Aspose.Total Pros and Cons

great api and if you are using the product for test, not for production is very nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

support is not included and they have a bug that they dont want to solve, so they offer support that is so expensive like the license itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We most appreciate Aspose.Total's speed and accuracy, plus its wide range of supported file formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price is only negative factor we've found, so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aspose allows us to create, open, and edit Office formatted files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). There's almost nothing this library can't do. It's extremely powerful and gives you all the tools you need to work with Office files. It's updated frequently and the team stays on top of most major issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still some things that don't work quite right. Over the years, we've come across many bugs with loading and converting documents from Word or Excel to PNG images. Some of these bugs are still not fixed having been reported years ago, though, most are small issues and not deal breaking issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It supports most formats, the APIs provided are straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some really frustrating bugs there.

One solution provided gave us a huge development overhead to use.

The last point was particularly frustrating. We have had to rewrite all of our PDF templates to be able to use the new PDF Generation API in order to avoid bugs with the old one. I am sure Aspose could have respected our time more and provided a backwards compatible solution to fix the bugs.

Another important bug that we encountered was that when modifying document properties (e.g. company, creator etc) the product is actually trying to regenerate the file instead of just editing those properties. Due to some bugs there sometimes the generated file is corrupted. No fix has been provided and we have had to drop aspose for this specific functionality (anonymization of files in our case) and seek alternatives.

One other problem we have had is that as soon as the license expires just trying to reference the library causes your website/application to throw exceptions. I find this particularly unacceptable as it has caused generic erros with our applications when our infrastructure department did not install the updated license in time. Such a software should be limited to throwing errors when you are actually trying to USE it (e.g. in our case we should have encountered an error when trying to generate a pdf and not bring the whole web application down.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The components are well maintained and in our experience reported bugs are fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation for COM interface could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.