This document contains a group shape and it is not currently supported

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Hi Roman,
Any chance of supporting these?

I’m using 1.6.7 at the moment.

Best regards
Steve

2

Sure, I was just trying to defer it as long as possible until someone requests it. It is just not very straightforward technically because of internal shape ids. Estimated delivery mig August.

3

Hi Roman,
No problem.

I have worked around it for the moment by converting it to an embedded GIF. In our scenario we have more control over what people upload…

Could a conversion routine in Aspose.Word be a quick fix? Does MS Word store a BMP rendered alternative? It would at least be better than the error.

Is there anyway of making these things non-fatal? ie Just exclude them from the final document?

We’d still need some way of knowing why they were excluded - an extra member function IsDocumentCompatible() method.

Best regards
Steve

4

HI romank,

I’m evaluating Aspose.Word in order to be adopted as standard library across our
company: unfortunately I got the
"This document contains a group shape and it is not currently supported."
exception with many word documents. Is there any snapshot hotfix
with these feature enabled?

Thanks in advance.

5

We will support group shapes in the near future. For the time being, if you can select that group shape and Ungroup it - it will help to work around the problem.

6

how can i ungroup

7

Romank,


we have over 10000 MSWord documents in our library. So we cannot manually open every document to check for group-shape and then ungroup. I'm evaluating Aspose.Word on randomly selected file. Is there any way to automate the ungroup process?

Regards
vagamond

8

We will just have to implement support for group shapes.

Do you intend to move/copy or mail merge parts of the documents that contain group shapes? If not, then we can release a fix pretty quickly. It is more difficult for us when the group shapes get copied or duplicated because they employ some tricky id numbering techniques.

9

We need just to save it to XML in order to convert to PDF. If you have a quick fix for evaluation purposes, I'll try it!

Thanks in advance
vagamond

10

Right click on the group shape in the document, select Grouping / Ungroup.

It is probably possible to write a simple VBA macro that automatically goes all over the shapes in the document and ungroups them. Such a macro can even be written to automatically iterate all over the existing documents in a folder and ungroup all shapes in all of them.

Let me know if you would be interested in using such a macro as a work around and I might be able to get someone here to write it for you.

11

Romank,

we are planning to buy more than one Aspose.Word license (my company has 10000+ employees), but I must produce a Working Demo for Independent User Acceptance Test purposes. I think that the work-around is needed, otherwise Aspose.Word will not pass UAT.

Regards
vagamond

12

Thanks, I will make sure we have a solution promptly.

13
SteveHurcombe wrote:
Hi Roman,
No problem.

I have worked around it for the moment by converting it to an embedded GIF. In our scenario we have more control over what people upload...

Could a conversion routine in Aspose.Word be a quick fix? Does MS Word store a BMP rendered alternative? It would at least be better than the error.

Is there anyway of making these things non-fatal? ie Just exclude them from the final document?

We'd still need some way of knowing why they were excluded - an extra member function IsDocumentCompatible() method.

Best regards
Steve


Hi,
I would also like such a method, or any way of dealing with this groupshape problem.
Thanks,
Guus.
14 
Romank,

I wrote the following simple VBA Macro 
to ungroup all the shapes in the document:


Sub ungroupall()ActiveDocument.Shapes.SelectAll Selection.ShapeRange.Ungroup.Select End Sub



but
1) Some shapes in my word document were misplaced;
2) I got the <<Item has already been added.
Key in dictionary: "4" Key being added: "4" >> error
with the following stack trace:
[ArgumentException: Item has already been added.
Key in dictionary: "4" Key being added: "4"]
System.Collections.SortedList.Add(Object key, Object value)+221
Aspose.Escher.o.a(BinaryReader A_0, Int32 A_1)
Aspose.Escher.n.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.al.a(ag A_0, BinaryReader A_1)
Aspose.Escher.i.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.e.a(BinaryReader A_0, Int32 A_1)
Aspose.Escher.am.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.al.a(ag A_0, BinaryReader A_1)
Aspose.Escher.i.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.e.a(BinaryReader A_0, Int32 A_1)
Aspose.Escher.am.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.al.a(ag A_0, BinaryReader A_1)
Aspose.Escher.i.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.e.a(BinaryReader A_0, Int32 A_1)
Aspose.Escher.am.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.al.a(ag A_0, BinaryReader A_1)
Aspose.Escher.i.a(BinaryReader A_0)
Aspose.Escher.ae.a(BinaryReader A_0, Int32 A_1)
Aspose.Escher.ae..ctor(BinaryReader tableStreamReader, Int32 dggInfoOffset, Int32 dggInfoLength)
Aspose.Word.File.a9.a(ao A_0)
Aspose.Word.Document.a(ao A_0)
Aspose.Word.Document..ctor(String fileName)
Aspose.Word.Word.Open(String fileName)
Aspose.Word.Demos.Northwind.OpenDoc(String fileName)
in C:\Programmi\Aspose\Aspose.Word\Demos\Aspose.Word.Demos\Northwind.aspx.cs:211
Aspose.Word.Demos.Northwind.CreateInvoiceFromDataTables()
in C:\Programmi\Aspose\Aspose.Word\Demos\Aspose.Word.Demos\Northwind.aspx.cs:129
Aspose.Word.Demos.Northwind.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
in C:\Programmi\Aspose\Aspose.Word\Demos\Aspose.Word.Demos\Northwind.aspx.cs:53
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain()

Do you have any advise????

Regards
vagamond




15

I’ll do a quick fix in one-two days.

16

Group shapes are now supported in Aspose.Word 1.7.9.

17

Just to thank you and to tell that we decided to buy Aspose.Word and Aspose.Pdf

Regards