Aspose.Slides appears to remove the Bold Face format of the title of these slides just by openning and save it.
Would you please run this test and test me why? This happens with these versions that I tested: 2.8.6.0 and 2.8.4.0.  Both the source and result ppt files are attached.

These are my simple lines of code:

Imports Aspose.Slides
Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        Dim license As License = New License
        license.SetLicense("../../Aspose.Total.lic")

        Dim pres As Presentation = New Presentation("../../test.ppt")
        pres.Write("../../result.ppt")

    End Sub
End Module

Dear Kam,

Thanks for reporting.

We are already fixing this problem and will release fixed version as soon as possible.

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Engineer
Aspose Tyumen Team

Shakeel:

I noticed a few more anomalies here.  Would you please add to the fix list?  I have attached two presentations, input and the result.  Below are the issues:
-- output can lose the bullet points.  (see slide 1)
-- output can lose the italicized formatting.
-- green bullet points can become black bullet points.
-- first part of line loses bold face formatting while the rest gained bold face formatting when it should not.
    (see slide # 6)

Would you have any estimate how long would take Aspose to fix these issues?

I used the same program as pointed out before for this test.  Thanks.

Yes, we will add them for testing. new release should be available before the end of next week.

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Engineer
Aspose Tyumen Team

Would you have an update on these fixes?  Will it be available soon?  You were expecting to have it ready by today.

Thanks.

Dear Kam,

Please try the new version of Aspose.Slides 2.8.7.0. It has fixed most of the previous problems relating to bold/italic formatting getting lost or corrupted.

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Engineer
Aspose Tyumen Team

I upgraded to Version 2.8.7.0.  I used it to produced a presentation that has 41 slides with embedded excel charts.  I found this version only generated 10 slides and cut off the rest.  If I remove the charts, I get further and got 20 slides but still with many missing.

I know just merely opening an existing template and saving it into a new ppt file does not cause this problem.  I am trying to find out under exactly what situations this can happen, if you hear similar comments or perhaps already know about this, please let me know.

Thanks.

It appears that the Presentation.CloneSlide(...) in version 2.8.7.0 has some problems.
When I use the following problem to loop through a presentation to copy all the slides in a source presentation, it tells me that some object has null reference when every object has been instantiated.
Furthermore, I try another source ppt file and I have no problem.  It appears this problem only present when I use certain input presentation ppt files.  i.e., something in an input ppt files can cause an exception when I use the CloneSlide(...) method.  Attached is one such ppt file that give me this problem. I do not have this problem with the version 2.8.4.0


Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Dim license As License = New License
        license.SetLicense("../../Aspose.Total.lic")

        'Dim SourcePres As Presentation = New Presentation("../../input.ppt")
        Dim sourcePres As Presentation = New Presentation("../../test.ppt")
        Dim targetPres As New Presentation
        copySelectedSlides(sourcePres, targetPres)
        targetPres.Write("../../result.ppt")

    End Sub

    Private Sub copySelectedSlides(ByVal srcPres As Presentation, ByVal targetPres As Presentation)
        Dim slidePos As Integer

        For slidePos = 1 To srcPres.Slides.LastSlidePosition
            Dim srcSlide As Slide = srcPres.GetSlideByPosition(slidePos)

            If srcSlide Is Nothing Then
                Console.WriteLine("ERROR: encounter null srcSlide ref.  Slide pos=" & slidePos.ToString)
                Console.Read()
            End If

            Dim sList As SortedList = New SortedList()

            If sList Is Nothing Then
                Console.WriteLine("ERROR: encounter null slist ref.  Slide pos=" & slidePos.ToString)
                Console.Read()
            End If

            If srcPres Is Nothing Then
                Console.WriteLine("ERROR: encounter null srcPres ref.  Slide pos=" & slidePos.ToString)
                Console.Read()
            End If

            If targetPres Is Nothing Then
                Console.WriteLine("ERROR: encounter null targetPres ref.  Slide pos=" & slidePos.ToString)
                Console.Read()
            End If

            srcPres.CloneSlide(srcSlide, targetPres.Slides.LastSlidePosition + 1, targetPres, sList)
        Next
    End Sub

I found another problem with version 2.8.7.0.
I am still losing the bold face format with some slides.
After I run the program below, the bold face format that the text on the right side of the chart is lost.
i.e., the input file, Infile.ppt has bold face in the text, result.ppt does not have bold face.  Both of these files are attached.


Sub Main()
        Dim license As License = New License
        license.SetLicense("../../Aspose.Total.lic")

        Dim pres As Presentation = New Presentation("../../Infile.ppt")
        pres.Write("../../result.ppt")
End Sub

Would someone please confirm if you see the same problems in version 2.8.7.0 (posted in the previous 2 postings) as I do?  Thanks.

Yes, there are still problems in formatting, we will look into them and fix them as soon as possible.

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Engineer
Aspose Tyumen Team

Any news about the fix you are working on?  When do you expect the fix to be available?

I have version 2.8.7.0 now.

Thanks.

Hello,

Everything works fine with latest build. So that means problem already fixed.
New version will be available on this week.

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Alexey Zhilin
Team Leader
Aspose Tyumen Team
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I just tried you version 2.8.8.0.  The problem I pointed out on Aug 19 (reply #140434) is still there.
It cannot copy certain slides in a presentation.  It would complain about null exception even when all objects have been instantiated.

I tried copy all slides from multiple presentations to make one big presentation.  The application is not able to copy all the slides and exit silently without crashing. You replicate the situation by using the program and input file that I provided in my Aug 19 reply #140434.

When I switch back to version 2.8.4.0, I do not have this problem.

Would you please fix this ASAP as I have been waiting for a release that would fix all the issues pointed out in this series of messages.

Thank you.

Looks like a broken structure of the 6th slide.
2.8.4 and older version were not sensitive to this problem but for the right work of the last hot fixes
structure can't have errors for correct copying portion and paragraph properties.

I will check if we can write workaround.
Anyway, it's not possible to guarantee right slide cloning in this case.

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Alexey Zhilin
Team Leader
Aspose Tyumen Team
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