Hi,

I have several files (doc, xls, pdf, ...) that are related to one product description.
I wanted to package all files and the description in a monolithic wordml file.

So if someone opens the wordml-file the product description and the related files (as objects) are shown.

I'm pretty new to wordml and not quite sure how to begin. There are several low level approaches e. g. you can create ole objects, convert them as base64 string and embed them in the wordml document. But I couldn't find appropriate components to do this. I also think that there must be better alternatives to this - at least I hope so.

Can any of you give me an advice where to begin? I'd like to use c# if possible.

Cheers,
Helmut

Create the destination part of the file.

PackagePart embeddedPart = package.createPart("/word/embeddings/MyWorkSheet.xls", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheet.sheet")

Get the stream of the files you want to add to your Wordml document.
Write this stream to the stream of the embedded part.
Create a relationship.

Add the markups to your main document part to put the embedded part where you want.

Hi,

thanks a lot.

There are two issues that stay unclear to me:
1. When I create a docx with an embedded .doc document by hand with Office 2007, the following code is created  in document.xml
<o:OLEObject Type="Embed" ProgID="Word.Document.8" ShapeID="_x0000_i1025" DrawAspect="Icon" ObjectID="_1278147184" r:id="rId5">
                        <o:FieldCodes>\s</o:FieldCodes>
                    </o:OLEObject>

In this code there's an ObjectID. Where comes this ObjectID from? When I embed a file with .Net I don't have an Object Id.

2. When I create a docx and embed a PDF document by hand in Office 2007, the following code is created in document.xml
<o:OLEObject Type="Embed" ProgID="Package" ShapeID="_x0000_i1026" DrawAspect="Content" ObjectID="_1277900222" r:id="rId7"/>

Associated to this object is a file embedded/oleObject1.bin. This file isn't the original pdf file. So what is it then and how can I create it with .Net?

Hi,

1. http://openxmldeveloper.org/forums/thread/1791.aspx

2. The .bin is your PDF file. I don't really know how Word converts the PDF file into a binary file when you insert it in a document. Maybe these links could help you understand (never read it myself) :
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/office2007bin.aspx
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3642085&SiteID=1

Maybe this could help :
using (WordprocessingDocument test = WordprocessingDocument.Open("C:\\testOleObject.docx",true))
            {
                MainDocumentPart mainpart = test.MainDocumentPart;
                EmbeddedObjectPart embed = mainpart.AddEmbeddedObjectPart("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.oleObject");
                Stream fileStr = (Stream)File.Open("C:\\MyPDFFile.pdf", FileMode.Open);
                Stream partStream = embed.GetStream();

                const int size = 4096;
                byte[] bytes = new byte[4096];
                int numBytes;
                while ((numBytes = fileStr.Read(bytes, 0, size)) > 0)
                    partStream.Write(bytes, 0, numBytes);
            }

Regards

Hi,

thanks again!

Have you or anyone else already been able to create a docx with an embedded PDF object?

I've created a docx-package with my pdf file in it and a relationship entry in word\_rels\document.xml.rels

But as soon as I try link to that object in Word Word2007 can't open the file anymore.

The .bin generated by word when importing the pdf is indeed an ole object. You can unzip it using 7-zip. Then you'll find a couple of streams in it. One is the imported pdf.

Cheers

 

using (WordprocessingDocument test = WordprocessingDocument.Open("C:\\testOleObject.docx",true))
            {
                MainDocumentPart mainpart = test.MainDocumentPart;
                EmbeddedObjectPart embed = mainpart.AddEmbeddedObjectPart("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.oleObject");
                Stream fileStr = (Stream)File.Open("C:\\MyPDFFile.pdf", FileMode.Open);
                Stream partStream = embed.GetStream();

                const int size = 4096;
                byte[] bytes = new byte[4096];
                int numBytes;
                while ((numBytes = fileStr.Read(bytes, 0, size)) > 0)
                    partStream.Write(bytes, 0, numBytes);
            }

Kirikou,

   i am able to run this code, i am able to embed a .pdf file into a word doc but cannot see the file

 the .pdf file is getting embedded into it, as the size of the file increases but i cannot see the file.

can you let me know what else do i need to do.

thanks

Sanpreet