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Aspose.Words for C++ 22.11 Release Notes
Major Features
There are 67 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:
- Implemented custom colored/grayscale printing mode.
- Added an ability to create the new structured document tags of Citation type.
- Implemented field updating progress tracking.
- Introduced the new property which allows to embed OLE attachments from the source document to the output PDF document.
- Changed default behavior when opening document of unknown format.
Limitations and API Differences
Aspose.Words for C++ has some differences as compared to its equivalent .NET version of the API. This section contains information about all such functionality that is not available in the current release. The missing features will be added in future releases.
- The current release does not support Metered license.
- The current release does not support LINQ and Reporting features.
- The current release does not support OpenGL 3D Shapes rendering.
- The current release does not support loading PDF documents.
- The current release has limited support for database features - C++ doesn’t have common API for DB like .Net System.Data.
- The current release supports Microsoft Visual C++ version 2017 or higher.
- The current release supports GCC 6.3 or higher and Clang 3.9.1 or higher on Linux and only for the x86_x64 platform.
- The current release supports macOS Big Sur or later (11.5+) for 64-bit Intel Mac platform.
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release (Reported by .NET Users)
Key | Summary | Category |
---|---|---|
WORDSNET-23333 | Provide an ability to track field updating progress | New Feature |
WORDSNET-23496 | Import the borders and the margins of block-level HTML elements during loading alt chunks | New Feature |
WORDSNET-23491 | Consider providing an ability to specify condition name in LINQ reporting syntax | New Feature |
WORDSNET-23489 | Support tag headers to match opening and closing tags for LINQ Reporting Engine | New Feature |
WORDSNET-24350 | Add a switch to trim the last paragraph break when inserting a document using LINQ Reporting Engine | New Feature |
WORDSNET-24421 | Use information from the OpenType OS/2 table for precise subscript and superscript font sizes | New Feature |
WORDSNET-14001 | Add feature to export OLE as attachment in PDF | New Feature |
WORDSNET-24395 | Incorrect horizontal offsets if display units are set after converting to PDF | New Feature |
WORDSNET-24520 | Date format of SDTs is lost after rendering | Bug |
WORDSNET-17324 | Document.Compare does not mimic MS Word behavior | Bug |
WORDSNET-17298 | It creates a new bullet and same change appears as both an insert and delete after Compare | Bug |
WORDSNET-14770 | Document.Compare generates incorrect revision in output DOCX | Bug |
WORDSNET-18187 | Comparing documents with AW gives different revisions from Word compare | Bug |
WORDSNET-21077 | Wrong detections of revisions - deletion of runs in the next paragraph | Bug |
WORDSNET-23713 | Cell preferred width does not match MS Word for RTF input | Bug |
WORDSNET-24375 | PDF to PDF with signing: Formatting issues | Bug |
WORDSNET-24266 | Axis title is rendered while it is invisible in MS Word | Bug |
WORDSNET-24490 | DocumentBuilder.InsertField methods do not support cursor position at the end of a structured document tag | Bug |
WORDSNET-24113 | TOC is not the same during DOCX->HTML->DOCX roundtrip | Bug |
WORDSNET-24399 | Circled digits should be rotated like ideographic characters when TextBox has vertical direction | Bug |
WORDSNET-24311 | System.Exception is thrown when HarfBuzz is used with Fody package | Bug |
WORDSNET-24470 | Part of content is lost after open/save DOCX document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24484 | Calculate of the position for the below bar | Bug |
WORDSNET-24467 | Exception when loading docx | Bug |
WORDSNET-24491 | DOCX to HTML: Link inside shapes refers to a non-existing external page | Bug |
WORDSNET-21894 | DOCX to PDF conversion issue with chart axis and labels | Bug |
WORDSNET-24408 | UnsupportedFileFormatException upon loading documents | Bug |
WORDSNET-24341 | Implement caching of background shape for PDF | Bug |
WORDSNET-24507 | DrHatchBrush shifted for cached shapes | Bug |
WORDSNET-24479 | Chart is not added to the OTT document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24176 | Text reflection position is incorrect after rendering to FixedHtml | Bug |
WORDSNET-24029 | FileCorruptedException is thrown upon loading HTML when BlockImportMode.Preserve is used | Bug |
WORDSNET-21348 | Document comparison issue with numbering | Bug |
WORDSNET-20025 | Position of bookmark is incorrect after moving cursor to paragraph and inserting bookmark | Bug |
WORDSNET-17074 | Tab stop are exported incorrectly when converting from DOCX to HTML | Bug |
WORDSNET-24473 | Document compare throws System.InvalidOperationException: Unexpected node type exception | Bug |
WORDSNET-24407 | Font is changed from “Calibri” to “Times New Roman” after comparing documents | Bug |
WORDSNET-24035 | Content is pushed to the next page, that lead to incorrect page count | Bug |
WORDSNET-24471 | Paragraph first line indent is incorrect after rendering | Bug |
WORDSNET-24366 | Date format in chart’s axis is incorrect | Bug |
WORDSNET-24036 | “w14:checked” is not Sdt.CheckBox direct value | Bug |
WORDSNET-24418 | PDF to DOCX: Footer overlap on the next page | Bug |
WORDSNET-24367 | Axis labels are rendered improperly | Bug |
WORDSNET-22096 | Error in low-level comparison algorithm | Bug |
WORDSNET-24437 | Formatting of heading is broken when use ImportFormatMode.UseDestinationStyles while appending document | Bug |
WORDSNET-23228 | Imitate MS Word behavior for handling invalid table preferred width values | Bug |
WORDSNET-24274 | Embedded PDF document is not rendered | Bug |
WORDSNET-24353 | Aspose.Words hangs upon rendering document | Bug |
WORDSNET-20220 | Table’s column width is changed after conversion from HTML to DOCX | Bug |
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release (Reported by Java Users)
Key | Summary | Category |
---|---|---|
WORDSNET-23141 | Support Nullable values at LINQ Reporting Engine tags where not Nullable values are expected | New Feature |
WORDSNET-20906 | Document Compare method incorrectly Deletes and then Inserts same Paragraph | Bug |
WORDSNET-18031 | Document.Compare generates incorrect revisions | Bug |
WORDSNET-17310 | Incorrect Revision for a List Paragraph when Comparing | Bug |
WORDSNET-18036 | Document.Compare generates incorrect revisions | Bug |
WORDSNET-24516 | NullReferenceException is thrown when check watermark type in the document without header/footer | Bug |
WORDSNET-24514 | FileCorruptedException is thrown upon loading DOCX document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24423 | DOCX to PDF: Placeholders in formula not rendered correctly | Bug |
WORDSNET-22563 | Document.Compare issue with document comments | Bug |
WORDSNET-24396 | Font size is incorrect after rendering the document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24483 | InvalidCastException is thrown upon comparing document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24444 | List list labels are incorrect after rendering document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24372 | IF field is updated improperly when REF field is used | Bug |
WORDSNET-24370 | Aspose.Words hangs upon rendering document | Bug |
WORDSNET-24429 | Span tags created for the blank lines when ExportLanguageToSpanTag is set | Bug |
WORDSNET-17087 | Make embedded objects in PDF clickable | Bug |
WORDSNET-23263 | Custom style does not apply after HTML to DOCX conversion | Bug |
Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes
This section lists public API changes that were introduced in Aspose.Words 22.11. 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 regression and modifies the existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.
Added PdfSaveOptions.EmbedAttachments property
Related issue: WORDSNET-14001
The new property allows to embed OLE attachments from source document to output PDF document.
/// Gets or sets a value determining whether or not to embed attachments to the PDF document.
/// Default value is <c>%false</c> and attachments are not embedded.
/// When the value is <c>%true</c> attachments are embedded to the PDF document.
/// Embedding attachments is not supported when saving to PDF/A and PDF/UA compliance.
/// <c>%false</c> value will be used automatically.
/// Embedding attachments is not supported when encryption is enabled. <c>%false</c> value
/// will be used automatically.
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API bool get_EmbedAttachments() const;
/// Setter for Aspose::Words::Saving::PdfSaveOptions::get_EmbedAttachments
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API void set_EmbedAttachments(bool value);
Allowed creation of structured document tags of Citation type
Related issue: WORDSNET-24458
Added an ability to create the new structured document tags of SdtType.Citation type.
Use Case:
auto doc = System::MakeObject<Document>();
// Create a structured document tag of the Citation type.
auto sdt = System::MakeObject<StructuredDocumentTag>(doc, SdtType::Citation, MarkupLevel::Inline);
// Append to a paragraph.
auto paragraph = doc->get_FirstSection()->get_Body()->get_FirstParagraph();
paragraph->AppendChild(sdt);
// Create a Citation field.
auto builder = System::MakeObject<DocumentBuilder>(doc);
builder->MoveToParagraph(0, -1);
builder->InsertField(u"CITATION Ath22 \\l 1033 ", u"(Author1, 2022)");
// Move the field to the structured document tag.
while (sdt->get_NextSibling() != nullptr)
sdt->AppendChild(sdt->get_NextSibling());
doc->Save(u"output.docx");
Changed default behavior when opening document of unknown format
Related issue: WORDSNET-24408.
We changed the behavior for the case when the format of the input document cannot be identified. Previously, we always threw an exception. Now we do this only if the input document has the file name extension .docx, .odt, or .sxw. In case the format of the input document cannot be identified and has an extension other than the above-mentioned, the format will be set to .txt.
Use Case:
void OpenDoc(System::String fileName)
{
try
{
System::SharedPtr<Aspose::Words::Document> doc = System::MakeObject<Aspose::Words::Document>(fileName);
}
catch (Aspose::Words::UnsupportedFileFormatException& e)
{
System::Console::WriteLine(u"{0} is opened with exception", fileName);
return;
}
System::Console::WriteLine(u"{0} is opened successfully", fileName);
}
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
System::String content(u'\x0000', 20);
System::IO::File::WriteAllText(u"a.doc", content);
OpenDoc(u"a.doc");
System::IO::File::WriteAllText(u"b.docx", content);
OpenDoc(u"b.docx");
}
// The code produces the following output:
// a.doc is opened successfully
// b.docx is opened with exception
Implemented field updating progress tracking
Related issue: WORDSNET-23333
The following property is added to FieldOptions class:
/// Gets <see cref="Aspose::Words::Fields::IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback">IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback</see> implementation.
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API const System::SharedPtr<Aspose::Words::Fields::IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback>& get_FieldUpdatingProgressCallback() const;
/// Sets <see cref="Aspose::Words::Fields::IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback">IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback</see> implementation.
void set_FieldUpdatingProgressCallback(const System::SharedPtr<Aspose::Words::Fields::IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback>& value);
New IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback interface is introduced:
/// Interface IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback
/// Implement this interface if you want to track field updating progress.
class ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_CLASS IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback : public System::Object
{
typedef IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback ThisType;
typedef System::Object BaseType;
typedef ::System::BaseTypesInfo<BaseType> ThisTypeBaseTypesInfo;
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_RTTI_INFO_DECL();
public:
/// A user defined method that is called when updating progress is changed.
virtual void Notify(System::SharedPtr<Aspose::Words::Fields::FieldUpdatingProgressArgs> args) = 0;
};
New FieldUpdatingProgressArgs class is introduced:
/// Provides data for the field updating progress event.
class ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_CLASS FieldUpdatingProgressArgs final : public System::Object
{
typedef FieldUpdatingProgressArgs ThisType;
typedef System::Object BaseType;
typedef ::System::BaseTypesInfo<BaseType> ThisTypeBaseTypesInfo;
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_RTTI_INFO_DECL();
public:
/// Gets the total fields count to be updated.
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API int32_t get_TotalFieldsCount() const;
/// Gets the number of updated fields.
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API int32_t get_UpdatedFieldsCount() const;
/// Gets a value indicating whether field updating is completed.
ASPOSE_WORDS_SHARED_API bool get_UpdateCompleted() const;
};
Use Case:
auto document = System::MakeObject<Document>(filename);
document->get_FieldOptions()->set_FieldUpdatingProgressCallback(System::MakeObject<FieldUpdatingProgressCallback>());
document->UpdateFields();
class FieldUpdatingProgressCallback : public IFieldUpdatingProgressCallback
{
virtual void Notify(System::SharedPtr<Aspose::Words::Fields::FieldUpdatingProgressArgs> args) override
{
System::Console::WriteLine(u"{0}/{1}", args->get_UpdateCompleted(), args->get_TotalFieldsCount());
}
}
Renamed PdfSaveOptions.CacheHeaderFooterShapes property
PdfSaveOptions.CacheHeaderFooterShapes property renamed to PdfSaveOptions.CacheBackgroundGraphics and enabled by default:
/// Gets or sets a value determining whether or not to cache graphics placed in document's background.
/// Default value is <c>%true</c> and background graphics are written to the PDF document as an xObject.
/// When the value is <c>%false</c> background graphics are not cached.
/// Some shapes are not supported for caching(shapes with fields, bookmarks, HRefs).
/// Document background graphic is various shapes, charts, images placed in the footer or header,
/// well as background and border of a page.
bool get_CacheBackgroundGraphics() const;
/// Setter for Aspose::Words::Saving::PdfSaveOptions::get_CacheBackgroundGraphics
void set_CacheBackgroundGraphics(bool value);
The new property allows you to cache the header/footer shapes and reduce the size of PDF output file. Use Case:
auto doc = System::MakeObject<Document>(filename);
auto saveOptions = System::MakeObject<PdfSaveOptions>();
saveOptions->set_CacheBackgroundGraphics(true);
doc->Save(outputFileName, saveOptions);