Inking not part of PDF-output

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi,

When converting a document that contains Inking (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Draw-and-annotate-with-ink-in-Office-2016-c00b7319-2b50-4784-8114-47593d991c5c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1) to PDF, the ink is in the foreground and thus hides text behind the ink.
The output therefore cannot be used since important information (that has been inked by someone for that matter) is not highlighted but effectively deleted.

This is different to the behavior of MS Word when viewing the document in Word and also when printing the document with Word.

I have attached my used FlatOPC input file as well as the output of Aspose.Words (PDF, PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b) to demonstrate the behavior.

If other customers rely on the existing behavior this could of course be an opt-in-feature

Kind regards

Edit:
Documents: Docs.zip (130.7 KB)

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Hi Markus,

Thanks for your inquiry. We have tested the scenario and have managed to reproduce the same issue at our side. For the sake of correction, we have logged this problem in our issue tracking system as WORDSNET-15400. You will be notified via this forum thread once this issue is resolved.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-15400) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for .NET 21.7 update and this Aspose.Words for Java 21.7 update.