Aspose.Words Page Numbering Issue

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I am generating a document in Aspose Words and have a different header for the first page. That works fine. I do not need a different footer for the first page, so I do a movetoheaderfooter to footer.first, then write my footer, then do a movetoheaderfooter to footer.primary, and write the same footer. The formatting is fine but the page numbering is off. The first footer has 1 of 3 and the second has 2 of 5 which is corrent. How do I get the first footer to have the correct total pages?

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Hi Curtis,

Thanks for your inquiry. I think, you can achieve what you need by using the following code snippet:

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder();
PageSetup ps = builder.PageSetup;
ps.DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter = true;
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HeaderFirst);
builder.Write("Different first page header content");
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.FooterFirst);
builder.Write("Same footer content\t");
builder.InsertField("PAGE");
builder.Write(" of ");
builder.InsertField("NUMPAGES");
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HeaderPrimary);
builder.Write("Primary header content");
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary);
builder.Write("Same footer content\t");
builder.InsertField("PAGE");
builder.Write(" of ");
builder.InsertField("NUMPAGES");
// Move back to the main story of the first section.
builder.MoveToSection(0);
builder.Writeln("Text page 1.");
builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);
builder.Writeln("Text page 2.");
builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);
builder.Writeln("Text page 3.");
builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);
builder.Writeln("Text page 4.");
builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);
builder.Writeln("Text page 5.");
builder.Document.Save(@"c:\test\PageSetup.DifferentHeaders Out.docx");

I hope, this will help.

Best Regards,

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I am doing essentially the same thing. It is organized only slightly diffrent, but I tried rearranging it to see if it would help but it didn’t. This is what I am doing… I am moving to the header.first writing the header, moving to header.primary, and writing the header. Then I move to document.start and write the body of the document. Then I move to footer.first and write the footer, then footer primary and write the footer. The first page has the wrong total number of pages.

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I also noticed that when I open the saved document and click in the first page footer it corrects itself and shows 1 of 5. I tried linktoprevious.headerfooter(true) in various ways, but it didn’t work either.

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Hi Curtis,
Thanks for your request. Yes, we are aware about this strange behavior. However, I am not sure this is a bug in Aspose.Words. MS Word updates PAGE and NUMPAGES fields in headers/footers automatically, but for some reason it updates NUMPAGES field improperly if it is in the first pages header/footer. The problem does not occur with primary headers/footers at all.
Anyways, this issue is logged in our defect database. We will investigate it and provide you more information.
Best regards,

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OK, thanks Alexey. I hope you can find a solution for me.