Aspose.Words component can give me a hand to solve my coding problems.

Great? No, fantastic! 

To anyone considering an Apose software prodict:

 

I have been working on a project to do mail merge using MS Word documents and convert the resulting files to PDF format.

 

There are a number of .NET components that will convert some kind of MS Word file (DOC or RTF mostly) to PDF; I have tested them all.  Most will successfully convert a simply formatted document.  If your document has more complex formatting such as tables, columns, headers/footers, or a table of contents, these other components will either format the output incorrectly or simply crash. None of them performed in a remotely acceptable way for us.   Aspose.Words converts all of our documents flawlessly and only a few lines of code are required.  It converts both DOC and DOCX formats.  After the conversion I have used Pdf.Kit to add security features to the PDF files.  Again, the software is easy to use and works great.

 

Aspose.Words is the only component I know of that can manipulate MS Word documents without having to reference an installation of MS Word on the web server.   If you have experience with MS Word automation you will find the transition an easy one.   The Word objects you already know (document, range, paragraph, bookmark, etc.) are available and can be accessed in a familiar way.

 

The support from Aspose has been very good.   My inquiries have been answered promptly and courteously.  Using the online documentation and code samples, I was able to get up to speed and get my work done quickly. 

 

This is an example of getting what one pays for.   These are top notch components that will serve you well.   And, you won’t spend weeks learning how to use them.

 

We are Xetus, a Silicon Valley, California company providing a loan origination system to the residential mortgage industry.

 

Aspose.Words is an elegant solution for creating PDFs from Word documents with data filled into mailmerge fields.  The mailmerge region feature allows generation of table-oriented documents as are often found in the mortgage industry.  The well documented APIs and sample code made for a quick implementation of a C# veneer to funnel data into a Word document and produce a PDF.

 

The Aspose support team is responsive and technically astute – we usually had an answer within an hour or two to any questions that arose.

 

With the power of Aspose.words, Xetus is able to provide a flexible custom document solution to its mortgage industry customers. User create their own Word documents, select loan fields from a Xetus-provided dictionary to embed in the document as mailmerge fields, and load the document into the XetusOne loan management system.  When working on a particular loan, users can then image the document with data from that loan.

 

Aspose.words proved to be the best solution for imaging Word documents to PDF in a production environment.

We are building a system that includes the ability to generate output reports at the tail end of a series of business processes. The final output needs to be clean and presentable, as they will be sent directly to customers in an automated fashion. We needed a system that would allow us to associate a template document with a Use Case, and be able to tag that template with data points that would be filled in upon request.

We looked at using the Open XML SDK from Microsoft, as well as using Office Automation, but both of those had some serious downsides (lack of support being at the top of the list). After looking at a few other third party tools, we settled on Aspose.Words for .NET. Initially I was drawn in by the level of documentation available on the site and in the forums; but after using the product for a few weeks I have to say the attentive support is a major win. I had a few questions on how to achieve specific tasks for our project and received quick and knowledgeable answers through the support forum, including sample code.

Between the demos available online, the usage and API documentation, and the help available on the forums, this has been one of the easiest implementations I’ve ever been through while using a third party tool! 

Aspose gave us freedom to develop solutions faster!

Previously we used MS Office automation when creating output methods in our products, which often gave our developers a lot of problems with early/late bindings, different versions of Office, product deployment at customer sites etc. We spend too much time dealing with silly problems like memory management, testing our solutions together with different office versions until we found out about Aspose and their products especially Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf toolskit.

Now we spend our time on developing solutions for our customer instead and we do not have to worry about all the technical stuff in regards of creating Word and PDF document directly inside our solutions.

We have used Aspose support a few times and every time they asked us exact questions about our code, asked us to send our files to them and every time they came up with comments/workarounds and even found a bug and made a correction and released a new build quickly afterwards. Very impressive!

Lasse Skytte Knudsen, SharepointToolbelt

Good day to all of you! Just wanna say thank you so much for the information because it really helps me to make my works faster and easier. Thanks for the tips.

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