Convert part of a word document to an image or file?

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Hi I want to know if there is a simple way of converting one part of a word file ( in my case a table) to an image or pdf?

The only way I can think of doing this is by cloning a table putting it into a empty aspose.words document then saving it? Would this way work or is the a simple method?

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Hi Matthew,

Thanks for your inquiry. Yes, your understanding is correct. You can extract node(s) into empty document and convert it to Image. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Best regards,

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Hello I have done this and technically works but currently what I get is a image with the table on top which is correct but a lot of white space below which is the rest of the page.

Ideally I would have a image that just contains just the table and all the white space is ignored. I assume this can’t be done?

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Hi Matthew,

Thanks for your inquiry. You can get idea from the following code to meet this requirement (See attachments).

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + @"input.docx");
Table tab = doc.FirstSection.Body.Tables[0];
Paragraph before = new Paragraph(doc); 
before.ParagraphBreakFont.Size = 1;
before.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = 0;
before.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 0;
Paragraph after = new Paragraph(doc);
after.ParagraphBreakFont.Size = 1;
after.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = 0;
after.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 0;
tab.ParentNode.InsertBefore(before, tab);
tab.ParentNode.InsertAfter(after, tab);
LayoutCollector collector = new LayoutCollector(doc);
LayoutEnumerator enumerator = new LayoutEnumerator(doc);
enumerator.Current = collector.GetEntity(before);
RectangleF rectBefore = enumerator.Rectangle;
enumerator.Current = collector.GetEntity(after);
RectangleF rectAfter = enumerator.Rectangle;
Shape txtBox = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TextBox);
txtBox.AppendChild(tab);
txtBox.Top = 0;
txtBox.Left = 0;
txtBox.Width = doc.FirstSection.PageSetup.PageWidth - doc.FirstSection.PageSetup.LeftMargin - doc.FirstSection.PageSetup.RightMargin;
txtBox.Height = rectAfter.Top - rectBefore.Top;
before.AppendChild(txtBox);
doc.UpdatePageLayout();
ShapeRenderer renderer = txtBox.GetShapeRenderer();
renderer.Save(MyDir + "tab.png", new ImageSaveOptions(SaveFormat.Png));

H```ope, this helps.

Best regards,