Aspose.Words for .NET 18.8 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 81 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

  • Implemented support for “underline trailing spaces” compatibility option
  • Implemented support for paragraph alignment in Omath when inserted using EQ fields
  • Enhanced computation of interscript spacing values based on TTF properties
  • Improved wrapping of text around floating objects
  • Improved calculation of position of floating tables and shapes
  • Improved floater overlapping logic
  • Improved computing of pages numbers in continuous sections which have restart attribute and conflicting oddity
  • Fixed line justification issue when RTL span is at the end of the line
  • Fixed issue with null dml properties
  • Fixed issue with rendering of floating shapes in truncated headers/footers
  • Fixed issue with rendering of lines inside of a field result when updated in truncated part of a cell
  • Improved rendering of math operators in MathML objects
  • Improved rendering of MathML objects with n-ary math element when n-ary character and limit location are not specified
  • Fixed a bug with rendering of a math n-ary element if it is part of a fraction
  • Fixed a bug when polyline with an arrow and a very small line segment at the end 
  • was corrupted upon rendering
  • Fixed a bug when an arrow pointer is incorrectly directed while rendering Bezier curves with arrows
  • Fixed a bug where the end of the line was outside the “stealth arrow” when rendering
  • LINQ Reporting Engine supports nested reports

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Key Summary Category
WORDSNET-4414 Borders look incorrect after converting document to PDF using MS Word or Bullzip PDF Printer Bug
WORDSNET-5319 Table with different preferred widths extends outside the page when rendered Bug
WORDSNET-5327 Table preferred width no longer automatically resizes when cell preferred width is set Bug
WORDSNET-8966 Table column widths are calculated incorrectly during rendering Bug
WORDSNET-12013 Cell’s contents move to next line after conversion from Doc to Pdf Bug
WORDSNET-13674 Elbow Arrow Connectors are not rendering correctly in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-15239 Visio objects are overlapped in output PDF Bug
WORDSNET-15478 Floating table is positioned improperly Bug
WORDSNET-15508 Hijri Date is displayed in English Numbers in output DOCX/PDF Bug
WORDSNET-15826 Text is missing after conversion form DOCX to PNG Bug
WORDSNET-16145 DOCX to PDF conversion results are inconsistent in Multithreading Bug
WORDSNET-16224 DOCX to HTML Issue with HtmlOfficeMathOutputMode as MathML Bug
WORDSNET-16314 OfficeMath nodes are exported incorrectly as MathML in output HTML Bug
WORDSNET-16454 Image generated from Dokkered web app is completely black. Bug
WORDSNET-16501 Thai characters are converted to numbers in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16618 text-anchor' property is not imported correctly Bug
WORDSNET-16675 Insert SVG into Aspose.Word.Document results in black image Bug
WORDSNET-16757 The rendered PDF output is corrupted Bug
WORDSNET-16780 Document.UpdateFields displaces text of frame when using ‘IncludeText’ Bug
WORDSNET-16789 Arrow shape is rendered incorrectly Bug
WORDSNET-16900 Numbers List Change while Converting Doc to PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16903 Paragraph’s text is missing in output PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16915 Incorrect rendering of the OMath if FirstLineIndent is specified, after converting to PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16919 Problem of incorrect Revisions Count after Comparing documents Bug
WORDSNET-16930 CSS border style is not applied to image in output PDF/DOCX Bug
WORDSNET-16946 Content are rendered on multiple pages in HtmlFixed/PNG Bug
WORDSNET-16979 Distance between symbols not preserved in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16982 Borders of some SmartArt elements not preserved in PDF Bug
WORDSNET-16995 LayoutCollector.GetStartPageIndex returns wrong page number Bug
WORDSNET-17002 Equations render partially in generated PDF Bug
WORDSNET-17025 Document.UpdateFields generates wrong alphabetical sort order for INDEX field Bug
WORDSNET-17032 PDF output doesn’t match the original DOCX document Bug
WORDSNET-17046 Word breaking in Thai language is wrong Bug
WORDSNET-17052 Signature images are not visible in generated PDF/Image Bug
WORDSNET-17055 Unknown yellow color rectangle is rendered after conversion from DOCX TO PDF Bug
WORDSNET-17058 DOCX to PDF conversion issue with textbox shape glow Bug
WORDSNET-17082 StartTrackRevisions hangs and process does not complete Bug
WORDSNET-17103 Incorrect rendering of the text outline with zero width after converting to PDF Bug
WORDSNET-17118 Extra pages are created when DOCX is converted to PDF Bug
WORDSNET-17122 Improve conditions for hanging punctuation Bug
WORDSNET-17133 Vertical spacing between Paragraphs increased when rendering to PDF Bug
WORDSNET-17136 Remove whitespaces from MathML content while importing html to model. Bug
WORDSNET-17191 Line Caps Rendering - Stealth arrow is rendered incorrectly. Bug
WORDSNET-17192 Line Caps Rendering - Curved arrow has incorrect direction. Bug
WORDSNET-17194 CertificateHolder.Create() raises an exception on a remote system in GroupDocs.Signature for Cloud project Bug
WORDSNET-17214 Rendering of a line goes beyond the page bounds Bug
WORDSNET-17217 Document.UpdateFields changes the color and size of Heading number Bug
WORDSNET-17231 Footer is missing in the output PDF document Bug
WORDSNET-17239 Some images has incorrect colors when render in .NET Core under Linux Bug
WORDSNET-10034 SaveDate field’s result become visible after re-saving the document Enhancement
WORDSNET-16985 Reference resources in MHTML documents using the “Content-Id” URL scheme Enhancement
WORDSNET-17049 Spaces and special characters trimmed when rendering Enhancement
WORDSNET-17066 Remove UTF-8 BOM from CSS parts in MTHML documents Enhancement
WORDSNET-17078 Rework span shallow size tests Enhancement
WORDSNET-17089 Combine styles when saving Words to HTML with HtmlFixedSaveOptions Enhancement
WORDSNET-17112 Incorrect font fallback for Asian characters Enhancement
WORDSNET-17113 Implement the second way of rendering the shape outline Enhancement
WORDSNET-17119 Line Caps Rendering - PolyLine caps direction is not correct Enhancement
WORDSNET-17120 Update minimum possible font size Enhancement
WORDSNET-17207 Remove Aspose logo from Venture license in trial mode Enhancement
WORDSNET-17211 Remove obsolete public properties EndnoteOptions.Location/FootnoteOptions.Location Enhancement
WORDSNET-17222 Set RunPr.ComplexScript to True for Thai letter list labels Enhancement
WORDSNET-15830 Document.UpdateField() throws ArgumentException Exception Exception
WORDSNET-16561 System.ArgumentException is thrown while saving DOCX to HTML Exception
WORDSNET-16601 Debug build exception when convert to PDF line without spaces under floater table. Exception
WORDSNET-17048 Document.UpdatePageLayout throws System.InvalidCastException when removing Normal styles Exception
WORDSNET-17104 java.lang.NullPointerException occurs when rendering to PDF Exception
WORDSNET-17105 Document.PageCount throws System.NullReferenceException Exception
WORDSNET-17106 Document.Compare throws System.NullReferenceException Exception
WORDSNET-17179 The NRE exception occurs while inserting a document Exception
WORDSNET-17212 NullReferenceException occurs when saving to PDF after invoking PageCount Exception
WORDSNET-4898 Allow setting “Layout in Table Cell” option of shapes Feature
WORDSNET-13967 Add feature to create Snip Corner Rectangle Feature
WORDSNET-15692 Track changes rendering issue in resultant PDF Feature
WORDSNET-16272 Add a feature to escape ampersand symbol during replacement Feature
WORDSNET-16536 Change SHA-1 to SHA-256 and public asymmetric key from 1024 to 2048 for the license mechanism Feature
WORDSNET-16817 Add feature to populate template document loaded by “doc” tag Feature
WORDSNET-16986 Include Formatting Comments in Save To Tiff Feature
WORDSNET-17184 Add feature to detect encoding characters and change them to UFT-8 in output RTF Feature
WORDSNET-16807 Document.UpdateFields throws System.NullReferenceException Regression
WORDSNET-16904 UpdateFields after MailMerge causes “Error! Bookmark not defined” error in generated PDF Regression

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in Aspose.Words 18.8. 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.

Nested reports are supported by LINQ Reporting Engine

WORDSNET-16817 has now been resolved.

The “Inserting Documents Dynamically” section of the engine’s documentation was updated to describe the change.

Added Feature to Create Snip Corner Rectangle

WORDSNET-13967 has been resolved:

The following shapes types were added to the “ShapeType” enum:

/// Snip single corner rectangle object.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
SingleCornerSnipped = 203,
/// <summary>
/// Snip same side corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
TopCornersSnipped = 204,
/// <summary>
/// Snip diagonal corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
DiagonalCornersSnipped = 205,
/// <summary>
/// Snip and round single corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
TopCornersOneRoundedOneSnipped = 206,
/// <summary>
/// Round single corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
SingleCornerRounded = 207,
/// <summary>
/// Round same side corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
TopCornersRounded = 208,
/// <summary>
/// Round diagonal corner rectangle.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Applicable only for DML shapes.
/// </remarks>
DiagonalCornersRounded = 209

These shape types can not be used to create VML shapes. Attempt to create shape  by using public constructor of the “Shape” class raises the “NotSupportedException” exception. DML shape with one of specified above type can be created with “InsertShape” method of the document builder:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Shape shape = builder.InsertShape(ShapeType.TopCornersSnipped, 50, 50);
OoxmlSaveOptions so = new OoxmlSaveOptions(SaveFormat.Docx);
so.Compliance = OoxmlCompliance.Iso29500_2008_Transitional;
doc.Save("TopCornersSnipped.docx", so);

Reference Resources in MHTML Documents using the “Content-Id” URL Scheme.

WORDSNET-16985 has been resolved.

By default, resources in MHTML documents are referenced by file name (for example, “image.png”), which are matched against “Content-Location” headers of MIME parts. Now was added a new option to HtmlSaveOptions. This option enables an alternative method, where references to resource files are written as CID (Content-ID) URLs (for example, “cid:image.png”) and are matched against “Content-ID” headers.

public bool ExportCidUrlsForMhtmlResources { get; set; }

Added Public Property ShowComments in LayoutOptions

WORDSNET-16986 has been resolved.

The following property has been added to the LayoutOptions class:

/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets indication of whether comments are rendered.
/// Default is True.
/// </summary>
public bool ShowComments
{
   get; set;
}

This property is used to show\hide comments in the output document. By default, the comments are always shown.

Usage

Document doc = new Document(myDir + "Input.docx");
doc.LayoutOptions.ShowComments = false;
doc.Save(myDir + "Output.pdf");

Added Public Property ShowInBalloons in RevisionOptions

WORDSNET-16986 has been resolved.

The following property has been added to the RevisionOptions class:

/// <summary>
/// Allows to specify whether the revisions are rendered in the balloons.
/// Default value for this property is <see cref="Layout.ShowInBalloons.None"/>
/// </summary>
public ShowInBalloons ShowInBalloons
{
      get; set;
}

/// <summary>
/// Specifies which revisions are rendered in balloons.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Note that these values do not affect rendering of comments, which are controlled by <see cref="LayoutOptions.ShowComments"/>.
/// </remarks>
public enum ShowInBalloons
{
     /// <summary>
     /// Renders insert, delete and format revisions inline.
     /// </summary>
     None,
     /// <summary>
     /// Renders insert and delete revisions inline, format revisions in balloons.
     /// </summary>
     Format,
     /// <summary>
     /// Renders insert revisions inline, delete and format revisions in balloons.
     /// </summary>
     FormatAndDelete,
}

This property is used to show revisions in the balloons. By default, the revisions in balloons are not shown.

Usage:

Document doc = new Document(myDir + "Input.docx");

// Renders insert and delete revisions inline, format revisions in balloons.
doc.LayoutOptions.RevisionOptions.ShowInBalloons = ShowInBalloons.Format;
doc.Save(myDir + "Output.pdf");

Or

Document doc = new Document(myDir + "Input.docx");

// Renders insert revisions inline, delete and format revisions in balloons.
doc.LayoutOptions.RevisionOptions.ShowInBalloons = ShowInBalloons.FormatAndDelete;
doc.Save(myDir + "Output.pdf");

Write all CSS Declarations of HtmlFixed Documents into Single File

WORDSNET-17089 has been resolved.

Previously, Aspose.Words saved “@font-face” rules of HtmlFixed documents into a separate file “fontFaces.css” while other CSS declarations were written to “styles.css”. We have changed this behavior and now Aspose.Words saves all CSS rules and declarations into the same file “styles.css”. In case the old behavior is required for compatibility with legacy code, it can be restored by using the new public property that we have added to the HtmlFixedSaveOptions class:

bool SaveFontFaceCssSeparately { get; set; }

RtfLoadOptions class was extended

WORDSNET-17184 has been resolved.

A new LoadOptions class for dealing with RTF files was introduced : RtfLoadOptions.

New public property RecognizeUtf8Text was added into the RtfLoadOptions class:

/// <summary>
/// <para> When set to true, <see cref="CharsetDetector"/> will try to detect UTF8 characters,
/// they will be preserved during import.
/// </para>
/// Default value is false.
/// </summary>
public bool RecognizeUtf8Text

This property allows to detect UTF-8 encoded characters and preserve them during import.

UC:

RtfLoadOptions loadOptions = new RtfLoadOptions();
loadOptions.RecognizeUtf8Text = true;
Document doc = new Document(fileName, loadOptions);

Obsolete Member NumInDash was Removed from NumberStyle Enum

Obsolete value NumInDash was removed from NumberStyle enum. Please, use NumberStyle.NumberInDash value instead.

Obsolete Method ToTxt() was Removed from Node Class

Obsolete method ToTxt() was removed from Node class. Please, use ToString(SaveFormat.Text) instead.

Obsolete Property Location was Removed from FootnoteOptions and EndnoteOptions Classes

The obsolete property Location has been removed from the FootnoteOptions and EndnoteOptions classes. Please use the Position property. Also, the FootnoteLocation emum type has been removed.

Obsolete Property WarningCallback  was Removed from SaveOptions Class

Obsolete property WarningCallback  was removed from SaveOptions class. Please, use the Document.WarningCallback property instead.

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