Merging documents

aloiziops · Power User Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 52

I created one template *.ott which is upload as a writer document. Then I use this template to merge documents.
In template I put line spacing equal 1.5cm. When I merge the documents the merged document should have all text with line spacing 1.5, but it doesn't have. could someone help?

I set also in template margin left and right to 2cm and 1cm respectivally, this works.

JohnV · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

When you set line spacing for presumably the Default paragraph style to 1.5" did you do so in the Stylist which actually changes the style globally or did you do Format (or right click) > Paragraph which only does direct formatting of the current paragraph?

My quick test brought the merged single spaced file in as 1.5" spacing. I did the merge with Insert > File.

hol.sten · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Merging documents

aloiziops · Power User Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 52

I am using the ppience of code below to change Paragraph attributes, but I get error.

JohnV · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:24 am Post subject:

I'm not much on reading Java code but it looks like you are get text and changing its properties which is direct formatting. To do what you want you need to get the paragraph style used by the target text and change its properties.

Here is an example in Basic.

aloiziops · Power User Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 52

I don't understand Basic. I need one example in Java. I tryed to map the basic code to java code, but didn't work.

JohnV · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:02 am Post subject:

Serge,

You have made no mistakes it started out in Code Snippets, and you posted. I moved it to Writer where I initially thought it belonged. Then it became obvious that we were talking about a macro so I again moved it to Macros & API.

Now I'm going to clean the tread up by removing all the extra posts about where it belongs, where did it go, etc.

Hopefully someone can help the OP with sample Jave code because I can't.

JohnV · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:21 am Post subject:

I think it's pretty obvious I don't know Java (actually I've forgotten what I use to know which certainly didn't include dealing with another program's API) but I have move this thread to the Macros & API section where you are more likely to get more help.

FWIW, "oDoc = ThisComponent" just gets the current document object as a whole and I'm sure your Java code does that in some manner or you couldn't work with the document. From that point onward my code simply creates other objects using a method available from the prior object until we have some paragraph style object. That object's setPropertyValue() method then changes one of the object properties but I'm sure you know that.

OOo Basic is very loose on syntax and I can get away with things Java won't permit. Very few things are case sensitive and I could get away with this for the last line of my code above by addressing a property directly.
thisStyle.CharHeight = 20

I have edited my code to add () after oDoc.getStyleFamilies which makes it a little more syntactically correct. A review of the case used for my methods and properties indicate all is correct (a matter of luck not intentional use of proper case).