Aspose.Slides for .NET 17.6 Release Notes

Key	Summary	Category
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
SLIDESNET-38500	“Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word” ISSUE	Bug
SLIDESNET-38724	Right-To-Left\Left-To-Right issues	Bug
SLIDESNET-38929	When PPTX is converted to PDF, the graphs are missing	Bug
SLIDESNET-38942	Some tables in the presentation rendered incorrectly	Bug
SLIDESNET-38949	Bullet numbering did not reset for text in exported PDF	Bug
SLIDESNET-38488	The type ‘HttpResponse’ is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly ‘System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’	Bug
SLIDESNET-38574	Exception when instantiating presentation with signed file	Bug
SLIDESNET-36991	Presentation protection does not work if saved as PPT	Bug
SLIDESNET-37993	Font substation does not work for bullets and symbols	Bug
SLIDESNET-38931	Application hangs when converting a slide to SVG	Bug
SLIDESNET-14306	Negative array size exception while getting slide Thumbnail and Thumbnail rendering issue	Bug
SLIDESNET-17254	Bullet/Text offset lost on save in Office XP	Bug
SLIDESNET-23831	PptReadException on reading presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-30590	Shape.TextFrame returns null for Title shape	Bug
SLIDESNET-33837	Cannot access the presentation properties for Aspose.Slides unprotected presentation using Filtdump.exe	Bug
SLIDESNET-35152	ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid exception is thrown when adding the notes to PPT and saving as Notes TIFF	Bug
SLIDESNET-35170	Ability to convert read-only PPT to PDF no longer works	Bug
SLIDESNET-35231	Comments Count issue for PPT file	Bug
SLIDESNET-35406	Slide comments are not read for PPT files	Bug
SLIDESNET-35601	Text is missing in the generated PPT file	Bug
SLIDESNET-36040	NullReference exception on opening word document	Bug
SLIDESNET-36041	Wrong exception message is thrown on loading password protected presentation without password	Bug
SLIDESNET-36228	Text is improperly rendered in generated PDF	Bug
SLIDESNET-36677	Symbols orientation changed on presentation load and saved	Bug
SLIDESNET-36681	Applying password to PPTX removes custom properties	Bug
SLIDESNET-37173	Zoom level changed, Notes box appeared on load and save	Bug
SLIDESNET-38400	PPTM to SVG not properly converted	Bug
SLIDESNET-38423	Hyperlink changes upon text changes	Bug
SLIDESNET-38446	Embedded excel Ole object once extracted corrupts the excel file	Bug
SLIDESNET-38503	Unsupported format exception on load the excel workbook from OLE Data	Bug
SLIDESNET-38504	PPT changed after saving	Bug
SLIDESNET-38506	Problem with GetEffectsByShape	Bug
SLIDESNET-38515	Text is improperly rendered in generated HTML	Bug
SLIDESNET-38581	InvalidCastException on converting ODP to PDF	Bug
SLIDESNET-38582	LastSavedTime on PPT files doesn’t work	Bug
SLIDESNET-38585	Presentation date property converted by default	Bug
SLIDESNET-38600	Bullet numbering gets changed in generated HTML	Bug
SLIDESNET-38610	Text strings are improperly aligned in saved presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-38611	Text position getting changed in saved PPT	Bug
SLIDESNET-38620	PPT changed after saving	Bug
SLIDESNET-38725	Actions on animations are lost on saving presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-38902	Invert if negative property in PPTX being set	Bug
SLIDESNET-38919	Exception on loading presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-38930	Text overlapping in generated image result	Bug
SLIDESNET-38933	Hyperlink is wrongly associated with text in exported HTML	Bug
SLIDESNET-38935	Drop Shadow effects are lost when saving presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-38936	Text formatting changes after cloning	Bug
SLIDESNET-38938	Bar chart not properly rendered after cloning	Bug
SLIDESNET-38944	Chart styles are not getting applied on saved presentation	Bug
SLIDESNET-39016	NullReference exception is thrown on WriteWorkbookStream for chart	Bug

Public API Changes

IncludeComments property has been added to classes PdfOptions, SwfOptions, TiffOptions and HtmlOptions

Property IncludeComments has been added to IHtmlOptions, IPdfOption, ISwfOptions, ITiffOptions interfaces and HtmlOptions, PdfOptions, SwfOptions, TiffOptions classes respectively.

This property specifies whether the exported document should include additional pages with comments or not. Default value is “false”.

Code example:

using (Presentation pres = new Presentation("Presentation.pptx"))
{
  //Instantiate the PdfOptions class
  PdfOptions pdfOptions = new PdfOptions();

  //Specify that the generated document should include comment pages
  pdfOptions.IncludeComments = true;

  //Save the presentation to PDF with specified options
  pres.Save("Presentation.pdf", SaveFormat.Pdf, pdfOptions);
}

ISectionCollection interface and SectionCollection class have been added.

ISectionCollection and SectionCollection represent a collection of sections.

Methods and properties:

• ISection thisint index - 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.Sections[2];
pres.Sections.ReorderSectionWithSlides(section, 0);
pres.Sections.RemoveSectionWithSlides(pres.Sections[0]);
pres.Sections.AppendEmptySection("Last empty section");
pres.Sections.AddSection("First empty", 3);

ISection interface and Section class have been added

ISection interface and Section class represent section of slides.

Methods and properties:

• string Name - returns the name of the section.
• ISlide StartedFromSlide - returns first slide of the section.
• ISectionSlideCollection GetSlidesListOfSection() - returns a list of slides in the section.

Example:

pres.Sections.AddSection("Section 1", pres.Slides[0]);
pres.Sections[0].Name = "New section name";
ISectionSlideCollection slidesInSection = pres.Sections[0].GetSlidesListOfSection();

ISectionSlideCollection interface and SectionSlideCollection class have been added

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

Example:

ISectionSlideCollection slidesInSection = pres.Sections[0].GetSlidesListOfSection();
foreach (ISlide slide in slidesInSection)
{
  // do something with slide
}

Properties IPresentation.Sections, Presentation.Sections have been added

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

IPresentation pres = new Presentaton();
pres.Sections.AddSection("Section 1", pres.Slides[0]);
int n = pres.Sections.Count;