Want to display contents of word file in jTextPane

[Siddique Ansari]

Hello Everyone, I am trying to display contents of word file into jTextPane same as its displayed in MS-Office. But jTextPane displays the contents in text format. What should I do? I am using POI library.

FileInputStream fis=new FileInputStream(file.getAbsolutePath());
                    XWPFDocument document=new XWPFDocument(fis);
                    extractor = new XWPFWordExtractor(document);
                    String fileData = extractor.getText();
                   // Document doc = jTextPane1.getDocument();     
                     StyledDocument doc = jTextPane1.getStyledDocument();
                    doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), fileData, null); 

[Jesper de Jong]

That's not something you can easily do. Microsoft Word is a big and complicated program, and formatting and displaying a Word document in exactly the same way as Word show it, is not simple - it's not a standard thing, only Microsoft knows exactly how Word displays a document.

[Siddique Ansari]

What about Open Office? Can I use that in my swing application??

[Winston Gutkowski]

Siddique Ansari wrote:What about Open Office? Can I use that in my swing application??

Sure, but the learning curve is steep (very powerful though). You'll also have to import the doc before you can read/view it.

There are also other libraries like Apache POI around which will allow you to do some stuff with Word files, but exactly how much I don't know.

Winston