Aspose Word Alternative

Hi guys.

I'm using Aspose Word and embed it in C# application. However, there are some limitations to Aspose compared of course to Microsoft Word.

Is there any other alternative besides the 2 mentioned above. Like a word processing SDK that can be embedded in a .Net application?

For what it is worth, I have found Aspose to be one of the more complete non word based APIs. What issues are you having with it? The only issues I have had recently are with some of the Content Controls that were added as part of office 2007.

It won't highlight and won't support headers and footers.

I have been using headers and footers in it for years. Here is an example that uses both:

Code:

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        Dim Lic As New Aspose.Words.License
        Lic.SetLicense(Application.StartupPath & "\Aspose.Words.lic")

        Dim doc As New Aspose.Words.Document()
        Dim docBuilder As New Aspose.Words.DocumentBuilder(doc)
        docBuilder.InsertParagraph()
        docBuilder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.HeaderPrimary)
        docBuilder.Write("Hello World")
        docBuilder.MoveToSection(0)
        Dim f As Aspose.Words.Font = docBuilder.Font
        f.HighlightColor = Color.Yellow
        f.Size = 16
        f.Name = "Courier New"
        docBuilder.Write("hola")

        doc.Save("C:\temp\testheader.doc")

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Hey thanks for the code. How about the highlighting part?

That code has highlighting in it, notice the f.HighlightColor = Color.Yellow

Is this embedded in the app. I mean you don't need to write code. In the aspose editor i can't see insert header or footer or even the highlight part. The user will do the action.

Thanks for the quick response.

Ahhh... You are using the viewer. That is the piece of information I was missing. I haven't used their viewer much, but from what I understand it is rather limited. The viewer is not meant to be a word replacement, but rather it is used to render the document. So you can render the document to the screen, or to XPS, PDF, TIF, or to a printer.

I don't know of any other viewers out there that are going to provide a lot of word like functionality, without relying on word. You could always go the OpenOffice route and open the documents using that.

Does OpenOffice have SDKs? Have you seen someone done that?

There are some SDKs for OOo, but I have never used them, so you will have to look to someone else to help you with that, though a quick google search showed a few decent sites that have info on it.

Okay thanks very much for the help.

I found this site and it seems feasible. It's programming with open office with c#.net.

http://www.opendocument4all.com/down...Office.net.pdf