Aspose.Words for Java 18.5 Release Notes

Major Features

There are 75 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

• Added public property StructuredDocumentTag.Color 
• Improved logic to detect the encoding of a short TXT file.
• Fixed line wrapping with trailing spaces at the end
• Fixed issue with paragraph after spacing in headers/footers
• Fixed issue with table width when widthAfter is specified for a jagged table
• Fixed issue with table width with complex column layout and default widths
• Fixed breaking of floating table row in compatibility mode
• Fixed issue with floating frame pushed from the page because of invalid wrap point
• Implemented support for “distribute space” and “distribute letter” types of alignment when rendering Ruby objects
• Improved rendering of a Doughnut DrawingML Chart with multiple series
• Improved rendering of DrawingML Charts data labels with the direct layout and a layout specified in the extension properties
• Fixed a problem with metafile rendering when glyph offsets were wrongly read for EMF_EXTTEXTOUT record with glyph indices
• Fixed a problem with processing of control character (U+0019) in the text when rendering
• Fixed a problem with Adobe “Fast Find” function (words searching) in rendered PDF documents
• Fixed a bug with inaccurate processing of EMR_ALPHABLEND record while rendering metafiles. This bug caused a loss of fill in some figures
• Fixed a bug with rendering of PieChart data label separator when it is set directly
• Fixed rendering of a dashed line shapes with a shadow
• LINQ Reporting Engine supports ?. and ?[] null-conditional operators in template expressions

Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in Aspose.Words 18.5. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in Aspose. Words which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

Added Public Property StructuredDocumentTag.Color

This property allows to control the Color of a content control.

/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the color of the structured document tag.
/// </summary>
public java.awt.color Color

The Color affects content control in two situations: \1) MSW highlights the background of the content control when the mouse moves over the content control. This helps user to identify that it is a content control. The color of highlighting is a bit “softer”, than the Color. For example, MSW highlights background with the pink color, when Color is Red. \2) When user interacts (editing, picking etc) with the content control, the border of content control is colored with the Color.

Example of use:

Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "input.docx");
StructuredDocumentTag sdt = (StructuredDocumentTag)doc.getChild(NodeType.STRUCTURED_DOCUMENT_TAG, 0, true);
sdt.setColor(Color.RED);
dataDir = dataDir + "SetContentControlColor_out.docx";

// Save the document to disk.
doc.save(dataDir);

Obsolete Property HtmlSaveOptions.ExportMetafileAsRaster was Removed

Obsolete property ExportMetafileAsRaster was removed from the HtmlSaveOptions class. Please use the HtmlSaveOptions.MetafileFormat property instead.

Supported Null-Conditional Operators in Template Expressions for LINQ Reporting Engine

Related issue: WORDSNET-16227

The “Using Operators” section of the engine’s documentation was updated to describe the change.