Hello,
We are seeing unexpected output when we merge three documents and generate a PDF.
Relevant notes:
- The first document (aka the “base doc”) has four footnotes.
This document has 2 pages and the footnotes are expected to appear at the bottom of page 2. - The second document has 3 endnotes - which are formatted to appear at the end of the section.
This document has 2 pages and the endnotes are expected to appear at the end of page 2. - The third document has no footnote or endnotes but will be included in the merged document.
This document has 1 page. - When these documents are merged, they are separated by a continuous section break.
- The first paragraph of document 2 and 3 have the “page break before” setting enabled.
- When the PDF is generated from the merged documents, it correctly produces a 5 page PDF.
However, the endnotes from the second document appear on the 2nd page of the PDF - which pertains to the 1st document.
This behavior can be seen in the latest Aspose Words for Java version 22.4, the attached documents and the following Java code:
final String fileFolder = "[PATH]";
final Document baseDoc = new Document(fileFolder + "Footnotes.docx");
final String[] mergeDocs = { fileFolder + "Endnotes.docx",
fileFolder + "Document3.docx"};
for (String docToMerge : mergeDocs) {
Document mergeDoc = new Document(docToMerge);
// add a continuous section break on the mergeDoc
mergeDoc.getFirstSection().getPageSetup().setSectionStart(SectionStart.CONTINUOUS);
// merge the two documents
baseDoc.appendDocument(mergeDoc, ImportFormatMode.USE_DESTINATION_STYLES);
baseDoc.cleanup();
}
// save the base Doc as PDF
final String pdfFile = fileFolder + "MergedDocs.pdf";
Files.deleteIfExists(Paths.get(pdfFile));
baseDoc.save(pdfFile, new PdfSaveOptions());
System.out.println("Created merged PDF File: " + pdfFile);
Running the above code should produce a file named MergedDocs.pdf. If you view the PDF and navigate to page 2, you should see that the endnotes from Endnotes.docx appear along with the footnotes from Footnotes.docx. We expect the endnotes to appear on page 4 of the PDF.
Environment Details:
- Aspose Words for Java 22.4
- Java version 1.8.0_211
- Windows 10 OS (but also reproducible under Linux).
File description in the MergedFootnotesEndnotes.zip (96.9 KB) attachment contains:
- Footnotes.docx: Base DOCX file with footnotes used by the code above.
- Endnotes.docx: DOCX file with endnotes used by the code above.
- Document3.docx: DOCX file with no footnotes or endnotes used by the code above.
- MergedDocs.pdf: PDF file generated after running the code above (on our environment).
Thank you!