Convert Specific PPTX Slide to PDF & Images Replacement in Presentation

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (14.9.0) has been released. Aspose team has introduced support for replacing an image in a presentation image collection with a different one. As a result of this, the image is replaced in all instances in the presentation that refers to it. This release also introduced support for setting the fill format for SmartArt nodes and devlopers can now set the fill color or pattern for SmartArt nodes. More details about this feature are available in the article Setting Fill Format for SmartArt Node in the documentation section. Aspose team has introduced support for generating a PDF for a specific number of slides. Users can find more details by visiting and reading the article Exporting Presentation to PDF in the documentation section. Support for generating HTML files for individual presentation slides has also been included in this new release. Now, Aspose.Slides for Java makes it possible to get warning callbacks for font substitution in case the used font is not available on the machine during the rendering process. Warning callbacks are helpful when debugging issues of missing or inaccessible fonts during rendering. Developers can find more details about this feature by visiting the article Getting Warning Callbacks for Fonts Substitution in Aspose.Slides. Aspose team has rectified exception issues that appeared when accessing, saving and rendering presentation to PDF, HTML or slide thumbnails, which resulted in different exceptions like KeyNotFoundException, UnKnownFileFormatException, NullReference, ArgumentException, and IndexOutOfRange in previous releases. It has taken a leap towards improving the presentation rendering support for exported PDF, SVG, HTML and slide thumbnails in this release. Several issues pertaining to improper text, wrong shape, improper charts, unfitting SmartArt and wrong font rendering have been addressed in this regard. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Implementation of IWarningCallback in font substitution scenario
• Convert a specific PPTX slide to PDF file
• Get warnings for Fonts substitution in Aspose.Slides
• Attaching an XLS file in a PPT file
• Detecting symbols with position in text strings
• Missing feature to replace image in presentation file in the new unified version
• Slide per file when coverting PPTX to HTML
• Setting Fill format for SmartArt node
• Support for setting the background color of individual nodes in SmartArt shape
• Implement animation timeline serialization to PPT
• Thread blocking in Aspose.Slides for Java
• PPTX to PDF takes immense memory resources
• An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary Exception is thrown while opening the PPTX file
• Double Underline in a table cell text is not working properly
• Converting PPTX to HTML and saving images as other formats rather than SVG
• Page number position is not proper in the generated PDF file
• Aspose.Slides is unable to complete the PPTX to PDF conversion process
• PPTX to HTML Conversion issue: Logo on the bottom is coming with black background
• PPTX to HTML Conversion issue: Text background color is not proper
• HTML to PDF Conversion issue: graph background color is not proper
• Bullets are coming as junk characters in generated PDF file
• Aspose.Slides escaping issue in PPTX file
• Unknown file format exception is thrown on opening the file.
• Font changes after conversion from PPT to PNG
• Pie Chart Series Labels are outside the chart in generated PNG file
• Chart Title position in generated PPTX are not same as in Original PPTX
• KeyNotFoundException on exporting to PDF
• Details required for Presentations to HTML with Externally Linked Images
• InvertIfNegative values are rendered with colors in generated PDF
• Setting fill picture for Media Player control does not work
• Concurrent processing of slides takes more time then sequential threading
• Aspose.Slides failed to work in Scala Framework
• The line links are missing for rendered smart art in generated PDF
• Hyperlinks Addresses Changing on opening and saving presentations using Aspose.Slides
• Bullet position and shadow effects lost for text in exported PDF
• Vertical text is rendered horizontally in generated thumbnail
• Unable to remove shape border
• PPT to PDF conversion issue
• Missing shapes in generated thumbnails when used in JDK 1.4
• font Typeface ignored when Bold property is used
• Text position is lost in generated thumbnail
• Table height sets successfully only if it is first read.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Java documentation that may guide youl briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

• Setting Fill Format for SmartArt Node
• Converting Presentation to HTML

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides is a Java component to create, read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports PHP applications and provides all advanced features for managing presentations, slides, shapes, tables and supports PPT, POT, POS PowerPoint formats. Now you can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

• Homepage of Aspose.Slides for Java
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