Aspose.Words 13.8.0

This package has no dependencies.

There are 159 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

• Rendering to PostScript 3.0 is now supported
• Metafile rendering performance significantly improved
• EditableRange API introduced
• German ordinal/cardinal list label generation supported
• Improved tab width computation in marginal scenarios
• Improved table border rendering with conflicting or missing attributes

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

• New features
WORDSNET-1067 /protection ranges/ Support protection of selected ranges in documents.
WORDSNET-1960 Add an option to resample images to size and resolution before writing to PDF
WORDSNET-2304 Consider adding an ability to remove style from the document.
WORDSNET-3995 Support rendering document to PostScript
WORDSNET-4252 Consider adding a property to Style class which shows if a Style is part of the Quick Styles gallery in a document
WORDSNET-4726 /protection ranges/ permStart/permEnd tags are lost during open/save DOCX and WML
WORDSNET-5998 Consider public API for removal of External Custom XML Schema References
WORDSNET-6196 Support German numbering localization
WORDSNET-6719 /protection ranges/ Header footer protection while document remains editable
WORDSNET-6905 Content controls become non-editable during open/save
WORDSNET-8389 Preserve protection of selected ranges upon DOC round-trip.
WORDSNET-8593 Document.Save do not preserve unprotected regions
WORDSNET-8594 Span width is not preserved during converting MHTML to Word
WORDSNET-8655 Add option to convert SVG to EMF instead of PNG in output Pdf file
WORDSNET-8765 Text moves to next line after conversion from Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8799 Render path gradient in SWF.

• Enhancements
WORDSJAVA-765 open DataTable-related classes for public api.
WORDSNET-2570 Center-aligned text becomes left-aligned after HTML roundtrip
WORDSNET-2778 Background specified using patterns is not displayed in HTML.
WORDSNET-2800 < br > between two tables doesn't take effect
WORDSNET-3550 Left alignment of text in one cell is changed to center alignment during HTML export.
WORDSNET-3703 Color specified in row style has no effect during HTML import.
WORDSNET-3726 First table row appears bold during converting to HTML.
WORDSNET-4244 Formating of table is incorrect when save to DOCX.
WORDSNET-4467 Make it possible to detect floating tables via the public API
WORDSNET-4477 Documents when saved in doc and pdf format looks different
WORDSNET-4482 File size is unacceptably increased after HTML export.
WORDSNET-4566 Background color applied to paragraph has no effect during HTML export.
WORDSNET-4703 FileCorruptedException is thrown upon loading MHTML.
WORDSNET-4951 Part of content is moved to the next page upon rendering.
WORDSNET-5702 WMF Raster operations is not supported // Doc to PDF conversion issue, when an excel embedded object exists in doc file
WORDSNET-5723 Image appears as "red cross" after open and save in html format.
WORDSNET-5791 section.PageSetup.RestartPageNumbering does not effect after conversion
WORDSNET-5857 table layouts get corrupted when "PAGE" field inserted
WORDSNET-6106 Improve Paragraph border rendering
WORDSNET-6262 UpdateFields messes the rendering of merged cells of table
WORDSNET-6385 CellMerge do not work properly when InsertField("Page") inserted after table
WORDSNET-6641 Layout Problems with DOC to PDF conversion
WORDSNET-7214 Consider adding a Callback event that triggers when a table is split across pages
WORDSNET-7819 Revision is read incorrecly.
WORDSNET-7981 Arrow heads in flow chart Shape are not visible in PDF
WORDSNET-8583 Table Borders are missing when converting Docx to PDF
WORDSNET-8611 Value of PAGE field is incorrectly calculated during RTF to PDF conversion
WORDSNET-8620 A Paragraph renders on to the previous page in PDF
WORDSNET-8653 StyleCollection.AddCopy do not work correctly with themes
WORDSNET-8666 Copies of the template are not getting separated by a section break in destination document
WORDSNET-8684 /legacy lists/ Amount of Tab space between List number and Text is incorrectly calculated during rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8694 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException while loading Docx file int DOM
WORDSNET-8703 doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.xxxx] creates new style in the empty document
WORDSNET-8720 System.ArgumentException is thrown when exporting a Doc to Html
WORDSNET-8722 Font formatting issue after conversion from Doc to Png
WORDSNET-8807 TextBox overlaps the content of following Paragraph after appending documents

• Exceptions
WORDSJAVA-521 ExternalFontCache appears to have a problem in a multi threaded envrionment when processing a document with embedded fonts
WORDSJAVA-733 CLONE - Document clones with multi threading
WORDSJAVA-745 java.lang.RuntimeException occurs when converting DOC to HTML or PDF
WORDSJAVA-760 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Investigate memory leaks when using openjdk on linux
WORDSNET-366 Specifying an asterisk as table width during HTML import throws
WORDSNET-5192 InvalidOperationException is thrown upon rendering/converting to HTML
WORDSNET-6760 System.InvalidOperationException thrown while rendering DOCX to PDF
WORDSNET-7291 Aspose.Words.Document unable to load HTML file
WORDSNET-8270 Investigate exception with Aspose.Email dashboard examples
WORDSNET-8371 Exception while loading RTF file into Aspose.Words DOM.
WORDSNET-8572 NullReferenceException occurs during rendering Shape to Html or PDF
WORDSNET-8648 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs when loading Docx file
WORDSNET-8697 Dashboard exception with Aspose.Email product
WORDSNET-8708 System.DivideByZeroException occurs during rendering Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8709 System.IndexOutOfRangeException occurs when converting Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8717 Can not find part of the path - Aspose.Email dashboard exception
WORDSNET-8748 InvalidCastException occurs during exporting DOCX to HTML
WORDSNET-8751 System.DivideByZeroException occurs during rendering Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8777 InvalidOperationException occurs during open/save a Docx
WORDSNET-8787 InvalidOperationException occurs when calling Document.AcceptAllRevisions method
WORDSNET-8817 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs when loading DOC file

• Bugs
WORDSJAVA-507 Image quality is degraded when converting to HTML
WORDSJAVA-548 While converting Doc to Pdf, Circular image rendered as Square.
WORDSJAVA-746 MetaFile images are not rendering correctly in PDF
WORDSJAVA-747 Images are not preserved during rendering to PDF
WORDSJAVA-753 '\PAGE' and '\NUMPAGES' fields are displaying 'Error! Bookmark not defined' message in PDF
WORDSJAVA-755 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs when loading MHTML file
WORDSJAVA-759 Font resource unproperly loaded in test environment.
WORDSJAVA-761 Mail Merge with regions do not work when used with IF field
WORDSJAVA-766 PAGE and NUMPAGES fields are displaying 'Error! Bookmark not defined' message in PDF
WORDSNET-1739 Colspan duplicates cells during opening HTML.
WORDSNET-5239 Numbering in RTL document goes outside right margin
WORDSNET-5286 Vertical merge information lost after open/save HTML.
WORDSNET-5358 Shapes does not appear on "Selection Pane" in MS Word 2010 after open/save DOCX
WORDSNET-5416 On DOC to PDF conversion, Table at the end of page is truncated
WORDSNET-5630 Incorrect page layout in PDF and Debug.Assert warnings while loading the document.
WORDSNET-5636 Incorrect rotation of the image
WORDSNET-5669 Word Table header row content is aligned incorrectly in HTML
WORDSNET-5771 Horizontally merged cells doesn't work in PDF/DOC etc
WORDSNET-5923 A graybox is added on top left corner in Fixed page formats
WORDSNET-5944 While converting docx to html, left border of the table is missing.
WORDSNET-5952 While converting doc to html, empty paragraphs are missing.
WORDSNET-5967 Frame around the image is misplaced during rendering
WORDSNET-6068 Missing table contents after converting doc to PDF.
WORDSNET-6263 Incorrect text font occurs while simple merge field execute (merge field within page footer).
WORDSNET-6272 Incorrect DrawingML image layout while rendering.
WORDSNET-6348 Surrogate characters are not visible in Docx format.
WORDSNET-6407 RTF to PDF conversion same page duplicated many times
WORDSNET-6429 Output PDF/TIFF/XPS has one more page than the input DOC
WORDSNET-6539 One line Paragraph is rendering into two lines of text
WORDSNET-6604 Paragraph's first line is hanging incorrectly to the left
WORDSNET-7010 Cell widths are not maintained during open/save DOCX file
WORDSNET-7192 Content Controls display incorrect values after AppendDocument
WORDSNET-7692 Negative font size of a list label
WORDSNET-8353 SVG image do not render correctly in exported document
WORDSNET-8420 Text in Tables is made extra bold when rendering to PNG/TIFF
WORDSNET-8451 RemoveEmptyParagraphs does not remove empty Paragraphs containing NEXTIF fields
WORDSNET-8493 Doc to Pdf conversion issue - Underline is missing in PDF
WORDSNET-8512 Inaccurate baseline position of text fields when rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8523 Hidden checkboxes become visible in PDF
WORDSNET-8528 STYLEREF is not working for German language
WORDSNET-8562 Docx to Pdf conversion issue with (pictograph) chart rendering
WORDSNET-8599 /extra long runs/ Base64 image data (text) is partially rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8605 "Unknown document property name" error message is displayed in place of a DOCPROPERTY in PDF
WORDSNET-8617 Rectangle Shapes are shifted vertically down when appending document to another document
WORDSNET-8625 Paragraphs are not preserved during open/save an ODT
WORDSNET-8627 Content inside Shape is truncated from bottom in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-8628 Shape overlaps the content on it's right side in fixed page formats
WORDSNET-8629 Shape is rendering at incorrect place in PDF
WORDSNET-8630 Incorrect position of checkboxes when rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8631 Incorrect position of text fields when rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8643 After conversion from DOCX, text inside table becomes bold
WORDSNET-8654 Values of Date picker StructuredDocumentTags are not preserved when rendering to Pdf
WORDSNET-8657 DropCapPostion property is not working
WORDSNET-8660 Font size of non-English text increases when rendering to PDF
WORDSNET-8664 Document.AcceptAllRevisions do not work correctly
WORDSNET-8680 Docx to Fixed file format conversion issue with table borders rendering
WORDSNET-8682 Images are not imported from HTML when href contains escaped percent character (%25)
WORDSNET-8683 Text in Shapes is truncated from bottom when rendering Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8695 Doc to Pdf conversion issue with comment's position
WORDSNET-8699 List changes its number format after appending one document to another
WORDSNET-8713 Investigate if wrong fonts are used when rendering a Docx to Pdf or not
WORDSNET-8714 OleFormat.SuggestedExtension returns .bin for an embedded Doc
WORDSNET-8723 Font rendering issue after conversion from Doc to Png
WORDSNET-8746 Frames are not positioned at correct places when rendering to Pdf
WORDSNET-8753 Text is missing after conversion from RTF to Pdf
WORDSNET-8759 UpdateFields hangs on calculating PAGE and NUMPAGES fields
WORDSNET-8774 Field.Remove method doesn't remove all INCLUDEPICTURE fields from a Doc
WORDSNET-8778 Bitmap, Worksheet and Slide OleObjects are not preserved during open/save DOT
WORDSNET-8781 Value of FORMTEXT field is not preserved during open/save a Docx
WORDSNET-8782 Dash character is added right after the bullet after conversion from Docx to Pdf
WORDSNET-8791 Paragraph Font's inconsistency when it is set via DocumentBuilder.Font
WORDSNET-8793 Doc to Pdf conversion issue with page border
WORDSNET-8800 Shape causes Aspose.Words to hang during rendering DOC to HTML
WORDSNET-8806 A graph image is cropped from bottom and right during appending documents
WORDSNET-8831 Doc to Pdf conversion issue with Eq field

• Performance
WORDSNET-8118 Document constructor hangs during loading a MHTML
WORDSNET-8543 Slow conversion of word to pdf with 13.6.0.0 but not with 11.4.0.0
WORDSNET-8822 System.OutOfMemoryException occurs during loading a MHTML

• Regressions
WORDSJAVA-751 Image options (chroma key) unproperly added for grayscale images.
WORDSJAVA-763 During mail merge, mergefields in the document are not getting replaced with values from data source
WORDSNET-8370 PageNumberFinder does no longer generate two column structured document
WORDSNET-8565 System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs during rendering to HTML
WORDSNET-8578 Aspose.Pdf no longer reads metadata keys/values correctly in PDF generated by Aspose.Words
WORDSNET-8802 InvalidOperationException occurs during exporting DOC to HTML
WORDSNET-8803 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs when loading DOC file