updatePageLayout() Never Returns

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Our conversion process does some pre-processing of word documents prior to conversion to PDF. One thing we do is remove optional hyphen characters:

private Boolean RemoveOptionalHyphens(Document doc)
{
    int numReplaced = doc.Range.Replace(ControlChar.OptionalHyphenChar.ToString(), "", false, false);
    doc.UpdatePageLayout()
    return numReplaced> 0;
}

This generally works fine however we see some documents come through the system which result in a runaway process upon calling doc.UpdatePageLayout(). The call never returns and the CPU is pegged at 100% until the process is manually killed. I have attached an example document which reproduces this behavior reliably. We are using the latest Aspose.Words.NET 10.4

Please advise if there is any workaround or if this is a bug you can address. I can possibly provide additional documents which exhibit this behavior if you need.

2

I’ve also discovered that unsurprisingly the same behavior occurs when calling doc.Save() using PDF as the output format.

3

Hello
Thank you for reporting this problem to us and for the additional information. I managed to reproduce the problem on my side. Your request has been linked to the appropriate issue. You will be notified as soon as it is fixed.
Best regards,

4

The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-5278) have been fixed in this .NET update and in this Java update.

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