I am trying to use Java and the Apache POI library to create a word document that contained some landscape and some portrait pages. I can change the orientation of all the pages, but is there a way to change just the orientation of some of them? I have tried using different sections and bodies, but to no avail.
At the moment I have written a function that takes a XWPFDocument as input and changes the orientation of a new body. I had hoped changing the orientation for new body would not affect the previous pages, but it affects the entire document.
private void changeOrientation(XWPFDocument document, String orientation){
CTDocument1 doc = document.getDocument();
CTBody body = doc.addNewBody();
body.addNewSectPr();
CTSectPr section = body.getSectPr();
if(!section.isSetPgSz()) {
section.addNewPgSz();
}
CTPageSz pageSize = section.getPgSz();
if(orientation.equals("landscape")){
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.LANDSCAPE);
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
}
else{
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.PORTRAIT);
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
}
}
Thanks!
Turns out a CTPPr (a section break) is needed, which can be done with the following code:
private void changeOrientation(XWPFDocument document, String orientation){
CTDocument1 doc = document.getDocument();
CTBody body = doc.getBody();
CTSectPr section = body.addNewSectPr();
XWPFParagraph para = document.createParagraph();
CTP ctp = para.getCTP();
CTPPr br = ctp.addNewPPr();
br.setSectPr(section);
CTPageSz pageSize = section.getPgSz();
if(orientation.equals("landscape")){
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.LANDSCAPE);
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
}
else{
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.PORTRAIT);
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
}
}
However, this only works once, so pages can't alternate orientations. It has to be all the landscape pages first and portrait last or vice versa.
According to OOXML Specification ECMA-376, Fourth Edition, Part 1 - Fundamentals And Markup Language Reference - 17.6.18 sectPr (Section Properties), in a document with multiple sections, section properties (the sectPr element) are stored as the child element of :
- the last paragraph in the section, for all sections except the final
section,
- the body element, for the final section.
So, to change page orientation of a section one should create or locate corresponding sectPr and use following code:
private void changeOrientation(CTSectPr section, String orientation) {
CTPageSz pageSize = section.isSetPgSz? section.getPgSz() : section.addNewPgSz();
if (orientation.equals("landscape")) {
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.LANDSCAPE);
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
} else {
pageSize.setOrient(STPageOrientation.PORTRAIT);
pageSize.setH(BigInteger.valueOf(842 * 20));
pageSize.setW(BigInteger.valueOf(595 * 20));
}
}