This section contains information on the enhancements and new features available in the latest version of Aspose.Editor.

Support for tables

The major feature of this release is the brand new layout engine which supports tables rendering. It is now possible to work with tables in the document. Most table features are available including row breaking across pages, height rules and padding. Nested tables are also supported.

Underlines, Shading and Borders

Most underline types provided by Microsoft Word are now available in Aspose.Editor. Underlines are now accessible in the Font dialog.

Shading is available for cells, paragraphs and arbitrary ranges of text. All shading types are supported. Font and underline colors are resolved over shading like in Microsoft Word.

In this version of the Aspose.Editor cell borders are supported. Most border types are available.

Paragraph rules

More paragraph format properties are now supported. All paragraph format rules are available, including Widow/Orphan Control, Keep with next, Keep lines together and Page Break Before. Paragraph dialog now has a new tab which lists these properties. We've verified rules provide same layout as in Microsoft Word even within multiple columns of varying width.

Section types and column balancing

Many business documents use sections to organize document content in several groups of columns on the same page of the document. This widely used feature is now available in Aspose.Editor. You can also start sections from Odd or Even page in the document, like in Microsoft Word.

If you end a section with a continuous section break, then text columns are balanced automatically resulting in good looking layout.

Integrated document recovery

We always make our best to deliver stable and efficient software products. For this reason we spend much effort doing thorough testing which not only includes system tests but also performance and stress tests. Nevertheless, there is no software which is 100% free of defects. We recognize this and in order to mitigate the risk of loosing user data, we provide an embedded facility which allows for document recovery and error reporting.

Plugins

Aspose.Editor will now load external assemblies which contain plug-in modules. This is mostly usable in ASP.NET applications and was designed to simplify editor customization. Now it's easy to configure editor on the page without using jscript/vba client code, just use the same code as you would use in Windows Forms application. This can also be used to dynamically add new features to your application without rebuilding.