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");

private class MyReplaceEvaluator: IReplacingCallback
{
    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,