Save Word Document with JACOB (Java)

Question

Hello, i'm trying to make a simple Java program to open an existing word-document, change something and save it as .html-file.

The part which is not working is to save it as .html . The problem is, i got the html-file but it's only a renamed doc-file. So not really a .html-file which I can work with.

This is what I found with Google:

Object oWordBasic = Dispatch.call(oWord, "WordBasic").getDispatch(); 
Dispatch.call((Dispatch) oWordBasic, "FileSaveAs", path); 

What I have to do, to get a html-file as output?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

It's using the OLE Automation Object to save the file, so you have to find the method or parameter to indicate filetype.

This is the macro I could record using Word:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs filename:="asdd.htm", FileFormat:=wdFormatHTML, _
    LockComments:=False, Password:="", AddToRecentFiles:=True, WritePassword _
    :="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, EmbedTrueTypeFonts:=False, _
    SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, SaveAsAOCELetter:= _
    False

So it means you have to indicate FileFormat := wdFormatHTML (or the constant value) parameter to the SaveAs method. That's left as an exercise to the reader :)

Answer 2

I figured it out, thanks to helios for the tip.

The correct code is:

Object oWordBasic = Dispatch.call(oWord, "WordBasic").getDispatch(); 
Dispatch.call((Dispatch) oWordBasic, "FileSaveAs", path, new Variant(8)); 

The Parameter of the variant is the output format. (for example 8 is html, 6 is rtf, 17 is pdf) You can find the full list at: WdSaveFormat Enumeration