We’re proud to present Aspose.Slides for .NET 6.2.0. This product release includes support for exporting presentations to HTML. We have also added support for rendering Arabic character and saving presentations in read only mode. This release further adds support for setting access line format along with formatting support for the category/value axes on charts. Several presentation access and slide cloning issues have been rectified and we’ve improved rendering support, particularly for charts. Finally, this release adds support for using Aspose.Slides in manged Visual C++ environment.

To see a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for .NET 6.2.0, please go to the download page.

USA, Texas – May 3, 2012

We are particularly proud to find ourselves in the top ten of the Best Selling Publisher Award. Since this award is based on our sales through ComponentSource, it is unbiased proof of how popular our products are. Our customers are voting with their pockets and there is no better endorsement. We want to thank all of our customers for their confidence in us and look forward to supporting them throughout 2012-2013.

In the Bestselling Product Awards, Top 10 Product Awards, Aspose.Total for .NET placed 8th. Aspose.Total is Aspose’s flag-ship product and brings together all our components into one complete and competitive package. It’s up seven places from last year.

The Top 50 Product Award saw Aspose.Words for .NET in 26th place and Aspose.Cells for .NET in 45th place.

In the Top 100 Product Awards, Aspose.Total for Java appeared in 68th place and Aspose.Words for Java in 77th. We’re delighted to see our Java products enter the lists and wish them well for the year to come.

Read the full list of awards on ComponentSource’s website.

About Aspose

Aspose offers 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. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, and Microsoft Project files. Tools allow developers to perform OCR, work with images, create and read barcodes and perform many other document conversion and management tasks. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint, as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters.

Aspose was founded in 2002, in Sydney, Australia. In 2012, we celebrate our 10th birthday.

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Version 2.5.0 of Aspose.Words for SharePoint has been released.

This release includes the latest improvements made in Aspose.Words. To download the release, please visit the download area.

As usual, we are glad to answer any questions you might have in the forum.

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Edupoint has worked with Aspose products since 2002. This makes the company one of our very first customers. As part of Aspose’s 10-year celebration, we reconnected with Rob Wilson, President at Edupoint, and asked him about the changes he has seen in the industry over the last 10 years.

Edupoint Celebrates 10 Years

Like Aspose, Edupoint started 10 years ago. At that point, client-server technologies were popular but .NET was making an impact. Over the years, Edupoint’s online solutions have grown steadily and in the last few years, the company has seen intense growth as the education industry has seen the benefits of enterprise level software.

Edupoint’s solutions support almost two million students today. This is a user base of six million users when counting all those that rely on Edupoint’s products on a daily basis – students, parents, teachers and school and district staff users.

Constant Access is Part of the Fabric of Life

The biggest change that Rob Wilson has seen is the shift from merely reporting data at a high level to being able to truly react to what the patterns of data are showing.

From the schools’ perspective, this means being able to react to student achievements, either to change the curriculum or to react to changes in performance markers such as attendance.

From the parents’ and students’ perspective, being able to access real-time data allows them to be more pro-active in the education process. Students can take ownership of their own education.

In the last 18 months, Edupoint has focused on making their services available on new devices. “We’re moving into a world where users expect full access all of the time,” commented Wilson. “Students, for example, expect access to their results not just through a PC but through their phone or tablet, whenever they need it. Immediate access to information has become part of the fabric of life.”

Aspose.Spell Still in Use

In the early days, Edupoint was looking for a spell checker. Back then, browsers did not have spell check abilities so they needed a different solution. The answer was Aspose.Spell, a component that Aspose has since discontinued.

The main reason that Edupoint used Aspose.Spell was that the technology stack perfectly matched what they needed. Edupoint works in a deployed environment. Many of Edupoints customers run their own services so the license model had to fit hosted and deployed software. A true OEM license was a great benefit. Edupoint still use Apsose.Spell in their applications today.

The direction that Aspose is taking – automating processes and focusing on tools – works well for Edupoint and the pricing model meets their needs.

Rob Wilson explained that back in the early 2000s, most component developers adopted a licensing model that tied licenses to CPUs. Aspose was one of the first companies to break from that model. Our simpler model, based on users, and with a true OEM license, is attractive to small and large companies, equally.

Since they first bought Aspose.Spell, Edupoint has added first Aspose.Chart and then Aspose.Total to their toolkit. Today, Edupoint still uses Aspose products:

• Aspose.Words assists with mail merging and automation activities that Microsoft applications aren’t designed to do in a web environment.
• Aspose.Network helps with automating and accessing emails in Edupoint’s integrated customer support platform.
• Aspose.Cells is used for dynamically parsing spreadsheets.

A Paperless School

Education is still transitioning from the world of paper: paper textbooks are on their way out. Edupoint already sees a lot of activity in the classroom and beyond that is driven through their parent and student portals. Resources are held on the portals and assignments, marking and many other daily activities are handled through them. Assignment management and review can be handled electronically by teachers. Online assignment management doesn’t just save paper. More importantly, it allows students to check in assignments or projects, receive comments and make revisions under supervision of their teachers online where changes and actions are logged. It makes the process transparent. Parents can also get access to comments on their childrens’ work so that they can be actively involved.

Electronic books also offer schools new opportunities. Previously, textbooks sometimes had to last for years: the information they contained could go out of date. With electronic books, content can be updated and kept constantly current. Edupoint expects that the move to electronic books to be the next big change to the education environment. Content will start to originate from experts that are in schools, and the content will change dynamically, not just when the textbooks are re-issued annually.

Prediction and Individualisation

In the education industry, everything is focused on individual student achievement. Their customers want to:

•        Analyse longitudinal trends to help school districts make informed, data-driven decisions.

•        Anticipate and identify students that may be at risk for falling behind.

•        Individualise every aspect of a student’s education to ensure each child reaches his or her full potential.

Rob Wilson and Edupoint  are leading visionaries in the education data management area and will continue to innovate their solutions to power informed instruction with data and analysis in the years to come. Aspose is delighted to be part of their solution.

We’re please to announce Aspose.Slides for Java 2.9.0. This release is compliant with JDK 1.5 and adds support for picture bullets in PPTX presentations.  However, this is mainly a maintenance release that fixes a number of different issues. We have resolved issues to do with presentation access, as well as table rendering issues and issues with missing border lines relating to saved and cloned presentations.

To see a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 2.9.0, please go to the download page.

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Slides for JasperReports 1.7.0. This release introduces support for JasperReports 4.5.0. Many of the issues with text wrapping in tables that our customers reported have been resolved in this release. We’ve also improved image rendering in the exported reports.

To see a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for JasperReports 1.7.0, please go to the download page.

With this release Aspose.Imaging also introduces a simple but efficient mechanism of using the cache as temporary data storage. Read more about how the cache is used cache in the documentation.

Read the release notes to get a full list of the new features and enhancements included in Aspose.Imaging for .NET 1.4.0.

We are pleased to inform you that new version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint v1.3 has been released. This version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows users to add watermark to PDF documents and convert HTML , text, and image (*.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.tiff, *.bmp) files to PDF format.

• Please check out the documentation links for more information on How to add Watermark to your PDF document and How to Convert different files to PDF format.
• Please visit the following link to download the latest version of Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint v1.3.

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 4.1.0. This release adds support for ReportViewer 2010. This version has also inherited support for support for rendering nested tables in exported presentations. Our users have reported an issue with text getting overlapped from cells and this, as well as an issue with unwanted lines appearing for table borders in exported presentations, has been fixed.

To see a complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 4.1.0, please go to the download page.

We have released Aspose.Slides for Java 2.8.2, a hotfix and primarily a maintenance release. This hotfix ensures that presentations generated with Aspose.Slides for Java can be opened in PowerPoint 2007 SP3. Many of slide rendering issues that our customer have reported have been fixed and we have added support for rendering of SmartArt. A number of other issues have been fixed. We have looked at slide cloning and now support embedded videos in cloned presentations. The issue of table borders failing to render in saved or cloned presentation has also been resolved in this hotfix.

To read the complete list of fixes and to download Aspose.Slides for Java 2.8.2, please go to the download page.