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Concatenate word docs using RichEditDocumentServer loses formatting

created 6 years ago

I have several word documents (docx) that I need to concatenate to a single document at runtime.  I used the RichEditDocumentServer.  However, the resulting document loses formatting.  For example, it removes all line spacing.

I have included a some sample code and docx (doc1.docx and doc2.docx) files as well as a sample result file (doc3.docx).

A second issue I am having is that I cannot seem to make the documents be font Calibri size 11.  It always comes out New Times Roman 9.

The code I'm using is
           editserver1.Options.Behavior.FontSource = RichEditBaseValueSource.Document;
            editserver1.Document.DefaultCharacterProperties.FontName = "Calibri";
            editserver1.Document.DefaultCharacterProperties.FontSize = 11.0F;
            editserver1.Options.Behavior.FontSource = RichEditBaseValueSource.Document;

Thank you,
Matt

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Answers approved by DevExpress Support

created 6 years ago

Hello Matt,

The line spacing specified in the "doc2.docx" document is removed, since the document content is appended to the last paragraph of the "doc1.docx" document. That paragraph has line spacing set to Single, and the Spacing Before and Spacing After settings set to 0pt (see the attached screenshot from Microsoft Office Word).
To keep formatting of the appended document, pass the InsertOptions.KeepSourceFormatting parameter into the AppendDocumentContent method.

C#
editserver1.Document.AppendDocumentContent(editserver2.Document.Range, InsertOptions.KeepSourceFormatting);

As for the "Times New Roman" font, this behavior is incorrect. This issue was already fixed in newer versions. You can download a fix from the A changed font with the ASCII/High/Complex Script/East Asian content type specified is incorrectly written in a run in the saved .DOCX document thread.

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