I’ve been using Aspose.Words for handling Word files in Word 2003 format (DOC files). I tried to use Aspose.Words 9.5.0 to accept Word 2003 files as input, but save the output in Word 2007 form (DOCX files). Unfortunately when I tried to do this the draft watermark I tried to add to an empty document appears differently than it had when I opened a document in Word 2003 format and saved in Word 2003 format. The height and width of the text seem to have been switched, since now the text is closely packed together from left to right, but is very long from top to bottom.
You can see this in the VB.NET program TestProgram.vb that appears inside TestProgram.zip. It creates the file word2003.doc when saving into Word 2003 format and word2007.docx when saving into Word 2007 format. Note the difference between the way the two output files look even though the only difference in my code is the name of the file I used to save each of these files. I’d like to be able to have my code work for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 formats without having any special code for a format other than knowing the suffix to use for the file name. Is there any way I can do this?
Another problem I had is that the page numbering differed when I tried to save a document in Word 2003 and Word 2007. The same program mentioned above opens testFile.doc, a Word 2003 file. It then saves it as the Word 2003 file testFile.doc and the Word 2007 file testFile.docx. If you look at the last section of the document and look at LastSection.PageSetup.RestartPageNumbering, then the Word 2003 document has a value of True for RestartPageNumbering and the Word 2007 document has a value of False. You can see this also if you open the files in Word and look at the page number in the footer on the last page of the document. Why are the page numbers differing? I’d like to get the same page number in both cases.
Please use the last TestProgram.zip I’m attaching here. My browser is not letting me remove the other one.
Thanks,
ASC