The first NuGet release of Aspose.Words FOSS for .NET — the genuine Aspose.Words document engine, open-sourced in reduced form under MIT.
Install
dotnet add package Aspose.Words.FOSS
Package page: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Aspose.Words.FOSS
What's inside
- A single
Aspose.Words.FOSS.dllfor net462, netstandard2.0 and net8.0 (runs on .NET Framework 4.6.2+, .NET 6/8/10 — Windows, Linux, macOS). - Create, read and edit DOCX / DOCM / DOTX / DOTM / Flat OPC; convert to and from Markdown and plain text.
- Full document object model,
DocumentBuilder, find-and-replace with regex, tracked changes, field updates, document protection, VBA round-trip, digital signature verification. - No license keys, no evaluation watermarks. The package and its NuGet signature are authored by Aspose Pty Ltd.
- On Linux, also add SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux.
Not in this edition
Page layout and rendering (PDF/XPS/image output), DOC/RTF/ODT/HTML formats, mail merge and reporting. See the README for details and the commercial Aspose.Words for .NET for the full feature set.
The version number matches the commercial Aspose.Words release this FOSS build derives from.