Ben Li

Email support is merged into Aspose.Forums now!

2005-05-09T02:09:00Z

Since May 8, 2005, email support is merged into Aspose.Forums, which is powered by Community Server::Forums. If you send an email to any of our public emails, you will get an automatic notice that will request you to re-post your question in an appropriate forum.

Warning: All of our public emails are not attended any more. Only after you have re-posted your questions at the forums, can you get our replies.

As an alternative to email support, we provide an option "Keep this post private" at the AddPost.aspx page.

If your questions include some sensitive info that is inappropriate to be public, please check "Keep this post private" then your post can be seen by you and our developers and sales only. No other customers or visitors can see it. We hope this feature serves the same purpose of email support.

Important: Our teams are from world wide and work in different time zones. Merging email support into the forums would create a completely collaborative support platform for us. Put simply, I promise you will get much more prompt support from us.

We appreciate your cooperation to post all your questions in the forums and feel free to post your concerns or suggestions.

Quick notes on our future product line

2005-03-17T18:04:00Z

This post is an excerpt from a reply posted for a potential customer of Aspose.Word. I put it here for a wider audience purpose only. Thanks for your attention.

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Now I would like to address our future product line and I assume you're interested in it so I would share it with you here at this moment.

We're making .NET components for about 3 years. We have tried to make various components but gradually Aspose is identified by customers to be a file format hacking vendor. We love this identification and we will continue to hack more file formats, for example, this month Aspose.Flash will be a new member in the product line.

Currently what we are mainly offering is the file format hacking engines, say, they are UI-less libraries only, except the latest released Aspose.Cells.Web, which is an ASP.NET UI control that enables you to write ASP.NET apps which allow your customers to view and edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet over Internet browsers.

But this is just a start of the product line. We will be expanding over the following directions based these file format hacking engines.

1. Windows/Web editors/viewers. This is what you're currently most interested. Aspose.Cells.Web is the first product to test the water, similar products for other file formats will follow gradually. You must have an immediate question: When Aspose.Word.Web is available? I hope the Auckland Team leader, Roman, will reply here. I assume he is very interested in this ASP.NET UI control and probably what's the real problem is development resources in the meantime. To make a long story short, these UI controls will allow you to create a simplified version of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, etc., respectively in Windows platform or Web platform.

2. File format readers/writers/converters. Actually all hacking engines are already file format readings/writers/converters except Aspose.Pdf, just a Pdf document writer. Also these hacking engines have some converting features, for example, with Aspose.Pdf and Aspose.Word, you can save a .doc to .pdf. Also most of these products can consume .html files then produce .xls, .doc, .pdf or .ppt. Of course, reading/writing/converting business needs are unlimited and we're fully dedicated to the mission to read more, write more and convert more. Again, in a summary, we have 100% passion to read, write and convert all popular file formats, no matter their file formats are open or proprietary.

3. Java equivalents. Although Aspose entered into the software component marketplace via Microsoft .NET platform 3 years ago, we never ignore all developers who are developing for Java platform. Recently per customer requests, we have found our business model can be mature enough to explore the Java marketplace, we make it happen. From recent blogs posted at Aspose.Blogs, you can find our first Java product, Aspose.Slides for Java will be coming in early April. Again more and more Java equivalents will be coming gradually.

Technical Support vs Chinese New Year

2005-02-11T23:03:00Z

Dear customers,

This week you may experience some slow or no replies from some of our developers simply because some of our developers are living in China and they are having their Chinese New Year holiday. It's a big holiday like Christmas so normally it lasts about one week or more.

Aspose is well known for rapid response in the .NET component industry. If you have realized this week is just an exception due to Chinese New Year holiday, I truly appreciate you very much. Anyway, all your un-answered questions hopefully be attended during this weekend or early next week.

Please note Chinese New Year holiday just affects technical support of some components. As our teams are from world wide, all purchasing/licensing/sales supports as well as technical support of some other components are normal as in the before.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding.

And I wish all Chinese developers:

Aspose.Slides has become No. 1!

2004-12-22T13:32:00Z

Congratulation!

Aspose.Slides is most popular in the .Net category at the most popular download website www.download.com during last week.

More info please check http://www.download.com/.NET/2001-10250_4-0.html?tag=dir and I just copy it here for your easier reference.

MOST POPULAR

Week ending December 19

1. Aspose.Slides
938 downloads

2. MyGeneration
405 downloads

3. Iron Speed Designer
231 downloads

4. 3D Developer Studio for Visual Basic .NET
200 downloads

5. MathML .NET Control
99 downloads

6. Forums.NET
99 downloads

Aspose will enter into the Java market

2004-11-18T02:41:00Z

Please check the following posts first.

Does Aspose run under Mono?

Aspose in Java

Since we always get requests to make Java equivalents of our best selling .NET components such as Aspose.Cells, Aspose.Word, Aspose.Slides, Aspose.Pdf, we decide to enter into the Java market.

As we will continue to make much more .NET components, I assume it's better for us to have a brand new website to be dedicated to Java components only. I will keep you updated on the new domain name, etc. but I welcome your input if it's a good idea to separate .NET and Java.

Anyway, now we're completely open to your requests on whatever you would find from this new venture. Feel free to post your Java component ideas at the public forum Aspose.Java.

By the way, we will not only make Java equivalents of our existing .NET components, but we will make any other marketable Java components too. We may make a .NET component first then port it to Java; or we may make a Java component first then port it .Net. So finally the ideal situation is, both products help each other to grow.

At Product Development Entrepreneur, we advertise to always need more .NET product developers. Now you can see we always need Java product developers too. If you're interested feel free to send your resume to info@aspose.com, indicating you're interested in being a Java product developer or .NET product developer or both.

Thank you for reading this blog and have a nice day!