How to open and edit the doc or docx file in qt?

Puzzlesaur

How can i do to create an editor which can open and edit doc or docx file in a widget? Is there any existing tools to do this?
I try to use the "Abiword" , but it seems to be paused. so I want another one.
Please give me some advice.

mrjj

Hi
You could use LibreOffice. it edits word docs really well.

Depending on your real requirements there is also the option of parsing the docx yourself since its xml.

However, i have not seen a nice Qt widget that can just edit Docx Files and
doc files that are binary are even more pain.

Puzzlesaur

@mrjj thanks for your advice.

but the libreoffice is too large , i don't need open or edit the xlsx、 ppt file.
I think it's a big challange to edit the libreoffice source code .

overall what I want to say are much more thanks.

mrjj

@Puzzlesaur

Hi
Yeah i think its a huge task to separate writer.exe code to be only about
docx/doc. You could just spawn it with QProcess from your app.

But what types of word docs do you need to handle ?

If any word doc must be editable then i doubt its possible directly in a Qt app with out word being installed.

I assume you want to do this without having MS office installed ?
as else QAxWidget can be used.

KroMignon

@Puzzlesaur said in How to open and edit the doc or docx file in qt?:

but the libreoffice is too large , i don't need open or edit the xlsx、 ppt file

Perhaps you could take a look at DuckX.
Here extract form GitHub project page:

DuckX was created when I was looking for a C++ library which can properly parse MS Word .docx files, but couldn't find any

I don't know if it really works and how good it is...

Good luck

Puzzlesaur

@mrjj said in How to open and edit the doc or docx file in qt?:

Hi
Yeah i think its a huge task to separate writer.exe code to be only about
docx/doc. You could just spawn it with QProcess from your app.
But what types of word docs do you need to handle ?
If any word doc must be editable then i doubt its possible directly in a Qt app with out word being installed.
I assume you want to do this without having MS office installed ?
as else QAxWidget can be used.

I want to do this task on Linux system. so I think ActiveX may not work with me.

JonB

@Puzzlesaur
Yes, you won't be able to use QAx... anything under Linux.

Looks like your only starting point is @KroMignon's DuckX link. A docx file is basically a zipped file containing XML. That's why that code uses a zip library to unzip/zip and an XML library to read/write the XML.

I think you'll find it only handles the very simplest of docx files, maybe with some paragraphs and some tables. I don't think it will handle anything more complicated than that without you understanding the XML in docx files and expanding the code to deal with what you want on a case-by-case basis.

If you are writing your Qt program in Python/PyQt/PySide (are you? :) ) a more comprehensive library would be Python's own python-docx. Just looking through its code would give you an idea of how much more there is to handle than DuckX seems to provide....