Missing Bookmark

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Hello,
we have Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP3 documents with multiple bookmarks. When trying to get all bookmarks using Aspose.Words for Java, not all bookmarks will be present in the bookmark collection. In our test case one missing bookmark is concerning a table.
We tried the following versions release 4.0.3, release 10.0.1, release 10.1 without success.

It seems to be a similar problem like the published defects:
3140 - Bookmarks placed in a table cell not found.
3145 - Bookmark is lost when loading WordML document.
https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/release-notes/
Our simple java implementation looks like this:

Document doc = new Document("test.doc");
BookmarkCollection bookmarks = doc.getRange().getBookmarks();
for (Object b : bookmarks) {
System.out.println("Bookmark: " + ((Bookmark)b).getName());
}
Bookmark b = bookmarks.get("HeaderTable");
if (b != null) { ... }

The missing bookmark “HeaderTable” is neither accessible by bookmarks.get(“HeaderTable”) nor by the BookmarkCollection. Please note that other bookmarks are accessible.
You can use the uploaded sample file to check the issue.
Now our questions:

  • Is the way we try to read all bookmarks correct?
  • Is this a new/know bug? When will it be fixed?
  • Is there a workaround?

Thank you very much for your help.

2

Hello
Thanks for your request. I cannot reproduce the problem on my side using the latest version of Aspose.Words for Java (10.1.0) and the following code for testing:

Document doc = new Document("C:\\Temp\\Test2.doc");
BookmarkCollection bookmarks = doc.getRange().getBookmarks();
for (Object b : bookmarks) {
    System.out.println("Bookmark: " + ((Bookmark)b).getName());
}
Bookmark b = bookmarks.get("HeaderTable");
if (b != null) {
    System.out.print("Ok " + b.getName());
}

My output is:

Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT10
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT4
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT20
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT6
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT7
Bookmark: CS_INS3_COBA_MBRightSide27
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT8
Bookmark: CSCBK_TMPL_LONGREPORT9
Bookmark: TABLE_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable1
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable1
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable2
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable3
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable4
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable5
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable6
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable7
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable8
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable9
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable10
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable11
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable12
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable13
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable14
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable15
Bookmark: ROW_CS_INS1_COBA_KDataTable16
Bookmark: HeaderTable
Ok HeaderTable

Best regards,

3

Hello.
Thank you for the fast response. We tried it again with the same file that was attached to this thread and with Aspose.Words for Java 10.1.0 (5-30-2011) from the dowload section. We checked the following Java versions 1.5.0.12, 1.6.0.23 with the corresponding Aspose lib on the following operating systems: Windows XP SP3, Win 7 (32 bit) and Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default,i386
We still get the same issue. Please tell us the details from your test system.
Do you have a suggestion for the different results?
Best regards

4

Hi
Thank you for additional information. Most probably, you are using Aspose.Words in evaluation mode. That is why Aspose.Words truncates the document (one of evaluation limitations) and returns less number of bookmarks. You can request 30-days temporary license to evaluate Aspose.Words without evaluation version limitations:
https://purchase.aspose.com/temporary-license
Best regards,