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Aspose.Words for .NET 16.4.0 Release Notes
This page contains release notes for Aspose.Words for .NET 16.4.0
Major Features
There are 94 improvements and fixes in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:
- Improved the speed of cold document creation and loading.
- Automatic detection of encoding of a text file.
- Import MathML from HTML documents.
- Improved positioning of pictures inside tables.
- PDF A1b compliancy improved.
- DML Charts effects support improved.
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release
| Key | Summary | Category |
|---|---|---|
| WORDSNET-10153 | List numbers are incorrect after conversion from Doc to Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-10321 | Docx to Pdf conversion issue with chart’s border | Bug |
| WORDSNET-10374 | Chart 3D bubbles have incorrect fill in output document. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-10690 | Document.UpdatePageLayout distroy the images | Bug |
| WORDSNET-11346 | Position of horizontal axis is incorrect. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-11862 | Textbox Shape Tight Reflection and other Transformation effects are lost during rendering | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12030 | ListLabel.LabelValue does not render in Pdf when track change is on | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12189 | Docx to Tiff conversion issue with shape rendering | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12435 | Formatting is lost after MSG to MHTML to PDF | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12437 | Character positions are not correct. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12687 | Accept revisions issue in tables | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12727 | /footnote balancing / The last paragraph contains one line (MW 2013) | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12862 | Docx to Xps conversion issue with text positions inside grouped textboxes. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12929 | New picture bullet feature is not working in Word for Mac 2011 | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12958 | List numbers are not aligned in output Html/Doc/Docx | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12973 | When saving a doc that contains a table with a specific predefined style a new custom style is created | Bug |
| WORDSNET-12983 | Visual issue (bug) with numeric bullets that contains parentheses and right to left characters when converting to html | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13073 | List numbers are changed after converting Docx to Doc/Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13074 | Docx to Pdf conversion issue with list numbers | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13094 | Shape is truncated inside frame after using FieldIncludePicture.SourceFullName | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13109 | /conforming borders/ Paragraph custom border appears twice in output Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13130 | Page break position is changed after re-saving Docx | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13135 | Document.Save issue with Google Chrome | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13144 | Aspose.Words messes up layout of images during open/save a DOC | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13148 | /hidden cell break/ Empty paragraph is not rendered in output Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13185 | Footnote number size is bigger in generated HTML | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13192 | The effect is not very good for the sake of formatting with character space | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13195 | Dml WordArt is rendered improperly if PresetTextWrap is present. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13199 | Error! Unknown op code for conditional when using double quotes in if mergefield | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13202 | Incorrect text wrapping in Cell causes one extra page in PDF | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13215 | Footnote’s reference mark position is changed after export to HTML | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13256 | Contents are duplicated after re-saving Rtf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13258 | Picture is positioned incorrectly inside table | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13260 | HeightRule.Auto does not automatically adjust row height | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13261 | ImageData.SourceFullName does not properly link the image | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13298 | Certain images don’t show up in the printed version of the generated report | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13299 | Aspose.Words does not accept changes in tables inside Word documents | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13302 | DocumentBuilder.InsertDocument changes the font size of list label in Docx | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13307 | Size of picture bullet is changed after import html into document | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13319 | Corrupt output when using Aspose to save MS Word document containing SmartArt | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13323 | /footnote balancing/Lines with a footnote pushed to the next page | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13326 | Docx to Pdf conversion issue with PdfA1b Compliance | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13345 | Yellow background gets automatically added in PDF for some links | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13349 | Chart elements are not positioned correctly in PDF | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13354 | Watermark (Shape) does not render correctly in output Xps/Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13371 | A blank page after TOC got removed when rendering | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13375 | Docx to SVG conversion issue with hyperlink in Chrome and Firefox | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13379 | Vertical scaling of bar staked chart is incorrect. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13380 | User shape in chart is rendered improperly. | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13385 | DML list levels indent is rendered incorrectly | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13386 | DML text is rendered incorrectly when shape is rotated | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13387 | ListLabel.LabelValue is incorrectly rendered in Pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13391 | Chart not correctly rendered to pdf | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13403 | Docx to Pdf conversion issue with field update | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13449 | Incorrect alignment of an RTL paragraph exported to EPUB | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13467 | Watermark hides behind SmartArt in output Doc | Bug |
| WORDSNET-5805 | Problem with nested mail merge | Bug |
| WORDSNET-5929 | /aps/ While converting doc to pdf, bottom line style changed. (table border) | Bug |
| WORDSNET-13177 | Table.AutoFit loses the merged cell formatting of table | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-13205 | Text is rendered incorrectly in output Pdf | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-13206 | Docx to Pdf/Doc conversion issue with position of shapes | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-13340 | Abstract our development environments from system font dependencies. | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-3018 | Theme based shading is lost when DOCX converted to DOC. | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-6124 | Allow DocumentBuilder to move correctly to StructuredDocumentTags | Enhancement |
| WORDSNET-13112 | MailMerge.Execute throws System.NullReferenceException | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13165 | Document.Save throws System.InvalidOperationException when Docx is saved to Html | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13286 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Rtf. | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13333 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Rtf | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13335 | System.InvalidCastException is thrown while saving Docx to Pdf | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13351 | GroupShape does not render in output Pdf | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13359 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Doc | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13363 | Document.AcceptAllRevisions throws “The bookmark range is invalid” exception | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13368 | System.InvalidOperationException is thrown while saving Docx to Pdf. | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13369 | System.NullReferenceException is thrown while saving Docx to Html | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13374 | System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown while saving Docx to Png | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13377 | Document.UpdatePageLayout throws System.NullReferenceException | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13381 | System.InvalidCastException occurs upon converting DOC to PDF | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13383 | “Not expected other boolex values here” exception occurs during open/save a DOC | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13384 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs upon loading a DOCX | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13388 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading Word 95 document | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13390 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs upon loading a MHT | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13401 | Document.AcceptAllRevisions throws System.InvalidOperationException | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13402 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException occurs upon loading a DOCX | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13412 | Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException is thrown while loading WordML | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13431 | Document.UpdatePageLayout throws System.NullReferenceException | Exception |
| WORDSNET-13439 | System.IO.IOException is thrown while loading Doc | Exception |
| WORDSNET-11342 | Support of MathML (Html5) | Feature |
| WORDSNET-12256 | TXT to PDF is not producing correct output due wrong text encoding detection. | Feature |
| WORDSNET-12833 | Add feature to export SDT to Div tag | Feature |
| WORDSNET-12858 | Add feature to auto detect the text encoding of text file | Feature |
| WORDSNET-13310 | Add feature to preserve cross reference during DOCX>HTML>DOCX round-trip | Feature |
| WORDSNET-13293 | WORDSNET-12619 appears again in v16.2.0 | Regression |
| WORDSNET-13311 | All text after STRONG tag contained in PRE tag becomes bold in output documents | Regression |
| WORDSNET-13331 | Width of wide cell of table is changed in output Pdf | Regression |
Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes
This section lists public API changes that were introduced in Aspose.Words 16.4.0. 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.
Field.Update() Overload Added
In order to fix WORDSNET-13094, we decided to introduce a way to update a field ignoring the MERGEFORMAT switch. We have added following overload:
public void Update(bool ignoreMergeFormat)