Aspose.Words

Save in the Rich Text Format 1.9 (.RTF) Format

Save in the Rich Text Format Overview

The following tables provide implementation details about how Aspose.Words saves a document in the RTF format.

Document

There are save options avalaible to export the RTF in compact size and to accomdate keywords for old readers.

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

·         Save a Document

·         RtfSaveOptions

·         RtfSaveOptions.ExportCompactSize

General

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Attached Template

Yes

 

 

Built-In Properties

Yes

Built-in properties such as word and character count are updated using Aspose.Words but are not updated automatically on save.

Instead you need to explictly update these properties using the appropriate Document member. We will add automatic update of these properties in a future version.

·         Document.UpdateWordCount

Custom Properties

Yes

 

 

Custom Payload Part

N/A

 

 

Custom XML Data Storage

Planned

 

 

Digital Signature

N/A

 

 

Embedded Package

Yes

Embedded packages are generally supported by Aspose.Words. There are two ways documents can be embedded inside other documents:

·          OLE (this is available in DOC and OOXML formats)

·          Package Embedding (available in OOXML only)

Aspose.Words supports these in the following ways:

If you have an OLE embedded or linked object it will be preserved during any conversion (e.g. DOC to DOCX or DOCX to DOC etc).

If you have a Package Embedded document, then it will only be preserved during DOCX to DOCX conversion.

There is no way to save a Package Embedded document from DOCX into a DOC file without converting it into an OLE embedded object. Implementing conversion of Package Embedded to OLE is tricky and it will take a while to implement.

OLE objects contain "native data" and are supposed to be created by the actual OLE creating application. We at Aspose.Words have never attempted or planned to replace the behavior of OLE creating applications.

Exported as a plain image.

 

Encryption

N/A

There is no support for encryption in RTF format.

 

Font Table

Yes

 

 

Glossary Document/Quick Parts/Auto Text

Planned

 

 

Hyphenation

Yes

 

 

Key Map Customizations

N/A

 

 

Mail Merge Recipient Data

Planned

 

 

Office Math

Planned

It is planned to export Office Math as an image to formats that do not have native support for it.

 

Themes

Yes

Properties of themes are converte to direct formatting upon save.

Not all properties may be maintained at the moment.

 

Toolbar Customizations

N/A

 

 

Variables

Yes

 

 

VBA Project (Macro)

N/A

RTF format does not support macros.

 

VBA Project Digital Signature

N/A

 

 

Background

Yes

 

 

Thumbnail

Planned

 

 

Embedded Fonts

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Embedding Fonts

Planned

 

 

Embed Only Non-Standard Fonts

N/A

 

 

Bibliography

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Bibliography

Yes

 

 

Sources/Citations

Yes

 

 

Citation Style

Yes

 

 

Protection

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Allow Only Comments

Yes

 

 

Allow Only Form Fields

Yes

 

 

Allow Only Revisions

Yes

 

 

Limit Formatting to Selection of Styles

Planned

 

 

Protection Password (Legacy)

Yes

 

 

Protection Password (OOXML)

Yes

 

 

Protected Sections

Yes

 

 

Protection Ranges

Planned

Currently protected ranges are lost upon import.

 

Read Only

Yes

 

 

Settings

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Asian Typography Settings

Yes

 

 

Compatibility Options

Yes

Compatibility Options can influence how the document content is appears. These are properly retained during conversion to RTF.

 

Endnote Options

Yes

 

 

Footnote Options

Yes

 

 

Mail Merge Settings

Planned

 

 

Print Settings

Yes

 

 

Show/Hide Settings

Yes

 

 

View Settings

Yes

 

 

Web Settings

Yes

 

 

XML Settings

Yes

 

 

Paragraphs

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Style

Yes

 

 

Alignment

Yes

The special "Thai Distributed" alignment is also retained during export.

 

Right to Left Paragraph

Yes

 

 

Bullets and Numbers

Yes

 

 

Outline Level

Yes

 

 

Run Properties for the Paragraph Mark

Yes

 

 

Suppress Line Numbers

Yes

 

 

Suppress Hyphenation

Yes

 

 

Indents

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Left Indent

Yes

 

 

Right Indent

Yes

 

 

First Line Indent

Yes

 

 

Hanging Indent

Yes

 

 

Mirror Indents

Yes

 

 

Automatically Adjust Right Indent

Yes

 

 

Spacing

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Space Before

Yes

 

 

Space After

Yes

 

 

Space Auto

Yes

 

 

Line Spacing

Yes

 

 

No Space between Conforming Paragraphs

Yes

 

 

Keeps and Breaks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Widow/Orphan Control

Yes

 

 

Keep With Next

Yes

 

 

Keep Lines Together

Yes

 

 

Page Break Before

Yes

 

 

Text Frames

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Frames

Yes

 

 

Tab Stops

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Absolute Position

Yes

 

 

Relative Position

Planned

 

 

Alignment: Left, Center, Right, Decimal, Bar

Yes

 

 

Leader

Yes

 

 

Drop Caps

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Drop Caps

Yes

 

 

Borders

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Border Sides

Yes

 

 

Shadow

Yes

 

 

3D Frame

Yes

 

 

Style

Yes

 

 

Color

Yes

 

 

Width

Yes

 

 

Distance from Text

Yes

 

 

Shading

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Shading

Yes

 

 

Asian Typography

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Use Asian Rules for Controlling First and Last Characters

Yes

 

 

Allow Latin Text to Wrap in the Middle of a Word

Yes

 

 

Allow Hanging Punctuation

Yes

 

 

Allow Punctuation at Start of a Line to Compress

Yes

 

 

Automatically Adjust Space between Asian and Latin Text

Yes

 

 

Automatically Adjust Space between Asian Text and Numbers

Yes

 

 

Text Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Text

Text in different languages is fully supported and can be rendered to formats such as PDF and image with high fidelity.

Characters

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Western Languages

Yes

 

 

East European Languages

Yes

 

 

East Asian Languages

Yes

 

 

Right to Left Languages

Yes

 

 

Carriage Return (not a Paragraph Break)

Yes

 

 

Non Breaking Space

Yes

 

 

Non Breaking Hyphen

Yes

 

 

Soft Hyphen

Yes

This type of hyphen is referred to as an "Optional Hyphen" in Microsoft Word documents.

 

Symbol

Yes

 

 

Tab

Yes

 

 

Breaks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Line Break

Yes

 

 

Line Break Clear Type

Yes

 

 

Page Break

Yes

 

 

Column Break

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Character Style

Yes

 

 

Color

Yes

 

 

East Asian Typography

Yes

 

 

Highlight Color

Yes

 

 

Language

Yes

 

 

Do not Check Spelling or Grammar

Yes

 

 

Border

Yes

 

 

Shading

Yes

 

 

Font

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Font

Yes

 

 

Underline

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Underline Type

Yes

 

 

Underline Color

Yes

 

 

Text Effects

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Animated Effect

Yes

 

 

Double Strikethrough

Yes

 

 

Strikethrough

Yes

 

 

Subscript/Superscript

Yes

 

 

Shadow

Yes

 

 

Outline

Yes

 

 

Emboss

Yes

 

 

Imprint (Engrave)

Yes

 

 

Small Caps

Yes

 

 

All Caps

Yes

 

 

Hidden Text

Yes

 

 

Special Hidden

Yes

 

 

Web Hidden

Yes

 

 

Character Spacing

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Scale

Yes

 

 

Expanded/Compressed

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position

Yes

 

 

Tables

Table

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Nested Tables

Yes

 

 

Right To Left Tables

Yes

 

 

Table Style

Yes

When a table style is present, it is converted to direct formatting on save so all formatting is still preserved.

 

Conditional Formatting Style

Yes

 

 

Table Alignment

Yes

 

 

Table Indent

Yes

 

 

Allow AutoFit

Yes

 

 

Default Cell Margins

Yes

 

 

Default Cell Spacing

Yes

 

 

Preferred Table Width

Yes

 

 

Table Shading

Yes

 

 

Hidden

Yes

 

 

Floating Tables

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Horizontal Position

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Distance from Text

Yes

 

 

Move with Text

Yes

 

 

Allow Overlap Floating Tables

Yes

 

 

Table Borders

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Table Borders

Yes

 

 

Rows

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Allow Break Across Pages

Yes

 

 

Repeat as Header Row

Yes

 

 

Height

Yes

 

 

Height Rule

Yes

 

 

Cells

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Cell Margins

Yes

 

 

Borders

Yes

 

 

Shading

Yes

 

 

Wrap Text

Yes

 

 

Fit Text

Yes

 

 

Preferred Width

Yes

 

 

Merged Horizontally

Yes

 

 

Merged Vertically

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Text Direction

Yes

 

 

Custom Markup

When converting to a document format that doesn't support custom markup features, the markup is stripped but content is preserved. The non-Microsoft Word document formats do not support custom markup and only text is exported.

CustomXML

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

CustomXML

Yes

 

 

Content Controls (Structured Document Tags)

RTF format does not support content controls. During conversion only the plain content is retained.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Content Controls (Structured Document Tags)

N/A

 

 

Smart Tags

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Smart Tag Properties

Yes

 

 

Sections

Headers and Footers

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Different First Page

Yes

 

 

Different Even and Odd Pages

Yes

 

 

Continue from Previous Section

Yes

 

 

Section Break Type

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

·         Section.SectionStart

·         DocumentBuilder.InsertBreak

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Continuous

Yes

 

 

Even Page

Yes

 

 

Odd Page

Yes

 

 

Next Column

Yes

 

 

Next Page

Yes

 

 

Text Columns

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Columns

Yes

 

 

Page Margins

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Page Margins

Yes

 

 

Page Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Starting Number

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Right to Left Section

Yes

 

 

Line Numbering

Yes

 

 

Paper Source

Yes

 

·         PageSetup.FirstPageTray

·         PageSetup.OtherPageTray

Paper Size

Yes

 

 

Orientation

Yes

 

 

Protection

Yes

 

 

Text Direction

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Asian Document Grid

Yes

 

 

Chapter Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Chapter Numbering

Yes

 

 

Page Border

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Page Border

Yes

 

 

Styles

Style Type

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Style

Yes

 

 

Character Style

Yes

 

 

List Style

Yes

 

 

Table Style

Planned

 

 

General

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Aliases

Yes

 

 

Based On

Yes

 

 

Built-in Styles

Yes

 

 

Custom Styles

Yes

 

 

Style Name

Yes

 

 

Next Style

Yes

 

 

Paragraph Properties

Yes

 

 

Run Properties

Yes

 

 

Bullets and Numbering

Yes

 

 

Document Defaults

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Properties

Planned

 

 

Run Properties

Yes

 

 

Table Style

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Apply Formatting to

Planned

 

 

Table Properties

Planned

 

 

Banding

Planned

 

 

Paragraph Properties

Planned

 

 

Run Properties

Planned

 

 

Numbering

Numbering Definition

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Single Level

Yes

 

 

Multi Level

Yes

 

 

Name

Yes

 

 

Numbering Level

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Label Alignment

Yes

 

 

Picture Bullet

Yes

 

 

Restart Level

Yes

 

 

Bullet Character

Yes

 

 

Label/Format String

Yes

 

 

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Paragraph Properties

Yes

 

 

Font Properties

Yes

 

 

Linked Paragraph Style

Yes

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Text After

Yes

 

 

Footnotes/Endnotes

Footnotes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Separator

Yes

 

 

Continuation Separator Mark

Yes

 

 

Document Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Section Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Restart Location

Yes

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Placement

Yes

 

 

Endnotes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Separator

Yes

 

 

Continuation Separator Mark

Yes

 

 

Document Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Section Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Restart Location

Yes

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Placement

Yes

 

 

Annotations

Bookmarks

All Word documents and most other formats that Aspose.Words export to only allow bookmarks with unqiue names, that is, no two bookmarks are allowed the exact same name.

If two bookmarks are given the same name in the model then no errors will occur. During export to any format the duplicate bookmarks are removed silently. The first bookmark visited in the model is the one that is retained, any other bookmarks are removed,

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Bookmark Start

Yes

 

 

Bookmark End

Yes

 

 

Bookmark Name

Yes

 

 

Bookmark Table Columns

Yes

 

 

Comments

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Comment

Yes

 

 

Comment Range

Yes

 

 

Author

Yes

 

 

Date

Yes

 

 

Initial

Yes

 

 

Tracking Changes

You may need to accept tracked changes before saving to different formats or else the deleted revisions will still show up in the output document.

See the following link in the documentation for further information:

·         Document.AcceptAllRevisions

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

On/Off State

Yes

 

 

Table Cell Deletion

Planned

 

 

Table Cell Insertion

Planned

 

 

Cell Merge or Split

Planned

 

 

Run Deletion

Yes

 

 

Run Insertion

Yes

 

 

Paragraph Deletion

Yes

 

 

Paragraph Insertion

Yes

 

 

Table Row Deletion

Yes

 

 

Table Row Insertion

Yes

 

 

Numbering Insertion

Yes

 

 

Numbering Change

Yes

 

 

Moves

Planned

 

 

Paragraph Properties Change

Yes

 

 

Run Properties Change

Yes

 

 

Section Properties Change

Yes

 

 

Table Properties Change

Yes

 

 

Cell Properties Change

Yes

 

 

Row Properties Change

Yes

 

 

RSIDs Session Identifiers

Yes

RSID ids on revisions are preserved even when converting to different formats.

 

Fields

Fields are supported in the model. To check if these fields can be updated check the import section.

Even if a field can be updated, most fields are exported if they are up-to-date by MS Word. i.e if you import a doucment and export it with a field as it is then it will appear properly in the output format.

Fields with custom field codes (a field code modified to represent something different than a normal field) are retained as they are when converting to other Word document formats. These fields are lost when exporting to ODT.

When saving to rendered formats such as PDF, XPS or image some fields may be automatically updated as a part of page layout.

Field Codes

See the following link in the documentation for further information:

·         Document.UpdateFields.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Field Codes

Yes

 

 

Date and Time

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

CreateDate

Yes

 

 

Date

Yes

 

 

EditTime

Yes

 

 

PrintDate

Yes

 

 

SaveDate

Yes

 

 

Time

Yes

 

 

Document Automation

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Compare

Yes

 

 

DocVariable

Yes

 

 

GoToButton

Yes

 

 

If

Yes

 

 

MacroButton

Yes

 

 

Print

Yes

 

 

Document Information

Fields such as FileName or FileSize are not automatically updated on save. However they can be updated explictly by calling Document.UpdateFields.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Author

Yes

 

 

Comments

Yes

 

 

DocProperty

Yes

 

 

FileName

Yes

 

 

FileSize

Yes

 

 

Info

Yes

 

 

Keywords

Yes

 

 

LastSavedBy

Yes

 

 

NumChars

Yes

 

 

NumPages

Yes

 

 

NumWords

Yes

 

 

Subject

Yes

 

 

Template

Yes

 

 

Title

Yes

 

 

Equations and Formulas

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Formula

Yes

 

 

Advance

Planned

 

 

Eq

Yes

 

 

Symbol

Yes

 

 

Form Fields

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

TextInput

Yes

 

 

CheckBox

Yes

 

 

DropDown

Yes

 

 

Calc On Exit

Yes

 

 

Checked

Yes

 

 

Default Value

Yes

 

 

Enabled

Yes

 

 

Entry and Exit Macro

Yes

 

 

Name

Yes

 

 

Help Text

Yes

 

 

Status Text

Yes

 

 

Max Length

Yes

 

 

Check Box Size

Yes

 

 

Text Input Type

Yes

 

 

Index and Tables

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Index

Yes

 

 

RD

Yes

 

 

TA

Yes

 

 

TC

Yes

 

 

TOA (Table of Authorities)

Yes

 

 

TOC (Table of Contents)

Yes

 

 

XE

Yes

 

 

Links and References

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AutoText

Yes

 

 

AutoTextList

Yes

 

 

Bibliography

Yes

 

 

Citation

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink

Yes

 

 

IncludePicture

Yes

 

 

IncludeText

Yes

 

 

Link

Yes

 

 

NoteRef

Yes

 

 

PageRef

Yes

 

 

Quote

Yes

 

 

Ref

Yes

 

 

StyleRef

Yes

 

 

Mail Merge

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AddressBlock

Yes

 

 

Ask

Yes

 

 

Compare

Yes

 

 

Database

Yes

 

 

Fill-in

Yes

 

 

GreetingLine

Yes

 

 

If

Yes

 

 

MergeField

Yes

 

 

MergeRec

Yes

 

 

MergeSeq

Yes

 

 

Next

Yes

 

 

NextIf

Yes

 

 

Set

Yes

 

 

SkipIf

Yes

 

 

Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AutoNum

Yes

 

 

AutoNumLgl

Yes

 

 

AutoNumOut

Yes

 

 

BarCode

Yes

Note that this only refers to the BarCode field structure. Commonly barcodes are actually represented in Microsoft Word document as text using a special barcode font or image. These are fully supported during export to all formats.

 

ListNum

Yes

 

 

Page

Yes

 

 

RevNum

Yes

 

 

Section

Yes

 

 

SectionPages

Yes

 

 

Seq

Yes

 

 

User Information

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

UserAddress

Yes

 

 

UserInitials

Yes

 

 

UserName

Yes

 

 

Hyperlinks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text

Yes

 

 

Hyperlinked Shape or Image

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink across Multiple Paragraphs

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink to a Local Bookmark

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink to an External Resource

Yes

 

 

Screen Tip

Yes

 

 

Target Frame

Yes

 

 

Formatting Switches

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Date and Time Formatting

Yes

 

 

Numbering Formatting

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Yes

 

 

Drawing Objects

Images are exported to RTF in hex format. There are plans to support writing images in bin format to reduce the size of the image by half.

Images

All images are exported as the same format that they were originally loaded as.

Images are exported to RTF in hex format. There are plans to support writing images in bin format to reduce the size of the image by half.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

PNG

Yes

 

 

JPG

Yes

 

 

WMF

Yes

 

 

EMF

Yes

 

 

EMF+

Yes

 

 

BMP

Yes

 

 

GIF

Yes

 

 

TIFF

Yes

 

 

Borders

Yes

 

 

Cropping

Yes

 

 

Alternative text

Yes

 

 

Image Recoloring

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Brightness

Yes

 

 

Contrast

Yes

 

 

Recolor

Yes

 

 

Textboxes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Direction

Yes

 

 

Linked Textboxes

Yes

 

 

Internal Margins

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Resize To Fit Text

Yes

 

 

Text in Other Shapes

Yes

 

 

OLE Objects

OLE Objects represent embedded content in a Microsoft Word document, such as an embedded Excel or Powerpoint document. The OLE object is dynamic and can be edited or updated through Microsoft Word.

OLE objects are fully preserved when converting within different Word document formats.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Linked

Yes

 

 

Embedded

Yes

 

 

Draw Aspect

Yes

 

 

Auto Update

Yes

 

 

Lock

Yes

 

 

Ole Object Data

Yes

 

 

Ole Object Picture

Yes

 

 

Source Range

Yes

 

 

ActiveX Controls

ActiveX is supported in OOXML, DOC, RTF and WordML documents. ActiveX Controls are preserved during round-trip to the same format.

When exporting to a different format from the original document the following rules apply:

·          The "in-built" common ActiveX Word controls e.g checkbox, textbox, listbox etc are fully preserved even when exporting to a different format.

·          ActiveX imported from document formats DOC, RTF, WordML should be properly retained during conversion to other formats.

·          When loading ActiveX from OOXML documents e.g DOCX, there are two main types of ActiveX.

The first type is the legacy format which is found in the other formats such as DOC, RTF etc. This is freely converted to the other formats correctly.

The second type is a new format of ActiveX found in OOXML documents such as the DOCX format. This format is not diectly supported in the other formats so during conversion to those formats these types of ActiveX are converted to a plain image. When round-tripping back to an OOXML format these ActiveX are properly retained.

Implementing the conversion of this new ActiveX format to the legacy format is very hard and is not yet supported. It involves interaction with the ActiveX object and perhaps even the program that embeds it. This makes it very hard, if not impossible to peform the conversion. We will consider looking into this sometime in the future.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Persistent Properties Storage

Yes

 

 

Shapes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Lines

Yes

 

 

Basic Shapes

Yes

 

 

Block Arrows

Yes

 

 

Flowcharts

Yes

 

 

Callouts

Yes

 

 

Stars and Banners

Yes

 

 

Group Shape

Yes

 

 

Drawing Canvas

Yes

 

 

Signature Line

Planned

Signature line functionality is lost on upon export and is exported as a regular image instead.

This will be improved on in a future version.

 

Ink Annotation

Yes

Ink Annotations are exported to all formats as regular images.

 

Clip Art

Yes

 

 

Diagrams (VML)

Yes

VML graphic format is normally used in pre-OOXML formats such as DOC or RTF.

 

SmartArt (VML)

Yes

 

 

Charts (VML)

Yes

 

 

Shape Customizations

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink on Shape

Yes

 

 

Watermark

Yes

A watermark in a Microsoft Word document is actually a text shape or image centered in the middle of the page but in the header or footer. This allows the watermark to appear behind all content and as faded.

 

DrawingML

DrawingML is only preserved in round-trip back to DOCX format.

There are plans to export DrawingML as regular shape/image to other formats. At the moment DrawingML objects are lost when converting to other formats.

Support for DrawingML is improving with every new release.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Images/Shapes

Yes

Simple DrawingML images are converted to regular images upon export to non-OOXML formats.

 

Diagrams

Planned

 

 

SmartArt

Planned

 

 

Charts

Planned

 

 

WordArt

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Styles

Yes

 

 

Outline

Yes

 

 

Fill

Yes

 

 

3D Properties

Yes

 

 

Text Spacing

Yes

 

 

Vertical Text

Yes

 

 

Even Height

Yes

 

 

Align and Justify Text

Planned

Currently exported as center alignment.

 

WordArt Shape

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Line Object

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Width

Yes

 

 

Height

Yes

 

 

Color

Yes

 

 

Alignment

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink

Yes

 

 

Image

Yes

 

 

Position

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Inline

Yes

 

 

Floating

Yes

 

 

Wrap Type

Yes

Text wrapping around images and shapes is supported in all formats.

 

Wrap Sides

Yes

 

 

Distance from Text

Yes

 

 

Z-Order

Yes

 

 

Polygon Wrap Points

Planned

Custom wrap points are lost on export. This will be implemented in a future version.

 

Rotation

Yes

 

 

Flip

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Alignment

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Anchor Lock

Yes

 

 

Allow Overlap

Yes

 

 

Layout in Table Cell

Yes

 

 

Size

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Width and Height

Yes

 

 

Scale

Yes

A scaled object is normally exported with scaling applied to the Shape size and the Scale property reset to 100%.

 

Relative Size

Yes

 

 

Lock Aspect Ratio

Yes

 

 

Fill

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

No Fill

Yes

 

 

Solid Fill

Yes

 

 

Gradient Fill

Yes

 

 

Pattern Fill

Yes

 

 

Picture or Texture Fill

Yes

 

 

Line Style

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Line Color

Yes

 

 

Line Fill

Yes

 

 

Line Width

Yes

 

 

Compound Type

Yes

 

 

Dash Type

Yes

 

 

Cap Type

Yes

 

 

Join Type

Yes

 

 

Arrow Settings

Yes

 

 

Shadow

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Shadow

Yes

 

 

3D Properties

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

3D Properties

Yes