java and rtf editing

Question

Hi,

I have rtf file in with I need replace some field values (with word I can do it with mail merge, but I need do this with java). I found iText (2.1.7) source code with can parse rtf files, but I can find hove to manipulate the content of file. Or maybe there is some better solution for editing rtf?

Answer 1

If you don't HAVE to use RTF as your source document, use Docmosis or JODReports since they can work with doc or odt files and do field population as they go. All in java and openoffice. If you are creating doc templates or doc outputs, then you'll need word at some point to edit / view the files, but you don't need it to manipulate and generate the documents from your Java system.