I want to create a word document which has a text part, checkboxes and tables in it. I want to create a template of this document and use the template to create a word document using java.
Can anyone please suggest me an easiest way to do the same. I tried doing xml mapping but it only works fine with text and tables. I am more concerned about the checkboxes in the word document.
Please help!
I had a play with a bound checkbox content control.
I found that Word updates the custom xml part when you check/uncheck the checkbox on the document surface, but that the checkbox doesn't automatically update when you change the value in the custom xml part outside word. Nor is it enough to update the checked state (w14:checkbox/w14:checked) outside Word 2010: it seems to be ignored.
In other words, unlike for bound text content controls, the update isn't bi-directional.
So to make this work, you'd need to apply the binding yourself (ie alter the sdtContent to be a checked or unchecked box).
In terms of Java implementations, docx4j 2.7.1 can apply bindings for text content controls, but would need a minor patch to insert the checked or unchecked box.
JDReports and Docmosis might help you. I think both can do what you require given the template requirement and output format.
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I need to automatically generate 4 different types of CVs using Java/Spring. The information is already in the database in a structured way. However, we need to generate a Word Document for 4 different types of CVs. If you have noticed in the Europass format there are sections like work-experience and education and training that need to be duplicated more than once.
I have seen a docx4j version , where creating an XML file and adjusting the word document to comply with that XML can make it work. However, what I can't seem to be figuring out for now, is how to add repeating sections, for example a list of experiences. Not only do I have to repeat the actual data, but I also have to duplicate the text in the existing template.
If any of you guys knows any other library/plug-in/tech that might help me to dynamically create a word document (the CV) using Java, please let me know.
I am working right now in producing word documents in java and i am using XWPFDocument of POI Apache. The final document must looks like this
http://sk.uploads.im/t/rtwvm.png
till no everything works fine, I created table, managed to merge cells but i can not find a way to change the text orientation in table cells. I simply want "Type 1" to be upward.
I only found a solution using cellStyle which seems to work only in excel and not in word, which i am using.
You probably need to create two documents in Word, one with the normal orientation and one with the changed one, then unzip them (.docx is actually a Zip-File) and analyze which xml-structure is responsible for this.
Then you can check if POI already offers higher level APIs for these or if you need to access the low-level POI classes via the getCTxxx() methods, e.g. XWPFTableCell.getCTTc() returns the underlying XML structure and allows you to do things that are not possible via the normal POI interfaces.
You can use something like: cell.getCTTc().getTcPr().addNewTextDirection().setVal(STTextDirection.BT_LR),
where the parameters are found in: STTextDirection.
The problem I couldn't solve yet is that the row height does not update automatically to the vertical text length, then the text is not completely showed. If you solve it, please, post here.
I need to edit some Check-Boxes in a big Wordfile (docx) and save this then as PDF. This file contains many images and is about 19MB big.
Maybe there will be the need of adding some Checkbox and text.
My idea was to use docx4j, but before to learn the ropes I want to ask if this is possible and which is the best way.
May it be better to save the document as a PDF and then use this as base for processing?
Yes, you can manipulate checkboxes using docx4j.
Be aware that there are several different kinds of checkboxes:
legacy checkbox
content control checkbox
checkbox character
and the details depend on which type are present.
For more, you should post a snippet of the relevant OpenXML (and as they say here on SO, code showing what you've tried).
Is it necessary to use only docx4j?
Recently i tried a solution that helps me manage a Word document with checkboxes and save it as a PDF file. I used Plumsail Documents. The case is about how to populate a Word template using a form with checkboxes. You can connect your app via Zapier or Power Automate to activate checkboxes depending on value from your app. You can set the resulting file as a PDF and deliver it by email and across any system using Zapier and Power Automate.
The great is that Plumsail Documents has a templating engine that allows it to operate pictures.
Your case may be like this:
Create a form in Plumsail Form. It will allow you to activate checkboxes depending on your needs, or your users' needs.
Create a process in Plumsail Documents, upload your Word document and set it as a template. Just put placeholders where you want to change or fill a document with some values or data. Set the resulting document in PDF format.
Set the delivery method. Save across apps or deliver by email.
I recommend you to read the article. That solution is not free, but there is a free 30-day trial, so you will have enough time to try it.
I need to write a swing based editor that can open specified xml files, which contains the text i have to use between a <p> and </p> tag, but there are other tags in the file too. There are other useless informations in the file.I don't need to display them, but it needs to be preserved. I need to dispay only the text inside the mentioned tags in a JTextComponent and let the user modifying it and somehow write back the changes to the underlying xml source. The positions of the tags in the xml file will vary from file to file and there are more than one <p> tags in a file, and i should display and make editable the content from all of them at once. What do you think? Which is the best way to accomplish the above task?
If you want a quick'n'dirty programmatic solution, just read your XML DOM into a JTree. Here's one of many, many examples you can find on the web:
http://www.developer.com/xml/article.php/3731356/Displaying-XML-in-a-Swing-JTree.htm
If you're looking for an open source XML editor, you might want to consider Amaya:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
PS:
As you're probably aware, Swing's "JTree" implementation is MVC to the max - you can easily adapt any example to filter the contents of the tree model (i.e. to filter/modify your DOM content source), or to change the appearance (i.e. modify your JTree's appearance and/or behavior).
http://java-sl.com/xml_editor_kit.html
You can use the kit as the basis for your project. Add a DocumentFilter to allow editing only the plain text.
Load the XML into a DOM tree
Present the required text to the user in your UI
When the user commits changes, update the DOM tree with the new text
Serialize the DOM tree back to XML
I need to format java code to put into a Word document. Are there any programs that will do this with keyword highlighting, etc. ?
When I copy/paste from my IDE (Eclipse), the formatting comes along for the ride.
You'll probably want to turn off "Mark Occurrences" first.
This is a late reply but since it's quite a specific requirement I'll post my comment anyway.
You can do this programmatically with Docmosis assuming you want the program to be running in Java (not just showing java in documents) and can install OpenOffice where the program runs. The process would be:
Create a doc or odt file that will
act as a template (setting fonts,
position, tables etc) and will have
a placeholder for where you want to
insert the code sample
Add docmosis to your java project
and write the code to initialise
Docmosis, register the template,
then render document with your
selected Java code.
Currently, Docmosis FieldRenderers
can underline or italicize your data
as it goes, but the rendering is
currently applied to the entire
field. So this wouldn't let you
have a single field for all your
java text and individually highlight
words, but there are a few other
tricks that you could employ to get
useful/interesting results (such as
splitting your data into separate
fields and letting Docmosis render
the fields differently).
The "java code" text that you specify as data will be inserted into your template using the font and layout properties in the template. The renderer will have a chance to override specific formatting.
You can just copy and then paste it to the word document. I am using OS X as well. I just works fine. I am uploading the screenshot of how it looks in word.
I'm using Easy Code Formatter as called out here: How do you display code snippets in MS Word preserving format and syntax highlighting?
It's an Office add-in. You can select multiple themes, enable / disable line numbering / highlight lines in rectangles. It allows you to select the coding style / and has a quick formatting button. Pretty neat.
Requires you to have Office 2013 or beyond.