Aspose.Words 11.9.0

This package has no dependencies.

There are 152 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

• Many more features supported when rendering DrawingML charts.
• Borders for "conforming" paragraphs are exported to HTML correctly.
• It is possible to specify image size now when inserting images during mail merge.
• Significant improvements to layout of floating tables when converting to PDF and XPS.
• Improvements to handling of spaces for East Asian languages when converting to PDF and XPS.
• Improvements to RTL text layout when converting to PDF and XPS.

This release introduces the new features, enhancements and fixes to the excptions, bugs and regressions as detailed below:

• New features

WORDSJAVA-628 Public API to set ImageColorMode (Grayscale, BlackAndWhite) in ImageSaveOptions.
WORDSNET-2809 /conforming borders/ Border around few paragraphs appears for each paragraph in HTML.
WORDSNET-3909 Support rendering DrawingML basic features
WORDSNET-4479 /conforming borders/ Extra border line appears upon HTML export.
WORDSNET-4702 Allow specifying image size in Image:Mergefield.
WORDSNET-5087 Support "Allow overlap" attribute for floaters.
WORDSNET-5190 Floating table moves to the top of the page and overlaps content when rendering
WORDSNET-5362 Add the ability to intercept an image being inserted into a document
WORDSNET-5951 /conforming borders/ While converting docx to html, additional borders are generated.
WORDSNET-6054 /conforming borders/ Hide borders between paragraphs if they have the save format
WORDSNET-6116 Floating table overlaps in rendered output
WORDSNET-6521 Floating table overlaps another floating table in PDF
WORDSNET-6767 Implement ASK and FILLIN fields
WORDSNET-6774 Add support for locked fields (fldLock attribute)
WORDSNET-6915 Floating tables are overlapping each other in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-6935 Support Data Point formatting.
WORDSNET-6936 Support custom font formatting.
WORDSNET-6937 Support manual layout of chart elements.
WORDSNET-6939 Support custom axis formatting.
WORDSNET-6940 Support custom legend formatting.
WORDSNET-6957 Horizontal axis labels are rendered improperly.
WORDSNET-6958 Make sure charts are rendered upon converting to flow formats.
WORDSNET-6959 Support explosion upon rendering Pie charts.
WORDSNET-6961 Support gap width upon rendering bar charts.
WORDSNET-6970 Floating tables are overlapping the first Paragraph in PDF
WORDSNET-6996 Support tickLblPos upon rendering axis labels.
WORDSNET-7039 Docx to PDF conversion issue with image position
WORDSNET-7056 Floating tables are overlapping each other in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-7061 A document with DrawingML Chart is not rendered.
WORDSNET-7094 Images overlap each other
WORDSNET-7126 Support locked fields

• Enhancements
WORDSJAVA-610 Yet another .Net DateTime custom patterns
WORDSJAVA-623 DateTime.Parse support of locales
WORDSJAVA-624 DateTime parser support of TimeZones
WORDSJAVA-625 DateTime parser support of custom formats
WORDSJAVA-640 automatic import of CultureInfo data from .Net
WORDSJAVA-641 Parse date strings formatted with custom DateTimeFormatInfo
WORDSNET-3903 White-spaces are replaced with tabs after open/save document.
WORDSNET-4070 Font size is chenged upon loading DOCX document.
WORDSNET-4732 Name and description of DrawingML object are lost after converting to WML
WORDSNET-5036 Position of floating table is incorrect.
WORDSNET-5954 Shapes are getting overlapped and positioned incorrectly in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-6027 /floater par Y/ Table's position is changed after doc to pdf conversion
WORDSNET-6207 Support insertion of SVG images
WORDSNET-6314 Shape overlaps its child Paragraphs in PDF
WORDSNET-6373 Docx to PDF conversion issue with table overlap (Allow overlap = true)
WORDSNET-6425 Text of text boxes and shapes is not exported in output PDF file
WORDSNET-6442 Support getting text wrapping bounds for DrawingML objects.
WORDSNET-6504 Issue with AppendDocument method, the image disappears after appending document.
WORDSNET-6665 Extra frames around text on HTML to DOCX conversion
WORDSNET-6686 Nested floating table position incorrect, overlaps another table.
WORDSNET-6885 Alignment of cell contents is imported incorrectly
WORDSNET-6938 Support elements overlapping on chart area.
WORDSNET-6981 Rework EMF and WMF clipping
WORDSNET-6995 Improve handling of Auto flag in Axis.
WORDSNET-6998 Support suppressOverlap paragraph attribute
WORDSNET-7024 Paragraph MirrorIndents attribute is lost after open/save RTF
WORDSNET-7043 Add supported features for OOXML Chart rendering
WORDSNET-7044 Create a list of new API changes for this months release
WORDSNET-7049 Issue with SECTIONPAGES field when Docx file is converted to PDF
WORDSNET-7058 Floating frame is rendering at the right edge of page
WORDSNET-7060 DrawingML formula is rendered incorrectly
WORDSNET-7065 Floating tables are overlapping each other in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-7075 Incorporate code from API changes article into main code base
WORDSNET-7076 Update any articles that reference ToTxt method
WORDSNET-7093 Bold font formatting is lost when rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-7109 Font size renders smaller than the actual size in DOCX
WORDSNET-7144 Floating table is broken between pages in pdf output
WORDSNET-7170 Unexpected square boxes appear when converting to TIFF format

• Exceptions

WORDSNET-3945 UriFormatException is thrown upon executign mail merge.
WORDSNET-4618 StackOverflowException occurs upon updating fields.
WORDSNET-5624 IndexOutOfRangeException occurs upon executing mail merge.
WORDSNET-5927 Exception while using updateFields() after appending document
WORDSNET-6108 Exception while using mail merge with nested regions
WORDSNET-6232 InvalidOperationException occurs during converting DOCX to DOC
WORDSNET-6700 Office 2013 document throwing Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException
WORDSNET-6949 ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs on specifying TxtSaveOptions.PreserveTableLayout property
WORDSNET-6984 Unable to load a Word 2013 document into Aspose.Words' DOM
WORDSNET-6988 Image.GetFrameCount(FrameDimension) throws GDI+ error
WORDSNET-7000 UnsupportedFileFormatException occurs when loading a TEXT file into DOM
WORDSNET-7011 NullReferenceException occurs during rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-7042 Exception throws while converting Docx to PDF conversion
WORDSNET-7047 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs when loading ODT file
WORDSNET-7071 InvalidOperationException occurs during exporting to ePub
WORDSNET-7091 System.ArgumentException occurs when processing document in multiple threads
WORDSNET-7100 UnsupportedFileFormatException occurs when loading a TEXT file into DOM
WORDSNET-7107 Exception on saving Doc file to Doc/Docx
WORDSNET-7108 InvalidOperationException occurs during rendering DOC to PNG
WORDSNET-7176 Exception on converting Docx to PDF/XPS

• Bugs

WORDSJAVA-609 Short hour DateTime format
WORDSNET-4160 MergeFields which contain white spaces in the name are not replaced with value during mail merge.
WORDSNET-4782 Paragraph SpaceAfter/SpaceBefore is incorrect.
WORDSNET-5688 If TOC is inside table cell, its page numbers on right become invisible
WORDSNET-5933 File name in hyperlink URL gets corrupted when exporting to PDF
WORDSNET-6021 Font is changed during converting DOCX to RTF
WORDSNET-6064 Incorrect paragraph borders height
WORDSNET-6269 Standard style lost when open/save Word document.
WORDSNET-6304 Missing spaces in document after resave the docx file
WORDSNET-6367 Field value is surrounded by unwanted border in DOCX
WORDSNET-6397 Calling StructuredDocumentTag.ChildNodes.Clear() removes the SDT itself
WORDSNET-6435 Table in Header overlaps the Table in body during rendering to fixed page formats
WORDSNET-6540 Paragraph Mirror Indenting Issue
WORDSNET-6606 Drop Cap: DropCapPostion property not working properly
WORDSNET-6631 Leading space is missing upon rendering DOCX document to PDF, while using Aspose.Words v11.5.0.
WORDSNET-6652 cell.CellFormat.HorizontalMerge do not return correct value
WORDSNET-6756 Changed behaviour of Form field while rendering DOCX to PDF
WORDSNET-6811 Bullets are rendering as square boxes in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-6837 Text font issue while converting Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-6858 SpecialChars are displaying as question marks in DOC
WORDSNET-6895 Text is repeated when converting Docx to PDF
WORDSNET-6911 StructuredDocumentTag Dropdown and ComboBox SelectedValue is null
WORDSNET-6913 FORMCHECKBOX fields don't appear after calling doc.UpdateFields
WORDSNET-6918 Floating table in Word duplicates when converted to PDF
WORDSNET-6951 RTF to Doc conversion issue with [Line spacing and Spacing after] after adding section breaks
WORDSNET-6969 Right-To-Left Hebrew RTF conversion to DOC/DOCX problems
WORDSNET-6976 Docx to Epub file conversion issue with image rendering
WORDSNET-6985 Doc to RTF conversion issue with text rendering
WORDSNET-6990 Doc to PDF conversion issue with Japanese characters
WORDSNET-7006 Docx to PDF conversion issue with bullet, bullet is italic
WORDSNET-7009 Docx to PDF conversion issue with StructuredDocumentTag
WORDSNET-7017 Dot To PDF conversion issue with checkboxes
WORDSNET-7018 RTF to PDF conversion issue with contents rendering
WORDSNET-7019 A text box with vertical text is rendered horizontally.
WORDSNET-7020 HTML to TXT conversion issue with text rendering
WORDSNET-7021 Doc to PDF conversion issue with image rendering
WORDSNET-7026 A floating table overlaps another floating table
WORDSNET-7028 Tables in DOC are imported as Rows in DOM
WORDSNET-7029 GetText returns text with incorrect character encoding
WORDSNET-7030 Set Bookmark's text to empty string change the text formatting/style
WORDSNET-7031 BFFValidator does not validate DOC produced by Aspose.Words
WORDSNET-7032 InvalidOperationException occurs when calling SetLicense
WORDSNET-7035 Treat '\x3000' (Ideographic Space) at the end of a line as normal Space character
WORDSNET-7048 IF field fails to update when true or false argument is merged
WORDSNET-7051 RTF to Doc conversion issue with Track changes
WORDSNET-7053 Text in Textbox is cut off after conversion
WORDSNET-7057 Page numbering scheme is not correct in PDF
WORDSNET-7072 Doc to PDF conversion issue with Shape Rendering
WORDSNET-7081 Glyphs become squares in Doc to PDF conversion
WORDSNET-7082 Unable to set Width and Height of DrawingML in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-7089 Doc to Docx conversion issue with table width
WORDSNET-7092 Telephone symbol in DOCX is rendering as question mark in PDF
WORDSNET-7098 AcceptAllRevisions inserts a square box character in DOCX
WORDSNET-7146 RTL text is reversed when converting to TIFF

• Regressions

WORDSNET-6992 Column width is imported incorrectly from HTML
WORDSNET-7025 am/pm mergefield time format is no longer working

• Performance

WORDSNET-6925 Visio.Drawing.11 objects are rendered very slow to PDF
WORDSNET-6982 Interrupt metafile processing if fall-back should be performed