Aspose.Slides for .NET 16.9.0 Release Notes

Key	Summary	Category
SLIDESNET-36283	Support for adding and removing custom XML parts in presentation using Aspose.Slides	Feature
SLIDESNET-34302	Support for HandoutMaster in PPT	Feature
SLIDESNET-32049	Setting chart data range using Aspose.Slides	Feature
SLIDESNET-37890	Text is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail	Bug
SLIDESNET-37889	Wrong line series labels in resaving pptx presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-37827	Parenthesis direction is changed after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37825	Slides Bullets are changed after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37824	Slide Background changes after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37820	Punctuation marks are misplaced after loading and saving a ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37819	Slide shadow gone after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37818	Angel for slides is changed after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37817	Background color Changed after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37812	Background color blending alignments changing after transforming to PDF	Bug
SLIDESNET-37803	Slide color changes while converting pptx to svg	Bug
SLIDESNET-37802	Generating slide thumbnail process hangs on slide 35	Bug
SLIDESNET-37800	Setting Embedded Aspose.Slides license fail when using Application through Crypto Obfuscator	Bug
SLIDESNET-37797	Background is improperly rendered in generated PDF and thumbnails	Bug
SLIDESNET-37792	Background Color changes after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37790	Notes Page view corrupted after saving ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37763	Legend text partially missing in the generated thumbnail	Bug
SLIDESNET-37758	Text has bold and italic styles after exporting presentation to ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37665	PPT to PDF conversion content are missing	Bug
SLIDESNET-37568	Issue while reading slide notes	Bug
SLIDESNET-37461	Font changed to Wingdings on ppt load and save	Bug
SLIDESNET-37447	MasterNotesSlide returns null for ppt files	Bug
SLIDESNET-37446	MasterNotesSlide returns null for ppt files	Bug
SLIDESNET-37392	Line chart is incorrectly rendered in generated thumbnail of slide with chart	Bug
SLIDESNET-37360	Different shape width in generated pdf	Bug
SLIDESNET-37356	Incorrect text wrap in generated pdf	Bug
SLIDESNET-37348	ArgumentException while loading a ppt	Bug
SLIDESNET-37344	Text formatting lost when saving PPT	Bug
SLIDESNET-37121	Gradient and text alignment changed on presentation load and save	Bug
SLIDESNET-36676	Background changed on presentation load and save	Bug
SLIDESNET-36633	Slides notes are displayed in top left on saving presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-35728	Master notes slide returns null	Bug
SLIDESNET-34017	Series label count returns 0 for already added labels to show series values	Bug
SLIDESNET-33920	Chart.CategoryAxis return null for ScatterChart	Bug

Public API Changes

Interface ICustomXmlPart and class CustomXmlPart have been added

Interface Aspose.Slides.ICustomXmlPart and related class Aspose.Slides.CustomXmlPart have been added. It represents one custom xml part and provides methods to get or set xml content, used schema’s and id.

Interface ICustomXmlPartCollection and class CustomXmlPartCollection have been added

Interface Aspose.Slides.ICustomXmlPartCollection and related class Aspose.Slides.CustomXmlPartCollection have been added. It represents a collection of custom xml parts and provides methods to get, create and delete items.

Property EffectFormat has been added to IBackground and Background

Property EffectFormat has been added to interface Aspose.Slides.IBackground and class Aspose.Slides.Background for specifying effects of slide background.

Code snippet:

using (Presentation pres = new Presentation())
{
     IBackground background = pres.Slides[0].Background;
     background.Type = BackgroundType.OwnBackground;

     // Set slide background to Solid color
     background.FillFormat.FillType = FillType.Solid;
     background.FillFormat.SolidFillColor.Color = Color.Cornsilk;

     // Add shadow to slide
     background.EffectFormat.EnableOuterShadowEffect();
     IOuterShadow shadow = background.EffectFormat.OuterShadowEffect;
     shadow.ShadowColor.Color = Color.Chocolate;
     shadow.Distance = 15.0;
     shadow.Direction = 45f;

     pres.Save(path + "out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
}

Property ICustomData.CustomXmlParts has been added

Property Aspose.Slides.ICustomData.CustomXmlParts has been added. It represents a collection of custom xml parts associated with the corresponding ICustomData instance.

using(Presentation pres = new Presentation())
{
    pres.Slides[0].CustomData.CustomXmlParts.Add(GetXmlStringSample("John Doe")); //add new custom xml to slide custom data
    pres.Save(@"out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
}
private static string GetXmlStringSample(string name)
{
    string xmlString =
        "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
        "<employees xmlns=\"http://schemas.test.com/sample\">" +
            "<employee>" +
                "<name>" + name + "</name>" +
            "</employee>" +
        "</employees>";
    return xmlString;
}

Property IPresentation.AllCustomXmlParts has been added

Property Aspose.Slides.IPresentation.AllCustomXmlParts has been added. It returns all custom xml parts contained in the presentation.

//Sample for clear all custom xml parts from presentation
using (Presentation pres = new Presentation("PresentationWithCustomXml.pptx"))
{
    foreach (ICustomXmlPart item in pres.AllCustomXmlParts)
    {
        item.Remove();
    }
    pres.Save("out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
}

SetRange method has been added to interface IChartData and class ChartData

Method SetRange has been added to interface Aspose.Slides.Charts.IChartData and class Aspose.Slides.Charts.ChartData. It allows to set data range with cells formula. Series and categories will be updated based on new data range.

using (Presentation pres = new Presentation())
{
    IChart chart = pres.Slides[0].Shapes.AddChart(ChartType.Line, 10, 10, 400, 300);
    chart.ChartData.SetRange("Sheet1!A1:B4");
    pres.Save("output.pptx", Export.SaveFormat.Pptx);
}