Released: Sep 18, 2024

Updates in V24.9

Features

• Group Shape Insertion: Added new public methods DocumentBuilder.InsertGroupShape.
• Structured Document Tag Insertion: Added a public API to insert StructuredDocumentTags using the DocumentBuilder class.
• Enhanced Radial Chart Rendering: Implemented the rendering of graduations on radial charts.
• Digital Signature Improvements: Added the ability to sign documents with XAdES-EPES level XML-DSig signatures.
• Markdown Formatting: Incorporated an option to recognize underline formatting when loading Markdown documents.
• Footnote/Endnote Separator Access: Provided public access to footnote/endnote separators.
• Provided a feature for getting details for format revisions.
• You can now create DML GroupShape.
• Provided API to Remove the Footnote Endnote Separator Line.
• Added the ability to format FootnoteSeparator/EndnoteSeparator.
• Provided API to detect and manipulate content of footnote endnote separators.
• Added support for Sensitivity Labels.
• Improved modifying paragraph style of the footnote separator and footnote continuation separator.
• You can now save PDF to WEBP directly without intermediate flow layout.
• You can now save PDF to EPS directly without intermediate flow layout.
• DOCX to PDF: Accessibility should now read the page number of visited document.
• Added the ability to handle documents labeled and/or protected by Microsoft Azure Information Protection Services.
• Implemented custom falloff for the path gradient rendering for .NET Standard.

Fixes

• DOCX to PDF: output has more pages (because Open Type Ligatures is not supported).
• Contents are shifted up to the page in output PDF.
• Body of Pages render a little above than the original Position.
• "Step down" logic returns incorrect position when line is wrapped around square and tight-wrapped floaters.
• DOCX to PDF: Footer content pulled down.
• DOCX to PDF: Header truncated to half the size.
• Space after the floating shape in the header is less than in the original document.
• Content is misplaced upon rendering document.
• Incorrect line Y after text wrapping.
• Incorrect text position after converting to PDF.
• Content position is changed in output PDF.
• Tick marks are lost upon rendering radar chart.
• EMF image is rendered a little darker than in the source document.
• Layout issue for document with Cambodian.
• Newly added content control does not inherit "Caption" style.
• Structural destination in PDF 2 structure is not created correctly in case of bookmark parent node spans over pages.
• InvalidCastException is thrown upon comparing document.
• Images overlap after rendering.
• Code blocks are improperly imported from markdown.
• HTML is not interpreted while loading Markdown.
• MailMerge field does not behave correctly with SUM formula.
• InvalidCastException is thrown upon using Document.ExtractPages method.
• RTF to PDF: Extra ? Symbol added.
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown upon updating fields.
• Chinese becomes Arabic numbering after conversion to HTML.
• Public key token is null in Aspose.Words.Pdf2Word.
• Add direct conversion from PDF to PCL format.
• Incorrect displaying table content after extracting page.
• FileCorruptedException is thrown upon loading DOCX document.
• Charts are rendered improperly when PdfCompliance.PdfA1a is used.
• Text is barely visible after rendering document to PDF.
• TestCorruptedJpeg is red on .NET Standard.
• InvalidOperationException is raised when saving document optimized for Word 2013 with added Word 2016 charts.
• Critical memory leak when splitting document into separate pages.
• Exception thrown during rendering of tables with diagonal borders.
• Pie charts slices are invisible after rendering.
• Extra paragraph added after open/save document.
• TestUI deletes temporary files earlier than necessary.
• Missed headings in navigation pane after conversion to EPUB.
• Remove obsolete properties of ChartAxis class.
• DOCX to PDF: Chart legend not rendered correctly.
• Incorrect rendering underline for formulas with fractions.
• Cannot add Word 2016 chart using Aspose.Words.
• XML to DOC: Footer structure changed.
• PDF produced by Aspose.Words does not pass PDF/UA validation.
• Aspose.Words duplicated table properties in rows in tblPrEx element.
• LowCode.Converter does not produce multi-page tiff from PDF.
• DocumentBuilder.EndTable sets DocumentBuilder.Font properties unexpectedly.
• DocumentBuilder.EndTable sets DocumentBuilder.Font.Bold to true.
• Different Font color after builder.EndTable in 17.7 and 14.1.
• Issue when changing Font immediately after DocumentBuilder.StartTable.
• TOA broke after updating the fields.
• Incorrect font metric is written when embedding font in SVG.
• DOCX to MD: Conversion raises ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
• Borders of a text box are rendered where they should not.
• InvalidOperationException when calling AddConverterFeatureIfNeeded().
• List style is changed after merging documents and calling Document.Cleanup method.
• Incorrect direction for Arabic text.
• Error "The type initializer for 'XY' threw an exception" in Docker Container.
• Number format behavior has been changed after 24.5 version in Norwegian culture.
• RAR archive is detected as TXT.
• PDF to DOC to PCL: Adds new page with PCL XL error.
• Allow English text to wrap in the middle of a word.
• Chinese glyph is missed after rendering.