Convert PDF to Editable PPTX File & Multi-Column PDF Generation in .NET Apps -- Aspose

LANE COVE, Australia - April 28, 2015 - PRLog -- What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 10.3.0. This new release provides some great features and enhancements, which keeps this API high among the list of its competitors. We know that PDF is one of the widely used file format for data sharing because it ensures the document structure/contents remains intact, when viewing the file over various platforms/devices and even it does not matter what your regional or personal system preferences are. In order to deal with PDF format, Aspose.Pdf for .NET is one of the great API’s in industry to facilitate users to programmatically create as well as manipulate any existing PDF files. Recently many of our customers requested a feature to transform PDF files to PPTX format, and we are pleased to share that this new release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET offers this great feature. So in order to accomplish this requirement, you only need to instantiate an object of PptxSaveOptions class and pass it as second argument to Document.Save(..) method. Magazines and newspapers mostly have news; mostly displayed in multiple columns on the single pages instead of the books where text paragraphs are mostly printed on the whole pages from left to right position. Many document processing applications like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat Writer allow users to create multiple columns on a single page and then add data to them. Aspose.Pdf for .NET also offers the feature to create multiple columns inside the pages of PDF documents. PDF/A is widely used standard to preserve data inside document for long term and also to ensure the integrity of data inside the document (document is not modified, once its compliance is set to PDF/A format). Recently we have come across a requirement to provide support for attachments in PDF/A files and as per Adobe Community post, PDF/A_3a compliance format supports the feature to attach any file type as attachment. Aspose.Pdf for .NET offers the feature to use Custom/TrueType fonts while creating/manipulating PDF file contents, so that file contents are displayed using contents other than default system fonts. The FindFont(..) method of Aspose.Pdf.Text.FontRepository class provides the capabilities to find specific font from system font repository (i.e. C:/Windows/Fonts/). The method is case-sensitive and requires exact Font file name. In this new release, we have provided an overload method public static Font FindFont(string fontName, bool ignoreCase), which takes second argument to specify either the font name should be case-sensitive or not. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been specific improvement for PDF to HTML and HTML to PDF conversion features. Among these fixes, the PCL to PDF, SVG to PDF, PDF to Excel, PDF to DOC, PDF to TIFF and TIFF to PDF conversion, conversion of PDF to PDF/A compliant documents, text replacement, rendering PDF files to XPS format are also improved. The list of important new and improved features are given below

· Support of multi-column PDF in new generator

· PDF to PPTX conversion support

· support of PDF/A with attachments

· Support OTF fonts

· Make FindFont(..) case insensitive

· Generating multi column TOC in PDF document

· Table breaking across page should not have bottom border on page 1 and top border on page 2

· HtmlFragment throws ArgumentException against large HTML

· Parallel Processing consumes 100% CPU

· PDF to HTML - Error in console when viewing resultant file

· HTML to PDF: HtmlFragment throws ArgumentException

· Text foreground color is not being applied

· XPS to PDF conversion fails on 3.5 and 4.0 .NET platform

· PDF to DOC: Header image and text is missing

· PDF to DOC: Text renders incorrectly

· TextStamp changes position depending on if Draw is set True or False

· Setting Draw property of TextStamp class to false changes view

· PDF to HTML: Incorrect colors in output html

· Incorrect page count

· HTML to PDF - rgba background colors doesn't work

· PDF to TIFF - Output is not correct

· Signature gets corrupted when removing page from PDF file

· PDF to HTML - Spaces between words are eliminated

· PDF to HTML: Output HTML contains squares between lines

· Setting zoom using PdfPageEditor class corrupt the output image

· HTML to PDF: incorrect output

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

- Convert PDF to PPTX: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/pdfnet/Convert+PDF+to+PPTX

- Create Multi-Column PDF document: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/pdfnet/Create+Multi-Column+PDF+document

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

More about Aspose.Pdf for .NET

- Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/.net/pdf-component.aspx

- Download Aspose.Pdf for .NET at: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.pdf-for-.net/default.aspx

- Online Demo for Aspose.Pdf for .NET at: http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.pdf/default.aspx

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