poi problem with reading and writing in the same word file

[Raluca Stanculescu]

Hello everybody,

I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem for a while now. You are my last hope.
I am trying to fill out a word document from java with text (it's a CV type thing) and tables.
Anyway it goes something like this

 FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(new File( fileName ) ); 
             HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument( fileInputStream );
............................................smt happens to the doc object
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File( fileName) );
            doc.write( fileOutputStream );
  

The problem is that while poi 3.6 doesn't keep the same fonts and format of the initial file, poi 3.2 (I read on a forum that it will work), does keep some of the formatting but it still is no good at all.

I find it unbelievable that something as important as this does not work.

Kind regards,

Raluca

[Ulf Dittmer]

The DOC support of POI is rather basic, especially when it comes to changing existing documents. If you need to use DOC, consider using OpenOffice's Java API through OO's server mode. Or maybe use a format that's easier to work with, like RTF which is just text, and thus amenable to string search/replace operations.

[Raluca Stanculescu]

Thanks!
I have decided to go another way with this, by using this API.
http://rtftemplate.sourceforge.net/
Luckily it meets all my needs.


Hope this helps somebody.

Raluca