Using Aspose Words for generating Word template with absolute positioning

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We need to generate Word templates containing absolutely position boxes containing company addresses etc. (basically letter heads). User will enter their custom data like phone numbers
into a web form and we want to generate a Word template from that. Absolute positioning of boxes
is a must. Is this doable?

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Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your query. Yes can create your desired word template by using Aspose.Words. Please read following documentation links for your kind reference. It would be great, If you create a sample word template by using MS word so that we can provide your code to create such template.

https://docs.aspose.com/words/java/programming-with-documents/
https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/document/

https://reference.aspose.com/words/java/com.aspose.words/documentbuilder/
https://docs.aspose.com/words/java/introduction-and-creating-tables/

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This answer is not very helpful…once again: is there some example code
showing how to create a text box with a given width/height that is positioned at
an arbitrary position given through a top+left parameter?

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Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your inquiry.

Please see the code below for how to insert a new textbox into a document. As you can see the code produces a textbox that is position floating (absolutely positioned).

// Create or open document.
Document doc = new Document();

// Create textbox shape.
Shape textbox = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TextBox);
textbox.Width = 300;
textbox.Height = 300;
textbox.Stroked = false;

// Define the exact location of where the textbox will be located on the page in points.
textbox.Left = 40;
textbox.Top = 100;
textbox.RelativeHorizontalPosition = RelativeHorizontalPosition.Page;
textbox.RelativeVerticalPosition = RelativeVerticalPosition.Page;

// Insert textbox into the document.
builder.InsertNode(textbox);

// Move to the textbox and insert some content.
builder.MoveTo(textbox);
builder.Write("Some text");

doc.Save("C:\Temp\out.doc");

Thanks,

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Firstly, as said: we are using Java. So I modified your code to work with Jython:

from com.aspose.words import * ;
doc = Document();
builder = DocumentBuilder(doc);
textbox = Shape(doc, ShapeType.TEXT_BOX);
textbox.setWidth(400);
textbox.setHeight(200)
textbox.setStroked(False);
textbox.setLeft(40)
textbox.setTop(100);
textbox.setRelativeHorizontalPosition(RelativeHorizontalPosition.PAGE)
textbox.setRelativeVerticalPosition(RelativeVerticalPosition.PAGE);
#textbox.setContent("Some text");
builder.insertNode(textbox);
builder.moveTo(textbox);
doc.save('foo.doc')

This code actually create an empty textbox. Your code adds a text to the body of the document but not to the TextBox. I can not find any example how to insert text into the created text box here.

-aj

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Hi,

Thanks for your inquiry.I think, you can achieve what you need by using the following code snippet:
// Create a blank document.

Document doc = new Document();
// Create a new shape of type TextBox
Shape textBox = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TEXT_BOX);
// Set some settings of the textbox itself.
// Set the wrap of the textbox to inline
textBox.setWrapType(WrapType.NONE);
// Set the horizontal and vertical alignment of the text inside the shape.
textBox.setHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.CENTER);
textBox.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.TOP);
// Set the textbox height and width.
textBox.setHeight(50);
textBox.setWidth(200);
// Set the textbox in front of other shapes with a lower ZOrder
textBox.setZOrder(2);
// Let’s create a new paragraph for the textbox manually and align it in the center. Make sure we add the new nodes to the textbox as well.
textBox.appendChild(new Paragraph(doc));
Paragraph para = textBox.getFirstParagraph();
para.getParagraphFormat().setAlignment(ParagraphAlignment.CENTER);
// Add some text to the paragraph.
Run run = new Run(doc);
run.setText("Content in textbox");
para.appendChild(run);
// Append the textbox to the first paragraph in the body.
doc.getFirstSection().getBody().getFirstParagraph().appendChild(textBox);
// Save the output
doc.save(getMyDir() + "Shape.CreateTextBox Out.doc");

I hope, this will help.

Best Regards,

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Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your inquiry.

The first code snippet should work as expected, the problem occurs because you didn’t translate the code quite right. If you move the line builder.write(“Some text”); to after builder.moveTo(textbox) the content should appear inside the textbox.

Thanks,