I am testing the spire.doc component to make sure it works before we purchase it, so this problem may be because I am not using a licensed version yet.
When I try to create an object instance on a Word .Doc file (not docx, it works fine. But 1997-2003 format)
Dim document As New Spire.Doc.Document(sFileName)
it fails. I have tried several word files and it is the same result (*.docx works, and *.doc fails). There is no special formatting or anything. just a few letters typed into a blank word document and saved.
Error:
"Could not load type 'sprᨣ' from assembly 'Spire.Pdf, Version=3.7.4.7035, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=663f351905198cb3'."
Note that the blank space in 'spr ' is a special character that is being returned. Also, it seems odd that I am getting an assembly.pdf error when I am trying to invoke the spire.doc object. Not sure if that is an issue.
Please help. We would like to purchase a couple of developer licenses, but need to be able to process *.doc files.