Advanced character and paragraph formatting

Character styling: bold, italic, underline, sub/super scripting, vertical positioning, foreground and background color, character spacing.
Paragraph styling: horizontal alignment, left/right indent, first line indent, space before, space after, line spacing (constant and minimum), "prevent single lines" and "keep lines together" flow control options.
Paragraph borders and paragraph border colors.
Paragraph background color.
Tabs, tab positioning and different types of alignment and leaders for tabs.
Hidden marks that can be made visible/invisible.
Display and editing of dimensional values in 4 units (cm,mm,inch,point).

Paging and document formatting

WYSIWYG editing in page mode.
Normal, Page and Draft view modes.
Newspaper like multi-column page layout, with user-defined number of columns and spacing between columns.
Page setup: different page sizes, page margins and alignment
Header/Footer support. Different header/footer for each section of the document.
Print preview.
Zoom/zoomout capability in edit and preview modes.
Soft breaks (page, column and line).
Multi-section documents, allowing different column formats on the same page and across pages.

Can save/load documents in RTF (RichTextFormat), ODF (Open Document Format) and in native XML formats
Copy-paste support for TXT, RTF, WMF, EMF and BMP.
Can save and load as XHTML (only JWord saved files can be opened)
Export To PDF (Requires Apache FOP in the classpath)
Export To XSL-FO (This can be use instead of direct PDF production. FO files can be converted PDF on the server side)

Support for regular and nested tables.
Table styling includes borders, border colors, cell background colors, cell margins and cell spacing.
Easy to use table support provides various named table styles, allowing conditional styling of the cells. Conditional styling allows different styles for even/odd numbered row and/or column bands and also header/footer rows or columns. 84 preset table styles are available for use.
Horizontal and vertical alignment of text within a cell.
Cell merging (horizontal and vertical).
Row height setting in "Atleast" and "exact" modes.
Table horizontal alignment and left indent.
Mouse selection of table cells and sizing of borders.
Adding and deleting rows and columns to an existing table.
Support for proportional table/cell widths, which sets dimensions in percents of the occupied area similar to HTML tables.

JWord can be integrated by JMathEdit component to edit complex mathematical formulas within the document. In XHTML output equations can be converted to MathML, SVG or PNG.
JWord allows user to double-click the equation image to reedit with the equation editor.
Equations can resized like the images.
Equations are automatically aligned wrt to the baseline. Baseline alignment ratio is obtained from JMathEdit.

Unicode symbols which preserve font-face and character code across style changes.
Fields with different display formats and data: Date/time, page no, page count, section no.
Hyperlinks

Multi level undo/redo of edit actions.
Find and replace capability, in both directions.
Mail-merge (document merging) support; the data format and data table can be set both programmatically and through the GUI.
Drag & drop support.
Faster formatting through pop-up menu.
Mouse dragging of content.
Horizontal ruler which can display paragraph dimensions, tab positions, table borders in 3 units and allows user to change values.

Can integrate with third-party spell checkers and dictionaries
Automatic highlighting of spell errors
Word suggestion
Plugin style interface allows integrating custom or combined dictionaries, and also spelling services

Creating form documents (templates) within your application and using form documents for collecting data.
Checkbox element for on/off fields.
Textbox element for text only fields (such as name, id etc).
Listbox (Dropdown) element for fields whose values are retricted to a limited set.
RichTextBox element for fields that can have rich text content (such as comments, descriptions, questions and content that includes tables, images etc).
Locking all elements other than form fields when the editor is in "Form filling mode".
Getting form data with a single API command in a name-value structure.

Unlimited number of named character, paragraph and table styles.
Easy table styling using named table styles allowing conditional styling of cells. Conditional styling allows different styles for even/odd numbered row and/or column bands and also header/footer rows or columns. 84 preset table styles are available for use.
Inheriting style attributes from base style.
Definition of next paragraphs style.
Quick style support.

Easily create, modify, save/load documents programmatically through the Java API.
Many functions (e.g. create, mail-merge, load, save, print, export) are available in headless mode (without a graphics context).

The Swing interface works on all environments where J2SE1.6 or later is available.
The JavaFX interface requires J2SE1.8 or later, and supports operating systems which are supported by JavaFX.

Support for JavaFX platform as a barebone text component (in a SwingNode)
Support for JavaFX platform as a fully decorated JavaFX frame. All the menus, toolbars, dialogs, popups are JavaFX controls which are defined in FXML files.

Last modified on 2019-07-05 by admin