Page break is adding a blank paragraph to the top of my document

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I have an aspose document that I am building and I need to add a page break. I use the code below to append a page break to my exsisting document mobjMainAsposeDoc. The blank page will be inserted but when I go to insert (append) my next document the appended text will be one line down from the top of the page. How do I postion myself at the top of the page so that my next Appenddocument will actually start at the top? I am using Aspose Words 6.4
I have tried doing adding this line after the sectionStart.NewPage lobjDocEmptyPage.Range.Delete but this will remove the page break.

Dim lobjDocEmptyPage As Aspose.Words.Document = New Aspose.Words.Document
For Each lSection As Aspose.Words.Section In lobjDocEmptyPage.Sections
    If mbPrintLegal = True Then
        lSection.PageSetup.PaperSize = Aspose.Words.PaperSize.Legal
    Else
        lSection.PageSetup.PaperSize = Aspose.Words.PaperSize.Letter
    End If
Next
lobjDocEmptyPage.FirstSection.PageSetup.SectionStart = SectionStart.NewPage
mobjMainAsposeDoc.AppendDocument(lobjDocEmptyPage, ImportFormatMode.UseDestinationStyles)
2

Hi

Thanks for your inquiry. Please try inserting section break instead of page break. Please see the following line of code:

dstBuilder.InsertBreak(BreakType.SectionBreakNewPage);

Hope this helps.
Best regards.

3

Tried SectionBreakNewPage and I still get the blank line. It appears that the blank line is coming from the Section break(continuous) that appears after the Section Break(Next Page).
Also please advise as to why I get a “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” error when I try and perform an UpdatePageLayout on the attached document. The attached document also demonstrates that blank line issue.

Dim lobjLineDocTemp As New Aspose.Words.Document("c:\PageCount47.doc")
lobjLineDocTemp.UpdatePageLayout()
4

Hi

Thank you for additional information. Yes, you are right, blank line is coming from the Section break at the beginning of the second page.
I think as a workaround you can set ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore option. For example see the following code:

Document doc = new Document(@"Test001\in.doc");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.Writeln();
builder.CurrentParagraph.ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore = true;
doc.Save(@"Test001\out.doc");

Regarding the problem with UpdatePageLayout, I cannot reproduce this problem on my side. I use the latest version of Aspose.Words for testing. You can download it from here:
https://releases.aspose.com/words/net
Best regards.