a PST file. Removal of this property cannot be achieved as other properties are removed from a message store. Instead, we need to set its value to zero (0) in order to get it removed. This month’s release introduces a new property for PST files, known as Store. It allows to access store properties of PST instead of MessageStoreProperties of PST for resetting the property. This month’s release also includes a number of bug fixes that further ads to the overall functionality of the API. Specifically, these include bug fixes related to text color issues while conversion of messages to MHTML, characters encoding issue while saving appointment files, issues related to exporting appointments to message format, exceptions raised such as MSG to XPS conversion, creating voting options using Exchange clients, interpreting messages as TNEF and conversion of some messages to TNEF. The main bug fixes, new & improved features added in this release are listed below

Option to load calendar files starting with BOM characters
Removing MapiPropertyTag.PR_PST_PASSWORD from a PST does not take effect after saving
IEWSClient.ListMessages count return 0 with MailQuery
PR_MESSAGE_DELIVERY_TIME value set incorrectly
MapiMessage.FromFile issues in Parallel.ForEach loop
Wrong reminder value set while adding calendar item to PST
ICS->MSG: Text formatting such as styles and headings lost
ICS->ICS: Characters encoding issue
PST created from calendar events crashes Outlook
MSG->MHTML: Text Color changes in output
Complete email address rendered instead of "Display Name" only
Formatting disturbed while converting the MSG to XPS
Subject garbled due to encoding issues while loading into MailMessage
"Unknown type of ActionProperty: NONE" - Exception raised while laoding ICS
Attachments names are not read properly by MailMessage

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.Email for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Email for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview:Aspose.Email for .NET

Aspose.Email for .NET is a set of .net email components allowing developers to easily implement email functionality within their ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It Supports Outlook PST, EML, MSG & MHT formats. It allows developers to work with SMTP, POP3, FTP & MS Exchange servers. It supports mail merge, iCalendar, customized header & body, header information, embedded files, Twitter & many more. It makes it easy to work with HTML or plain text emails & their attachments.

More about Aspose.Email for .NET

Homepage of Aspose.Email for .NET C#
Download Aspose.Email for .NET
Online documentation of Aspose.Email for .NET

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

The QuartzDesk team is excited to announce the 1.7.4 release of QuartzDesk.

This maintenance release brings support for secure JMX Quartz scheduler connections that can be established using SSL or SASL protocols. This release also contains multiple bugfixes and various product improvements. For further details, please refer to the release notes.

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QuartzDesk is an advanced Java Quartz scheduler management and monitoring GUI with many powerful and unique features:

• Support for Quartz 1.x and 2.x schedulers.
• Support for JMX-RMI, JMXMP and REMOTING-JMX (JBoss) protocols.
• Persistent job execution history.
• Inteligent full-text search filters.
• Job execution log messages interception (supported for jul, log4j, log4j2, logback).
• JavaScript rule-based notifications rules (email, all popular IM protocols, web-service).
• Interactive execution statistics and charts.
• REST API for job / trigger / scheduler monitoring.
• QuartzAnywhere web-service to manage / monitor Quartz schedulers from external apps.
• and more.

The product is aimed at all Java Developers using Quartz scheduler in their applications, Testers, as well as System Administrators / Operations personnel looking after these applications.

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What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (15.1.0) has been released. We have added the improved support for managing fonts in this release. We have introduced the support for explicit font substitution and rule based font’s substitution that will enable the users to substitute fonts programmatically. More details about these features are available in the article Managing Fonts inside Presentation in the documentation section. The support for removing the VBA macros inside the presentation has also been introduced and you can visit the article Removing VBA Macros in Presentation for more details about the feature. We have improved the integration support of Aspose.Slides in variety of platforms like OSGI and Eclipse SWT/RCP applications. The issues pertaining to use of Aspose.Slides in MAC and Linux operating systems have also been rectified. We have fixed several incurring issues with API in this release which include the issues pertaining to loading license of Aspose.Slides for Java. We have improved the presentation rendering support and have resolved certain rendering issues incurring during generation of slide thumbnails, exported PDF, Tiff, SVG and XPS files. The issues include improper text, missing background, blank slides, missing WordArt, improper SmartArt, incorrect table and different charts elements rendering. Different Slide cloning issues have also been addressed in this new release. We have rectified issues that appeared when accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like NullReference, PptxReadException, ObjectReferenceException,and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases for MAC, Linux and Windows environments. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

FontEntity class alternate / implementation in the latest version of Aspose.Slides
Support for managing VBA macros inside presentation
Support to remove macros in presentation
Feature to Join PortionEx with same formatting
Support for Aspose.Slides jar file to act as OSGi bundles
Support for scaling options of image added in slide shapes
Export PPT to HTML
Generating Shapes thumbnails in PPTX
SmartArt DOM with support for read/write
Support to remove macros in presentation
Feature to Convert SmartArt Shapes to Image
Feature to Join PortionEx with Same Formatting
Feature to Convert Shape to Image is required in Presentation files
Extract audio used in SlideShowTransitions
Using Aspose.Slides as COM Interop DLL
Serialization for ShapesEx
Macros detection / removal in presentations
Serialization of Group Shapes
Paragraph.BulletOffset has no effect
Problems to create PDF' on servers with java.awt.headless=true
Error on opening the generated PPTX file: Powerpoint found the content in the file which it did not understand
Master file getting lost after cloning the slide
Slide content lost when cloning slides using Aspose.Slides
chart category and value axis labels are improperly rendered
Bullets are wrongly rendered in generated thumbnail
Chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint after saving presentation using Aspose.Slides
WordArt text is improperly rendered in thumbnail
Not able to view the HTML file after converting a PPT file
Metafile throws NullPointerException
TextureBrush throws ClassCastException: Metafile cannot be cast to Bitmap
Charts missing after updating MS to version 5.0.0
Chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint
Wrong charts labels text wrapping in generated thumbnails
Wrong rendering of german umlauts in images
The contents are getting overlapped in the generated PDF file
Data label mismatch in pie-chart : PPTX to PDF
Bullets are not properly rendered in PDF from PPT file
Table format getting disturbed after re-saving the PPT file
Table Rows are connecting with other table in generated PDF file.
Setting license key with relative path throws exception
Table Border missing in the generated PNG file
PPTX to PDF Conversion: Pie Chart fill style is not proper
The set Header Footer values are not refleceted in Header Footer Manger in PowerPoint
Text is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
Can't open cloned pptx in LibreOffice (linux) or in Google Docs
Aspose.Slides failed to work in Eclipse SWT/RCP application
Chineese characters rendered as block codes in MAC
Fonts improperly rendered in Mac environment
SmartArt shapes getting corrupted on saving the presentation
NoClassDefFoundError on generating slide thumbnail in MAC environmnet
Generated PDF has improper table data rendering
Shapes improperly rendered in the slide thumbnail
Slide title failed to render in generated thumbnail

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides is a Java component to create, read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports PHP applications and provides all advanced features for managing presentations, slides, shapes, tables and supports PPT, POT, POS PowerPoint formats. Now you can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

More about Aspose.Slides for Java

Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Java
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Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is happy to announce the monthly release of Aspose.Words for Java 15.1.0. This month’s release contains over 81 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes to the Aspose.Words products. Here are some of the the biggest features included in this release: Moved main codebase to Java 6 (Java 7 and 8 are also supported). Dropped support for Java 5 and 1.4, Fields Public API, New public API members for structured document tags, OpenDocument (ODT) import/export fidelity improvements, rendering of spacing and kerning in WordArt supported and HTML export/import improved for better round-tripping. JDK 1.5 32-bit had used as Aspose.Words Java baseline for long long time. Even JDK 1.4 version had generated for users with ancient environment. Both JDKs are discontinued by Sun/Oracle. Even commercial (non-open) support of JDK 1.5 is dropped about year ago. Starting from January release 15.1 of Aspose.Words, we dropped support of Java 1.4 and 1.5. Oracle currently supports jdk 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8. Open support of jdk 1.6 is closed about year ago, but commercial support is still here. There are also few environments (like not very last but still popular versions of Mac OS) that don’t support 1.7 and 1.8, they work on jdk 1.6 only. The very last available Java JDK is 1.8 64-bit which is chosen for development and test baseline. This is becuause of two reasons: 1) it is faster than older versions, so tests and development will be slightly faster. 2) It is stricter than older versions so some bugs we can catch under 1.8 but the bugs don’t show under 1.6. However, we use only 1.6 language options, language constructs added in 1.7 and 1.8 are not used. So we can compile 1.8 baseline to 1.6 production JAR for release publication. We have now opened programmatic access to Checked/Unchecked state of SDT (StructuredDocumentTag) Checkbox through StructuredDocumentTag.Checked property. We have also added capability to create StructuredDocumentTag of type SdtType.Checkbox in the public API. All FieldXXX classes are now public. Each class corresponds to a certain MS Word field type and provides a number of properties corresponding to arguments, switches and switch arguments of that field. All field types and arguments/switches listed in the specification (except the newest ones appeared in MS Word 2013) are covered that makes it a unique solution on the market. We have introduced two property types i.e. boolean for stand-alone switches and string for arguments and arguments of switches. In defense of this approach, we can adduce the following: if we treat UI of MS Word as a visual analogue of its API, the field insertion dialog also provides checkboxes for simple switches and textboxes (without any format verification) for the rest. We have introduced three overloads of the Paragraph.AppendField() method, each corresponding to a DocumentBuilder.InsertField() method with similar signatures. This is basically to address WORDSNET-3225 (Make it possible to create Fields using DOM (without using DocumentBuilder)). We have added the FieldToc.UpdatePageNumbers() method. Since the FieldToc class, like other field classes, were initially internal, we had to wait until the rest of public fields API is ready. We have now added a new public property HtmlSaveOptions.ExportRoundtripInformation. This option allows to convert Word document to HTML format with round-trip information. Saving of the round-trip information allows to restore document properties such as tab stops, comments, headers and footers during the HTML documents loading back into a Document object. Aspose.Words now takes spacing and kerning in WordArt objects into account during rendering to fixed page formats such as PDF. The list of new and improved features added in this release are given below

Moved main codebase to Java 6 (Java 7 and 8 are also supported). Dropped support for Java 5 and 1.4
Fields Public API
New public API members for structured document tags
OpenDocument (ODT) import/export fidelity improvements
Rendering of spacing and kerning in WordArt supported
HTML export/import improved for better round-tripping
Comment numbering in rendering
Support importing li.value from HTML
Add freature for new ImportFormatMode (Keep Source Formatting Smart)
Text auto-fit does not work properly with vertical text.
Add "style:paragraph-properties" -> "style:auto-text-indent" import/export
Consider adding an ability to export documents to HTML page by page.
Make it possible to create Fields using DOM (without using DocumentBuilder).
Implement public field API (V1.0)
Public fields API - Implement field types
Allow programmatic access to Checked/Unchecked state of SDT Checkbox
Allow to create StructuredDocumentTag of type Checkbox
Very first AD year starts from 3rd day.
ExternalFontCache is not thread-safe
DocumentPageSplitter sample for Java
Remove need of explicit casting in foreach loop for Body and other CompositeNode childs
Left margin is being exported wrongly during Word-HTML-WORD roundtrips
Text is missing from SmartArt when Docx is exported to Pdf
Docx to Pdf conversion issue with image rendering
DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml ignore list numbers
Line break is lost after conversion from Doc to Txt
The words have been shifted to the next line after the merging of documents
Blank pages are added after merging documents
Cell Widths not Preserved, Words Moved to Next Lines and Blank Pages in Merged Document
UpdateFields does not function on CardText switch for larger numbers
Paragraph SpaceBefore is imported incorrectly in Aspose.Words DOM
Content moving to the next line in merged document
Table cell content splitting to multiple lines after merge
Content moving to the next line in merged document
Text splitting to 2 lines after merge
Page break issue on merged document
Docx to PDF conversion issue with equation fields
Textbox position is changed after conversion from Docx to Html
Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Docx
Document.UpdateFields issue with relative file reference in INCLUDETEXT
Font of list numbering looks wrong in generated PDF
Docx to Pdf conversion issue with table's row height
Doc to txt conversion issue with uppercase lette
UpdateFields does not correctly handle StyleRef field with \s switch
Text in DML TextBox truncates in generated PDF
Document.PageCount throws System.InvalidOperationException while using multi threading
Hebrew text does not render correctly in output Pdf
Docx to pdf conversion issue chart rendering
HTML table borders are rendered incorrectly
IE8 does not open HtmlFixed file correctly
Provide a way in API to update page numbers only for TOC
Cell widths are not preserved when appending to another document
Support comment numbering
RTF->Html->RTF conversion issue with sub list items indentation
RTF->Html->RTF conversion issue with space between list label and list text
Position of Dml textboxes is incorrect.
Expose HtmlSaveOptions.ExportRoundtripInformation as public proprerty
Position of footer contents is changed after conversion from Doc to Pdf
Font is changed during open/save.
Extra empty page is added to the document during rendering.
List numbering in repeated region continues instead of restarting
OpenOffice hangs when open ODT document produced by Aspose.Words.
Doc to HTML conversion issue with merged cell in the table
HTM to Doc conversion issue with text
Docx to Fixed file format conversion issue with footnote
Support spacing and kerning in WordArt texts.
Incorrect page count during Docx to Pdf conversion
Incorrect page count during Doc to Pdf conversion

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 you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

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
Demos for Aspose.Words

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Devart, a recognized provider of database connectivity solutions and tools for developers, announced the release of Skyvia 3.0, a free online service for cloud data integration and, now, cloud backup.

The new version is the next step in evolution of the young cloud data platform. In a short time Skyvia has managed to get a lot of loyal customers from all over the world. The service enables users to perform data export, import, replication, synchronization in a simple user interface. With Skyvia Backup users get automatic daily and anytime manual backup with one-click restore functionality. New predefined templates for data mapping greatly speed up configuring import and synchronization operations and simplify migration between cloud data sources.

The list of supported data sources constantly expands in accordance with user feedbacks. For now Skyvia supports a wide range of database systems (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.), popular CRM systems (Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, Zoho CRM, SugarCRM) and other data sources (Dropbox, FTP, Box, Google Drive etc).

«The goal of our team is to offer the best cloud service for wide array of data operations with no need of coding. - said Alex Hyrniy, Skyvia Product Manager. For now, as long as Skyvia is a growing service, it's free of charge, because we're aimed to hear the needs and opinions from the customers to make Skyvia a strong player on a cloud market soon.»

Cloud Data Backup
The essential feature of new update is cloud data backup. Skyvia backup supports Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM and Zoho CRM. With Skyvia, backup configuration is very simple and can be performed in few clicks. Restore operations are even easier – one needs just to select data to restore and click the Restore button. Skyvia allows restoring whole objects, separate records and even separate fields. Backed up data can be viewed and exported anytime.

Skyvia offers powerful functionality for searching backed up data, which makes it easy to find a specific records in backups. Skyvia also offers monitoring tools to quickly view the status of all your backup and restore operations. Its unique feature is the ability to compare backups for different points in time and display data changes between them.

Predefined Mapping Templates
Moreover, the new version provides predefined mapping templates that greatly simplify configuring import and synchronization operations between cloud data sources. Now an operation loading data between cloud data sources can be configured in less than a minute, and this makes data migration much easier.

Additionally, Skyvia 3.0 allows much faster configuration of data replication from cloud source to a database, offers improved interface and other features.

To learn more about Skyvia visit https://www.skyvia.com

To view Skyvia at Salesforce AppExchange Marketplace visit
https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3000000B58AuEAJ

About Devart
Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software. Along with database oriented software Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio which help developers to be empowered, stay focused, and deliver their best all the time.

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.8.0 has been released. This new release deals with the improvements in barcode decoding techniques. Our development team works hard to gradually improve barcode readings. However, there are many factors, those are involved in recognition failure, incorrect readings or multiple readings of a single barcode. When we talk about improving barcode scanning, it means to cater all sub areas. These sub areas deserve everyone’s attention. The major areas include the quality of the barcode image. In this regard, we have already offered a few filters, those help to enhance barcode pictures and we also recommend our users to only put barcodes on the picture. Other items or natural scenes can mess gray scaling process. Similarly, the best barcode orientation is horizontal and the worst orientation is diagonal 45 or 225 degrees. This release comprises a number of key fixes that help us improve accuracy, performance and reading capabilities. some important one includes, Incorrect recognition of Code128 barcodes in tif file format, Incorrect recognition of Code128 codes from a tif file, recognition of DataMatrix code from a tif file, recognize PDF417 code from png image, recognition of Code39 from the PDF file and several others. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version.

Improved recognition of different types of barcodes.
Incorrect recognition of Code128 barcodes in tif file format
Unable to recognize all Code128 bar codes from the multipage tiff file format
Incorrect recognition of Code128 codes from a tif file
Can't recognize DataMatrix code from a tif file
Can't recognize PDF417 code from png image
Can't recognize PDF417 code from png image
Can't recognize PDF417 code from png image
Incorrect recognition of Code39 from the PDF file
Can't recognize PDF417 barcode from the TIF image
Can't recognize PDF417 barcode from the TIF image
Can't recognize QR code from the TIF image
Can't put two FNC1 characters in type GS1 DataMatrix
Incorrection recognition of PDF417 code from the tif format
Incorrect GS1Code128 bars sequence
Can't read Code128 barcode from JPG image
Incorrect recognition of Code128 code from the jpg image
Incorrect recognition of Pharmacode from the JPG image
Incorrect type recognition of UPC and EAN barcodes
Multiple incorrect recognitions of a single Pharmacode
Incorrect recognition of Code128 code from the tif image
Can't recognize Code128 code from the TIF image

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.BarCode for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Aspose.BarCode is a .NET component for generation and recognition of Linear and 2D barcodes on all kinds of .NET applications. It supports WPF with 29+ Barcode symbologies like OneCode, QR, Aztec, MSI, EAN128, EAN14, SSCC18, Code128, Code39, Postnet, MarcoPDF417, Datamatrix, UPCA etc. Other features include barcode insertion in PDF, Word and Excel documents. Also take image output in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and WMF formats. You can also control image styles such as background color, bar color etc.

Homepage of C# & VB.NET Barcode Component Aspose.BarCode for .NET
Download of Aspose.BarCode for .NET

It's not very easy to convert from html to pdf. There are a number of tools available, but all the good ones cost thousands of dollars.

Select.Pdf[^] offers now a Community Edition (FREE VERSION) of the powerful Html To Pdf Converter for .NET that can be found in the full featured pdf library Select.Pdf for .NET. The free html to pdf converter[^] offers most of the features the professional sdk offers, the most notable limitation is that it can only generate pdf documents up to 5 pages long.

Samples and documentation

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Html to Pdf Converter For .NET – Community Edition Features

- Generate pdf documents up to 5 pages
- Convert any web page to pdf
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- Set pdf page settings (page size, page orientation, page margins)
- Resize content during conversion to fit the pdf page
- Set pdf document properties
- Set pdf viewer preferences
- Set pdf security (passwords, permissions)
- Set conversion delay and web page navigation timeout
- Custom headers and footers
- Support for html in headers and footers
- Automatic and manual page breaks
- Repeat html table headers on each page
- Support for @media types screen and print
- Support for internal and external links
- Generate bookmarks automatically based on html elements
- Support for HTTP headers
- Support for HTTP cookies
- Support for web pages that require authentication
- Support for proxy servers
- Enable/disable javascript
- Modify color space
- Multithreading support
- HTML5/CSS3 support
- Web fonts support

New Case Study Examines How eLearning Innovation Replaced Microsoft® Word™ With MadCap Flare to Streamline the Development and Maintenance of Content for a Growing Number of Online Courses

La Jolla, CA, USA — February 24, 2015 — MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio, today announced that it has published a new case study on eLearning Innovation. A leader in creating interactive learning environments, eLearning Innovation uses MadCap Flare for single-source publishing of HTML5 course content, streamlining the process of creating and updating content for a growing number of online courses. The full case study can be viewed at: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/elearninginnovation.aspx.

Since 2003, eLearning Innovation has been providing instructional design services to higher education, K-12, corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Specializing in experiential learning, eLearning Innovation creates active learning environments that inspire and educate. Today, leveraging Madcap Flare’s single-sourcing functionality along with its own custom integration, eLearning Innovation delivers robust online courses directly to a Learning Management System (LMS).

From Flare to Content Server to LMS Seamlessly

common practice in course development is to create content in Microsoft® Word™ and then manually copy and paste it into an HTML editor in an LMS. eLearning Innovation develops hundreds of online courses a year and realized it needed a more-scalable, less error-prone solution. eLearning Innovation now uses Madcap Flare, along with a custom integration, to create and maintain online courses. Using Flare, eLearning Innovation develops course content and then publishes it to its content server. Through a custom integration, the course content is served directly from a link in the LMS.

Among the key benefits eLearning Innovation has realized:
* Taking advantage of Flare’s capabilities for single-source publishing, eLearning Innovation can create content once in Flare, publish it to their content server, and link to it directly from an LMS, streamlining course production and maintenance.
* Snippets, variables, and condition tags allow eLearning Innovation to easily customize content for different roles and audiences.
* Flare-based content is integrated with analytics via custom technology eLearning Innovation has built using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification for real-time insight into users’ experiences with the content.

eLearning Innovation plans to further leverage Flare and the custom integration in two ways:
* The use of conditional tags will provide more granular role-based content
* Proprietary code will be embedded into Flare content that when viewed via the LMS will display a quiz, survey, or a performance-based assessment and its associated rubric. Using Flare condition tags and proprietary technology will enable the display of different versions of the content for different audiences.

"We’ve already gained tremendous benefits by using Flare. We’ve eliminated the problem of having to go into the LMS to make a change to course content. We’ve leveraged the single-sourcing functionality to generate variations of the same course. We can track how learners are interacting with the course content, and soon, we’ll extend our analytics capabilities and evaluate learner progress against outcomes,” said Laurie Pulido, eLearning Innovation founder and president. “We want to continue inspiring innovation,” says Ms. Pulido. “By ramping up our clients with Flare, we can improve our collaborative approach to course design. And with Flare’s integration with source control, we know we can easily keep track of versions.”

“eLearning Innovation is at the forefront in combining content with learning management, course tracking, and analytics, to provide interactive courses that help K-12 schools, universities and colleges, government agencies and non-profits meet their education and training goals,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We are thrilled by eLearning Innovation’s success in using our MadCap Flare software to tailor and update course content for its broad range of clients, as well as integrate Flare-based content with analytics to gain critical insights for enhancing students’ experiences.”

About eLearning Innovation

eLearning Innovation, LLC, provides instructional design services to higher education, K-12, corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Specializing in experiential learning, eLearning Innovation creates active learning environments that inspire and educate. Institutions and organizations interested in learning more about eLearning Innovation’s custom eLearning solutions can contact Laurie Pulido at 1-844–435-3276 or visit www.elearninginnovation.com.

About MadCap Software

MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.

Technical session will examine best practices for building, hosting and managing APIs to transform user systems, daily functions and lifestyles

Mountain View, CA – February 24, 2015 – Today, people rely on various systems to help coordinate and perform common daily functions—such as checking the latest train or bus schedules from their smartphones and tablets. To seamlessly connect the systems delivering these services, organizations increasingly rely on managed APIs. At QCon London 2015, WSO2 will present a session on how enterprises can implement an effective infrastructure for hosting and managing APIs to optimize systems and user lifestyles.

WSO2 is a Silver Sponsor of QCon London, which will run March 4-6, 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London.

Building APIs to Transform Lifestyles
The session, "APIs that Change Lifestyles," is part of Sponsored Solution Track I and will be held 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. on Wednesday March 4, 2015 in the Abbey room, 4th Floor. Presenter Senaka Fernando, a WSO2 solutions architect, will examine how systems are leveraging APIs to help transform daily functions for users. He also will discuss guidelines for developers seeking to build the next big API project. Additionally, Senaka will explore an infrastructure for hosting and managing APIs to optimize an organization’s offering.

In addition to his product development efforts, Senaka has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, helping to successfully implement governance, enterprise application integration, SAP integration, and on-premise portal solutions. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and also a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and committer for a number of projects, which currently include Apache Web Services, Axis2, and several Apache incubator projects. Additionally, Senaka is a member of the OASIS S-RAMP, WEMI, and TOSCA technical committees.

Integrated Open Source Approach to the Connected Business
The WSO2 booth at QCon London 2015 will have experts available to discuss the synergistic, integrated approach of WSO2’s 100% open source platforms in addressing the technology demands of competing in a connected world, including the cloud, API management, big data analytics, the management and security of mobile and Internet of Things devices, and DevOps. Among the WSO2 solutions are products from the comprehensive WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform—including WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager, WSO2 Private PaaS, the WSO2 App Factory cloud-enabled DevOps platform, and WSO2 API Cloud.

Significantly, all WSO2 solutions are built on the same fully componentized, OSGI-compliant code base. As a result, developers can easily deploy and customize any of these WSO2 products and the 175-plus components on which they are comprised, providing greater flexibility and agility to meet changing enterprise demands. In addition to WSO2 cloud platforms, all WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware products also are fully multitenant and cloud-ready. This means IT professionals can write an application once and deploy it on the same middleware on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

About QCon London 2015
Celebrating its ninth year, QCon London 2015 is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. The international software development conference highlights the most important development topics driving innovation today, bringing practitioners together with attendees who influence innovation in their teams. The event is staged in an intimate environment that promotes high quality learning, peer sharing, fun and inspiration. For more information, visit http://qconlondon.com.

About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.1.0. When using the API in trial mode, you get the limitations to manipulate/add certain number of elements inside PDF file. The limitation includes adding/removing number of pages from PDF file, adding/manipulating Attachments or Annotations inside PDF file, conversion of only first 4 pages to Image format and so on. Also when using the API in trial mode (without using the license), a watermark text is added in resultant file and you also come across an error message stating that API is being used in evaluation mode. So before performing any operation, we can also check the license initialization and for this purpose, a static read-only property named IsLicensed is added in Document class. We generate the PDF files on the fly and during PDF file creation, we may come across the requirement (creating Table Of Contents etc) to get page count of PDF file without saving the file over system or stream. So in order to cater this requirement, a method ProcessParagraphs(…) has been introduced in Document class. Please take a look over following code snippet which shoes the steps to get page count without saving the document. A text can be added inside paragraphs collection of PDF file using TextFragment instance or by using TextParagraph object and even you can stamp the text inside PDF by using TextStamp class. While adding the text, we may have a requirement to specify character spacing for text object. In order to accomplish this requirement, a new property named CharacterSpacing property has been introduced. Please take a look over following approaches to fulfill this requirement. Adding text stamps inside PDF file is one of the salient features of our API and while adding Text Stamp, we may have a requirement to rotate the text stamp. In order to accomplish this requirement, a property named RotateAngle is present inside TextStamp class. You can pass any angle value which can be applied to rotate Stamp instance. Please take a look over following code snippet which illustrates the steps to rotate TextStamp at 45 degree angle when placing it inside PDF file. Recently one of the customers reported an issue where paragraph break was being added at the end of each line instead adding it at the end of paragraph. In order to cater this requirement, a new property named AddReturnToLineEnd is added in DocSaveOptions class. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been specific improvement for PDF to HTML and HTML to PDF conversion features. Among these fixes, the PCL to PDF, SVG to PDF, PDF to Excel, PDF to TIFF and TIFF to PDF conversion, conversion of PDF to PDF/A compliant documents, text replacement, rendering PDF files to XPS format are also improved. The list of important new and improved features are given below

Support a Method / Property to check if license is applied or not
Getting total number of pages in new Generator without saving Document
To Specify Character Spacing when adding Text in PDF
The Rotation enumeration should support on45 degree angle
Support of Arabic text filling in Textboxfield
PDF to DOC/DOCX: Paragraph break is added at the end of each line instead Paragraph
PDF to HTML - Links are converted into plain text
TextFragment Underline formatting is not working properly
PDF to HTML - Image is turned upside down in HTML
SVG to PDF: Image won't be inserted
TIFF to PDF - resultant PDF is 3 times the source
PDF to TIFF - Resultant image is not correct
PDF to PS - Resultant file size is too large
Text replace feature is not working with Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server
PDF to HTML - Hyperlink is removed in resultant file
TextFragment properties malfunctioning in evaluation mode
Extract Text returns sometimes bad Y position
Sometimes corresponding charter rectangle does not give the correct position
HTML to PDF Characters rendering issue
PdfFileEditor keeps a reference to concatenated files
Optimizing a large PDF not releasing the memory
Incorrect page count being returned
Header/footer text is being added incorreclty
PDF to TIFF conversions throws StackOverflow Exception
PDF to HTML - Image is Rotated in resultant HTML
HTML to PDF - CSS float does not seem to be supported
HTML to PDF : More than one tbody tags in a table are not being rendered
Unable to get PDF Initial View Page Number
SVG to PDF conversion:image renders off the page
PCL to PDF - Shrinks page contents to left side
HTML to PDF: HtmlFragment throws ArgumentException
page-break style is not being honored during HTML to PDF conversion
Output generated with DOM is quite large as compared to Generator
ColorType property is returning wrong value
HTML to PDF: List Item not appearing properly
HTML to PDF: Text is not properly formatted.
PdfViewer: Printing problem with German font
PDF to EXCEL - Some contents are split into two cells
Aspose.Pdf Timeout Problem (v6.4.2)
Image to PDF: output PDF file is approx 6 time larger than input image
Search and replace text issue in evaluation mode

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.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

More about Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for .NET C#
Online Demo for Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,

79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Devart announced the new release of dbForge Studio for SQL Server, v4.5. The updated IDE for SQL Server management and development is enhanced with a brand new tool – SQL Server Data Generator, and has improved data and schema comparison functionality.

SQL Server Data Generator

The new tool, SQL Server Data Generator is a visual component for populating tables with thousands of customizable rows of test data, that considerably saves time and effort spent on test data generation. The main features of SQL Server Data Generator are:
* Fast generation of large volumes of test data
* Parameters customization for each column data type
* Immediate preview of data to be generated
* Generated data can be executed against a database or exported to an SQL script
* User-friendly wizard interface

The list of Schema Comparison improvements includes:
* Improved text comparer
* Option to show text comparer in a detached window
* Preview tooltip for previewing differences in statements with a large number of lines
* Information pane for indication of comparison and synchronization source and target
* Redesigned display of database objects in the grid

Additionaly, the new version has new information pane for indication of data comparison and synchronization source and redesigned display of database objects in the grid.

dbForge Studio for SQL Server is an integrated environment for SQL Server development, management, administration, data reporting and analysis. SQL Manager tools allows easily to create, edit, copy, attach, detach, backup and restore databases from one server to another. These SQL tools help developers to manage databases, speed up routine tasks and make complex database changes.

Availability

dbForge Studio for SQL Server has Express, Standard, Data and Professional editions. The prices start from 149.95$. The Professional Edition is available for 30-day trial period. Express Edition is free to use.

About Devart

Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software.

Along with database oriented software Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio which help developers to be empowered, stay focused, and deliver their best all the time.
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What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Email for Java 5.0.0. Ported form its equivalent .NET version; it incorporates the same enhancements and bug fixes. For a complete list of API changes, you may visit the public API changes in Aspose.Email for Java 5.0.0 page of our documentation section. Aspose.Email already provides the support for checking a PST for password protection. This month’s release further enhances this capability by allowing user to reset the password property of the PST using the PST’s message store. In order to remove/reset this property, the value is set to zero (0) for getting it removed. A new property, known as Store, has been introduced in this month’s release for this purpose. For a working code sample, please have a look at our documentation article, Working with PST Password Protection Properties. With this month’s release, you can load appointments having Byte Order Mark (BOM) characters at their start. Though BOM use is optional, this was not supported earlier with the API. The same Appointment class’s load method can be used to load such appointments. This month’s release fixes all those bugs that were reported in the equivalent .NET version or directly with the Java API. These include issues with text color during conversion of messages to other formats, encoding issues while saving appointment files, exporting appointments to message formats and exceptions arose during MSG to XPS conversion, and TNEF. The main improved features & bug fixes added in this release are listed below

Option to load calendar files starting with BOM characters
Removing MapiPropertyTag.PR_PST_PASSWORD from a PST does not take effect after saving
PR_MESSAGE_DELIVERY_TIME value set incorrectly
MapiMessage.FromFile issues in Parallel.ForEach loop
Wrong reminder set while adding calendar item to PST
ICS->MSG: Text formatting such as styles and headings lost
ICS->ICS: Characters encoding issue
PST created from calendar events crashes Outlook
MSG->MHTML: Text Color changes in output
Complete email address rendered instead of "Display Name" only
Subject garbled due to encoding issues while loading into MailMessage
"Unknown type of ActionProperty: NONE" - Exception raised while laoding ICS
Attachments names are not read properly by MailMessage-Java

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.Email for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Email for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview:Aspose.Email for Java

Aspose.Email for Java is a Non-Graphical Java component that enables Java applications to read and write Microsoft Outlook documents without utilizing Microsoft Outlook. It enables developers to create new MSG file from scratch, update an existing MSG file, read Outlook MSG file & get it's properties like subject, body, recipients in to, cc and bcc, Adding or removing attachment, sender information and MAPI properties. Aspose.Email for Java can be used with Web as well asDesktop Application.

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Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd,

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

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Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Aspose Newsletter for March 2015 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases of its JasperReports exporters, SQL Server rendering extensions, .NET, Java, SharePoint components, Android & REST APIs. It also includes information about comparing Aspose.Cells ODS to PDF conversion results using Officeshots, Spotlight on Aspose.Email for .NET and Java, HTML5 spreadsheet editor showcases, advanced redaction support will be added in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.2 and support for JPEG 2000 as well as EXIF orientation tag in Aspose.Imaging for .NET 2.8, & much more.

Need more control over Email in your applications?

Aspose.Email for .NET and Java are powerful APIs which allow developers to add email features to their apps. Send and manage emails, work with Microsoft Outlook tasks, notes and calendar items, convert emails between formats, control attachments and much more. Download a free Trial:

Aspose.Words 15.1 adds a more powerful Word Fields API

Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java both now feature a more powerful public API for adding and editing Fields within a Microsoft Word document. The new fields API provides far more control over switches and properties of each field within your Word document as well as support for new types of field. Read More

Advanced Redaction support will be added in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.2

Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.2 will add a brand new feature allowing for complete redaction of sensitive content in your PDF documents. The redaction feature will allow full control over ‘obscuring’ both text and image content from a document, ensuring sensitive data is not just obscured but completely removed all while not affecting positioning of adjacent content. Aspose.Pdf for .NET will be released in early March. Check out the Aspose.Pdf Blog for the latest product news.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET 2.8 will feature support for JPEG 2000 and EXIF orientation tag

The next Aspose.Imaging for .NET release will support both reading and writing to the JPEG 2000 file format for the first time. Another highlight in this release is a brand new feature which allows auto-rotating your images based on the EXIF orientation tag embedded by modern cameras. Find out more

Compare Aspose.Cells ODS to PDF conversion results using Officeshots

Aspose.Cells for .NET Officeshots factory is a distributed web application available on Officeshots.org which lets you upload OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ods, ots) files and review the quality of the PDF conversion created by Aspose.Cells for .NET. This factory enables you to quickly check the quality of Aspose.Cells for .NET PDF rendering using your own spreadsheet documents. Read the article to find out more,

HTML5 Spreadsheet Editor Showcases Aspose.Cells for Java

To demonstrate the power of Aspose.Cells for Java, we have created an HTML5 Spreadsheet editor which demonstrates how to integrate Aspose.Cells for Java into a modern Java web application. The latest version has just been released and includes an updated UI and new features such as Inserting and Deleting cells. Learning from this project can be a great start to your own Aspose.Cells project, just download the source code. Read more about HTML5 Spreadsheet Editor.

Updates about new Product Releases

Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of our latest .NET products.
Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.3.2: Support for Shape Connectors, Improvements in Tight Wrapping, Overlapped and Nested Floating Objects, and much more.
Aspose.Words for .NET 15.1.0 - New and improved Fields API and Structured Document Tags API, improvements to HTML import/export and 75 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.1.0- Support for calculating the total number of pages without saving the PDF document, improvements to rendering of Arabic text and a range of other enhancements.
Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.1.0 - Various improvements and fixes including support for explicit and rule based font changing and removing macros from a presentation file.
Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.8.0 –Improvements in BarCode Scanning Techniques allow for recognition of a wider range of barcodes.
Aspose.Tasks for .NET 7.4.1 –Improvements to performance and bug fixes to this legacy version before it is completely replaced by the major update Aspose.Tasks for .NET 8.0.1.
Aspose.Email for .NET 5.0.0 - Appointments having BOM Characters now supported along with over 20 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Imaging for .NET 2.7.0 – Support for converting AutoCAD Drawings to PDF and other image formats, and other fixes.
Aspose.Total for Java– a compilation of our latest Java products.
Aspose.Cells for Java 8.3.1 – Performance enhancing maintenance release that fixes a number of rendering and conversion issues.
Aspose.Words for Java 15.1.0 - Code optimized for Java versions 6+. New and improved Fields API and Structured Document Tags API, improvements to HTML import/export and 81 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Pdf for Java 10.0.0 – Extract text from a table based on columns and over 20 other improvements and fixes.
Aspose.Slides for Java 15.1.0 –Support for managing VBA macros inside presentations, exporting PPT files to HTML and over 30 other improvements and fixes.
Aspose.Tasks for Java 7.4.1 –A minor release with small bug fixes.
Aspose.Email for Java 5.0.0 – Appointments having BOM Characters now supported in addition to other general fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Total for Cloud– RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
Aspose.Total for Android– all the latest versions of our Android APIs.
Aspose.Total for SharePoint– a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.
Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products.
Aspose.Total for JasperReports– The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

10-12 March: Devnexus 2015, Atlanta, GA
24-26 March: DevWeek 2015, London, UK

Would you like us to sponsor your user group? Get in contact at user.groups@aspose.com

Collect your copy of Aspose Newsletter, October 2013 edition

Collect the English version of this newsletter
Collect the Japanese version of this newsletter

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd
Suite 163,

79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove,

NSW, 2066
Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Need more control over Email in your applications?

Aspose.Words 15.1 adds a more powerful Word Fields API

Advanced Redaction support will be added in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.2

Aspose.Imaging for .NET 2.8 will feature support for JPEG 2000 and EXIF orientation tag

Compare Aspose.Cells ODS to PDF conversion results using Officeshots

HTML5 Spreadsheet Editor Showcases Aspose.Cells for Java

Updates about new Product Releases

Aspose.Total for .NET - a compilation of our latest .NET products.
Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.3.2: Support for Shape Connectors, Improvements in Tight Wrapping, Overlapped and Nested Floating Objects, and much more.
Aspose.Words for .NET 15.1.0 - New and improved Fields API and Structured Document Tags API, improvements to HTML import/export and 75 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.1.0- Support for calculating the total number of pages without saving the PDF document, improvements to rendering of Arabic text and a range of other enhancements.
Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.1.0 - Various improvements and fixes including support for explicit and rule based font changing and removing macros from a presentation file.
Aspose.BarCode for .NET 6.8.0 –Improvements in BarCode Scanning Techniques allow for recognition of a wider range of barcodes.
Aspose.Tasks for .NET 7.4.1 –Improvements to performance and bug fixes to this legacy version before it is completely replaced by the major update Aspose.Tasks for .NET 8.0.1.
Aspose.Email for .NET 5.0.0 - Appointments having BOM Characters now supported along with over 20 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Imaging for .NET 2.7.0 – Support for converting AutoCAD Drawings to PDF and other image formats, and other fixes.
Aspose.Total for Java– a compilation of our latest Java products.
Aspose.Cells for Java 8.3.1 – Performance enhancing maintenance release that fixes a number of rendering and conversion issues.
Aspose.Words for Java 15.1.0 - Code optimized for Java versions 6+. New and improved Fields API and Structured Document Tags API, improvements to HTML import/export and 81 other fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Pdf for Java 10.0.0 – Extract text from a table based on columns and over 20 other improvements and fixes.
Aspose.Slides for Java 15.1.0 –Support for managing VBA macros inside presentations, exporting PPT files to HTML and over 30 other improvements and fixes.
Aspose.Tasks for Java 7.4.1 –A minor release with small bug fixes.
Aspose.Email for Java 5.0.0 – Appointments having BOM Characters now supported in addition to other general fixes and enhancements.
Aspose.Total for Cloud– RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.
Aspose.Total for Android– all the latest versions of our Android APIs.
Aspose.Total for SharePoint– a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.
Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products.
Aspose.Total for JasperReports– The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

10-12 March: Devnexus 2015, Atlanta, GA
24-26 March: DevWeek 2015, London, UK

Would you like us to sponsor your user group? Get in contact at user.groups@aspose.com

Collect your copy of Aspose Newsletter, October 2013 edition

Collect the English version of this newsletter
Collect the Japanese version of this newsletter

Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd
Suite 163,

79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove,

NSW, 2066
Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Paris, FR — January 12th, 2015 — SoftFluent announced today that CodeFluent Entities and its graphical editor supports Visual Studio 2015 Preview, which contains many new and exciting features to support cross-platform mobile development, web & cloud development and more.

CodeFluent Entities allows developers to generate components such as scripts (e.g., T-SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, PgSQL), code (e.g., C#, VB), web services (e.g. WCF, JSON/REST) and UIs (e.g., Microsoft Windows 8.1, ASP.NET, SharePoint, WPF, Silverlight). The code generation process is ‘model-first’ and continuous: from your declarative model, a meta-model will be inferred which code generators will then translate into code. Over 20 code generators (a.k.a. ‘producers’) are provided ‘out of the box’ and that can be combined to obtain your own application following your desired architecture, using your desired technologies.
Since your application development is driven from this model, your business logic is decoupled from the technology and allows you to absorb changes faster and smoother: apply changes in your model to update all your layers consistently or add/switch technology by changing your used code generators. CodeFluent Entities is designed for the .NET platform and empowers users to streamline developments on major Microsoft platforms and technologies such as SQL Server, C#, VB.NET, WCF, ASP.NET, WPF, Windows 8, SharePoint, Azure SQL Database, third-party databases and more.

"Aligning to Visual Studio 2015 Preview, as well as what we did for Visual Studio 2013, we are confirming our commitment to the Microsoft developer community to help them keep up with the quick innovation pace" said Daniel Cohen-Zardi, SoftFluent Chief Executive Officer. "CodeFluent Entities helps you generate .NET applications and dive into next-generation development tool."
"Microsoft is committed to helping developers be agile by giving them the tools they need to swiftly build great .NET applications, " said Mitra Azizirad, General Manager, Developer Tools Marketing and Sales, Microsoft Corp. "In combination with Visual Studio, SoftFluent’s technology gives developers more time to focus on the most critical pieces of their application."

The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Joins Forces with MadCap Software to Provide Students State-of-the-art Tools and Methods for Enhancing Content Development and Localization in the Classroom

Insert Page Break in Existing PDF & Stream Parameter Support in PDF to HTML

Create New PDF Files & Signing PDF using Free Hand Drawing Tool in .NET Apps

Barcode Image Printing, OSGi Metadata Reading & Improved Barcode Scanning

Explicit or Rule Based Font Replacement & Improved Presentation Rendering to PDF

Manage Password Property of PST File & Appointment Loading with BOM Characters

QuartzDesk 1.7.4 Released

Manage VBA Macros & Fonts Substitution inside Presentation, Export PPT to HTML

Code Baseline Moved to Java 6, Improved OpenDocument & HTML Import/Export Fidelity

Devart Combines Cloud Backup and Data Integration Service in New Skyvia 3.0

Barcode Scanning & Recognition of Code128, PDF417, QR Barcodes are Enhanced

Free Html to Pdf Converter for .NET offered by Select.Pdf Community Edition

eLearning Innovation Relies on MadCap Flare to Streamline the Process of Delivering HTML5 Online Course Content that Captures Analytics

WSO2 Will Present Session on Harnessing the Transformative Power of APIs at QCon London 2015

Specify Character Spacing when Adding Text & Get Page Count before Saving PDF

Devart Introduces dbForge Studio for SQL Server 4.5 with brand new tool Data Generator

Load Appointment with Byte Order Mark Characters & Reset PST Password Using Java

Aspose.Newsletter March 2015: Working with Powerful .NET & Java Email APIs & More

Aspose.Newsletter March 2015: Working with Powerful .NET & Java Email APIs & More

SoftFluent announces release of CodeFluent Entities for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Preview