title: Get height of rendered text and images in MS Word
body: <p>I'm creating a newspaper authoring system. Today I'm using Aspose.Words library to generate newspaper using Docx format as output, based on a lot of other documents as input.</p>
  
  <p>The basic idea is to load a lot of articles documents into a List, then generate a final docx with newspaper.</p>
  
  <p>We need to get the total height of a text (with images and tables) inside columns. As libraries like Aspose.Words deal with Docx format like DOM, there isn't way to know how text will be arranged inside columns. Then I can't know the real height.</p>
  
  <p>We've worked in our own way to get this height. I'm using MeasureString() function from System.Drawing.Graphics namespace. It returns width and height used by string and I can estimate how many lines (and points or inches) it will use inside a column. </p>
  
  <p>But it is very poor and we need a more decent solution. We are thinking to use OpenXML SDK to get this Height, can we?</p>
  
  <p>Aspose.Words doesn't support a way to know it and all Render classes are private to the library.</p>
  
  <p>Can you think a new way to get this height?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you,
  Daniel Koch</p>