Earlier, Aspose.Words for .NET version 6.3 supported glossary documents while loading or saving Office Open XML only. But the newer version 6.4 enables exporting Word documents to PDF compliant to PDF/A-1b and Aspose.Words team is also committed to support PDF/A-1a in the next few months as well. Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET applications to read, write, modify & convert Word documents without using MS Word. Other features include smart tags, document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, DrawingML and support of EPUB, OOXML, DOCX, DOC, WordML, ODT, HTML, XHTML, MHTML, TXT and PDF formats. It supports printing and rendering Word documents to images. Also use Aspose.Words to build applications with Mono.

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