Image Scaling in Presentations & Exporting PPTX to PDF

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The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for .NET (7.9.0) has been released. In this release we have made many improvements. We've implemented support for setting a relative picture frame size as available in Microsoft PowerPoint. Please visit the documentation for an example. We have also made great improvement towards SmartArt rendering support and many issues encountered when rendering presentations with SmartArt shapes have been rectified. We have also addressed performance related issues and have made some good improvements in this area. Many PDF and thumbnail generation issues involving charts, tables and text have also been rectified. Some important bug fixes included in this release are given below

• Support for scaling options of image added in slide shapes
• Hanging Bullet text indentation lost resolved when text is moved to second line
• Performance is enhanced and resulting file is too large when exporting pptx with large images into PDF
• Support for appropriate exception messages on loading MS Office files using Aspose.Slides
• Reading and saving PPTM file corrupts the presentation is fixed
• Text Orientation rendering is enhanced in generated thumbnail
• Wrong slide LayoutType is read by Aspose.Slides for template presentation
• SmartArt text missing or improperly rendering is fixed in Aspose.Slides saved presentation
• Chart series labels rendering is much enhanced
• CellEx.Height and Table.GetRowHeight returns inaccurate values ar efixed
• Corrupted PPT generation on serializing shapes in PPT is enhanced
• Wrong word wrap calculation in TextLayout is fixed
• Scatter chart missing in generated PDF is fixed
• Line chart missing is resolved in the generated PDF
• Legends are now properly rendered in generated PDF
• Text alignment is enhanced in the generated PDF
• Chart category axis is fixed and now properly rendered in generated Pdf
• Enhanced text wrapping in the generated PDF
• SmartArt shape background missing is fixed in saved presentation and PDF
• SmartArt text is now properly rendered on saving presentation
• Vertical text is  now properly rendered in generated PDF
• Chinese font rendering is enhanced in the generated PDF
• Graph legend overlay property is improved & now retain in generated thumbnail/Pdf
• Wrong font rendering in exported XPS is resolved
• Text rendered outside of the shape in generated XPS
• Bullets rendering is enhanced in the generated PDF
• Master is now properly applied on cloned slides

Overview: Aspose.Slides for .NET

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 PPT/PPTX printing, PPT to XPS format, saving PowerPoint slides into PDF, adding & modifying audio & video frames, using shapes like rectangles or ellipses and saving presentations in SVG format, streams or images.

More about Aspose.Slides for .NET

-  Homepage of Aspose.Slides for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/.net/powerpoint-component.aspx

-  Download Aspose.Slides for .NET: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.slides-for-.net/default.aspx

-  Online documentation of Aspose.Slides for .NET at: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesnet/Home