I apologize ahead of time if this has already been discussed.
One of my projects is experiencing an issue with Word to PDF conversion. Some word documents contain images that are rotated but appear in the PDF unrotated.
To replicate, create a word document, insert an image, rotate the image, save it.
In code, the word document is located and opened as a Aspose.Words.Document object (with a PdfExportImagesFolder declared as TempPath), saved to a MemoryStream under SaveFormat.AsposePdf (so that font mapping can occur). An Aspose.Pdf.Pdf object is created, BindXml is called on the memory stream, then saved to an output stream (or file).
End result is a PDF without the proper image rotation, which seems counterintuitive to the already intuitive nature of Aspose.
I have tried this using SaveToPdf as well as through the rather complex path of establishing as Pdf object and binding the word doc’s xml stream to it.
Can anyone relate a way to correct this? What if I have multiple images at varying degrees of rotation?
Hi Seth,
Thanks for your inquiry.
I can see you are using an older version of Aspose.Words as the AsposePdf save format (using Aspose.Words in conjuction with Aspose.Pdf to render to PDF) has been removed. Now Aspose.Words directly renders to PDF without the use of Aspose.Pdf.
You can save to PDF in the newer version using direct rendering by calling doc.Save(“Document out.pdf”); This issue does not occur when using direct rendering.
You can download the latest version from here.
Thanks,
Adam:
Thank you for this update–we have downloaded the newest versions and updated our code accordingly. I did notice a few other issues related to the same idea of image inclusion:
(1) If a picture appears within text but its Wrapping Style is not set to “In-Line with text”, the picture gets placed incorrectly. To replicate this, create a word doc, put in a page of text, on the next page place a picture, set its Wrapping Style to something else (such as Top and Bottom), insert more text after the image, then convert.
(2) If a picture has an Absolute Position AND is rotated (say, 90 degrees), the image rotates properly, but is offset horizontally by the vertical offset and vertically by the horizontal offset.
Thanks,
Seth
Hi Seth,
Thanks for your request. Both issues occurs because the current version of Aspose.Words does not fully support positioning of floating shapes and tables. Your request has been linked to the appropriate issue. You will be notified as soon as it is resolved.
Best regards,
Hello
We are happy to tell you that a very cool and important feature (filed as 7180) is included in the new version of Aspose.Words. Text wrapping around images and shapes when rendering Microsoft Word documents to PDF, XPS and printing is now supported. You can download the latest version from here.