Access Slide by ID, Shapes Connector & Set Predefined View Type for Presentation

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

We are happy to share the announcement of Aspose.Slides for .NET 15.4.0. This is one of maintenance releases in which we have resolved certain issues incurring in the product along with some of new features. Aspose team has included the long awaited support for joining the shapes using connectors. It also resumed the support for getting slide by ID using GetSlideById(id) method exposed by Presentation class. It has also included the support for setting the predefined view type for the generated presentation when it gets opened in PowerPoint. The slide view type can be set using ViewProperties exposed by Presentation class. This release has also improved the Table support in Aspose.Slides and has added the facility for splitting the table cells based row span, column span, split by height and split by width. We have also added the support for working with NotesSlides and one can now use MasterNotesSlideManager exposed by Presentation class to access the NotesMaster and its elements. It has resolved the issues that appeared while accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like NullReference, ArgumentException , UnSupportedBrushTypeException,and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases. The issue of presentation repair message appearing in Aspose.Slides generated presentations when viewed in different PowerPoint versions has also been addressed and resolved in this release. A step forward has also been taken towards improving the performance of API in terms of memory usage as well. It has addressed many text and image rendering issues in this new release that occurred in charts, tables, Smart and AutoShape. We have also improved the strike through text rendering support for generated PDF and thumbnails. Many of chart elements rendering issues including chart titles, axis text, legends and chart labels have been addressed for different type of charts. The rendering performance has been significantly improved for generated thumbnails, exported Pdf and SVG files. The WordArt rendering has also been improved in this new release and issue of WordArt effects getting lost in exported output has been rectified. The issue related to corrupt PDF file generated while exporting presentation with WordArt to PDF has also been addressed. This list of new, improved and bug fixes in this release are given below

Connectors lay-outing
Unique IDs for symbol id for pictures is needed when exporting slides with images to HTML
Presentation.GetSlideByID() missing in Aspose.Slides
Saving presentation in different slide view types
Splitting table cells
Implement serialization and deserialization of embedded fonts for PPT
Implement SmartArt customization
Consistency in DocumentProperties
Template Name property missing in Document Properties
SlideCollection.ResetEffectiveFormat throws NullReferenceException
PowerPoint craches on playing presentation with embedded video, 15.5.0
DateTimeInvalid Local format exception is thrown on saving presentation
Slide notes failed to get added in presentation
Strikethrough is appearing thick in generated thumbnail and pdf
Inverse mapping of RotationX and RotationY in Rotation3D Members.
FontHeight changing does not work
PowerPoint shows a repair request when a presentation generated with Aspose.Slides is opened
Issue with Bullets in pptx and ppt
Error Bars are missing in generated thumbnail
Presentation repair message pops on saving the presentation.
Portion format returns wrong font names
Chart labels and legends gets disturbed in generated PDF
Chart labels and legends gets disturbed in saved presentation
Slide background image gets jagged pdf.
Text size is not reduced when TextAutoFitType.Normal is used for slide textframe
Absurd memory usage in GetThumbnail() for simple slide with log scale
Custom document properties are not accessible using Aspose.Slides
Input string was not in the correct format exception on adding HTML to text frame
Missed shapes in generated Html
Null Reference exception on cloning row in side the table
Presentation repair message on saving presentation with video
Wrong logo image rendering in generated thumbnail
Font size for text changed in Aspose.Slides saved presentation
Chart Series Markers and lines are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail

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.Slides documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

-  Connecting shapes using Connectors: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesnet/Connecting+shapes+using+Connectors

-  Managing Slides Transitions: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesnet/Managing+Slides+Transitions

Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET

Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also supported. Now you can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. Other features include PPT/PPTX printing, PPT to XPS format, saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.

More about Aspose.Slides for .NET

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

-  Download Aspose.Slides for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/default.aspx (http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/introducing-aspose-slides-for-net.html)

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