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Aspose.Slides for CPP 20.9 Release Notes

Supported Platforms

  • Aspose.Slides for C++ for Windows (Microsoft Visual C++).
  • Aspose.Slides for C++ for Linux (Clang).

New Features and Enhancements

KeySummaryCategory
SLIDESNET-42081Id attribute generating support for the individual tspan in SVGEnhancement

Other Improvements and Changes

KeySummaryCategory
SLIDESCPP-2409Use Aspose.Slides for .NET 20.9 featuresEnhancement
SLIDESCPP-2585Fix memory consumption issuesEnhancement
SLIDESCPP-2583Improve thumbnails rendering quality (20.9)Enhancement

Public API Changes

3D Support has been added

We are announcing our own cross-platform 3D engine in Aspose.Slides 20.9 for creating 3D models.

Find more about 3D Presentation.

IBulletFormatEffectiveData::get_FillFormat() method has been added

A new get_FillFormat() method has been added to IBulletFormatEffectiveData interface. Using this method allows to get an effective value of paragraph bullet fill.

Method declaration:

/// <summary>
/// Returns the bullet fill format of a paragraph.
/// Read-only <see cref="Aspose::Slides::IFillFormatEffectiveData">IFillFormatEffectiveData</see>.
/// </summary>
virtual System::SharedPtr<IFillFormatEffectiveData> get_FillFormat() = 0;

The code snippet below demonstrates retrieving bullet’s fill effective data:

using namespace System;
using namespace Aspose::Slides;

auto pres = MakeObject<Presentation>(u"SomePresentation.pptx");
// Assume that the first shape on the first slide is AutoShape with some text...
// Output information about text paragraphs' bullets
auto autoShape = DynamicCast<AutoShape>(pres->get_Slides()->idx_get(0)->get_Shapes()->idx_get(0));
for (auto para : IterateOver(autoShape->get_TextFrame()->get_Paragraphs()))
{
    auto bulletFormatEffective = para->get_ParagraphFormat()->get_Bullet()->GetEffective();
    Console::WriteLine(String(u"Bullet type: ") + ObjectExt::ToString(bulletFormatEffective->get_Type()));
    if (bulletFormatEffective->get_Type() != BulletType::None)
    {
        Console::WriteLine(String(u"Bullet fill type: ") + ObjectExt::ToString(bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_FillType()));
        switch (bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_FillType())
        {
            case FillType::Solid:
                Console::WriteLine(String(u"Solid fill color: ") + bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_SolidFillColor());
                break;

            case FillType::Gradient:
            {
                Console::WriteLine(String(u"Gradient stops count: ") + bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_GradientFormat()->get_GradientStops()->get_Count());
                for (auto gradStop : IterateOver(bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_GradientFormat()->get_GradientStops()))
                {
                    Console::WriteLine(Convert::ToString(gradStop->get_Position()) + u": " + gradStop->get_Color());
                }
                break;
            }

            case FillType::Pattern:
                Console::WriteLine(String(u"Pattern style: ") + ObjectExt::ToString(bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_PatternFormat()->get_PatternStyle()));
                Console::WriteLine(String(u"Fore color: ") + bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_PatternFormat()->get_ForeColor());
                Console::WriteLine(String(u"Back color: ") + bulletFormatEffective->get_FillFormat()->get_PatternFormat()->get_BackColor());
                break;

            default:
                break;
        }
    }
    Console::WriteLine();
}

Existing IBulletFormatEffectiveData::get_Color() and IBulletFormatEffectiveData::get_Picture() methods have been marked as obsolete and will be removed since Aspose.Slides 21.9 release. It is recommended to use IBulletFormatEffectiveData::get_FillFormat::get_SolidFillColor() and IBulletFormatEffectiveData::get_FillFormat::get_PictureFillFormat() methods instead, as they return the same data accordingly.

IBulletFormat::GetEffective() method has been added

A new GetEffective() method has been added to IBulletFormat interface and BulletFormat class. It allows to get an effective value of bullet formatting properties.

Method declaration:

/// <summary>
/// Gets effective bullet formatting data with the inheritance applied.
/// </summary>
virtual System::SharedPtr<IBulletFormatEffectiveData> GetEffective() = 0;

The code snippet below demonstrates retrieving some of the bullet’s effective data:

using namespace System;
using namespace Aspose::Slides;

auto pres = MakeObject<Presentation>(u"MyPresentation.pptx");
auto shape = DynamicCast_noexcept<IAutoShape>(pres->get_Slides()->idx_get(0)->get_Shapes()->idx_get(0));
auto effectiveBulletFormat = shape->get_TextFrame()->get_Paragraphs()->idx_get(0)->get_ParagraphFormat()->get_Bullet()->GetEffective();

Console::WriteLine(String(u"Bullet type: ") + ObjectExt::ToString(effectiveBulletFormat->get_Type()));
if (effectiveBulletFormat->get_Type() == BulletType::Numbered)
{
    Console::WriteLine(String(u"Numbered style: ") + ObjectExt::ToString(effectiveBulletFormat->get_NumberedBulletStyle()));
    Console::WriteLine(String(u"Starting number: ") + effectiveBulletFormat->get_NumberedBulletStartWith());
}

Please note that an existing way of getting bullet’s effective properties via IParagraph::CreateParagraphFormatEffective()::get_Bullet() is also valid and still works.

Support for Id attribute generation for the individual tspan in SVG has been added

The ISvgShapeAndTextFormattingController interface, ISvgTSpan interface and SvgTSpan class have been added for tspan Id attribute manipulation in SVG.

ISvgShapeAndTextFormattingController declaration:

/// <summary>
/// Controls SVG shape and text generation.
/// </summary>
class ASPOSE_SLIDES_API_SHARED_CLASS ISvgShapeAndTextFormattingController : public ISvgShapeFormattingController
{
public:
    /// <summary>
    /// This function is called before rendering of text portion to SVG to allow user to control resulting SVG.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="svgTSpan">Object to control SVG tspan generation.</param>
    /// <param name="portion">Source portion.</param>
    /// <param name="textFrame">Source portion text frame.</param>
    virtual void FormatText(SharedPtr<ISvgTSpan> svgTSpan, SharedPtr<IPortion> portion, SharedPtr<ITextFrame> textFrame) = 0;
};

The code snippet below shows how to use ISvgShapeAndTextFormattingController interface:

using namespace System;
using namespace Aspose::Slides;

void SaveSlideToSVG()
{
    auto pres = MakeObject<Presentation>(u"presentation.pptx");
    auto svgOptions = MakeObject<SVGOptions>();
    svgOptions->set_ShapeFormattingController(MakeObject<CustomSvgShapeFormattingController>(0));

    auto fs = MakeObject<IO::FileStream>(u"slide.svg", IO::FileMode::Create, IO::FileAccess::Write);
    pres->get_Slides()->idx_get(0)->WriteAsSvg(fs, svgOptions);
    fs->Close();
}

class CustomSvgShapeFormattingController : public Export::ISvgShapeAndTextFormattingController
{
public:
    CustomSvgShapeFormattingController(int32_t shapeStartIndex = 0)
        : m_shapeIndex(shapeStartIndex), m_portionIndex(0), m_tspanIndex(0)
    {
    }

    void FormatShape(SharedPtr<Export::ISvgShape> svgShape, SharedPtr<IShape> shape) override
    {
        svgShape->set_Id(String::Format(u"shape-{0}", m_shapeIndex++));
        m_portionIndex = m_tspanIndex = 0;
    }

    void FormatText(SharedPtr<Export::ISvgTSpan> svgTSpan, SharedPtr<IPortion> portion, SharedPtr<ITextFrame> textFrame) override
    {
        int32_t paragraphIndex = 0;
        int32_t portionIndex = 0;
        for (int32_t i = 0; i < textFrame->get_Paragraphs()->get_Count(); i = i + 1)
        {
            portionIndex = textFrame->get_Paragraphs()->idx_get(i)->get_Portions()->IndexOf(portion);
            if (portionIndex > -1)
            {
                paragraphIndex = i;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (m_portionIndex != portionIndex)
        {
            m_tspanIndex = 0;
            m_portionIndex = portionIndex;
        }

        svgTSpan->set_Id(String::Format(u"paragraph-{0}_portion-{1}_{2}", paragraphIndex, m_portionIndex, m_tspanIndex++));
    }

private:
    int32_t m_shapeIndex, m_portionIndex, m_tspanIndex;
};