Writer: Java Code snips for doing everything in writer

[kaushalc]

I am involved in a large project on exporting content to writer. As a part of this project I have collected code from this form to perform various operations in writer like adding lists, setting page styles, adding images etc. Thought I would share it with the community. Hope it helps.

OO Developer API guide -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.x html
Fast XML Parser -- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FastParser
OO SDK Download -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.x html
Managing Text documents -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/Text/Text.xhtml
API to insert / edit Lists Bullets Called as Paragraph Numbering in OO -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/Text/Text.xhtml#1 _4_3_Line_Numbering_and_Outline_Numbering
Different Numbering styles -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/style/Num beringType.html
Automatically create a paragraph style named code -- http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.Automa ticallyCreateAParagraphStyleNamedCode.snip
Paragraph Properties -- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ Text/Formatting
Drawing Shapes OO API Class -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/drawing/m odule-ix.html
OO API Working with poly line shapes -- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Working_with_Shapes
Code that shows how to set page styles -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=12311
Code to set page orientation -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=16359
Code to set page height and width -- http://old.nabble.com/Change-page-height,-width-and-margins.-JAV A,-OPENOFFICE-3-td21892824.html
Code to set header footer -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=66018
Code to set header/footer right, center and left text -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=9830
Code to add page numbering in header -- http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.AddPag eNumbering.snip
Class that gives enum for page background image positioning - center, tile or stretch -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/style/Gra phicLocation.html
Code to set Table or Page border line styles like width, colour etc -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=32584
Code for TOC -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=32886, http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=a5emn2nfa5n5lqhb&number= 1.
Code for finding a TOC inside a document if it already exists -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=41095
LINKS FOR IMAGE RELATED ISSUES
All Enums for image positioning
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/Text ContentAnchorType.html
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/Wrap TextMode.html
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/Hori Orientation.html
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/Vert Orientation.html
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/RelO rientation.html
Text graphics object properties
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/Text GraphicObject.html
Code for image alignment and orientation and text wrap: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=335094#335094
Code to insert Image but not as a link --http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.EmbedAGraphicIntoATe xtdocument.snip
Code to add IMAGE from a byte array -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=81870
Nice discussion on getting images , text fields etc from a doc - http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3125
Add custom properties to Para -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=23961
CREATE CHART AND INSERT INTO writer DOCUMENTS --- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=61911
delete empty pages in a writer document -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=20309
Nice quick Tutorial on SAX parsers -- http://www.saxproject.org/quickstart.html
Shapes sample - http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=70065
New!!! Custom shape drawing class -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/drawing/X EnhancedCustomShapeDefaulter.html
Custom Shapes sample in C++ - http://docs.go-oo.org/xmloff/html/ximpcustomshape_8cxx-source.ht ml </br />
Code to find text frames in addId process also has finding lists --http://old.nabble.com/Finding-text-frames-in-selected-textrange-td23962545.htm l
Code to get the text frames in a doc -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=72742
? -- http://dev.plutext.org/trac/docx4j/wiki/DevEnv
Smples for ? -- http://dev.plutext.org/trac/docx4j/browser/trunk/docx4j/src/main /java/org/docx4j/samples
Another sample -- http://osdir.com/ml/user-poi.apache.org/2009-05/msg00040.html
Apache POI -- http://poi.apache.org/
MS API for reading OOXML -- http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2007/06/06/1640.aspx
Sample programs using MS .Net API -- http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2007/06/04/announcing-t he-new-open-xml-object-model.aspx
One more OOXML sample -- http://www.infoq.com/articles/cracking-office-2007-with-java
Super code for iterating over a document and examining each para and its portions --http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples/Java/Writer/TextDocumentS tructure
Samples for different Writer API -- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Writer/API
Code for setting table's column width -- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=14213&highli ght=table+column+width
API call to get height of a table row -- http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/table/Tab leRow.html

[Corfy]

This post has a lot of great information, and despite all the links, is not a spam post, so as promised, I won't delete it this time.

Thanks for re-posting. And I apologize again for deleting it the first time.
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[hanland]

I have a problem where I have a template document which contains a table. Using java on a server instance of open office i want to make a copy of the table and paste it into the template a veriable number of times.

Do you have any ideas on this, or any pointers to examples etc.

Thanks in advance