Aspose.Words for Java 16.12.0 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 83 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

  • Support of Hijri/Hebrew/Japanese/ThaiBuddhist and other Lunar and non-Gregorian Calendars
  • Save to image formats can be fine-tuned by passing RenderingHints to ImageSaveOptions.GraphicsQualityOptions
  • Analog of .Net’s DataTableReader
  • Support of the “people” part (Word 2013 feature)
  • StructuredDocumentTag extensions supported (Word 2013 feature)
  • REVNUM, INFO fields supported
  • Improved handling of hanging punctuation and hyphens in complex script content
  • Improved handling of “Automatically adjust space between Asian text and numbers” compatibility option
  • Improved paragraph alignment when text contains hidden content
  • Improved reflow of vertically merged cells for complex table grid layout
  • Implemented combining adjacent tables on document loading
  • Path gradient fill support while rendering SVG implemented
  • Leader lines rendering for all DrawingML Chart types (not only for pie-charts) implemented
  • Styles are now properly applied for DrawingML Charts while rendering

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key Summary Category
WORDSJAVA-1320 Docx to Png conversion issue with space width Bug
WORDSJAVA-1437 Can’t read Docx with DML that contains tag with undeclared namespace. Bug
WORDSJAVA-1455 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when specifying ResourcesFolder Bug
WORDSJAVA-1456 word equation conversion problem Bug
WORDSJAVA-1432 JAI and imageIO exception while converting Doc to Pdf Exception
WORDSJAVA-1453 License.SetLicense throws java.lang.IllegalStateException: The signature is invalid. Exception
WORDSJAVA-1433 Date Field support of Hijri/Lunar Calendar option. Feature
WORDSJAVA-1447 Pass RenderingHints as a parameter in ImageSaveOptions Feature
WORDSJAVA-1452 Analog of .Net’s DataTableReader. Feature
WORDSJAVA-1137 Word to PDF performance issue over WebLogic Server 10.3.5 Performance
WORDSJAVA-1458 Aspose.Words ignores fonts while converting mhtml to pdf Regression
WORDSNET-13203 Incorrect cell width causes contents to wrap to the next line Bug
WORDSNET-13350 Incorrect image size in AW pdf output Bug
WORDSNET-13355 Some images not displayed correctly when converting from docx to pdf Bug
WORDSNET-13398 Docx to Pdf conversion issue with Shape (image) rendering Bug
WORDSNET-13413 Row deletion is not read properly. Bug
WORDSNET-13469 Vertical position of stretched text is incorrect. Bug
WORDSNET-13480 Formatting in CellFormat.Borders changes after read-only access Bug
WORDSNET-13492 Table’s cell shading is lost in output Pdf Bug
WORDSNET-13647 Conversion from .odt file to .pdf file has TOC formatting issues Bug
WORDSNET-13771 Hidden row is read incorrectly. Bug
WORDSNET-13772 Hidden row is read incorrectly. Bug
WORDSNET-13796 RTL text is getting reversed during Docx to Html conversion Bug
WORDSNET-13990 Soft hyphen in HTML (­) is exported to hyphen in output Docx Bug
WORDSNET-14026 System.NullReferenceException during save to docx Bug
WORDSNET-14038 Document.Compare produces wrong output Bug
WORDSNET-14059 Docx to Pdf conversion issue with image border Bug
WORDSNET-14070 When Chart object in Word document is converted to .jpg image, color of axis is different Bug
WORDSNET-14080 Paragraphs containing nothing but tabs disappear in HTML Bug
WORDSNET-14090 Hanging punctuation character is placed inside a line. Bug
WORDSNET-14094 SpanHyphen width is incorrect when the document grid is defined. Bug
WORDSNET-14191 Issue with embedded vsd after re-saving Docx Bug
WORDSNET-14192 Document.Compare returns incorrect document for same input document Bug
WORDSNET-14207 Getting Extra Revisions When Comparing Two Word Documents Which Contain TextBox With Some Changes Bug
WORDSNET-14260 Custom Styles are lost on HTML-Aspose.Words-HTML roundtrip Bug
WORDSNET-14262 Field.Type returns none for hyperlink when it is hidden Bug
WORDSNET-14278 Content of the formatted balloons in the generated pdf file is different than in the doc file Bug
WORDSNET-14279 Document.JoinRunsWithSameFormatting does not work for Docx Bug
WORDSNET-14283 When DOCX converted to HTML, paragraph looks different in HTML. Bug
WORDSNET-14295 Image is lost after re-saving Docx Bug
WORDSNET-14309 Compare issues in table Bug
WORDSNET-14312 Currency values disappearing in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-14317 Color of SVG is lost in output Html/Pdf Bug
WORDSNET-14368 Text of content control is lost after conversion from Docx to Xps Bug
WORDSNET-14373 Rtf to Pdf conversion issue with paragraph’s alignment Bug
WORDSNET-14383 Document.PageCount returns wrong number of pages. Bug
WORDSNET-14404 When Word document is converted to PDF, part of the content is missing Bug
WORDSNET-14411 Cell revisions is written incorrectly. Bug
WORDSNET-14418 Wrong indentation of text in List in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-14420 Docx to Pdf conversion issue with shape’s position Bug
WORDSNET-14422 Document.UpdateFields updates the INDEX field incorrectly Bug
WORDSNET-14426 Line break is converted to “x000d” in output Pdf Bug
WORDSNET-14435 Excessive revisions number for minor change in table - Compare Bug
WORDSNET-14438 Unexpected empty space is appeared after using DocumentBuilder.InsertDocument Bug
WORDSNET-14447 Symbol are wrong in the genarted PDF rendition Bug
WORDSNET-14455 Image is lost after conversion from Docx to Doc/Pdf Bug
WORDSNET-8240 Embedded images are not preserved during open/save MHTML Bug
WORDSNET-8340 Text color in SmartArt DML is not preserved during rendering Bug
WORDSNET-8440 Incorrect spaces between words of bidirectional text in HTML Fixed Page documents Bug
WORDSNET-9717 An embedded font is not written in output Word formats Bug
WORDSNET-8563 MhtmlReader does not support complex body Enhancement
WORDSNET-14030 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading FlatOpc Exception
WORDSNET-14061 System.NotSupportedException is thrown while loading mhtml Exception
WORDSNET-14261 System.IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown while saving Docx to pdf Exception
WORDSNET-14289 Document.UpdatePageLayout throws System.NullReferenceException Exception
WORDSNET-14293 System.InvalidCastException is thrown while convert Docx to Html Exception
WORDSNET-14421 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Docx Exception
WORDSNET-14441 ArgumentNullException while save to html Exception
WORDSNET-14442 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs upon loading a RTF Exception
WORDSNET-14443 Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs upon loading a ODT Exception
WORDSNET-14487 NullReferenceException occurs when converting from Word to HTML or PDF Exception
WORDSNET-12756 Docx to PDF table width wider than page width Feature
WORDSNET-13761 Table’s header rows are not rendered in output Pdf Feature
WORDSNET-13916 Support rendering of leader lines for all chart types. Feature
WORDSNET-14364 Support REVNUM field Feature
WORDSNET-14365 Support INFO field Feature
WORDSNET-14475 Word Document gets stuck in conversion with long period of high CPU Performance
WORDSNET-13044 DocumentBuilder.InsertDocument changes table’s layout Regression
WORDSNET-13243 Table layout is corrupted after mail merge Regression
WORDSNET-14390 Mail Merge problem with Nested Triggers Regression
WORDSNET-14490 Value of ResourceLoadingArgs.Uri is ignored during HTML import Regression
WORDSNET-14534 Document.UpdateFields throws System.NullReferenceException Regression
WORDSNET-14549 System.NullReferenceException is thrown when docx is saved to pdf Regression

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in Aspose.Words 16.12.0. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in Aspose.Words which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

WORDSJAVA-1447 - Pass RenderingHints as a parameter in ImageSaveOptions

ImageSaveOptions.GraphicsQualityOptions is added so user can pass RenderingHints (TextRenderingHint, InterpolationMode etc.) as a parameter of GdiRenderer:

WORDSNET-14364 - REVNUM field supported

We have added the support for the REVNUM field. It can be updated now:

WORDSNET-14365 - INFO field supported

We have added the support for the INFO field. It can be updated now: