Prevent File Corrupted & Argument Out Of Range Exceptions during MS Word DOC Document to PDF File Conversion C# .NET

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Aspose.Words complains that the doc is corrupted.

Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException: The document appears to be corrupted and cannot be loaded.
—> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. (Parameter ‘index’)
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at Aspose.Words.Document (Stream , LoadOptions )
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at Aspose.Words.Document (Stream , LoadOptions )
at Aspose.Words.Document. (Stream , LoadOptions )
at Aspose.Words.Document…ctor(String fileName, LoadOptions loadOptions)

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@boris.nikitin,

You’re right; the latest 21.2 version of Aspose.Words for .NET currently throws the following exception upon loading this particular DOC Word file:

Aspose.Words.FileCorruptedException
HResult=0x80131500
Message=The document appears to be corrupted and cannot be loaded.
Source=Aspose.Words
Inner Exception 1:
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

For the sake of correction, we have logged this problem in our issue tracking system. The ID of this issue is WORDSNET-21909. We will further look into the details of this problem and will keep you updated on the status of correction. We apologize for your inconvenience.

3

The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-21909) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for .NET 21.3 update and this Aspose.Words for Java 21.3 update.