Uses for presentation file formats are becoming increasingly more common in todays line of business applications. Over the past year we’ve seen a large increase in the number of Java customers wanting to include presentation file output within their applications – and of course when they have a file format requirement the first place they come is Aspose.

Our Java customers are asking for the full feature set (WordArt functionality, better text effect support, complex thumbnail production etc) of our Aspose.Slides for .NET product to be available in Java version of the product. While this is not an overnight process, we always listen and are happy to help our customers.

Autoporting work for Aspose.Slides will start during February 2012 and we will be providing regular updates on the autoporting progress here on our blog similar to how we did with the Aspose.Words autoporting project, out aim is to keep you fully informed so you can make your own plans around the project.

To ensure the best progress is made in the most reasonable timescale we will only be offering access to our free support service while we are working on this project, Enhanced Support will not be available on the Aspose.Slides Product Family products during this time.

If you have any questions in the meantime please contact us for more information.

We have releases Aspose.Slides for Java 2.7.0. This is a maintenance release and is much stable version as compared to its predecessor. Many presentation rendering issues like improper characters, missing titles, skewed and cropped images, missing background and missing tables in generated PDF/thumbnails have been resolved. Some of presentation access issues along with slide cloning problems have also been addressed in this new release.

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 2.7.0, please go to the download page.

We have released Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.6.0. This is primarily a maintenance release but it also includes new features support like meta-characters support for PPTX presentations.  More new features like setting chart title and chart series labels have also been introduced in this new release. Improved chart rendering support for catering 3-D chart perceptive along with gear shaped and bubble chart  rendering has been added in this new release. Several charting and rendering issues have also been addressed and rectified.

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.6.0, please go to the download page.

We like to share the release announcement for Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.4.0 that includes added support for implementing chart series markers and TickLables properties of axis. The extended support modifying chart type and adding chart series labels has also been provided in this new release. This is primarily a maintenance release that has improved support for export to PDF. Some of issues related to presentation saving have also been mitigated in the release. Slide cloning along with chart rendering issues have also been rectified in this release

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.4.0, please go to the download page.

We like to share the announcement of release of Aspose.Slides for Java 2.6.0. This is primarily a maintenance release that contains the fix for several issues shared by customers. Issues related to presentation access in PowerPoint 2010 and Linux environment have been resolved.  A new parser for extracting text from PPTX using Aspose.Slides for Java has also been implemented along with support for some of missing shapes.

Support for Japanese characters rendering along with missing text rendering in exported PDF’s and thumbnails has been improved in this new release.  Some of presentations access issues have also been rectified.

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 2.6.0, please visit the download section of our website.

We feel happy to announce the news of release of Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.3.0. This is one of major product release that has included the maiden support for SmartArt rendering. Another great thing about this product is that Aspose.Slides for .NET is no longer dependent on Aspose.Cells for .NET for rendering charts. The chart support has been completely rewritten and sample codes can be found in the documentation. The missing support for scattered charts with multiple series and markers support for chart series has also been included in this new release.

The PPT to PPTX conversion features have also been improved by addition of auto shapes, OLE object and multimedia objects reading while conversion. Many of slide rendering and cloning issues have also been addressed in this new release. We have also enhanced the capability of our product by adding more enriched support for PowerPoint 2010 presentations.

To view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.3.0, please go to the download section of our website.

Aspose’s applications integrated into Oracle’s Java environment and produced the documents they needed without being dependent on Microsoft Office applications.

You can download this case study as a PDF, optimized for printing, or continue reading to find out more about the project.

About Oracle

Oracle provides a number of products and services to industries as diverse as retail and natural resources. The company is famous for its database solutions and enterprise applications.

Oracle Consulting Services are the industry leader in certified consultants and have over 13,000 consulting experts. They implement solutions using Oracle’s best practices and make sure they are aligned with their client’s strategy and goals.

The Challenge

Oracle offers consultancy services as well as software and hardware. Working with a leading integrated technology company, they developed an on-demand reporting system for a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.

CRM systems are complex. They keep track of complex relationships and a multitude of transactions. If used well, they give an organization a real boost by allowing them to learn about the relationships they have with customers, and streamlining their sales and marketing activities. Central to any such activities is, of course, good intelligence. The data held in any system is useless unless you can interrogate it to learn from it. The reporting side of the system is therefore very important.

The Project

Part of any reporting system is document delivery. It is not enough that users can create their own reports, they need a way to save and share the results. Specifically, users wanted to be able to create reports that could be used for presentations and spreadsheets. Some customization was built in to the document delivery module.

Aspose.Slide for Java and Aspose.Cells for Java was used to save reports in Microsoft Office compliant documents. The Aspose Java tools fit perfectly in a Java environment. The fact that they produce Microsoft Office compliant documents without being dependent on Microsoft Office was a huge plus.

Several people worked on the report system and one person was solely responsible for the document delivery module. That developer had some interesting challenges. For example, adding report data to presentations is not as easy as it might sounds. Under normal circumstances, presentations are created manually and someone is there to judge that what is on the slide can be read, that everything fits on it and looks good. When reports are created automatically it is up to the document delivery system to make sure that the final result will look good. This aspect was one of the most challenging to the developer.

The proof of Oracle Consulting’s success is in the client’s acceptance of the system. The reporting system is live in several countries and will be rolled out worldwide.

Finding a Solution

For some projects, sourcing a solution is a time-consuming part of the process. The on-demand reporting system had many complexities, but what tool to use for document conversion, wasn’t one of them. Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Cells was recommended by a team member that had used Aspose tools before. The decision to use Aspose was a simple one.

It was worth the money with regards to purchase: it would have been nowhere near as fast without these products.
Jens Gehrke
Principle Senior Consultant

Document formats have their own logic. Learning to work with one can take time, even when you have the help of a class library that does most of the work for you. Even with a learning curve, using Aspose products saved Oracle a lot of time.

Summary

When implementing a document delivery module for a complex reporting system, Oracle Consultancy used trusted applications: Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Cells for Java. It integrated smoothly with the existing development environment, did not require Windows Automation and provided powerful document controls. Importantly, they saved valuable time compared to building the document management system from scratch.

Read other case studies to find out more about how Aspose’s customers use their products.

We like to share the announcement of new release of Aspose.Slides for Java 2.5.0. This is primarily a maintenance release in which resolution for many regression issues as well as exceptions being thrown during presentations access, PDFs generations and slide cloning for both PPT and PPTX. The issues pertaining to bullets rendering have also been remedied in this new release. The compulsion of using Aspose.Metafiles for Java has also been eradicated in this release and now, one will only need to add reference to Aspose.Metafiles for Java, if his presentation has WMF or EMF file contents. The compatibility support for working with PowerPoint 2010 presentations has also been enhanced. The support feature for getting the product version information and setting custom documents properties for the presentations have also been introduced in this new release.

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 2.5.0, please visit the download section of our website.

We take pride in sharing the new release of Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.2.0, which includes the maiden feature support for converting PPTX to other native formats like PPTM, PPSM and POTM. Now, support for reading macro enabled presentations has also been made possible in this release. However, support for macros in Aspose.Slides for .NET is still not been provided. Enhanced rendering support for some of new shapes has also been made available. We have also introduced the support for converting PPTX to PPSX along with the fix for some of the presentation access issues in this release. New improved support for getting dynamic table width / height based on contents inside has also been provided. The pending issue of license access in Mono environment has also been rectified.

In order to view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.2.0, please visit this link

I like to share the announcement of new release of Aspose.Slides for SharePoint 1.10. In this release, we have added support SharePoint 2010. To view a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for SharePoint 1.1.0, please visit the download section.