Aspose.Words 17.9.0

Aspose.Words for .NET 17.9 Release Notes

Major Features

• There are 76 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:
• Caching of shading patterns for PDF output implemented. The output size of PDF documents with the repeating images (e.g. in header/footer) is now significantly reduced.
• Precaching of printer settings implemented. Calling of AsposeWordsPrintDocument.CachePrinterSettings() reduces the time for the first call of Print() method making the sequential calls of Print() method uniform.Metafiles with * EMR_ALPHABLEND record with 32bpp ARGB raw bitmap data rendering implemented.
• Improved character spacing control handling for Asian text.
• Improved table grid calculation when a paragraph in a cell has large indents.
• Improved text wrapping in narrow line band when there is a leading tab stop.
• Added feature to set Placeholder Text of Structured Document Tag.
• Added feature to support w:dirty attribute on a field.
• Updating value of SaveDate field just by doing open/save.

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key Summary Category WORDSNET-2711 Text becomes bold after open/save the document. Bug WORDSNET-3136 Table is moved to the next page during rendering. Bug WORDSNET-4006 Part of invisible content becomes visible upon rendering Bug WORDSNET-6956 Charts are lost after open/save ODT document (triaged) Feature WORDSNET-7194 SmartArt (DrawingML) graphic is not preserved during DOCX to DOC conversion Bug WORDSNET-7912 Consider updating value of SaveDate field just by doing open/save Feature WORDSNET-8786 Table render incorrectly after conversion from Docx to Pdf Bug WORDSNET-8878 An EMF image is rendered completely black in PDF Bug WORDSNET-9136 Docx to Pdf conversion issue with EMF metafile Bug WORDSNET-9142 /table grid/ Table column widths are calculated incorrectly during rendering Bug WORDSNET-9516 /character spacing control/ The line is incorrectly wrapped when punctuation compressing is enabled Bug WORDSNET-11001 Black backgrounds appear behind OLE objects in PDF Bug WORDSNET-11209 A blank page added in generated PDF Bug WORDSNET-13308 /character spacing control/ Incorrect foreign language character spacing in rendered documents Bug WORDSNET-13557 VML shape in incorrectly read from HTML Bug WORDSNET-13741 /character spacing control/ Chinese text renders on next line in HtmlFixed Bug WORDSNET-13743 /character spacing control/ Chinese text moves to next page after conversion from Doc to HtmlFixed Bug WORDSNET-13750 Cell's contents are lost after re-saving RTF Bug WORDSNET-13896 Exception is thrown when loading HTML Exception WORDSNET-13963 /character spacing control/ Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Chinese text Bug WORDSNET-14174 Color of mail merge fields is changed after conversion from Docx to Doc/Pdf Bug WORDSNET-14508 TOC fields are corrupted during open/save RTF Bug WORDSNET-14533 Add feature to set Placeholder Text of Structured Document Tag Feature WORDSNET-14573 /character spacing control/ A paragraph wraps to next line in fixed page formats Bug WORDSNET-14677 Chart is changed to image after re-saving Docx Bug WORDSNET-14779 Html to Docx conversion issue with table's border style Bug WORDSNET-14898 Table Top Border missing in PDF Bug WORDSNET-15054 Mail Merge - Numbered Bullet Points Incrementing Bug WORDSNET-15162 Print() first call taking more time than subsequent calls Performance WORDSNET-15170 /compressed punctuation + fullwidth characters/ Character spacing changes after DOCX to JPG conversion Bug WORDSNET-15185 Long numbers are truncated in DOCX to HTML conversion Bug WORDSNET-15220 Show Placeholder text after removal of SDT runs Enhancement WORDSNET-15224 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading HTML Regression WORDSNET-15261 CSS reader incorrectly processes @import rules that don't end with a semicolon Bug WORDSNET-15346 /structure builder/ System.NullReferenceException is thrown while saving Docx to PDF Exception WORDSNET-15372 Preserve NUMPAGES fields during HTML round-trip Enhancement WORDSNET-15418 Move-from/move-to revisions of run properties of a paragraph are not read/written Bug WORDSNET-15425 Docx to Odt conversion issue with GroupShape size Bug WORDSNET-15453 Some HTML data is missing in resultant DOCX Bug WORDSNET-15545 Incorrect text formatting in RTF to HTML conversion Bug WORDSNET-15554 /compressed punctuation + fullwidth characters/ DOCX to PDF conversion issue with Japanese punctuation mark Bug WORDSNET-15583 Formatting issue in DOCX with revisions to PDFA conversion Bug WORDSNET-15597 Justified XHTML text conversion issue Bug WORDSNET-15605 Document.UpdateFields method causes System.OutOfMemoryException Performance WORDSNET-15608 Incorrect applying fill(Picture or texture) for bevel type of angle. Bug WORDSNET-15613 /text wrap/ Images not aligned in PDF rendition Bug WORDSNET-15621 Text Replacement issue with RTL text Bug WORDSNET-15627 Table layout issue in DOCX to PDF Enhancement WORDSNET-15639 Incorrect applying texture (hardware rendering). Bug WORDSNET-15650 When DOC is saved as PDF, in Arabic language 500 becomes 050 Bug WORDSNET-15651 StructuredDocumentTag.FullDate is not updating Bug WORDSNET-15663 Assertions in CellMetrics Bug WORDSNET-15674 The number of pages increases when saved into odt ott formats Bug WORDSNET-15686 Add feature to support w:dirty attribute on field Feature WORDSNET-15687 List number format is not rendered correctly in output PDF Bug WORDSNET-15689 Aspose.Words throws exception at Windows XP where mscorlib.dll v2.0.50727.42 is installed Bug WORDSNET-15701 Heading bookmarks are not created after conversion from DOCX to PDF. Bug WORDSNET-15705 Tables count issue in RTF Bug WORDSNET-15707 /character spacing control/ DOCX to PDF conversion issue with position of Chinese text Bug WORDSNET-15710 Formatting issue in DOCX to SVG conversion Bug WORDSNET-15713 DOC is not loading into API throws FileCorruptedException Exception WORDSNET-15715 Aspose.Words throws FileCorruptedException upon loading DOC file Exception WORDSNET-15716 Aspose.Words throws FileCorruptedException upon loading a DOC file Exception WORDSNET-15718 Table of contents are broken Bug WORDSNET-15729 RTF to DOC conversion loses cell background colors Bug WORDSNET-15732 DOCX is corrupted when it is re-saved Bug WORDSNET-15743 Hebrew text is reversed in output PDF Bug WORDSNET-15753 Converting a landscape RTF document to PDF produces the corrupted output. Bug WORDSNET-15763 Hidden border of table is visible after saving RTF to DOC and PDF Bug WORDSNET-15778 Document.UpdateFields throws System.NullReferenceException Bug WORDSNET-15780 Inconsistent results from JoinRunsWithSameFormatting Bug WORDSNET-15781 Inconsistent results from JoinRunsWithSameFormatting Bug WORDSNET-15783 Document.UpdateFields does not update the formula field Regression WORDSNET-15799 UpdateFields() throws IndexOutOfRange Exception with null chart value Exception WORDSNET-15803 System.IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown while converting DOCX to PDF Exception WORDSNET-15815 Document.Compare throws System.NullReferenceException Regression