We ran into an issue when using Aspose.Words for Java to save as a merged document as a PDF. If the document contains the PAGE or NUMPAGES field the main (getMailMerge().execute()) merge fields are populated but any fields contained in regions/tables simply show up as merge fields. If I simply change it to SaveFormat.DOC it will create the word document with everything properly filled out. Even using setRemoveEmptyRegions() it still shows the merge fields on the PDF. I’m attaching a basic test case to demonstrate the issue along with a word document.
Code:
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.aspose.words.Document;
import com.aspose.words.FontSettings;
import com.aspose.words.IMailMergeDataSource;
import com.aspose.words.SaveFormat;
public class AsposeTest {
String pdfFolder = "<location of="" fonts="">";
public AsposeTest() throws Exception {
Document d = new Document(new FileInputStream("/Users/cking/Documents/TestMerge.docx"));
d.getMailMerge().setRemoveEmptyRegions(true);
d.getMailMerge().execute(new MainMailMerge());
d.getMailMerge().executeWithRegions(new RegionMailMerge());
FontSettings.setFontsFolder(pdfFolder, true);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/Users/cking/Documents/TestMergeOutput.pdf");
d.save(fos, SaveFormat.PDF);
fos.close();
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
new AsposeTest();
}
class MainMailMerge implements IMailMergeDataSource {
private int index = 0;
@Override
public IMailMergeDataSource getChildDataSource(String arg0)
throws Exception {
return null;
}
@Override
public String getTableName() throws Exception {
return "Main";
}
@Override
public boolean getValue(String fieldName, Object[] fieldValue) throws Exception {
if (fieldName.equals("Test1")) fieldValue[0] = "Input for Test1";
if (fieldName.equals("Test2")) fieldValue[0] = "Input for Test2";
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean moveNext() throws Exception {
if (index++>0) return false;
return true;
}
}
class RegionMailMerge implements IMailMergeDataSource {
private int index = 1;
@Override
public IMailMergeDataSource getChildDataSource(String arg0)
throws Exception {
return null;
}
@Override
public String getTableName() throws Exception {
return "Region";
}
@Override
public boolean getValue(String fieldName, Object[] fieldValue) throws Exception {
if (fieldName.equals("RegionTest1")) fieldValue[0] = "Input for RegionTest1";
if (fieldName.equals("RegionTest2")) fieldValue[0] = "Input for RegionTest2";
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean moveNext() throws Exception {
if (index++>2) return false;
return true;
}
}
}