Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

re: Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

David McCabe — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:40:14 GMT

Is there any way to detect where in a document a particular part is referenced, with SDK v2? It would be nice to be able to look at, say, a Paragraph, and get a list of Parts referenced.

There are several use cases:

* removing a paragraph from a document; what set of Parts need to be removed as well?

* extracting a single paragraph from a document; what set of Parts need to come along?

Word obviously has this information because it strips out unreferenced Parts when saving.

re: Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

Bennett Yip — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:01:08 GMT

The program runs very well in my PC. However, I got a HRESULT=0x80070057 error code when I tried to convert a TXT file to an OLE object under Win2003 server. There is also no EMF image file in the output when 0x80070057 error exists.

re: Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

Zeyad Rajabi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:16:49 GMT

Johann - Thanks. To merge PDF content within Open XML files you will need some kind of API that understands PDF. I found several doing a quick internet search. As for Office 2003 files, there are 3rd party APIs that can help you out. You could also programmatically access the content of binary documents yourself. Check out the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx to see the specification for the .doc file format. Another approach for handling Office 2003 files is to convert them to Open XML. You can use the OMPM tool to do bulk conversions for you.

re: Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

Johann Granados — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:45:51 GMT

Excellent article!!! Do you know about a solution for merging (not embedding) PDF files and Office 2003 files into a docx file? Thanks in advance for your answer