“Word found unreadable content” when header contains a shape and an image is inserted for a rich text control

[devopsix]

The template DOCX file contains:

• A shape (a line in this particular) in the header section
• A rich text content control in the main document part

The rich text content control is to be replaced by a paragraph with an image: <p><img src="..."></img></p> (contained in the XML in escaped form).

After binding the content control with docx4j, when opening the resulting document in Word a “Word found unreadable content” error message is shown.

The issue goes away as soon as the shape is removed from the template's header section before doing the binding.

Attached is a working sample for reproducing the issue. Extract docx4j-xhtml-image.zip, check out Docx4jXhtmlImageTest.java, run mvn test and open out.docx in MS Word.

[plutext]

Thank you for the clear and reproducible issue.

This turns out to be plutext/docx4j-ImportXHTML#71 which I will look at expediting

[plutext]

Fixed/released in docx4j-ImportXHTML 11.4.6 with docx4j 11.4.6