Add Transparent Watermark Annotation in PDF & Hyperlink support in Footnote Text using .NET

Sheraz Khan

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.2.0. It includes some important enhancements along with number of bug fixes those were reported in previous months’ releases and making this release more reliable and stable. The enhancements include opacity feature in Watermark Annotation and hyperlink feature in Footnote. In this release, we have fixed PDF to PDFA, PDF to HTML conversion feature issues along with some other issues. Some of Aspose's customers requested to control transparency of Watermark Annotation, so Aspose team has implemented opacity property in new release for this purpose. Please check the sample code provided on the blog announcement page to add transparent Watermark Annotation. Aspose team already support Footnote feature in Aspose.Pdf for .NET. However recently, one of the customer asked for hyperlink enhancement in Footnote feature. To fulfill this requirement, Aspose team has enhanced Footnote feature in this release. Now, by default Footnote functionality will add a reference of Footnote text to related superscript text. For example, Footnote superscript text “1” will be linked to Footnote text in output PDF document of following code. The list of important new and improved features are given below

• Set link to Footnote
• Reference to Newtonsoft 9.0.0.0 in Aspose.Pdf for .NET dll
• Opacity property support in Watermark Annotation
• PDF to PDFA: after conversion some content is missed
• HTML to PDF: resource file is not working from network folder
• PDF to PDFA conversion time and output file size issue
• Aspose PDF Memory Leak when use LocalHyperlinks
• PDF to PDF/A - Problems with the order of objects on certain pages
• Input stream must be FileStream exception when loading Tex file from stream
• Wrong output - Problem with transparency, the pages are cut into rectangles
• PDF to PDFA problem with transparent images after conversion
• PDF to PDFA conversion generates a very large file in size
• PDF to PDF/A - Missing logo and non compliance output
• PDF to PDF/A - Resultant file gets corrupted
• PDF/A-1 conversion creates invalid XRef table
• PDF to PDF/A - WordArt glyph are incorrectly converted
• Flatten method overlaps PDF file contents
• PDF to PDF/A_1b - Resultant file is not compliant
• PDF to PDF - Image is removed from document
• Flatten form field removes dropdown values
• HTML to PDF - Image not being loaded from network path
• Replaceable symbols not working in Page body
• Text is cut off when adding artifact or annotation watermark to PDF
• PDF to HTML: links render as plain text
• Table header not being grouped with first row
• PDF to DOC: Table headers are disappeared
• ComboBoxField value is not preserved when calling flatten() method
• When converting HTML to PDF, DIV elements in produced PDF not consistent
• PDF to DOCX conversion loses formatting

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Sheraz Khan

Aspose Newsletter for August 2018 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases. It includes information about new APIs for adding email processing capabilities in Python applications, generating & recognizing 1D and 2D Barcodes from images at any angle within Android apps, Launching information about several new APIs, .NET Core support in Aspose.Slides, .NET Standard 2.0 in Aspose.Diagram for .NET, code examples for export header and footer bookmarks from Word to Output PDF in Java & .NET Apps & many more.

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