Aspose.Words for Java 24.2

What’s new in the Aspose.Words for Java 24.2

Release Highlights

Aspose.Words for Java 24.2 delivers 89 significant updates that enhance rendering, charting, Markdown processing, and document styling. This release introduces SVG save options for shape rendering, chart data table formatting, improved style visibility settings, and accurate footnote reference retrieval. Markdown document loading now supports preserving empty lines, while LINQ Reporting Engine gains compatibility with Word 2016 chart types like Treemap, Waterfall, and Histogram.

New Features

• SVG Save Options in Shape Rendering: ShapeRenderer.Save() and OfficeMathRenderer.Save() now accept SvgSaveOptions, enabling advanced SVG output customization.

• Preserve Empty Lines in Markdown Loading: A new PreserveEmptyLines property allows retaining visual separation when loading .md documents.

• Advanced Style Management: Added Priority, UnhideWhenUsed, and SemiHidden properties to the Style class, improving control over style visibility in Word UI.

• Chart Data Table API and Font Customization: New ChartDataTable and AxisTickLabels classes offer fine-grained control over chart table visibility, borders, and fonts.

• Support for Word 2016 Charts in LINQ Reporting Engine: Now supports Treemap, Sunburst, Histogram, Box & Whisker, Waterfall, Funnel, and Stock charts in templates.

• Retrieve Actual Reference Marks for Footnotes: New Footnote.ActualReferenceMark property and Document.UpdateActualReferenceMarks() method allow accurate footnote and endnote identification.

• New Appearance Property for Structured Tags: A new Appearance property added to StructuredDocumentTagRangeStart for flexible structured document tag presentation.

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

• Introduced MarkdownLoadOptions.PreserveEmptyLines to maintain empty lines when loading Markdown files.
• Added new style properties: Style.Priority, Style.UnhideWhenUsed, and Style.SemiHidden.
• NodeRendererBase.Save() methods now support SvgSaveOptions for SVG rendering.
• Introduced Footnote.ActualReferenceMark and Document.UpdateActualReferenceMarks() for tracking accurate footnote markers.
• Enhanced DrawingML Chart API:
  • Added ChartAxis.TickLabels and ChartAxis.Format.
  • Introduced ChartDataTable with multiple formatting options.
• Deprecated several ChartAxis properties now managed via TickLabels.

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For full list of updates, please visit Aspose.Words for Java 24.2 Release Notes.

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