How to locate license file in the plugin code.

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:17:20 GMT

Seems like. The Aspose libraries are not open source.

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

rakeshg056228 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:34:26 GMT

do you mean unpaid plugin also need license file ?

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:59:24 GMT

The plugin should include a description of how to reference a license file.

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

rakeshg056228 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:24:34 GMT

I am using Aspose Convert Docx to PDF Free/Unpaid smart service for documents containing "Arabic" text, I am getting boxes as output. With the paid version will it work properly? any other solution?

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

Abhay Dalsaniya — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:51:04 GMT

Using resource stream resolved the issue.

Mentioning details below for the benefit of other people.

Plugin code directory structure.

Some Guidelines:

Copy resource files under /resources directory at root.
Directly refer resources under resources directory as shown in the code. e.g. "Aspose.Words.lic".
Do not make any reference from Build Path, otherwise it will fail.
Do not copy resource files under META-INF/lib/.

The structure of plugin JAR after export will look like following

Code for making reference to resource.

ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();

InputStream is = cl.getResourceAsStream("Aspose.Words.lic");

com.aspose.words.License license = new com.aspose.words.License();

license.setLicense(is);

if (license.isLicensed()) {

log.debug("License is Set");

}

else{

log.debug("License NOT Set");

}

RE: How to locate license file in the plugin code.

Justin Watts — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:55:00 GMT

I would try one of the Resource stream functions rather than trying to get the path directly. Some examples here:
stackoverflow.com/.../reading-a-resource-file-from-within-jar