Aspose Word Alternative

[zynder]

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?

[Negative0]

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.

[zynder]

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

[Negative0]

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

        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")

[zynder]

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

[Negative0]

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

[zynder]

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.

[Negative0]

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.

[zynder]

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

[Negative0]

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.

[zynder]

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