I was just trying the Evaluation version of ASPOSE in ASP.NET. I need it for two purposes. One is to convert Word documents to HTML and the other is to convert Word to PDF.
For my second need, it is able to convert Word documents to PDF and I am quite happy with that. But the major thing is it is not able to convert the word documents to HTML properly. The Bullets and some other symbols and characters which my client has used in Word Document, are changing to some other characters. Like the arrow mark Bullets are changing to ordinary round bullets. So if you can provide any assistance regarding this urgently as my clients cannot wait more. So please make a quick move.
Thanks for your request. Note that due to limitations of HTML it is technically impossible to created HTML that looks the same as Words document. Anyway please attach sample document for testing. I will investigate problems and provide you more information.
Please don’t say that it is impossible to generate. I have already generated HTMLs which looks exactly same as the word documents, but I am using Word-2003 for conversion. I am using the Word objects inside ASP.NET. The major problem with this is our server is having Word-2007 which is giving some alignment problem. And our company Admin doesn’t want to downgrade it to a lower version. That is why we are looking for any third party Conversion tool. Otherwise we could have used 2003 version of Word to achieve this.
Anyway I am attaching a word document which you can try.
Thank you for your clarification. HTML export from MS Word really gives very good results in terms of fidelity. But even MS Word cannot export all its features to HTML. For instance, floating shapes with text wrapped around are not exported well. So this is true in general: it’s technically impossible to represent everything from Word documents in HTML format.
MS Word uses a lot of “magic” when exporting to HTML format. You can make a minimal sample, save it as HTML and open in a plain text editor (Notepad) to see what MS Word does with lists. In Aspose.Words we try to avoid using MS Word “magic” since many customers wouldn’t like it. But without “magic” we can output neither arrow bullets nor multilevel labels (such as 1.2.3.)
Of course we thought about additional options to choose how to output lists (as we do now, as MS Word does, plain text, maybe somehow else). I can reference known issues #2040 and #3701 which are related to your case. Yes, we have many requests on list output fidelity and surely will make things better in the future. But I cannot promise you any timeframes.
I see the two workarounds for this case. First, you can change list items to normal paragraphs making bullets and labels as parts of text. Second, you can use picture bullets which are currently supported.