Table data do not maintain font formatting of original text

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Hi,

I am working on program to replace text in word document. I am running across issue where replaced text do not maintain the formatting of original text. I am attaching there original template file and generated pdf file along with code used.

public void processTable(Table table, List<TabelRowToken> tableRows) {
       int tokeRowIndex = identifyTokenRow(table);
       Row tokenRow = table.getRows().get(tokeRowIndex);
       List<Row> newRows = new ArrayList<>();
       for (TabelRowToken tableRow : tableRows) {
            Row newRow = (Row) tokenRow.deepClone(true);
            newRows.add(getNewRowWithReplacedTokens(newRow, tableRow.getTblColTokens()));
       }
       if(newRows != null && !newRows.isEmpty()){
           for(Row newRow : newRows){
               table.insertAfter(newRow, tokenRow);
           }
           table.getRows().remove(tokenRow);
       }
    }

    private int identifyTokenRow(Table table){
        int i = 0;
        for (Row row : table.getRows()) {
            for(Cell cell : row.getCells()){
                String cellText = cell.getText();
                if (cellText != null && cellText.contains("_Col_")) {
                      return i;
                }
            }
            i++;
        }
        return 0;
    }

    private Row getNewRowWithReplacedTokens(Row row, List<Token> tokens) {
        for (Cell cell : row.getCells()) {
            String cellText = cell.getText();
            if (cellText != null && cellText.contains("_Col_")) {
                List<Token> matchTokens = tokens.stream().filter(t-> cellText.contains(t.getName().getToken())).collect(Collectors.toList());
                if(matchTokens != null && !matchTokens.isEmpty()){
                    Token matchToken = matchTokens.get(0);
                    String replaceText = matchToken.getText() != null? matchToken.getText() : "";
                    cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().clear();
                    cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().add(new Run(cell.getDocument(), dataTypeHandler.convert(matchToken)));
                }
            }
        }
        return row;
    }

Template File.docx (19.1 KB)

Generated file.pdf (49.2 KB)

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@hemant_thote In you code you are putting the text as new Run node, so the default formatting is applied to the Run.

cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().clear();
cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().add(new Run(cell.getDocument(), dataTypeHandler.convert(matchToken)));

Please try modifying the code like this:

for (Run r : cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns()) {
    r.setText("");
}
cell.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().get(0).setText(dataTypeHandler.convert(matchToken));

Also, as I can see the goal of your code is to fill the table with data. Have you considered using Mail Merge With Regions or LINQ Reporting Engine.

3

Thanks. Solution works. We have decided to not use mail merge or linq reporting

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