Hi,

         We have an issue in displaying some of the characters in wingdings font style by using CloneSlide method.  In the source presentation slide, we have an applied the wingdings font for the character " á" which will display the character as up arrow. While cloning the source slide to another presentation,  in the cloned slide the font applied for the character " á" is changed to Arial which is resulting in diaplying wrong data. Please look in to this issue and let us know whether there is any workaround and what could be done for the permanent fix. Thank You.

Please find more details for the above issue.

 1. Source PPT and Cloned PPT are attached for your reference.

 2. Sample source code to replicate the issue. 
 
Below is the sample code snippet to replicate this issue.

Slide slide = null;

Presentation source = new Presentation(@"C:\temp\Source.ppt");

SortedList temp = new SortedList();

Presentation m_presentation = new Presentation();

slide = source.Slides[0];

source.CloneSlide(slide, m_presentation.Slides.LastSlidePosition + 1, m_presentation, temp);

m_presentation.Slides.RemoveAt(0);

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

if (stream != null)

{

m_presentation.Write(stream);

}

FileStream file = new FileStream(@"c:\temp\Cloned.ppt", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

byte[] bytes = stream.ToArray();

file.Write(bytes, 0, (int)stream.Length);

Hi Mahalakshmi,

Thanks for your interest in Aspose.Slides.

Please accept my apology for late response. I have tested the scenario and I am able to reproduce the same problem. For the sake of correction, I have logged this issue as SLIDESNET-31847 in our issue tracking system. Our team will look into this issue and you will be updated via this forum thread once this issue is resolved.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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Tahir Manzoor
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Hi Manzoor,

 

Hi Mahalakshmi,

I have verified from our issue tracking system and regret to share with you that this issue is not resolved yet. However, I have asked for the ETA of this issue from our development team. As soon as, any information is shared by them, I will be more then happy to share that with you.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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Best Regards,
Tahir Manzoor
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Hi Manzoor,

Can we have any update on this?

 

Thanks,

Mahalakshmi

Hi Mahalakshmi,

Please accept my apology for late response. I am waiting of the response form our development team about the ETA of this issue. I will update you via this forum thread once I get response from them.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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Best Regards,
Tahir Manzoor
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Hi Manzoor,

We have a production release by the weekending 9 DEC, 2011. Users are awaiting for this issue getting fixed then. Hence we need an ETA ASAP from your end on when can we expect the fix. Even a work around from your end on this issue would be really appreciable.

It would be helpful if you can expedite the response from your development team since our wait has been for more than 2 weeks.

Thanks,

Mahalakshmi.M

 

Hi Mahalakshmi,

I have received response from our development team and like to share with you that this issue has been scheduled for detail investigation for 51st week of this year.

We really appreciate your patience.

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Tahir Manzoor
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Hi Manzoor,

Can you update us on this issue? We would need an ETA for a fix and also a possible work around from your end to overcome this issue.

Regards

Mahalakshmi

Hi Mahalakshmi,

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Hi Fayyaz,

Do you have updates on this? Any possible ETA from your end?

Regards

Mahalakshmi

Hi Mahalakshmi,

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Hi Fayaaz,

Is this issue resolved? If so, where can we download the latest DLL?

Thanks,

Mahalakshmi M

Hi Mahalakshmi,

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Hi Mudassir,

Thanks for the resolution and with the new DLL we have been able to successfully clone the slide.

While checking with the new DLL (Aspose Slides 5.9.0), the cloned PPT has some background text along with the original content.  Please find the attached "Cloned_New_Dll.PPT" for your reference. We have a valid license for Aspose slides. Kindly provide the solution to overcome this issue.

The property "FontIndex" is support by the OLD DLL, but the new DLL is signifying us to change it to "FontId". Kindly let us know the changes made to the new DLL such as any classes or properties renamed, or any behaviour difference with old dll.

 

Thanks,

Mahalakshmi M.