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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://aspadvice.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Announcements</title><link>http://aspadvice.com/forums/359/ShowForum.aspx</link><description>Announce upcoming events, new products, etc.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)</generator><item><title>Text Rotation in SmartArt Object &amp; PPT to PDF Conversion are Improved</title><link>http://aspadvice.com/forums/thread/84517.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:45:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e709ad4c-0c15-48eb-915e-c462c6e85445:84517</guid><dc:creator>aspose_seo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://aspadvice.com/forums/thread/84517.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://aspadvice.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=359&amp;PostID=84517</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What&amp;#39;s New  in this Release?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;We are pleased to announce the new release of  &lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/entry352132.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aspose.Slides for .NET 5.8.0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; this is primarily a maintenance release. This  important product release includes text rotation in SmartArt object,  Custom options for series, PPT to PDF conversion and other several issues have  also been addressed and resolved in this release. This release includes plenty  of bug fixes as listed below&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Rotated  text in SmartArt object&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Custom  options for series are not rendered&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Exception  while loading PPTX&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Some  types of Charts are not rendered&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;SmartArt  shape rendered in inverted manner in generated thumbnail&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;ShowPercentage  issue with chart labels&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;AddClone  is not working&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Images  failed to get rendered in exported PDF using .NET 4.0 dll&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;PPT  to PDF conversion chart labels issue&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Slide  text missing in Thumbnail&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Smart-art  object text align bug&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Wrong  text rendering position&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Small  gradient difference&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Wrong  XML comment for ShapeEx.ThreeDFormat&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;PPTX  throws exception in printing&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Charts  missing in exported PDF&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Missing  XML comments for publicly visible types and members&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Other most recent bug fixes are  also included in this release.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newly added documentation pages and articles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Some new tips and articles have  now been added into Aspose.Slides for .NET documentation that may guide  you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing  different tasks like the followings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/removing-slides-from-a-presentation-1.html"&gt;Removing Slides from a Presentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/setting-the-background-color-to-a-gradient-1.html"&gt;Setting the Background Color to a Gradient&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overview: Aspose.Slides  for .NET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Aspose.Slides is a .NET component  to read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint  versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, PPS are also  supported. Now you can create, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in  your presentations. Other features include saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding  &amp;amp; modifying audio &amp;amp; video frames, using shapes like rectangles or  ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More about Aspose.Slides  for .NET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homepage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Aspose.Slides for .NET&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/index.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Online documentation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Aspose.Slides for .NET&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/demos/.net-components/aspose.slides/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Demos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Aspose.Slides for .NET &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Post your technical questions/queries to &lt;a href="http://www.aspose.com/community/forums/aspose.slides-product-family/109/showforum.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aspose.Slides for  .NET Forum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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