SmartArt Text Extraction & Rendering to PDF/Image, Setting Presentation Slide Frame using Java

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The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java 16.2.0 has been released. This release is one of the major releases which come with new features and bug fixes. Now the support to manage SmartArt shapes has been enhanced and much requested features for SmartArt text extraction and its rendering to PDF or image are now supported in Aspose.Slides. Also, the text can be extracted categorically, including, text from slide only, text from master only or from notes only. For more information Please visit the documentation article Extracting text from Presentation. Setting the slide frame and creating callout data labels for charts are among the new features which have been included in this release. We have introduced some new properties to set charts category axis type as well. Please visit the documentation article, Formatting Chart Entities for more details and sample code. Issues related to incorrect text alignment, incorrect text color and missing text while rendering presentations to supported file formats have been fixed in this release. Issues which were occurring while working with Bullets and Numbered lists have also been taken care of. We have rectified the issues related to incorrect font properties like name, height and indentation. We have also addressed the concerns related to performance of Aspose.Slides for Java and this release has better performance in terms of file rendering and file opening time. Also the utilization of resources, including the CPU and memory have been improved in this release. Some presentation decks produced repair messages and exceptions including ArgumentException, NullReferenceException and IllegalArgumentException, these issues have also been rectified in this release. Some important enhancement & bug fixes included in this release are given below

Support for creating callout data label for Pie chart
Support for setting slide frame
Support for Legacy SmartArt processing
Support to change Axis type of a chart with cases Text Axis and Date Axis
Horizontal scrolling on generated PDF
Support to determine the original file name from embedded objects using Aspose.Slides
Support for Date Axis in Aspose.Slides charts
Support to set offset values for picture in table cell
Support for setting background image properties for table cells
Support for extracting SmartArt text frames using Utils.GetAllTextFrames
Setting Doughnut hole size
AutoFill colors for chart series
Add support for serialization of separate shapes in PPTX
Add support for SmartArt on thumbnail and PDF generation
Aspose.Slides takes more time to generate PDF
Performance with Aspose.Slides 14.4 and above while generating thumbnails
Performance with Aspose.Slides 14.4 and above
Incorrect table border in generated PDF
Input string was not in the correct format on ppt load
IllegalArgumentException on presentation save
Incorrect font name returned
Poor drawing quality in generated PDF
Repair message after resaving TestDeck presentation
Exception on saving the presentation
Shape border lines disappeared on load and save ppt
Wrong text alignment on load and save ppt
PptxReadException thrown on loading pptx
Font size changed
Numbering to bullets and dashes
Shape color changed on load and save
pdf with cropped image
CPU and Memory load during content extraction
Text alignment changed on presentation load and save
Font gets bigger when pptx exported to pdf
Text Alignment changed on pdf export
GeometryDeserializationContext.loadPaths() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
Text size gets bigger on load and save
Text getting scattered in generated HTML
Text Missing When Converting a PPTX to PDF
Table is not displayed when pptx is converted to odp.
Textbox style gets changed in cloned presentation
Slow performance of converting PPT to PDF
Conversion for PPTX to PDF takes alot of time
Chart series labels are improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
Chart improperly rendered in generated thumbnail
Text improperly rendered in generated thumbnails
SmartArt shapes are missing in generated PDF
Images and text improperly rendered in slide thumbnail

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

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

- Extracting Text from the Presentation: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesjava/Extracting+Text+from+the+Presentation

- Formatting Chart Entities: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesjava/Formatting+Chart+Entities

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 developers can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in their presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

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