Page Numbers on Footer when merging multiple documents

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Using Aspose.Words 9.1.0.0, I am appending multiple documents into one. Each document uses the “X of Y” Page Number in the footer. I would like this numbering to apply to the entire final document. My first document is two pages long, the second is 3 pages long. The numbering shows “1 of 5”, “2 of 5”, “1 of 5”, “2 of 5”, “3 of 5”. I would like it to display “1 of 5” through “5 of 5”. I am using Sections.HeadersFooters.LinkToPrevious(false). I’ve tried changing the parameter to true, and specifying the HeaderFooterType, but those aren’t successful either.

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Hello

Thanks for your request. I cannot reproduce the problem on my side using the latest version of Aspose.Words 9.1.0. Please make sure that PageSetup.RestartPageNumbering property is not set during processing your documents:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words/pagesetup/restartpagenumbering/
Also, could you please attach your documents and a simple code here for testing?
Best regards,

3

Try turning one of the docs landscape while leaving the other portrait. Looks like this is the cause. Is there a way to maintain the pages with both layouts in the document?

4

Hello

Thank you for additional information. But I still cannot reproduce the problem on my side. I use the following code for testing:

Document doc1 = new Document("1.doc");
Document doc2 = new Document("2.doc");
Document doc3 = new Document("3.doc");
doc1.AppendDocument(doc2, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
doc1.AppendDocument(doc3, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
doc1.Save("out.doc");

I attached my input and output documents here.
Could you please attach your documents and the code which will allow me to reproduce the problem on my side?
Best regards,

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Please note that I’m actually using 9.0.0. Here is the code I use. Attached are the two source documents, Doc1.docx and Doc2.docx as well as the resulting document, Out.docx. The footer displays “1 of 1” and “2 of 2”.

MemoryStream strmForm1 = GetDocStream(DocPath + "Doc1.docx");
Document docForm1 = new Document(strmForm1);
MemoryStream strmForm2 = GetDocStream(DocPath + "Doc2.docx");
Document docForm2 = new Document(strmForm2);
docForm1.AppendDocument(docForm2, ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting);
docForm1.Save("Out.docx", SaveFormat.Docx, SaveType.OpenInApplication, HttpContext.Current.Response);
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

public MemoryStream GetDocStream(string url)
{
    System.Net.WebRequest docRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url);
    System.Net.WebResponse docResponse = docRequest.GetResponse();
    byte[] responseData = new byte[docResponse.ContentLength];
    int bytesRead = 0;
    while (bytesRead <docResponse.ContentLength)
    {
        int bytesToRead = (int) docResponse.ContentLength - bytesRead;
        bytesRead += docResponse.GetResponseStream().Read(responseData, bytesRead, bytesToRead);
    }
    docResponse.Close();
    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(responseData);
    return ms;
}
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Hello

Thank you for additional information. It seems this is not Aspose.Words issue; I think this is MS Word issue. I know that sometimes such problem occurs with the first page header/footer. For some reason MS Word does not update NUMPAGES fields there. In case of using primary header/footer this problem never occurs.
I think information provided in the following thread could be useful for you:
https://forum.aspose.com/t/76935
Best regards,