Word to Pdf changes list item character (filled circle) to empty rectangle

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Hi everybody,
when I’m saving a word docx to pdf the circles in list items are changing to empty rectangles.
when I’m saving to pdf with MS Word everything is fine.

Thank you for your help

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@swen.kusel, in most cases empty rectangles mean that Aspose.Words cannot find font for rendering the original characters. Could you please run the program shown below and check if any font substitution warnings are printed:

Document document = new Document("input.docx");
document.WarningCallback = new HandleDocumentWarnings();
document.Save("output.pdf");

public class HandleDocumentWarnings : IWarningCallback
{
    public void Warning(WarningInfo info)
    {
        // We are only interested in fonts being substituted.
        if (info.WarningType == WarningType.FontSubstitution)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(info.WarningType + " :: " + info.Description.ToString());
        }
    }
}

To fix this issue, the missing font needs to be installed. Our documentation explains where Aspose.Words searches for and substitutes missing fonts: