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One of the main outcomes from the survey was the importance of PDF output to many users, and their need for extra features to be supported.

While the PDF output supports all basic document features, ie paragraphs, tables, images, headers/footers etc, there is a 'long tail' of things which can appear in Word documents which it doesn't support.

Features which aren't supported include:

- maths formulas (equations)
- Word Art
- shapes
- Smart Art ...

Hello,

I have a template that contains both freeform text areas, drop down boxes, and date drop down boxes. Can I use docx4j to fill this template out with this mixed content? What are the examples on the site I need to be following? I obviously want to keep my style parameters in the template, but for some of the places we expect bulleted lists to come in, and there can be any number of ...

As of now, docx4j can create, load and save OpenXML SpreadsheetML packages.

"Why would you use docx4j to do this", I hear you ask, "rather than POI, which focuses on xlsx and binary xls?"

Probably because you like JAXB (as opposed to XML Beans), or you are already using docx4j for docx or pptx, and need to be able to do some stuff with xlsx as well.

Another possible reason is that the jar XML ...

Several survey respondents said they'd like it if docx4j also supported xlsx.

This suggestion is now implemented in svn trunk tip.

I've created a new forum called xlsx4j; please post any detailed questions on this there.

cheers .. Jason

Various respondents indicated an interest in the docx4all source code, which has required a username/password to access.

docx4all is Plutext's simple Swing-based docx word processor, which you can run as an applet or an application. (See demo pages elsewhere on this web site)

Anyway, the source code is now available for download.

If you do download/use it, and wish to discuss, please do so in the docx4all forum.

cheers .. Jason

Given a Text node (and/or its JAXBElement parent), is there any way to get the R node that it belongs to?

Hi Jason,

It's great to see the maven build work now, but there is a run time dependency missing batik-uil, you probably need to add the following to your pom file.

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<dependency>
      <groupId>batik</groupId>
      <artifactId>batik-util</artifactId>
      <version>1.6</version>                
</dependency>


Jason,

When I run mvn install, it show the jar is missing, can you posted it? it is hard to find on internet. thanks.

Hi Guys,

I need help on how to use content control and altChunk together to insert a docx into another docx. I find a useful link talking about this using Open XML SDK. http://devmeat.com/show/172347. Basically it define a content control in template and at run time try to locate the content control and replace it with altChunk.

I tried to do the same thing using docx4j API, I managed to locate the content control, but ...

Hi all,

I have a requirement to parse a docx file, looking for user-supplied tags and substitute images or text.

As noted in the getting started guide, searching for text is problematic because the text could be broken across multiple runs.

I'm wondering if there's a way to (using Word) insert some sort of tag that's easy to parse for in the XML (using docx4j).

One possible solution I found: Insert a hidden HTML element. ...