Conversions in Popular Document Formats

Using Aspose.Words, developers can easily open and save DOC, OOXML, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML,MHTML, TXT and OpenDocument documents. Aspose.Words for .NET can also save any document as PDF, XPS or EPUB.

Aspose.Words lets you convert documents between all supported formats, but conversions between Microsoft Word documents and saving to PDF are performed with high fidelity that ensures minimal formatting loss.

With Aspose.Words for Reporting Services and JasperReports you can easily convert your reports to DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, HTML and TXT formats. Aspose.Words for Reporting Service also supports conversion to XML, MHTML, XPS and EPUB formats.

Programming with a Document Object Model

Aspose.Words allows developers to build or modify documents and formatting with ease using a document object model consisting of over 100 classes.

Developers can programmatically create, modify, extract and replace all document elements includingsections, headers, footers, paragraphs, lists, tables, text, fields, hyperlinks, bookmarks and images. Developers can  specify detailed formatting for any document element. All drawing objects including shapes,textboxes, images, OLE objects and controls are supported and you can perform things such as insert watermarks or extract images easily.

Aspose.Words also provides useful security and utility features like joining or splitting documents, copying  fragments between documents, protecting and unprotecting documents, modifying document properties and inserting HTML fragments into the document. 

Rendering, Printing and Viewing

It is now possible in Aspose.Words for .NET to print or convert whole documents or individual pages to TIFF,PNG, BMP or EMF images. You can also render (draw) any document page onto a .NET Graphics object to a desired size or zoom to create thumbnails or display in a browser.

Aspose.Words is specially designed to render a document into pages and print with high fidelity to Microsoft Word (e.g. very similar to how Microsoft Word would have done it).

Developers will find it easy to print or preview documents because Aspose.Words integrates with the .NET printing infrastructure and at the same time allows to completely customize the printing process.

Reporting and Mail Merge

You can use Aspose.Words as a reporting solution. Design your reports in Microsoft Word and then have Aspose.Words fill documents with data from various data sources.

Aspose.Words allows developers to use standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields in the reports. Additionally, you can use Aspose.Words extended syntax for mail merge fields to perform more complex operations during mail merge such as insert images or repeatable regions.

The data for the report can come from an ADO.NET data table, from business objects or from a completelycustom data source.

Platform Independence

Aspose.Words is available for .NET, Java, Reporting Services, JasperReports and SharePoint.

You can use Aspose.Words for .NET to build any type of a 32-bit or 64-bit .NET application including ASP.NET, Web Services and WinForms. It is possible to use Aspose.Words for .NET via COM Interop from ASP, Perl, PHPand Python. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build applications with Mono.

Aspose.Words for Java is available for Java 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 and will run in any place where Java is installed. It is possible to use Aspose.Words for Java from Perl, PHP and Python.

Aspose.Words for Reporting Services supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services (32-bit and 64-bit), Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 and 2008, and Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005 and 2008.

Aspose.Words for JasperReports supports JasperReports (2.0, 3.0 or higher) and JasperServer (2.0, 3.0 or higher).

Aspose.Words for SharePoint supports Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

No Microsoft Word Automation

Aspose.Words does not require Microsoft Office to be installed on the machine in order to work. All Aspose components are totally independent and are not affiliated with, nor authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. In short, Aspose.Words is a better alternative to automation in terms of security, stability, scalability/speed, price and features.

High Fidelity to the Report Design

Aspose.Words for Reporting Services and JasperReports export reports as Microsoft Word documents in such a way that they appear identical to reports produced by Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services’ or JasperReports' built-in exporters. All report features are converted with the highest degree of precision to Microsoft Word documents.

Easy and Lightweight Deployment

Aspose.Words for Reporting Services comes with a MSI installer. The installer integrates Aspose.Words for Reporting Services with Microsoft Visual Studio Report Designer and registers to run with all Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services installations found on the computer.

Aspose.Words for JasperReports is provided as a single JAR file that can easily be deployed on the machines running JasperReports or JasperServer.