com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment values swapped?

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1

I’m seeing behavior that suggests the integer values defined by com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment are not matching with the correct behavior. Specifically:

com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM actually produces “TOP” alignment
com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.TOP actually produces “CENTER” alignment
com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.CENTER actually produces “BOTTOM” alignment

We’re using the latest version of Aspose.Words for Java as of summer 2010 (sorry I can’t find an actual version number).

2

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your request.

I have created simple code to try to reproduce the issue described by you with the latest release Aspose.Words for Java 4.0.3 from 10/14/2010. The issue has not been reproduced.

May I ask you to provide me with the following information:

  1. the version of jdk you use
  2. code fragment where you use VerticalAligment without success

Thank you for cooperation.

3

Thank you for your troubleshooting efforts. Hopefully some additional info will help. I have attached 3 screenshots taken from the resulting Word document that show the cell formatting in question.

Also, here is the section of code that writes the white-background cells:

private void writeDataCell(DocumentBuilder builder, String data) throws Exception
{
    Cell cell = builder.insertCell();
    cell.clearCellAttrs();
    CellFormat format = cell.getCellFormat();
    format.setWidth(42);
    // format.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.TOP);
    // format.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.CENTER);
    format.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM);
    format.setWrapText(false);
    format.setTopPadding(1);
    format.setBottomPadding(1);
    format.setLeftPadding(2);
    format.setRightPadding(2);
    BorderCollection border = format.getBorders();
    border.getTop().setLineWidth(1);
    border.getBottom().setLineWidth(1);
    border.getLeft().setLineWidth(1);
    border.getRight().setLineWidth(1);
    builder.getFont().setBold(false);
    builder.getFont().setSize(8);
    builder.getParagraphFormat().setAlignment(ParagraphAlignment.CENTER);
    builder.write(data);
}

The commented-out lines were used to generate the attached screenshots. (the image filename indicates which alignment value was used to generate it) I also stepped through the code with a debugger a noted the following values in case this is helpful information:

com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.TOP == 1
com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.CENTER == 2
com.aspose.words.VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM == 3

We are using jdk1.6.0_21.

Please let me know if you find an answer, even if the answer is that I’m doing something stupid.

Thanks,
Mike

4

Hi
Thank you for additional information. You should just use CellVerticalAlignment instead of VerticalAlignment:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/cellformat#VerticalAlignment
VerticalAlignment specifies vertical alignment of a floating shape, text frame or a floating table, but not vertical alignment in table cell.
Best regards,

5

Thanks so much. That was indeed my problem!