Aspose.Editor

Aspose.Editor for .NET 3.0.1

dmitryb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:24 GMT

This release includes a few useful features and bug fixes aimed to improve editing capabilities of Aspose.Editor control family.

Improvements:

- New ASP.NET demo was implemented for the editor. Demo uses new plugin architecture, no jscript and additional controls are required on the page. Editor is fully customizable from the C# code. Demo can open documents on the server, save documents to the server, upload documents from the local machine to the server and download document from the server to the local machine. Also there is a dialog where documents on the server can be browsed;

- Plugin API exposed in the public interface. Loading scheme was significantly improved and made flexible. Application can specify plugins in the configuration file, or load them dynamically. Plugins themselves now have new level of interoperability with the host application;

- Improved printing of documents with custom page settings. Now when document is printed page settings are properly handled for both print preview and printer in both desktop and ASP.NET applications;

- Editor now features dynamic context menu. Standard context menu is implemented and can be replaced with custom menu or populated with additional menu items (see how spell checker does this);

- New editor option IsKeepPageInsideWindow controls scrolling behavior. By default this option is enabled which limits scrolling to keep page always visible and prevent infinite scrolling;

- When selecting fragments with many elements (e.g. cells) editing performance may degrade. This is because of the slow painting of GDI+ when complex clipping area is used. Now there is new editor option IsTransparentSelection which switches selection rendering method to transparent selection instead of clipped selection. By default this options is disabled and editor uses clipping. To improve performance this option can be enabled programmatically;

- Now control can save documents in MHTML web archive format.

Bug fixes:

- When fragment with unknown element which contains style reference is copied control throws. Now style reference is removed from the unknown elements in the copied fragment.

- Document object if opened in the editor is not released until editor object goes out of scope. In desktop applications the issue may lead to a memory leak and continuously growing memory usage. This issue is fixed.

- New Aspose.Words integrated. This resolves "Arithmetic overflow" and "Invalid surrogate pair" errors when opening certain documents with invalid content.

- Column dialog may incorrectly calculate widths of the columns if page usable width is less than 107 pts.

Aspose.Editor for .Net 3.0.0 New Release

dmitryb — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:09:15 GMT

This is a major release which includes several new features.

A detailed description is here: http://www.aspose.com/documentation/visual-components/aspose.editor-for-.net/whats-new-in-version-3-0.html

New Features:

- Tables. Many features are supported, including automatic width calculation and nested tables. There is new table properties dialog. User can insert new table, change its structure and properties.

- Shading and borders. Now shading and borders are rendered. There is a new dialog for changing shading and borders.

- Paragraph rules, e.g. Widow/Orphan control. Paragraph format dialog was updated.

- All section break types, e.g. Even Page, and Column Balancing.

- Plug-in modules. Now client editor control can be customized by loading plug-in modules, there is no need to create additional control on the page for this purpose.

- Recovery. If control throws application may attempt to recover the document.

- Full support for DOCX/DOCM. Documents can now be opened and saved.

- New public methods which use base64 client document stream encoding. This feature simplifies implementing custom send/receive channels in java script on a web page. This is useful if session cookies cannot be passed to the editor in conjunction with forms authentication.

- Server control now supports embedding custom control tag on a page. This feature enables wrapping client control with custom user control which simplifies development when editor needs to provide public COM interfaces.

- New Zoom dialog. Also appearance of the UI was improved. Menus now display shortcuts. Style dialog will show tool tips. All fields which are used to enter width or height values will provide units of measure hint, e.g. "pt".

Fixed since 2.3.0:

- 252 - Exception if document contains zero height font formatting;

- 247 - Drag & drop of hyperlink throws exception;

- All issues on version 2.3.0 reported by customers through support forum;

Thumbnail Generator source code

dmitryb — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:18:23 GMT

This is a source code from the old Aspose.Editor.Desktop demo which shows how to produce a thumbnails programmatically.

Standard "Thumbnails..." command in Aspose.Editor calls the following code:

ExportThumbnailsDialog exportThumbnailsDialog = new ExportThumbnailsDialog();
exportThumbnailsDialog.Execute(editor.Document);

Aspose.Editor for .Net 2.3.0 New Release

dmitryb — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:57:16 GMT

This release includes a few useful features and bug fixes aimed to improve editing capabilities of Aspose.Editor control family.

A detailed description is here: http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Editor/Api/WhatsNewinVersion23.html

New Features:

- Spell Checking Support via Third-Party Components;

- Read-Only (Viewer) mode;

- Save Documents in Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX) Format;

- Optimized range manipulating procedures for higher performance.

Fixed since 2.2.1:

- 241 - When selected region of text is clicked (not dragged) selection shall collapse;

- 239 - Improve compatibility detection in the web demo (Win2000 problem);

- 243 - Command "Clear" works incorrectly (clearing only the first paragraph);

- 245 - Access to the Aspose.Pdf format is blocked;

Aspose.Editor 2.2.1 Hot Fix

dmitryb — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:21:20 GMT

This is a quick-support release, here is what's been done:

New Features:

- Plain text files loading support;

Fixed since 2.2.0:

- 231 - Corrupting pageSetup.TextColumns properties during open-save-open cycle on RTF files;

- 232 - PreloadStream doesn't convert document stream before sending to client.

Aspose.Editor for .Net 2.2.0 New Release

dmitryb — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:06:32 GMT

It’s a minor release built mostly to support our customers and includes implementation of features recently requested, bug fixes and optimizations.

Aspose.Editor now works on Microsoft Windows Vista 32bit!

Since control was tested only on 32bit Vista editions we cannot guarantee it working on 64bit editions, however it should work.

New Features:

- Windows Vista support (32bit officially);

- Text drag-and-drop inside document implemented (limited support outside of control);

- Visual Studio 2005 separate demo projects;

- .NET 2.0 binaries included;

Fixed since 2.1.0:

- Control freezes on cut-and-paste of last paragraph break of the document;

- Client environment support check is missing;

- Incorrect range attributes calculation;

- Incorrect locale recognition on document read/write operation;

- Internal controls (status bar, menu bar etc.) are installed in VS toolbox.

Aspose.Editor for .Net 2.1.0.0 New Release

dmitryb — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:46:00 GMT

This is a next release incorporating many enhancements and bug fixes for both desktop and client Aspose.Editor controls.

The main goal of this release was to improve user interface and provide standard controls expected from an editor application. Editor now features embedded ruler, main menu bar, tool bar and more. Developer can use provided standard controls, customize them or replace with third-party controls. This simplifies creating user-friendly editor applications and reduces development effort.

As always documentation and both web and desktop demo applications were updated to include these new features.

New Features:

- Standard controls:

o Horizontal ruler,

o Status bar,

o Main menu bar,

o Tool bars,

o and customizable scrollbars.