Released: Mar 5, 2026

Updates in V26.2

Features

• Charts: Added the ability to set the orientation and rotation for both chart titles and axis titles.
• Mathematical Equations: Improved the rendering of EQ-matrix (MathML) elements for higher visual fidelity.
• Table Layout: Implemented the updated MS Word logic regarding the merging (or separation) of adjacent tables.
• Added support for aborting document save when image rendering fails.
• Refactored JAR signing mechanism.

Fixes

• URL to EULA is incorrect in POM file.
• New Gemini does not work with Aspose.Words.AI.
• Changed the exception thrown when using LoadFormat.PDF.
• FipsUnapprovedOperationException is thrown upon conversion to Markdown.
• Aspose.Words for Java 25.12 lost images in the converted PDF.
• Missed image with OpenJDK upon converting DOCX to PDF.
• HTML to PDF conversion issue with the width of table's cell.
• Document table layout is wrong after rendering.
• Table layout is changed after rendering.
• Bar chart is rendered improperly.
• MS Word detects 2 tables, while Aspose.Words detects only 1.
• DOCX to PDF - Incorrect table layout without UpdateTableLayout().
• Part of text in table is truncated at right after rendering HTML document.
• Table width in landscape section header is incorrect after rendering.
• DOCX to PDF - Table column width not re-calculated.
• Incorrect document layout upon rendering.
• Incorrect table width on MHTML to PDF conversion.
• Layout of the document is wrong.
• Incorrect line break in the header of a saved PDF.
• Content position is changed after conversion from HTML to PDF.
• Cell's text is rendered behind the image in output PDF.
• Shapes are overlapped after conversion from DOC to PNG.
• Line is incorrectly wrapped and justified when WordWrap is disabled.
• Track changes are lost in dropdown content controls mapped to Custom XML when saving DOCX.
• AW incorrectly calculates a space width if the space is adjacent to a tab.
• FileCorruptedException is thrown upon loading DOCX document.
• Text is mixed up upon PDF to DOCX import.
• Umlauts are lost after converting PDF to DOCX.
• Header content representation changed after conversion.
• NullReferenceException is thrown upon comparing documents.
• Misleading title of the "Open a Document Read-Only" article.
• Aspose.Words.LowCode.Merger.Merge - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
• Numeral format is changed after rendering document.
• Table border is shown after rendering.
• Hyphenation does not work for Serbian.
• Line ends with 'opposite' trailing spaces wraps incorrectly.
• Setting the cursor before SDT raises an exception.
• MathML is incorrectly imported from HTML.
• Corrupted document when exporting a cloned document to DOC in a multi-threaded mode.
• ArgumentException is thrown upon rendering document.
• EQ field is rendered improperly.
• Text "General" appears instead of values after converting to PDF.
• The scale of cached XObject is not taken into account for PdfImage.
• Document is truncated upon rendering.
• Part of content moved to the next page after rendering.
• Incorrect layout when rendering to DOCX.
• Artifacts upon rendering shape.
• Defect in Windows 11 after rendering.
• FontSubstitution adds a different font than expected.
• Incorrect table size after merging the documents.
• Fill pattern shifted for DML shapes in comparison with MS Word.
• The pattern fill is squeezed for VML shapes.
• ArgumentException is thrown upon inserting MathML.
• EQ field is rendered improperly, enclosure character is not rendered.
• EQ field is rendered improperly, overlayed content position is slightly incorrect.
• EQ field is not rendered as expected.
• EQ field is rendered incorrectly.