How to print out a DOCX file in java?

Question

i have created some java code that allows me to print png,pdf,jpg etc but i am stuck on docx files and possibly other file types,

currently i am using the code below :

 if (extension.equals("txt")) {
            psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;
        } else if (extension.equals("png")) {
            psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PNG;
        } else if (extension.equals("gif")) {
            psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.GIF;
        } else if (extension.equals("jpg")) {
            psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.JPEG;
        } else if (extension.equals("pdf")) {
            psInFormat = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF;
        }

to determine what the file type is to create the ps of the right input stream for that doc type, could i mod this code to include doc files ?

Answer 1

There's no way to do this directly with DocFlavor

Take a look to the POI Project

http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/index.html

Answer 2

A better answer than POI is to use docx4j

http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j

The reason for this is because it has all of the API necessary for getting to the different parts of the docx package.