Is there an alternative to open-xml sdk to generate word documents

Question

I'm trying to generate word documents using open xml sdk. When the documents are small this is no problem (and rather easy). When the documents become larger (+500 pages) I notice the peformance (duration, memory usage, ...) goes down significantly.

Googling this problem I came across some posts that point out the same problem. For excel there is a solution with spreadsheetgear.

I would like to know if there is a word alternative to this or if there are other solutions to generate word documents?

Thanks, Jelle

Answer 1

You might look at http://docx.codeplex.com/

On Java, you could use docx4j. If you were brave, you could create DLLs for it via IKVM...

Answer 2

I decided to go with Aspose Words. It is really fast and not very demanding on resources (CPU, memory). It has the disadvantage that it is quite expensive. I also investigated Softartisans Office writer. The posibilities are the same but due to fact that the company I'm currently working for already used other Aspose components we decided to go with Aspose Word.