Aspose.Words for Android via Java Features

Aspose.Words for Android via Java Features Overview

This section provides a comparison of availability of features between Aspose.Words for Java and Aspose.Words for Android via Java.

File Formats and Conversions

Feature Description Aspose.Words for Java Aspose.Words for Android via Java
High-Quality Conversions Quickly and reliably, convert between several popular document formats. tick tick
Microsoft Word (DOC) The fastest and most complete DOC format implementation you can find. tick tick
WordprocessingML (DOCX, XML) Aspose.Words provides exhaustive support OOXML, Flat OPC and also Word 2003 XML. tick tick
Rich Text Format (RTF) Comprehensive support of the RTF format to interact with a variety of applications. tick tick
HTML, XHTML and MHTML Load and save HTML/XHTML for even greater interoperability. Save as MHTML is also available. tick tick
OpenDocument (ODT) Aspose.Words can load and save documents in the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format. tick tick
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Convert any document to PDF with high fidelity. PDF/A is supported. tick tick
XML Paper Specification (XPS) Convert any document to XPS with high fidelity. tick tick
Plain Text (TXT) Easily extract text by saving in plain text format. tick tick
Digital Publishing (EPUB) EPUB is a popular format for eBooks. You can convert any document from Aspose.Words to the IDPF EPUB format. tick tick

Rendering and Printing

Aspose.Words now provides high fidelity rendering of document pages.

Feature Aspose.Words for Java Aspose.Words for Android via Java
Layout document into pages with high fidelity (exactly like Microsoft Word® would do that) to all the formats below. tick tick
Render individual pages or complete documents to PDF or XPS. tick tick
Render document pages to raster images (Multipage TIFF, BMP). tick circle
Render document pages to images (PNG, EMF, JPEG, GIF). tick tick
Render pages to a Java Graphics object to a specific size. tick tick
Print document pages using the Java printing infrastructure. tick circle
Update TOC, page numbers and other fields before rendering or printing. tick tick

Document Content Features

Aspose.Words provides a rich object model that consists of over 100 public classes, which allow you to programmatically generate, combine, modify, parse or otherwise examine loaded documents.

Feature Aspose.Words for Java Aspose.Words for Android via Java
Access, create and modify paragraphs and text. tick tick
Access, create and modify images, textboxes and shapes. tick tick
Access, create and modify tables, rows and cells. tick tick
Access, create and modify fields, form fields, hyperlinks and bookmarks. tick tick
Access, create and modify document sections, headers and footers. tick tick
Access, create and modify footnotes, endnotes and comments. tick tick
Access, create and modify Custom XML, SmartTags and Structured Document Tags (Content Controls). tick tick
Access and modify all document elements using XmlDocument -like classes and methods. tick tick
Update field results IF, formula and other popular field types. tick tick
Rebuild and update Table Of Contents (TOC) fields exactly like Microsoft Word does it. tick tick
Copy and move document elements between documents. tick tick
Join and split documents. tick tick
Get and set built-in and custom document properties. tick tick
Specify document protection, open protected and encrypted documents. tick tick
Find and replace text, enumerate over document content. tick tick
Accept all revisions in a document. tick tick
Preserve or extract OLE objects and ActiveX controls from the document. tick tick
Preserve or remove VBA macros from the document. Preserve VBA macros digital signature. tick tick
Detect digital signatures in documents. tick tick
Insert HTML text. tick tick

Document Formatting Features

Aspose.Words provides detailed programmatic access to formatting properties of all document elements.

Feature Aspose.Words for Java Aspose.Words for Android via Java
Access and modify all character formatting including fonts, colors, effects, borders and shading. tick tick
Access and modify all paragraph formatting including indents, spacing, borders and shading, tab stops. tick tick
Access and modify all bulleted and numbered lists formatting including numbering and levels. tick tick
Access and modify table formatting including alignment, orientation, borders and shading. tick tick
Access and modify all section properties including paper size, margins and orientation. tick tick
Access, create and modify document styles. tick tick
Access and modify drawing objects including position, size, line and fill properties, image bytes. tick tick

Mail Merge Features

You can use Aspose.Words as a reporting solution on its own. Design your reports in Microsoft Word and then have Aspose.Words populate documents with data from various data sources.

Feature Aspose.Words for Java Aspose.Words for Android via Java
Use all standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields in your reports including MERGEFIELD, NEXT, NEXTIF, ADDRESSBLOCK, GREETINGLINE. tick tick
Execute mail merge for documents that contain even the most complex and nested IF fields and formulas. tick tick
Populate and dynamically grow tables or fragments in the document from your data source using mail merge regions. tick tick
Easily generate reports that contain master-detail (parent-child) data such as Order/OrderDetails. tick tick
Populate documents with data from any Java data source that implements the ResultSet interface. tick tick
Populate documents from any data source such as a XML file or business objects by implementing the IMailMergeDataSource interface. tick tick
Take precise control, such as number formatting, over how your data is merged using events. tick tick
Insert images during mail merge. tick tick
Programmatically create or modify a Microsoft Word mail merge data source for a document. Preserve mail merge settings and data sources. tick tick
Retrieve mail merge field names. tick tick

Reporting Features

LINQ Reporting Engine is an advanced reporting tool enabling you to generate documents based upon template documents and data obtained from various sources including databases, XML, JSON, OData, objects of custom types, external documents, and more out of the box.

Key Features Aspose.Words for .NET Aspose.Words Android via Java
Support of C# syntax and LINQ extension methods directly in templates (even for ADO.NET data sources) tick tick
Support of repeatable and conditional document blocks (loops and conditions) for tables, lists, and common content tick tick
Support of dynamically generated charts and images tick tick
Support of insertion of outer documents and HTML blocks into a document tick tick
Support of several data sources (including of different types) for generation of a single document tick tick
Built-in support of data relations (master-detail) tick tick
Comprehensive support of various data manipulations such as grouping, sorting, filtering, and others directly in templates tick tick
WYSIWYG: A generated document retains the same formatting of its elements as a corresponding template has tick tick