in reply to Changing the STDOUT Font for word

Easy. Use Win32::OLE. Here is an example I posted that creates a Word doc, and writes some text in different colours in a selected font (Courier New 18pt as it happens). It also shows you how to print it FWIW. There is also a bit that shows you how to look at the properties and methods available.

use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word'; # start Word program die if unable to $word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', sub { $_[0]->Quit; } ) or die 'Cannot start Word'; # let's watch $word->{'Visible'} = 1; # Create new document my $d = $word->Documents->Add; # define selection my $s = $word->Selection; my @lines = ( "This is test line 1", "This is test line 2", "This is test line 3", ); # $c is the color # $start is the start of Range # $end is the end of Range # $r is the Range object my ($c, $start, $end, $r) = (2, 0, 0, ); for my $line (@lines) { $end += length($line) + 1; $s->TypeText($line); # define the Range $r = $d->Range($start, $end); # Set font properties $r->Font->{Size} = 18; $r->Font->{ColorIndex} = $c++; $r->Font->{Name} = 'Courier New'; $s->TypeText("\n"); $start = $end; } # TIMTOWTDI but this will overwrite the above #my $r = $doc->{Content}; #$r->{Text} = 'Hello World!'; #$r->InsertParagraphAfter(); #$r->InsertParagraphAfter(); #$r->InsertAfter('Bye!'); # here is how to print a document $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut({ Background => 0, Append => 0, Range => wdPrintAllDocument, Item => wdPrintDocumentContent, Copies => 1, PageType => wdPrintAllPages, }); # save the file without a prompt $word->WordBasic->FileSaveAs("c:\\test.doc"); # have a quick look at the objects and properties # don't try to Dumper the whole thing unless you have time and memory+ ++ print "Range: $_ => $r->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$r; print "Doc: $_ => $d->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$d; print "Font: $_ $r->{Font}->{$_}\n" for sort keys %{$r->{Font}}; # house keeping, clean up our instances $d->Close(); $word->Quit(); undef $word;

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: Changing the STDOUT Font for word
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2003 at 14:07 UTC
    tachyon,
    Do you know if it's possible to use Perl's format in conjunction with Word?

    Thanks for the code...it is a big help!

      Yes and no. Format depends on fixed width fonts (ie Courier New and friends) to line up the stuff. Here is a table in fixed width font

      fixed | width | format ------+-------+------- foo | bar | baz

      And here is the same thing in variable width font (completely naff):

      fixed | width | format
      ------+-------+-------
      foo | bar | baz

      If you can tolerate that you would just stick the output of format into a scalar and then insert it with a fixed width font type into Word and it will all look fine. format is a legacy item and painful to use. To capture its output you need a filehandle. I would just use sprintf which can do anything format can.

      my $tmpfile = 'c:/tmp/tmp.txt'; $str = 'widget'; $cost = 10; format Something = Item: @<<<<<<<<@>>>>> $str, '$' . sprintf("%.2f",$cost) . # format is a pain in the ass and won't write to an IO::Handle so we # need to go through these contortions open TMP, "+>$tmpfile" or die $!; select(TMP); # need to select our file as the output handle for w +rite $~ = 'Something'; # now select our format write TMP; # now write it seek TMP, 0, 0; # up to the top of the file to read it select(STDOUT); # reinstate STDOUT as our ouput handle @data = <TMP>; # read in our formatted data close TMP; # clean up unlink $tmpfile; print @data; # wohoo

      To 'format' variable width fonts you need tables or perhaps columns at a pinch. Either use Word ones or Excel. Making a formatted table in Excel and then inserting this as an object into Word is much better documented than manipulating tables in Word so will be easier to do.

      cheers

      tachyon

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