Manage VBA Macros & Fonts Substitution inside Presentation, Export PPT to HTML

LANE COVE, Australia - Feb. 20, 2015 - PRLog -- What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (15.1.0) has been released. We have added the improved support for managing fonts in this release. We have introduced the support for explicit font substitution and rule based font’s substitution that will enable the users to substitute fonts programmatically. More details about these features are available in the article Managing Fonts inside Presentation in the documentation section. The support for removing the VBA macros inside the presentation has also been introduced and you can visit the article Removing VBA Macros in Presentation for more details about the feature. We have improved the integration support of Aspose.Slides in variety of platforms like OSGI and Eclipse SWT/RCP applications. The issues pertaining to use of Aspose.Slides in MAC and Linux operating systems have also been rectified. We have fixed several incurring issues with API in this release which include the issues pertaining to loading license of Aspose.Slides for Java. We have improved the presentation rendering support and have resolved certain rendering issues incurring during generation of slide thumbnails, exported PDF, Tiff, SVG and XPS files. The issues include improper text, missing background, blank slides, missing WordArt, improper SmartArt, incorrect table and different charts elements rendering. Different Slide cloning issues have also been addressed in this new release. We have rectified issues that appeared when accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like NullReference, PptxReadException, ObjectReferenceException,and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases for MAC, Linux and Windows environments. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

FontEntity class alternate / implementation in the latest version of Aspose.Slides
Support for managing VBA macros inside presentation
Support to remove macros in presentation
Feature to Join PortionEx with same formatting
Support for Aspose.Slides jar file to act as OSGi bundles
Support for scaling options of image added in slide shapes
Export PPT to HTML
Generating Shapes thumbnails in PPTX
SmartArt DOM with support for read/write
Support to remove macros in presentation
Feature to Convert SmartArt Shapes to Image
Feature to Join PortionEx with Same Formatting
Feature to Convert Shape to Image is required in Presentation files
Extract audio used in SlideShowTransitions
Using Aspose.Slides as COM Interop DLL
Serialization for ShapesEx
Macros detection / removal in presentations
Serialization of Group Shapes
Paragraph.BulletOffset has no effect
Problems to create PDF' on servers with java.awt.headless=true
Error on opening the generated PPTX file: Powerpoint found the content in the file which it did not understand
Master file getting lost after cloning the slide
Slide content lost when cloning slides using Aspose.Slides
chart category and value axis labels are improperly rendered
Bullets are wrongly rendered in generated thumbnail
Chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint after saving presentation using Aspose.Slides
WordArt text is improperly rendered in thumbnail
Not able to view the HTML file after converting a PPT file
Metafile throws NullPointerException
TextureBrush throws ClassCastException: Metafile cannot be cast to Bitmap
Charts missing after updating MS to version 5.0.0
Chart failed to get edited in PowerPoint
Wrong charts labels text wrapping in generated thumbnails
Wrong rendering of german umlauts in images
The contents are getting overlapped in the generated PDF file
Data label mismatch in pie-chart : PPTX to PDF
Bullets are not properly rendered in PDF from PPT file
Table format getting disturbed after re-saving the PPT file
Table Rows are connecting with other table in generated PDF file.
Setting license key with relative path throws exception
Table Border missing in the generated PNG file
PPTX to PDF Conversion: Pie Chart fill style is not proper
The set Header Footer values are not refleceted in Header Footer Manger in PowerPoint
Text is improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
Can't open cloned pptx in LibreOffice (linux) or in Google Docs
Aspose.Slides failed to work in Eclipse SWT/RCP application

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

-  Removing VBA Macros in Presentation: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesjava/Removing+VBA+Macros+in+Presentation

-          Managing Fonts inside Presentation: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesjava/Managing+Fonts+inside+Presentation

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides is a Java component to create, read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports PHP applications and provides all advanced features for managing presentations, slides, shapes, tables and supports PPT, POT, POS PowerPoint formats. Now developers can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in their presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

More about Aspose.Slides for Java

- Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Java: http://www.aspose.com/java/powerpoint-component.aspx

- Download Aspose.Slides for Java: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/72/java-components/aspose.slides-for-java/default.aspx

- Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for Java at: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesjava/Home

- Demos of Aspose.Slides for Java at: http://www.aspose.com/demos/java-components/aspose.slides/default.aspx

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