Table borders in ePub are not displayed on iPad devices

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Description of issue:

After the epub conversion refactoring there was faced the following bug: iBook viewer on iPad doesn't render the single borders tables properly. They are rendered only if the view is zoomed in.

Steps to reproduce:

Create a .doc or .docx file that contains the standard table (single styled borders, no other modifications). Then create an epub via using Aspose.Words. Open the epub on iPad (iBook viewer) and check table borders.

Actual Result:

Table borders in epubs on iPad are not displayed.

Expected Result:

Table borders in epubs on iPad have to be displayed as usual.

Additional Info:

All other devices render the tables properly.

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Hi Sergey,

Thanks for your inquiry.

Please note that MS Word 2013 and 2010 also do not show these borders. Please check the attached image for detail. However, table's border is visible when input Doc file is opened in MS Word 2003. Could you please share which MS Word version you are using?

I have tested the scenario and have managed to reproduce the same issue at my side. The table's border are not visible in output ePub file. For the sake of correction, I have logged this problem in our issue tracking system as WORDSNET-9661. I have linked this forum thread to the same issue and you will be notified via this forum thread once this issue is resolved.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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Hello Tahir,
we using MS Word 2010 and 2013, however this document could be created long time ago by our user and possibly via MS Word 2003. But I’m not sure about this.

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Hi Sergey,

Thanks for sharing the detail.

Please note that MS Word 2013 and 2010 also do not show these borders. Please check the attached image for detail. However, table's border is visible when input Doc file is opened in MS Word 2003.

We will update you via this forum thread once there is any update available on WORDSNET-9661.

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Thank you!

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Hi Sergey,

Thanks for your patience.

It is to inform you that our development team has completed the work on the issue (WORDSNET-9661) and has come to a conclusion that this issue and the undesired behavior you're observing is actually not a bug in Aspose.Words. So, we have closed this issue as 'Not a Bug'.

MS Word 2013 and 2010 do not show these borders. MS Word 2003 shows the border when table has no borders. This is the default behavior for showing table in MS Word 2003. Moreover, if you convert your document to HTML using MS Word 2003, output html will not have any borders.