Word to PDF Converter

[renu richard]

Hi,

I am using the below code to convert the word document content to the PDF file...

But i am not able to move the contents like table from word to PDF. Any idea how this can be done.

Any API's which is available for this ? Please throw some light on this..

 




import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
//import java.io.OutputStream;

//import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor;


//import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class GeneratePDF {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
       
        try {
        	String doc = "C:\\TOOLS\\WordDocument_Draft_2.0.doc";
            String pdf = doc.substring(0, doc.lastIndexOf('.') + 1) + "pdf";
            System.out.println(pdf);
        	InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(doc));
            WordExtractor wd = new WordExtractor(is);
            
            
            String text = wd.getText();
           
            Document document = new Document();
            
            System.out.println(" Lok");
            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                    new FileOutputStream(pdf));
            
           
            document.open();
            document.add(new Paragraph(text));
            
            document.close();

        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
            System.out.println("File does not exist.");
        }
        catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("IO Exception");
        }
        catch (DocumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}   

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Renu,
Do you have to write code to convert the file? If you search for "print in pdf", there are a lot of products. Maybe one has a command line or API?

[Ulf Dittmer]

You'll need to use the POI API to get at the tables, pictures, styles etc., and then call appropriate iText classes/methods while creating the PDF. It's quite a complex project.

I'd advise to use the JODConverter library for this (which uses OpenOffice in server mode, so you need OO installed).

[Samuel Behrman]

In my opinion, you can download a converter here:
http://www.word-to-pdf.com/

[Ulf Dittmer]

Samuel Behrman wrote:http://www.word-to-pdf.com/

I don't see any suggestion that it has a Java API - does it?