Thanks for posting the solution.  I was curious as I may need to do
something similar in a couple months.

   -- Mark

Andy Fish wrote:
> FWIW it seems that it is acutally the restricted privileges of the
> ASPNET user rather than the fact it is running in the background.
>
> I have tried with a windows service running as LocalSystem and it
> works OK; when the service runs as LocalService it fails.
>
> Andy
>
>
> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@b...> wrote in message
> news:%23cyH33w1EHA.2568@T......
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing a server based app that will manipulate WordProcessingML
>> files. At the end of the process, I need to convert the XML back to
>> a .doc file to send back to the user (in case he hasn't got office
>> 2003), so I run up word using COM, load the document, and do a 'save
>> as' to convert to .doc format. I'm using the office 11 interop
>> assemblies to do this from an asp.net web application.
>>
>> This works fine unless the document contains images, in which case
>> they just appear as empty placeholders in the .doc file (or, in the
>> case of a photo editor image, word refuses to open the document).
>>
>> Howeve, exactly the same code runs fine when running in the
>> foreground, it's only when I run it in asp.net that I get this
>> problem. It also works fine when loading a .doc file with images in;
>> it only goes wrong when all of the following are true:
>>
>> - running in background (asp.net)
>> - opening a WordML document
>> - document contains images
>>
>> I guess it's trying to use some GDI functions to convert the images
>> and this doesn't work when it's running as a service. It seems crazy
>> that it's happy to convert the other way though.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on what might be going wrong or possible
>> workarounds?. currently the only idea I can think of is having word
>> running on the desktop on the server with a macro that watches a
>> directory and does the conversions - not very nice at all!!
>>
>> Please don't tell me I shouldn't run word as a service - unless you
>> can tell me another way to convert between WordMl and .doc format :-)
>>
>> Andy