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Right To Left Document Support

This example demonstrates how to append a right-to-left supported text to a document.

About this demo C# VB.NET

There are alots of languages, Some language are written in left to right direction, while some are written in top to bottum. Some language scritps are used right to left scripts like :

Arabic
Aramaic
Dhivehi/Maldivian
Hebrew
Persian/Farsi
Urdu

Here we will see Right to left scripting

We have versions of this representation in words ,using dropdown you can make a choice within the following

Word Doc
Word Docx
Word ML
RTF
MS Text format
E-book format
DLS based xml file format
HTML

After clicking a generate button will launch a file with above choosen version of word with right to left orientation language .

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

using OfficeComponent.Word;


namespace OfficeComponent.Samples
{
    class RightToLeftDocumentSupportExample : WordExampleBase
    {
        public RightToLeftDocumentSupportExample(string commonDataPath, string outputDir)
            : base(commonDataPath, outputDir)
        {

        }

        public RightToLeftDocumentSupportExample(string commonDataPath, string outputDir, string xmlFile)
            : base(commonDataPath, outputDir, xmlFile)
        {

        }

        public override string Execute()
        {
            WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
            document.EnsureMinimum();

            // Read Arabic text from a file.
            string content;
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(CommonDataPath + "\\Test List.txt"))
            {
                content = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }

            // Append it to the document.
            document.LastParagraph.ParagraphFormat.Bidi = true;
            TextRange text = document.LastParagraph.AppendText(content);
            text.CharacterFormat.Bidi = true;
            text.CharacterFormat.FontSizeBidi = 15;

            string fileName = Path.Combine(OutputDir, this.GetType().Name + "_" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + GetExtension(SaveAsFormat));
            // Save the document.
            document.Save(fileName, SaveAsFormat);

            // Close the document.
            document.Close();


            return fileName;
        }



    }

}

Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text

Imports OfficeComponent.Word


Namespace OfficeComponent.Samples
	Friend Class RightToLeftDocumentSupportExample
		Inherits WordExampleBase
		Public Sub New(ByVal commonDataPath As String, ByVal outputDir As String)
			MyBase.New(commonDataPath, outputDir)

		End Sub

		Public Sub New(ByVal commonDataPath As String, ByVal outputDir As String, ByVal xmlFile As String)
			MyBase.New(commonDataPath, outputDir, xmlFile)

		End Sub

		Public Overrides Function Execute() As String
			Dim document As New WordDocument()
			document.EnsureMinimum()

			' Read Arabic text from a file.
			Dim content As String
			Using reader As New StreamReader(CommonDataPath & "\Test List.txt")
				content = reader.ReadToEnd()
			End Using

			' Append it to the document.
			document.LastParagraph.ParagraphFormat.Bidi = True
			Dim text As TextRange = document.LastParagraph.AppendText(content)
			text.CharacterFormat.Bidi = True
			text.CharacterFormat.FontSizeBidi = 15

			Dim fileName As String = Path.Combine(OutputDir, Me.GetType().Name & "_" & Guid.NewGuid().ToString() & GetExtension(SaveAsFormat))
			' Save the document.
			document.Save(fileName, SaveAsFormat)

			' Close the document.
			document.Close()


			Return fileName
		End Function



	End Class

End Namespace