creating word document

[bryan lim]

hi guys,

i followed this http://faq.javaranch.com/java/CreateWordDocument to create word document.

But the setBold and setItalic doesn't seems to work.

Anybody has any idea? Is there better solution out there to create word document?

Thanks!
Bryan

[Martijn Verburg]

Can you post your relevant code and the versions of the API you are using?

[bryan lim]

I am using 3.6 20091214 version

import java.io.*;

import org.apache.poi.hpsf.CustomProperties;
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.DocumentSummaryInformation;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;

public class CreateWordDoc {

    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
        // POI apparently can't create a document from scratch,
        // so we need an existing empty dummy document
        POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream("/Desktop/empty.doc"));
        HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);

        // centered paragraph with large font size
        Range range = doc.getRange();
        Paragraph par1 = range.insertAfter(new ParagraphProperties(), 0);
        par1.setSpacingAfter(200);
        par1.setJustification((byte) 1);
        // justification: 0=left, 1=center, 2=right, 3=left and right

        CharacterRun run1 = par1.insertAfter("one");
        run1.setFontSize(2 * 18);
        // font size: twice the point size

        // paragraph with bold typeface
        Paragraph par2 = run1.insertAfter(new ParagraphProperties(), 0);
        par2.setSpacingAfter(200);
        CharacterRun run2 = par2.insertAfter("two two two two two two two two two two two two two");
        run2.setBold(true);

        // paragraph with italic typeface and a line indent in the first line
        Paragraph par3 = run2.insertAfter(new ParagraphProperties(), 0);
        par3.setFirstLineIndent(200);
        par3.setSpacingAfter(200);
        CharacterRun run3 = par3.insertAfter("three three three three three three three three three "
            + "three three three three three three three three three three three three three three "
            + "three three three three three three three three three three three three three three");
        run3.setItalic(true);

        // add a custom document property (needs POI 3.5; POI 3.2 doesn't save custom properties)
        DocumentSummaryInformation dsi = doc.getDocumentSummaryInformation();
        CustomProperties cp = dsi.getCustomProperties();
        if (cp == null)
            cp = new CustomProperties();
        cp.put("myProperty", "foo bar baz");
        dsi.setCustomProperties(cp);

        doc.write(new FileOutputStream("/Desktop/new.doc"));
        
        System.out.println("Completed!");
    }
}
    

[Martijn Verburg]

Have you checked the examples on their website for this usage? I'm no expert in POI, but perhaps you need to re-order when you make a CharacterRun bold.