Aspose Pty Ltd.

This new release includes some important features, such as Loading and saving presentation, Managing shapes on slides including AutoShapes, Picture Frames and Video Frames etc, Managing Text including WordArt in presentation deck & more.

It is mainly a maintenance release. There are some important enhancements part of this release, such as PPTX to PNG:Grey Scale image is generated instead of Colored Image, Cloning slide into new presentation does not transfer SVG images & more.

This new release has extended series of W3C formats and now it supports Scale-able Vector Graphics (SVG) format. The API offers the capabilities to manipulate SVG, both as a part of HTML document and single SVGDocument object.

It enables developers to save the generated barcode image in vector format. Two new formats EMF and SVG has been introduced. It also adds support to save barcode in SVG format and support to generate and recognize EPC QR coded barcode.

It has implemented Text extraction error reporting functionality for TextAbsorber and TextFragmentAbsorber classes. It was observed that when users load a PDF document from binary, manipulate it and save it to a different binary.

It supports saving OneNote document as HTML to stream. From this release onwards, the API now supports exporting OneNote document to MemoryStream as HTML. The HtmlSaveOptions now introduces the capability to save resources associated with documents.

It allows users to perform optical mark recognition in the cloud. This release introduces a new Cloud API that allows users to generate surveys & test sheets from simple text markup. It is an open source .NET application with GUI.

It supports functionality to generate QR coded barcode with its version information. This functionality allows the developers to generate QR coded barcode by setting its version number. It also enhanced process of recognizing Code128 and OneD code

Developers can retrieve and export a shape to PDF and HTML formats. Moreover, developers can retrieve a shape, and then clone to another shape instance. In order to achieve this, the Copy method has been added in the Shape class.

It includes improvements in terms of feature enhancements and bug fixes. Specifically, it has improved support for Images in PDF to Word Conversion. It now supports Semi-transparent images, Rotated images & Inline images and many more.