HTML Text Formatting

What's New in this Release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.3.0. This month release includes new feature to calculate Table width and embed media files(audio and video) in PDF document along with some other important features. Aspose team has also enhanced Footnote feature and HTML text support in this version in addition to many other bug fixes reported in old releases that improves the APIs functionality. Aspose team has implemented a new annotation RichMediaAnnotation in Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.3. It is used to embed media files within PDF document. In fact RichMediaAnnotation is container for SWF (Flash) script. Due to license restriction Aspose team cannot include third-party flash scripts in our product, so users should provide their own script for playing video or audio. For example users can use VideoPlayer and AudioPlayer shipped with Adobe Acrobat. Please check documentation link for sample code and details to embed video/audio files in PDF document. In some scenarios, users have not hard coded the Table width in PDF document and later users want to know its width for some post processing. This release introduced a new method GetWidth() to calculate Table width in this release. Aspose.Pdf supports insertion of HTML string in PDF document. If HTML specified fonts are available on host system then it uses same fonts, otherwise it uses system default fonts for HTML string. It has received some requirements to support font overriding feature for HTML string. This release implemented TextState object in HtmlFramgent class, now users can override font details of HTML string. In current release, It has also added support to set color of FootNote label(node identifier). It has implemented TextState object in FootNote class. Users can set FootNote label color using TextState.  The list of important new and improved features are given below

Support feature to calculate Table Cell width

Find table width

Movie is not embedded inside PDF file

PDF to PDF/A-2u - Support this conversion format

Setting Footnote Text color

Support of TextState in HtmlFragment

When color PDF is converted to grayscale, the text stays in color while the picture is black-white

When PDF is converted to TIFF, the output file has black boxes

When PDF converted to PDF_A_1B, the first page is missing a picture

PDF to PDFA1b: compliance failure due to CMYK error

PDF to PDF/A - white image background overlaps background image

PCL to PDF: incorrect output is generated

Incorrect ColorType information is being returned

Pdf file is not compilant with PDF/A-1a format (transparency and missing objects)

PDF to PDF/A - Conversion process takes too much time

PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file is too large

Page color is being detected BlackandWhite instead RGB

RgbToDeviceGrayConversionStrategy convert RGB to black and white instead grayscale

Hyperlink is not working in FloatingBox

Character's size issue when rendering pdf into html

Line Spacing Increased on Multiline Textbox

Latest Aspose.Pdf don't show correct ImagePlacement.Rotation

PDF to PDF/A - Missing contents and formatting issues

PDF to DOCX: TOC alignment issue

When PDF is converted to PDF_A_1B, output file is still PDF

When PDF is converted to PDF_A_1B, output file is still classic PDF

Conversion Pdf to Pdfa - output not compliant

When PDF is converted to HTML, produced HTML looks bad and some letters are stretched

PDF to JPEG - Some symbols look like different in resultant file

Additional characters (curly braces) when converting XPS to PDF

PDF to HTML - Color filling isn't displayed for some objects

XFA form is not being converted to Standard Acro Form

PDF to DOCX - Resultant text appears to be in Russian

PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file gets corrupted

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide users riefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Adding RichMediaAnnotation

Add SWF File Annotation to PDF Document

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

More about Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Homepage of Aspose.Pdf for .NET C#

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