Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Create, Edit & Convert PowerPoint Presentations using Cloud SDK for Android

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose for Cloud Android SDK.  Aspose for Cloud is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers. Aspose for Cloud’s REST APIs give developers on all platforms total control over documents and file formats. It interoperates seamlessly with other cloud services. Aspose for Cloud makes it easy for web and mobile app developers to work with Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Adobe PDFs, OpenDocument formats, barcodes, OCR and email formats and protocols in their apps. Our REST API can be called from any platform: .NET, Java, Android, iOS, Ruby, Salesforce, and Amazon, to mention a few.
Following new APIs have been added to this release to work with Presentation documents
  • Convert PowerPoint Documents to other File Format Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to convert a PowerPoint document to other file format using third party storage.
  • Get Aspect Ratio of a PowerPoint Slide: This API allows you to get height, width and aspect ratio of a PowerPoint slide.
  • Save a Particular Slide as Image with Default Size Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to save a particular slide as image with default size using third party storage.
  • Save a Particular Slide as Image with Specified Size Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to save a particular slide as image with specified size using third party storage.
  • Delete All Slides from a Presentation Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to delete all slides from a presentation using third party storage.
  • Get Slide Count Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to get PowerPoint document slide count using third party storage.
  • Get Number of Images in a Presentation Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to get total number of images in a presentation using third party storage.
  • Get Number of Images in a Slide Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to get total number of images in a slide using third party storage.
  • Extract Shapes from a Slide Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to extract shapes from a particular slide using using third party storage.
  • Get All Text Items from a Presentation Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to get all text items from a presentation using third party storage.
  • Get All Text Items from a Slide Using Third Party Storage: This API allows you to get all text items from a slide using third party storage.
  • Set Document Property: This API allows you to set a single document property.
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Overview: Aspose for Cloud

Aspose for Cloud is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers that offer a unique suite of APIs to work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and email formats and protocols. It supports all features for file processing, document scanning, barcodes creation and recognition, and allows extracting text or images too. You can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

PDF to Image & Image to PDF Conversion are Enhanced inside Android Apps

What's New in this Release?

Aspose development team is excited to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for Android 1.6.0. Aspose.Pdf for Java is our award winning API to create as well as manipulate PDF documents over Java platform. Porting same powerful features to Android platform, we created Aspose.Pdf for Android which offers most of the remarkable functionalities and provides same capabilities to create PDF from beginning or manipulate them over Android platform. In this new version, we have specifically improved the PDF to raster images conversion and vice versa, convert raster images to PDF format with great fidelity. Therefore this version is better and improved than its earlier releases and therefore we encourage you to try upgrading to latest versions so that you can always benefit from the new features and improvements offered in latest releases. Some important features included in this new release are listed below
  • com.aspose.pdf throws exception while adding FreeTextAnnotation
  • PdfContenEditor throws exception while adding FreeTextAnnotation
  • PDF to JPEG - Contents are missing over resultant file
  • API is taking long time to create PDF file
  • Exception while converting TIFF to PDF
  • Implement support of TIFF for Android.
  • Develop function to save Bitmap in BMP format
Overview: Aspose.Pdf for Android
Aspose.Pdf for Android is a PDF document creation & manipulation c omponent 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.