Aspose.Slides for Java 17.6 Release Notes

Key	Summary	Category
SLIDESJAVA-35724	Preserving original date and time	Investigation
SLIDESJAVA-36430	Font color not getting extracted	Investigation
SLIDESNET-38621	Render comments when saving as image, PDF or HTML	Feature
SLIDESNET-38044	Preserving original date and time	Feature
SLIDESNET-26375	Support for creating presentation sections in Aspose.Slides	Feature
SLIDESNET-33584	BorderDiagonalDown BorderDiagonalUp feature support for PPT cell	Feature
SLIDESJAVA-36438	ICollection.size() is not API after update to Slides 17.4 in OSGI environment	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36460	PowerPoint reports error after saving file	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36412	When PPTX is converted to PDF, the graphs are missing.	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36414	Some tables in the presentation rendered incorrectly.	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-35162	Zoom level changed, Notes box appeared on load and save	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-35633	The image is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-35761	PPT not properly converted to html	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36224	Exception on converting ODP to PDF	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36369	PPTX not converted properly to PDF	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36374	Color scheme is not retained in table cells	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36377	Hyperlink is wrongly associated with text in exported HTML	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36380	Application hangs when converting a slide to SVG	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36385	Exception on loading presentation	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36395	PPTX not converted properly to image	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36397	Text overlapping in generated image result	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36411	Text spilling when converting from PPTX to PDF	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36420	PPTX not converted properly to PDF	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36424	Incorrect HTML generated from presentation	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36442	Aspose.Slides not identifying merge cells	Bug
SLIDESJAVA-36448	Mime type for Presentation is giving exception	Bug

Public API Changes

com.aspose.slides.ISectionCollection interface and SectionCollection class have been added

ISectionCollection and SectionCollection represent a collection of sections.

List of methods:

• ISection get_Item(int) - gets the element at the specified index.
• ISection addSection(string name, ISlide startedFromSlide) - adds a new section started form specific slide.
• ISection addEmptySection(string name, int index) - adds an empty section to the specified position of the collection.
• removeSectionWithSlides(ISection section) - removes section and slides contained in the section.
• removeSection(ISection section) - removes section. Slides contained in the section will be merged into previous section.
• reorderSectionWithSlides(ISection section, int index) - moves section and its slides from the collection to the specified position.
• ISection appendEmptySection(string name) - adds an empty section to the end of the collection.
• int indexOf(ISection section) - returns an index of the specified section in the collection.
• clear() - removes all sections from the collection.

Example:

ISection section = pres.getSections().get_Item(2);
pres.getSections().reorderSectionWithSlides(section, 0);
pres.getSections().removeSectionWithSlides(pres.getSections().get_Item(0));
pres.getSections().appendEmptySection("Last empty section");
pres.getSections().addSection("First empty", 3);

com.aspose.slides.ISection interface and Section class have been added

ISection interface and Section class represent section of slides.

List of methods:

• string getName() - returns the name of the section.
• ISlide getStartedFromSlide() - returns first slide of the section.
• ISectionSlideCollection getSlidesListOfSection() - returns a list of slides in the section.

Example:

pres.getSections().addSection("Section 1", pres.getSlides().get_Item(0));
pres.getSections().get_Item(0).setName("New section name");
ISectionSlideCollection slidesInSection = pres.getSections().get_Item(0).getSlidesListOfSection();

com.aspose.slides.ISectionSlideCollection interface and SectionSlideCollection class have been added

ISectionSlideCollection and SectionSlideCollection represents a collection of a slides in the section.

Example:

ISectionSlideCollection slidesInSection = pres.getSections().get_Item(0).getSlidesListOfSection();
for(ISlide slide : slidesInSection)
{
    // do something with slide
}

getIncludeComments and setIncludeComments methods have been added to classes PdfOptions, SwfOptions, TiffOptions and HtmlOptions

getIncludeComments and setIncludeComments getter and setter have been added to IHtmlOptions, IPdfOption, ISwfOptions, ITiffOptions interfaces and HtmlOptions, PdfOptions, SwfOptions, TiffOptions classes respectively. It specifies whether the exported document should include additional pages with comments or not. Default value is “false”.

Code example:

Presentation pres = new Presentation("Presentation.pptx");
//Instantiate the PdfOptions class
PdfOptions pdfOptions = new PdfOptions();
//Specify that the generated document should include comment pages
pdfOptions.setIncludeComments(true);
//Save the presentation to PDF with specified options
pres.save("Presentation.pdf", SaveFormat.Pdf, pdfOptions);
pres.dispose();

Getters IPresentation.getSections, Presentation.getSections have been added

Getters IPresentation.getSections and Presentation.getSections return ISectionCollection instance (list of all slides sections that are defined in the presentation).

IPresentation pres = new Presentation();
pres.getSections().addSection("Section 1", pres.getSlides().get_Item(0));
int n = pres.getSections().size();