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Mohammad reza Kashi
Mohammad reza Kashi

Reputation: 369

How to create and modify .doc and .docx file in Qt?

I want to create and modify .doc and .docx file in Qt creator with ability to compile for Windows, Linux, Android and IOS.

Upvotes: 0

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rbaleksandar
rbaleksandar

Reputation: 9701

This is not a Qt-specific question imho. Anyhow here is my answer:

Quoting wikipedia:

is a zipped, XML-based file format

What this means is you need to decompress (you need to figure out how it is compressed to begin with) and process the XML for doc files. Qt provides basic (de)compression facilities and does provide the tools to process XML data.

In terms of Qt Creator - you have to write your own plugin for that purpose. You can check what's already there - processing of CMake, C++, C, Python files.

You should use what's already there. LibreOffice for example, which is open source and free, can handle such documents (incl. doc). There are libraries that do that too. So your best bet is to integrate some library into your Qt application. I would NOT recommend implementing it yourself unless you have a lot of spare time. The fact that big projects such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice etc. still don't have 100% support for such documents should give a big enough hint that it's not a trivial task.

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