How find a text in a Word document and get its x-y position

[rondo.sp]

Hi.

Please, could anybody tell me how is possible to find a text in a Word document (.doc) and, when the text is found, get its x,y position?

I need to know this information because once the document has been converted in PDF a digital signature process is executed with other component and it needs to print the signature in those coordinates, so I need to know them.

Regards.

[awais.hafeez]

Hi José,

Thanks for your inquiry. Sure you can achieve this by implementing IReplacingCallback interface. In the IReplacingCallback.Replacing event, you can get a handle to the matching nodes and obtain their positions using the classes of Aspose.Words.Layout Namespace (see LayoutEnumerator.Rectangle property). Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Best regards,

[rondo.sp]

Sorry, I need an example to understand how that works. I’m totally lost…

Is there any example similar to your proposed solution in the Example package?

[awais.hafeez]

Hi José,

Thanks for your inquiry. Sure, please find attached a sample document and try executing the following code:

Document doc = new
Document(@“C:\Temp\input.docx”);

doc.Range.Replace(new Regex("FIND MY COORDIANTES"), new MyReplaceEvaluator(), true);

doc.Save(@“C:\Temp\out.docx”);

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private class MyReplaceEvaluator : IReplacingCallback<o:p></o:p>

{

ReplaceAction IReplacingCallback.Replacing(ReplacingArgs e)

{

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder((Document)e.MatchNode.Document);

builder.MoveTo(e.MatchNode);

BookmarkStart start = builder.StartBookmark("temp");

builder.EndBookmark("temp");

LayoutCollector collector = new LayoutCollector((Document)e.MatchNode.Document);

LayoutEnumerator enumerator = new LayoutEnumerator((Document)e.MatchNode.Document);

enumerator.Current = collector.GetEntity(start);

Console.WriteLine("({0}, {1})", enumerator.Rectangle.Left, enumerator.Rectangle.Top);

e.MatchNode.Document.Range.Bookmarks["temp"].Remove();

return ReplaceAction.Skip;

}

}

I hope, this helps.

Best regards,