Floating image is lost in outputted document

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hello,
I’m using Aspose.Words to update custom document properties in an existing document. The existing document has a floating image (in front of text), but the outputted file doesn’t have an image at all. It also does not contain a shape object which could/should contain the image. So the image is just completely lost (This error is easily reproduced by creating a document with a floating image and then ‘asposing’ the document).
When I change the image to ‘in line with text’ so that it’s not floating anymore, the image does not get lost in the outputted document. I read some articles in the programmers guide about working with images and it says you can insert floating images, and you can extract them from a file, so I guess floating images are supported by Aspose? I could not find any more information about working with images.
Anyway the question is: How can I make sure that the image is correctly displayed in the outputted document and that it keeps the correct properties? I hope I don’t have to do it manually, as in: extract the image from the source file, save it’s data/properties, save the image in a temp directory, and insert the image into the ‘new’ document (with the correct data/properties)?
I hope you can help me out, thanks in advance.
Greetings,
Jip

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Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. Could you please attach your document for testing? I will investigate the problem and provide you more information.
Best regards.

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I have attached a simple file which contains just one floating image, it also produces the error here.
Then another question about outputting to PDF… When I do
pdf.Save(dir + “/saves/document.pdf”);
it works and I can open the file from my harddrive without troubles, but when I do
pdf.Save(“document.pdf”, Aspose.Pdf.SaveType.OpenInBrowser, Response);
it says it cannot open the file because it is damaged. How can I open it in browser?

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Hi

Thank you for more information. It seems to be a known issue #6011 in our defect database. I will notify you as soon as it is fixed.
Regarding the second question, you should ask it in Aspose.Pdf forum.
https://forum.aspose.com/c/pdf/10
Aspose.Pdf team will answer you shortly.
Best regards.

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Thanks for your response.
I just found out something related to this problem.
When I use a .doc with a floating image as existing input document, the images does NOT get lost in the outputted document.
When I use a .docx with a floating image as existing input document, the images DOES get lost in the outputted document.
So I’d advise this as a workaround for people with the same problem…
My PDF problem has also been fixed by adding Reponse.End() to the end of the PDF-generating-code.

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Hi
Thanks for your request. Yes, this occurs only with floating DrawingML in DOCX documents. In all other formats floating shapes should work fine.
Best regards.

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We are happy to tell you that we released new version of Aspose.Words. This version includes fix of issue you found earlier (issue # 6011). Aspose.Words 6.0 supports the full set of DrawingML used by Microsoft Word 2007. You can download new version from here:
https://releases.aspose.com/words/net
Best regards.