Does anyone know of any easy to learn API's for printing word documents? I'm using Apache POI to create and edit the documents but I can't find any documentation on auto printing each document after it is created. I just need an API that is well documented (again, preferably easy to learn but it does not have to be) and does not require the end user to download any SDK's (also preferably no xml required).
You could check JODConverter to try and convert your Word Document to a printable format.
You could try this
You could (credit-Rob Spoor):
Store your Word file in a temporary file (File.createTempFile())
Use java.awt.Desktop and its PrintFile(File) method
Delete the temp File
But, you should really be more specific in your question and show evidence of personal effort and research.
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I am searching for a way for my Java application to generate Word document using some kind of Template (the data for the document will be provided by the application)
Here are the requirements :
- The template should be editable for a non-developper human being. Creating a Jasper template using the adequate tool or editing a Word document with some kind of templating language is compliant. Asking for editing the xml file of the document is not
- The results should be easily editable for a human being, using Microsoft Word. For example, the document generated by Jasper or Birt is not compliant, as the table layout prevent any easy edition.
For the moment, I looked at the following solutions, finding no one which match the two requirements :
Jasper. The document generated are not easily edited
Birt. Same Problem
Generating the xml using a template motor (velocity, Freemarker). I cannot ask for the final client to edit this kind of XML file...
You can check out Templater. It has pretty good demo page.
Disclamer: I'm the author.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is an open-source implementation of an app suite similar to Microsoft Office. Besides supporting the standardized OpenDocument format, it also reads and writes Microsoft Office formats.
LibreOffice offers a Java API. So you may be able to programmatically create documents from a template.
In the past we’ve done something similar, modifying a document with search-and-replace and document-variables.
Apache Poi
Apache Poi is an open-source library for reading and writing Microsoft Office compatible documents.
I don't know its details but you might take a look.
JODReports (open source) and Docmosis (commercial) are designed to use normal/human-managed documents as templates (Word, OpenOffice, etc), merge in your data and return editable documents, PDFs etc. Please note I work for Docmosis.
Both JODReports and Docmosis provide a Java API.
If you are interested in automating Open Office or Libre Office directly (as mentioned in Basil's answer), this blog about converting Doc to Pdf will give you a quick-start to:
load a doc file as a template
search and replace
export to file (pdf in the example)
To change the output format to Doc instead of PDF:
propertyValues[1].Value = "writer_pdf_Export";
to
propertyValues[1].Value = "MS Word 97";
I hope that helps.
Was searching for this kind of solution as well, and I found XDocReport, including an example of a table. I will give it a try.
I have been given a Microsoft Word Document, with some tables and spots to fill in automatically. I am not sure if this can be done with JAVA, which is my most preferable language.
I am looking for a way to implement a function which I can give the word file to it, and it fills the required spots for me. Is it possible to do it? A hint or a link to a tutorial would definitely suffice. Thanks.
Newer versions Word store documents as zipped XML. Have you filled out the form manually in Word and done a before/after comparison on the XML? Depending on the extent of the changes you could use the standard Java XML APIs to do the same thing programmatically.
A bit of googling and I found docx4j and Apache POI. I haven't used either personally, but it appears that what you're asking for is certainly possible. See this example from the POI SVN repo on how to manipulate tables.
In one of my requirement I have to create a PDF from word document such that
1) There will be a page number on every page.
2) There will be line number for every line, starting from line no as 1 for each page.
Our application is written in java so Java API will be more helpful. But if it is more convenient in any other language that will be OK.
Here is a link to the most common Java PDF API :)
http://java-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries
IText is the most famous one, This is the link for IText
http://itextpdf.com/
I hope that I helped :)
Since word file cant be read like a .txt file , you will need 2 APIs.
One to read data from the doc file and another to write that data into pdf file.
Now to read data from the doc file you can use APACHE-POI.
and to write that data into pdf file you can use ITEXT.
I suggest JODReports or Docmosis since you want to start with a word document. You can dynamically insert numbered records and page breaks from a Java api so it sounds like they will be able to meet your requirements.
You haven't indicated why you want to start with a word document. If you are strictly generating a document, you could possibly drop that requirement and use iText or docx4j.
You can use Apache FOP(http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) only one thing I see last update on Oct 2012 for 1.1 release. But still issue are open.
You could try docx4j, although you would need to make a minor enhancement to support line numbering on every line, and possibly more problematically, probably use a commercial XSL FO processor.
docx4j uses XSL FO for PDF output, and line numbering isn't part of the 1.0 spec. (It is part of the XSL 2.0 requirements spec)
This means you'd have to use a XSL FO processor which supports a vendor-specific extension, for example Antenna House
UPDATE 2016 04
From v3.3.0, docx4j defaults to using our commercial converter, which you can try at http://converter-eval.plutext.com/
I need to create a little desktop app in Java that creates for me a .doc file and writes a bit of text into the file. I found an interesting tool called Aspose, but i saw it is not free at all.
Do yoy know what kind of, java API can i use for doing that(for free)?
Is it possible to do that only with the java SE libraries?
What do you think would be the easiest and fastest way to achive this goal?
I suggest you have a look at the Apache POI framework, specifically the HWPF - Java API to Handle Microsoft Word Files:
HWPF is the name of our port of the Microsoft Word 97(-2007) file format to pure Java. It also provides limited read only support for the older Word 6 and Word 95 file formats.
if you are going with .doc then as a learning excercise, open a Word document with some content (ideally similar to what you want to create) then save that as XML, and review the contents.
you will need to do some basic DOM parsing and management in your code to insert the right stuff.
By .doc file, I assume you mean Microsoft Office? Reading and writing Office file formats is something of a black art. Does it have to be a .doc format file specifically? A lot easier would be to write out a Rich Text Format file (.rtf) that Word could load.
And if you don't need to use .doc specifically I would suggest you use .odt, http://www.jopendocument.org/.
Anyone know if it is possible?
And got any sample code for this?
Or any other java API that can do this?
The Office 2007 format is based on XML and so can probably be written to using XML tools. However there is this library which claims to be able to write DocX format word documents.
The only other alternative is to use a Java-COM Bridge and use COM to manipulate word. This is probably not a good idea though - I would suggest finding a simpler way.
For example, Word can easily read RTF documents and you can generate .rtf documents from within Java. You don't have to use the Microsoft Word format!
As others have said POI isn't going to allow you to do anything really fancy - plus it doesn't support Office 2007+ formats. Treating MS Word as a component that provides this type of functionality via COM is most likely the best approach here (unless you are running on a non-Windows OS or just can't guarantee that Word will be installed on the machine).
If you do go the COM route, I recommend that you look into the JACOB project. You do need to be somewhat familiar with COM (which has a very steep learning curve), but the library works quite well and is easier than trying to do it in native code with a JNI wrapper.
If you are using docx, you could try docx4j.
See the AddImage sample
Surely:
Take a look at this: http://code.google.com/p/java2word
Word 2004+ is XML based. The above framework gets the image, convert to Base64 representation and adds it to the XML.
When you open your Word Document, there will be your image.
Simple like this:
IDocument myDoc = new Document2004();
myDoc.getBody().addEle("path/myImage.png"));
Java2Word is one API to generate Word Docs using obviously Java code. J2W takes care of all implementation and XML generation behind the scenes.
As far as can be gathered from the project website: no.
POI's HWPF can extract an MS Word document's text and perform simple modifications (basically deleting and inserting text).
AFAIK it can't do much more than that.
Also keep in mind that HWPF works only with the older MS Word (97) format, not the latest ones.
Not sure if Java out of the box can do it directly. But i've read about a component that can pretty much do anything in terms of automating word document generation without having Word. Aspose Words
JasperReports uses this API alternatively to POI, because it supports images:
JExcelAPI
I didn't try it yet and don't know how good/bad it is.