Top Margin is reset when adding watermark

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi,
I have a Word document whose Top Margin was reduced to fit a lot of content on a single page.
When I use the following code to add a watermark, the TopMargin from the original document is lost and now the document spans two pages.
I know I can explictily set the TopMargin in code; the problem is that I have been unable to capture the original TopMargin value from the template (in code). A hard coded TopMargin value is not acceptable. In other words I need to preserve whatever TopMargin value was set in ANY Word document where I need to apply a watermark. Aspose Words seems to reset the TopMargin to the default.
Here is the code for adding the watermark…

String imageFile = "D:/temp/AsposeTest/watermark.jpg";
String inFileName = "D:/temp/AsposeTest/DotWithSmallTopMargin.dot";
String outFileName = "D:/temp/AsposeTest/DocWithWatermark.doc";
Document doc = new Document(inFileName);
DocumentBuilder builder =new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.moveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HEADER_PRIMARY);
// Insert a floating picture. 
Shape shape = builder.insertImage(imageFile);
shape.setWrapType(WrapType.NONE);
shape.setBehindText(true);
// Position the image in the center of the page.
shape.setRelativeHorizontalPosition(RelativeHorizontalPosition.PAGE);
shape.setHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.CENTER);
shape.setRelativeVerticalPosition(RelativeVerticalPosition.PAGE);
shape.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.CENTER);
doc.save(outFileName);

Attached are a test Word docment and watermark image.
Thank You

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BTW… I downloaded the latest version of Aspose Words and I get the same behavior.
I have reduced the test code to narrow down the issue. All I need to do is call builder.moveToHeaderFooter() for the TopMargin value to be reset…

String inFileName = "D:/temp/AsposeTest/DotWithSmallTopMargin.dot";
String outFileName = "D:/temp/AsposeTest/minOut.doc";
Document doc = new Document(inFileName);
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.moveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HEADER_PRIMARY);
doc.save(outFileName);
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your inquiry and sorry for the delayed response.
Plese note that in your case when you insert a primary header in your document using Microsoft Word, the default height of header area would be 0.5" and Aspose.Words does the same. I think you should just specify ‘zero’ distance between the header and the top of the page by using the PageSetup.HeaderDistance property.
I hope, this helps.
Best regards,