Thursday, July 24, 2014

Create/Edit Worksheet Scenarios & Enhanced Spreadsheets to HTML in Android

What’s new in this release?

Aspose development team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for Android v8.1.1. Scenarios are part of a suite of commands called what-if analysis tools provided by Microsoft Excel. What-if analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes affect the outcome of formulas on the worksheet. They are useful for forecasting and financial models. Microsoft Excel saves a set of values in a scenario, and can automatically substitute these values in the worksheet. Aspose.Cells for Android has provided support for scenarios to allow you to create, manipulate and remove scenarios without the need of Microsoft Excel. Aspose.Cells for Android has exposed many useful classes. The class HtmlSaveOptions has been enhanced further to render HTML results with better layout and presentation. The feature is now available through the Boolean PresentationPreference property which can be set to true when exporting spreadsheets to HTML format to get a better presentation layout. For further elaboration on this topic, please check the detailed article on using the PresentationPreference option. Aspose.Cells for Android 8.1.1 has provided fixes and other enhancements for several important issues, such as, reading Microsoft Excel files, manipulating styles and calculating formulas, manipulating charts and shapes, rendering & manipulating conditional formatting, fonts related issues while rendering to PDF files, Sheet to image bugs and localized formulas formats etc. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below
  • Support GridWeb for Java
  • Cell.StringValue/DisplayStringValue returns # for thin columns when Worksheet.DisplayZeros=false
  • Give meaningful messages for CellsException when loading a damaged spreadsheet
  • Conditional formatting background colors are now rendered in the PDF
  • Setting the ImageOrPrintOptions' Transparency renders the PNG with Black Background is now fixed
  • XLSX to PDF: CellsHelper.setFontDir does not seem to pick the fonts is fixed
  • Cell.getType() is detecting number as datetime is now fixed
  • Support for localized formats in formulas is now fixed
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Overview: Aspose.Cells for Android

Aspose.Cells for Android is a MS Excel spreadsheet component that allows programmer to develop android applications for reading, writing & manipulate Excel spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX, XLSM, SpreadsheetML, CSV, tab delimited) and HTML file formats without needing to rely on Microsoft Excel. It supports robust formula calculation engine, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, custom charts, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects like images, OLE objects & importing or creating charts.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

PDF Document to Image & Text File to PDF Conversion are Enhanced in Android Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is excited to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Android 1.3.0. This new release includes fixes for issues reported in earlier versions. One of the areas where fixes have been introduced is text file to PDF conversion using TextBuilder. With this new release, you can convert text files to PDF format with the new Document Object Model com.aspose.pdf package. The PDF to image conversion feature is greatly improved. Starting with this release, the PdfConverter class provides great stability for PDF to image conversion and caters for many complex scenarios. So now you can convert any PDF document to image format with great fidelity. We also know that on the Android platform, standard font files like Arial.TTF are inaccessible. Therefore some standard fonts like Helvetica are incorrectly displayed in files created on Android. To resolve this problem, TTF fonts for standard fonts (Arial, Times New Roman etc.) are packed and loaded.
  • TEXT to PDF conversion issue is resolved - using textbuilder
  • PdfConverter produces corrupted output
  • Incorrectly PDF File conversion is now corrected
  • Incorrect text position in converted file is now corrected
  • TrueType fonts are inaccessible for standard fonts are fixed
  • Null reference exception is resolved in PdfConverter
Overview: Aspose.Pdf for Android

Aspose.Pdf for Android is a PDF document creation & manipulation component that enables Android applications to read, write & manipulate PDF document without using any other third party application. It allows PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, support for graph objects, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks, create table of contents, add, update, delete attachments & annotations, import or export PDF form data, print PDF docs &  much more.