We are very much excited to share the first release version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET in 2012. Feel free to explore the exciting features introduced in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.6.0. This release includes some great new features including SVG to PDF conversion, transforming PDF to PDF/A, rendering PDF into image format with desired dimensions, creating a PDF portfolio and determining if the source document is encrypted, before opening it.

There has been significant improvements to memory management when dealing with large and complex PDF files and converting PDFs into image formats. The component is also more stable when converting intricate HTML files into PDF format. You can now concatenate large PDF files and generate a resultant PDF around 1.0GB in size. Along with these improvements, we have made the PDF to DOC and PCL to PDF conversion processes more stable and robust. The product has been tested in a multi-threaded environment and it has proved to be a champ.

We have resolved a number of other issues too: we have improved the image/text replacement feature, corrected the rendering of PDF files to raster images, added support for more HTML tags, improved printing of PDF files, corrected the way that multi-line watermarks work and much more. To try it out yourself, download latest release version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.6.0 now.

For a complete list of issues resolved in this version and features being offered, please check out the release notes on the Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.6.0 download page.

Here’s a quick review of what Aspose achieved in the busy and eventful year 2011.

New products

• Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows users to export lists, individual list items and Wiki pages to PDF files.
• Aspose.Email for .NET saw email programming features separated from Aspose.Network for .NET into its own product. We also released Aspose.Email for Java and Aspose.Email for SharePoint but because they are Aspose.Network for Java and SharePoint re-named, they’re not really new products.
• Aspose.Imaging for .NET lets developers work with images from within their own applications.
• Aspose.OCR for .NET added optical character recognition tools to Aspose’s .NET toolkit and
• Aspose.OCR for Java added optical character recognition tools to our Java toolkit.
• Aspose.Words Express is a free utility for converting word processing files to EPUB format.
• Aspose.Network for .NET is now a free utility that contains a number of network programming features.

Notable improvements

New features isn’t the only thing that makes life easier for our users. We also introduce new services and change the way we interact with our customers to give you more flexible ways of working with us. Below is a selection of process changes, features and services that we developed in 2011.

• Auto-porting allows us to maintain one code base and compile both the .NET and Java versions of our products from it. This benefits our customers because the two components are in sync and offer the same features. It benefits us because we only maintain one source for two products. We save time: you get a better product. This year we finished the work on auto-porting two products:
  • Aspose.Words for .NET and Java are now released on the last of the month, every month.
  • Aspose.Cells for.NET and Java now offer almost the same features.
  • Aspose.BarCode for Java went from version 2.7 to 4.4 when the .NET and Java features were synchronized.
• Aspose.Pdf for .NET and Aspose.Pdf.Kit were merged to give our .NET users a unified API for creating new and working with existing PDF files.
• We pay attention to the what out customers ask for so this year we have added a range of conversion options and support for new file formats:
  • PDF to HTML conversion in Aspose.Pdf for .NET.
  • PPTX conversion options added to Aspose.Slides.
  • PST support in Aspose.Email for .NET (previously Aspose.Network).
  • Barcode reading on Windows Phone 7 with Aspose.BarCode for .NET.
• Aspose Consulting allows you to outsource products that use our products to us, the team that knows most about them.

Retired products

Sometimes, we have to discontinue a product. This year, the following three were taken off our product list:

• Aspose.Flash
• Aspose.Report
• Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET (merged into Aspose.Pdf for .NET so the functionality is still there)

Community involvement

We sponsored a number of user groups and conferences. From the Great Lakes .NET User Group in the north-east US to Desert Code Camp in the south-west, we help developers get together and learn from each other in an open and  friendly development. We are also building out own online community and have:

• 10,000 customers.
• 69,000 newsletter subscribers
• 140,000 signed up users
• Over 1,500 Twitter followers
• Over 600 Facebook fans

Awards 2010-2011

We’ve won a number of awards this year. We were entered for DevProConnections Community Awards for the first time this year and are delighted to have won two awards.

• SD Times 100 in the Components category.
• ComponentSource awards:
  • ComponentSource Top 10 Bestselling Publisher Award 2010-2011.
  • ComponentSource Top 25 Bestselling Product Award 2010-2011 for Aspose.Total.
  • ComponentSource Top 25 Bestselling Product Award 2010-2011 for Aspose.Words.
  • ComponentSource Top 50 Bestselling Product Award 2010-2011 for Aspose.Cells.
• DevProConnection Community Choice Awards:
  • DevProConnections Community Choice Award for Aspose.Network for .NET.
  • DevProConnections Community Choice Award for Aspose.Total for SharePoint.

Looking forward to 2012

We have great plans for what we’re doing in 2012 and are looking forward to sharing them with you over the year. Watch this space: we’re constantly working to improve our products and the way we support our customers.

We wish you a great new 2012!

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.5.0. This release  includes some great new features such as setting background color of pages in PDF documents, determining which pages in a PDF document has background color set and support for attaching MP3 files. This release also improves the product’s performance when converting PDF files into XPS/TIFF format and extracting text and images from PDF. Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.5 also includes support for transforming PDF files into HTML and other supported formats. We’ve also improved the file concatenation features.

Pass Documents from Class to Class without Saving

We have introduced a mechanism where you can use the single PDF document and pass it to various class objects present under Aspose.Pdf.Facades, without having to repeatedly save and open it. To facilitate this, we have locally added the Document property for almost all facades and extended them with new constructor. However, please note that not all facades work with Document directly.

For example PdfFileInfo only saves changes on invoking methods (SaveNewInfoWithXmp, SaveNewInfo) so has not been extended with the Document property. Document property can be used to access an inner document which is changed by Facade and then we can pass this Document object as an argument to another facade constructor in order to continue editing the same PDF document.

Please have a look at the code snippet below: it shows how PdfContentEditor and PdfAnnotationEditor can work in conjunction.

[C#] 
PdfContentEditor contentEditor= new PdfContentEditor();
contentEditor.BindPdf("input.pdf");
contentEditor.CreateText(newSystem.Drawing.Rectangle(100,100, 50, 50), 
              "Mine", "Some comment", false,"Comment", 1);

PdfAnnotationEditor annotationEditor= 
              new PdfAnnotationEditor(contentEditor.Document);
annotationEditor.ModifyAnnotationsAuthor(1,1, "Mine","Yours");
annotationEditor.Save(“UpdatedAnnotation.pdf”)

Changes to the PdfConverter Class

We have made following changes to PdfConverter class:

1. PdfConverter property changes: The Resolution property type has changed from int to Resolution. It now allows you to set horizontal and vertical resolution independently.
2. PdfConverter methods changes: The GetNextImage methods now accepts width and height instead of resolutionX and resolution.
3. New PdfConverter methods added:
   • SaveAsTIFFClassF(string outputFile)
   • SaveAsTIFFClassF(Stream outputStream)
   • SaveAsTIFF(string outputFile, TiffSettings settings)
   • SaveAsTIFF(Stream outputStream, TiffSettings settings)
   • GetNextImage(string outputFile, ImageFormat format, int imageWidth, int imageHeight)
   • GetNextImage(Stream outputStream, ImageFormat format, int imageWidth, int imageHeight)
   • GetNextImage(Stream outputStream, ImageFormat format, int quality)
   • GetNextImage(string outputFile, ImageFormat format, int quality)
4. New TiffDevice actors added:
   • TiffDevice(int width, int height, Resolution resolution, TiffSettings settings)
   • TiffDevice(int width, int height, Resolution resolution)
   • TiffDevice(int width, int height, TiffSettings settings)
   • TiffDevice(int width, int height)
5. New TiffDevice properties added
   • int Width
   • int Height

Please visit the following link to download the latest release version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.5.0.

We are pleased to inform you that new version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint v1.1 has been released. This version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows the users to view SharePoint PDF documents using built-in PDF viewer without installing any PDF reading software.

• Please check out the following link for more information on Using PDF Viewer to view SharePoint PDF documents.
• Please visit the following link to download the latest version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint.

Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.4.0 allows you to convert PDF files into HTML format. Prior to this release, Aspose.Pdf for .NET supported converting images, XML, HTML, SVG, PCL and XSL-FO files into PDF format but not the other way around.  With this new feature, one single product provides the capability to convert HTML files into PDF or transform PDF files into HTML format.

Since the last release, we have made progress on images and text extraction from PDF files. Aspose.PDf for .NET 6.4 now allows you to extract non-English text such as Arabic, Hebrew etc.  The product is much faster and more stable compared to earlier releases.

We already supported setting security settings while creating the PDF file or applying security settings to an existing document. With the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.4, we can announce that we now support  getting security settings that have already been applied on a PDF file.

To flesh out the security features we offer, you  can now specify custom text and image files when adding signatures to PDF document.

We have also improved how we manage large files. You can now add files larger than 1GB as an attachment to PDF files and concatenating large PDF documents with confidence.

The printing feature has also been improved. PDF pages converted to image files are identical to the source PDF file. The text replacement feature has been updated so that it now supports more complex scenarios and delivers better results.

These are not the only improvements: we have improved how you add watermarks, concatenate PDFs, work with PDF forms, convert HTML to PDF and XML to PDF.

For a complete list of  the new features and all fixed issues in this release, please check out Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.4.0.

• Aspose.Imaging for .NET gives developers a way to process and draw images in .NET applications.
• Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows users to save Wiki pages, lists and list items to PDF from withing SharePoint.

Aspose delivered a number of new products in 2011:

• April saw the launch of Aspose.Diagram for .NET, a class library for working with Microsoft Visio files.
• July saw the launch of Aspose.OCR for .NET, a class library that adds character recognition to ASP.NET, Windows applications and web services.
• September saw the first release of Aspose.Email for .NET, a renamed and re-focused version of Aspose.Network for .NET.

Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint

Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint joins the SharePoint platform products as well as the Aspose.Pdf product family. The last platform to get Aspose’s PDF creation and conversion features, the SharePoint component has been much anticipated.

The new component allows users to export lists, individual list item and Wiki pages to PDF without Adobe Acrobat installed.

Download Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET

Aspose.Imaging for .NET joins a growing family of components for working with business formats on ASP.NET and related platforms. Aspose’s .NET components already allows users to convert spreadsheets, word processing documents and slides from presentations to a wide variety of image formats. Aspose.Imaging distills that functionality into a free-standing component for image manipulation and conversion.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET is an imaging library that lets developers create, edit, draw and convert images in their .NET applications.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET is fast and powerful. It has an extensive array of features and image processing routines to meet most imaging requirements. As with all of the Aspose file format components, Aspose.Imaging for .NET works well with both Win Form and Web Form applications. It also supports Silverlight.

Download Aspose.Imaging for .NET.

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About Aspose

Aspose are file format experts. They offer a powerful set of file management components with which developers can create applications which can open, edit, create and save some of the most popular business file formats. The product range includes word processing components, Excel spreadsheet components, PDF components and many others. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters. Aspose.Total compiles all products for a platform into a powerful toolbox for developers.

Aspose Pty Ltd has been operating since 2002. The headquarters are in Australia, and the company has teams in USA, Scotland, Ukraine and Pakistan.

Press Contact

Email: press@aspose.com
Web: www.aspose.com
Telephone (US): 888.277.6734
Telephone (Europe): +44 (0)800 098 8425

Sydney, Australia – 17 October, 2011 - Aspose.Pdf is one of Aspose’s most popular products. The Aspose.Pdf product family already offers products for .NET, Java, SSRS and JasperReports. On all platforms, Aspose.Pdf helps developers convert files to PDF from within their applications, without having Adobe Acrobat installed.

Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint extends this functionality to yet another platform. Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows users to save lists, list items and Wiki pages in SharePoint to PDF files.

Easy installation

Many of our users have reported how difficult other applications can be to install on SharePoint. They often have to install plug-ins or extensions more than once and then spent time on configuration before it works as expected. Aspose spend time ensuring that our SharePoint extensions don’t have these problems. Instead, our installations are fast and work as expected. SharePoint applications are complex enough without us adding complications.

That is at the core of our development philosophy: to make file format tools that make other deverlopers’ lives easier.

Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint is available for download now.

Aspose.Pdf product family

Aspose.Pdf for .NET is a PDF document creation component that allows your .NET applications to read, write and manipulate PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It allows you to create new PDF files or change existing ones.

Aspose.Pdf for Java is a PDF document creation component that enables your Java applications to read, write and manipulate PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat.

Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services is a rendering extension that allowes you to generate the highest quality PDF reports, including reports that contain tables, charts and images.

Aspose.Pdf for JasperReports is a flexible component specially designed and developed to export reports from JasperReports and JasperServer to PDF.

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About Aspose

Aspose are file format experts. They offer a powerful set of file management components with which developers can create applications which can open, edit, create and save some of the most popular business file formats. The product range includes word processing components, Excel spreadsheet components, PDF components and many others. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters. Aspose.Total compiles all products for a platform into a powerful toolbox for developers.

Aspose Pty Ltd has been operating since 2002. The headquarters are in Australia, and the company has teams in USA, Scotland, Ukraine and Pakistan.

Press Contact

Email: press@aspose.com
Web: www.aspose.com
Telephone (US): 888.277.6734
Telephone (Europe): +44 (0)800 098 8425

Please put your hands together and welcome our new member to Aspose.Pdf family. Yes with the introduction of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint, the Aspose.Pdf product family has been complete and now it includes the products targeting .NET, Java, Reporting Services, JasperReports and SharePoint platforms. This new and amazing product provides great integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and it provides the leverage to export lists, list items and SharePoint wiki pages to PDF file format. You simply need to install and configure MS SharePoint server and then you are good to with the installation of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint. No extra component or configuration is required. Just run the installer and this product automatically gets integrated with SharePoint server. Please be the first to download and start exploring the great features of this product.

• Please check out the following link for more information on Introducing Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint
• Please visit the following link to download your copy of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint.

We have made great improvements in terms of rendering text object inside body, as well as header/footer section of the report. The new version of Aspose.Pdf for ReportingServices 2.3.1 has become much stable for text object processing. The text properties such as horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, text margin and TextBox height are properly supported and the resultant PDF is identical to the source .rdl report.

Please get your chance to download and try using the latest release version of Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 2.3.1.

The new version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.3.0 supports a self contained mechanism of rendering PDF documents into XPS format while using two simple lines of code. This new version also gives you the capability to check either the source PDF document is linearized or not and also you have the leverage to add background image to table cell from a web URL. There has been great improvement in terms of memory management when the requirement comes to export of Bookmarks from PDF, conversion of PDF files into PDF/A-1B, addition of form fields to large documents, HTML to PDF conversion, addition of images to existing PDF files and extraction of text from PDF files.

There have been numerous improvements in this product including PDF printing, table rendering inside document, PDF to TIFF conversion, digitally signing the PDF files, replacing text, text extraction, finding text inside a document, extracting attachments from PDF files, rendering of inner and outer table margin and much more to count. Please get a chance to download the latest release version and try using this new version.

In order to get more details on issues fixed and features introduced in this new release, Please check out Aspose.Pdf for .NET 6.3.0.