public static void Main(string[] args)
{
/*
* Your TODO:
* 1. Enter your LibreOffice path below
* 2. Have an input file with placeholders ready, in docx or HTML. Create your own placeholders (from the class Placeholders)
* 3. Create an object for "ReportGenerator"
* 4. Execute the method "Convert" on the object ReportGenerator.
* Possible conversions: from HTML or from DOCX to PDF, HTML, DOCX
*
*/
//Enter the location of your LibreOffice soffice.exe below, full path with "soffice.exe" at the end
//or anything you have in Linux...
string locationOfLibreOfficeSoffice =
@"F:\PortableApps\LibreOfficePortable\App\libreoffice\program\soffice.exe";
//This is only to get this example to work (find the word docx and the html file, which were
//shipped with this).
string executableLocation = Path.GetDirectoryName(
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
//Here are the 2 test files as input. They contain placeholders
string docxLocation = Path.Combine(executableLocation, "Test-Template.docx");
string htmlLocation = Path.Combine(executableLocation, "Test-HTML-page.html");
/*
*
* You have to create Placeholder objects from the Placeholders.cs class
* Only create, what you need.
* Here, we create one object for a docx conversion example and one
* for an HTML conversion example.
*
* DOCX OBJECT
*
*/
//Prepare texts, which you want to insert into the custom fields in the template (remember
//to use start and stop tags.
//NOTE that line breaks can be inserted as what you define them in ReplacementDictionaries.NewLineTag (here we use <br/>).
var placeholders = new Placeholders
{
NewLineTag = "<br/>",
TextPlaceholderStartTag = "##",
TextPlaceholderEndTag = "##",
TablePlaceholderStartTag = "==",
TablePlaceholderEndTag = "==",
ImagePlaceholderStartTag = "++",
ImagePlaceholderEndTag = "++",
//You should be able to also use other OpenXML tags in your strings
TextPlaceholders = new Dictionary <string, string>
{
{ "Name", "Mr. Miller" },
{ "Street", "89 Brook St" },
{ "City", "Brookline MA 02115<br/>USA" },
{ "InvoiceNo", "5" },
{ "Total", "U$ 4,500" },
{ "Date", "28 Jul 2019" },
{ "Website", "www.smartinmedia.com" }
},
HyperlinkPlaceholders = new Dictionary <string, HyperlinkElement>
{
{ "Website", new HyperlinkElement {
Link = "http://www.smartinmedia.com", Text = "www.smartinmedia.com"
} }
},
//Table ROW replacements are a little bit more complicated: With them you can
//fill out only one table row in a table and it will add as many rows as you
//need, depending on the string Array.
TablePlaceholders = new List <Dictionary <string, string[]> >
{
new Dictionary <string, string[]>()
{
{ "Name", new string[] { "Homer Simpson", "Mr. Burns", "Mr. Smithers" } },
{ "Department", new string[] { "Power Plant", "Administration", "Administration" } },
{ "Responsibility", new string[] { "Oversight", "CEO", "Assistant" } },
{ "Telephone number", new string[] { "888-234-2353", "888-295-8383", "888-848-2803" } }
},
new Dictionary <string, string[]>()
{
{ "Qty", new string[] { "2", "5", "7" } },
{ "Product", new string[] { "Software development", "Customization", "Travel expenses" } },
{ "Price", new string[] { "U$ 2,000", "U$ 1,000", "U$ 1,500" } },
}
}
};
//You have to add the images as a memory stream to the Dictionary! Place a key (placeholder) into the docx template.
//There is a method to read files as memory streams (GetFileAsMemoryStream)
//We already did that with <+++>ProductImage<+++>
var productImage = StreamHandler.GetFileAsMemoryStream(Path.Combine(executableLocation, "ProductImage.jpg"));
var qrImage = StreamHandler.GetFileAsMemoryStream(Path.Combine(executableLocation, "QRCode.PNG"));
var productImageElement = new ImageElement()
{
Dpi = 96, MemStream = productImage
};
var qrImageElement = new ImageElement()
{
Dpi = 300, MemStream = qrImage
};
placeholders.ImagePlaceholders = new Dictionary <string, ImageElement>
{
{ "QRCode", qrImageElement },
{ "ProductImage", productImageElement }
};
/*
*
*
* Execution of conversion tests
*
*
*/
//Most important: give the full path to the soffice.exe file including soffice.exe.
//Don't know how that would be named on Linux...
var test = new ReportGenerator(locationOfLibreOfficeSoffice);
//Convert from HTML to HTML
test.Convert(htmlLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-HTML-page-out.html"), placeholders);
//Convert from HTML to PDF
test.Convert(htmlLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-HTML-page-out.pdf"), placeholders);
//Convert from HTML to DOCX
test.Convert(htmlLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-HTML-page-out.docx"), placeholders);
//Convert from DOCX to DOCX
test.Convert(docxLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-Template-out.docx"), placeholders);
//Convert from DOCX to HTML
test.Convert(docxLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-Template-out.html"), placeholders);
//Convert from DOCX to PDF
test.Convert(docxLocation, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(htmlLocation), "Test-Template-out.pdf"), placeholders);
}
public void GetFileFailtest()
{
Assert.Throws <IOException>(() => StreamHandler.GetFileAsMemoryStream(_testFilename));
}