How to Create a Word Document in C# using FileFormat.Words
Forget the hassle and install FileFormat.Words to create & manipulate MS Word documents. This document automation software offers very useful features. Overview We are glad to announce the release of FileFormat.Words for .NET. This is an open-source API written in C# and enables .NET developers to create, design, and modify MS Word documents programmatically. No matter whether you are a beginner or an expert-level developer, you can easily integrate FileFormat.Words with your .
Three Open-Source .NET APIs for Word Processing Documents
To automate the manipulation of documents within our applications we need some reliable APIs. The market offers both Open Source Software (OSS) and Closed Source Softwares (CSS) to work with Word Processing Documents. Closed source APIs are often costly. There are a bunch of free APIs available with both basic and advanced features, following are a few of them:
Open XML SDK NPOI FileFormat.Words for .NET Getting Started with Free APIs Let’s get started with the installation and basic usage of APIs.
Create a Word Document using PHPWord
PHPWord is a powerful open-source API, written in PHP to create and read file-formats including DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, and PDF. Using the API you can create a document, set document properties, insert images, insert charts and more. Let’s get started with creating a simple DOCX file using PHPWord.
Pre-Requisites To create a word document using the PHPWord you need the following resources installed in your operating system:
PHP version 5.
Getting Started with Apache POI – Java API for Documents
Ofttimes, we need to automate our processes and manipulate the documents programmatically. We need to create documents in bulk, read, process, and save the resultant documents. We need to work with a bunch of different file formats simultaneously. Luckily, for Java developers, we have an open-source API to work with Word, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Email, and Diagram file-formats – Apache POI. This cross-platform API is designed to work with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based languages.
FileFormat.com has been launched!
We are pleased to announce the launch of fileformat.com, a platform for all the developers who are inquisitive about working with file formats. It has been launched keeping in mind the requirements of a common platform to develop a community of file format experts and users for discussing their needs and issues related to file formats.
What FileFormat.com offers? FileFormat.com aims to help developers, working with file types, through its unique combination of different file format domains.
FileFormat.com to be launched soon!
The world of Software is full of countless file types where each file format serves specific purpose. The list of file formats is not stopping here and with the passage of time, new file types are introduced to attain efficiency as well as support more functionality. In addition, file formats are getting obsolete as well with the arrival of new file formats of the same category.
In such a situation, one feels the lack of a single platform where: