Problems defining a document from scratch

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Hello there.

First of all, a great product. Has helped us a lot in our organization.

I don’t know if the problems I have can be solved, but somehow I think I use Aspose.Words in the “wrong way”. I suspect there are possibilities to do more things.

My problem is basically to define a document from scratch with styles, headers, etc. I am not using a template, I’m building the doc from the beginning and have been using the aspose tutorials without any luck.

This is how I start off:

// CODE START

// Generate stream with an empty document in HTML format.

Document doc = new Document();
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
doc.Save(stream, SaveFormat.Html);

// Load the empty HTML document setting the base uri to application path.

doc = new Document(stream, path, LoadFormat.Html, null);

doc.RemoveAllChildren();

Section section = new Section(doc);

doc.AppendChild(section);

section.PageSetup.SectionStart = SectionStart.NewPage;
section.PageSetup.PaperSize = PaperSize.Letter;

Body body = new Body(doc);
section.AppendChild(body);

Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);
body.AppendChild(para);

// CODE END

I’ve taken this from the tutorials.

Then I insert different headers like this:

builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleName = "Header 1";

builder.Writeln("1 Test");

builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleName = "Header 2";

builder.Writeln("1.1 Test2");

And below each header I do this:

builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleName = "Normal";

builder.InsertHtml("TEST");

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Questions:

  1. How can I edit my generated document and put my own styles into “Header 1” and “Header 2”? For example, I don’t want them to be Arial and I don’t want “Header 2” to be italic. There must be a way to do this? Remember, I don’t use a template…

  2. Whenever I use InsertHtml, and the string contains tables and other basic html junk, builder.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent does not work!!! If I insert something simple it works, like for example builder.InsertHtml(“blabla”).

I think both of my problems above are because I’ve probably misunderstood something or I am creating my document(or using it?) in the wrong way. Somehow it seems corrupted.

Could someone point me in the right direction here?

best regards

koki

2

Thanks for your remark. In the near future I will try to compose a working code example for you and post it here.

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Hi
Try use following code examples to solve your problem with styles. I hope that it will help you.

// You can edit existing styles
doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.Heading1].Font.Color = Color.Red;
doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.Heading1].Font.Italic = true;
builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleIdentifier = StyleIdentifier.Heading1;
builder.Writeln("existing style test");
// You can add new styles to document and edit it
doc.Document.Styles.Add(StyleType.Paragraph, "Header 1");
doc.Document.Styles["Header 1"].Font.Bold = true;
doc.Document.Styles["Header 1"].Font.Color = Color.Blue;
doc.Document.Styles["Header 1"].Font.Italic = true;
builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleName = "Header 1";
builder.Writeln("new style test");
builder.ParagraphFormat.StyleIdentifier = StyleIdentifier.Normal;
builder.Writeln("normal style test");

As for HTML controls try to use

builder.ParagraphFormat.Style.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 100;