I want to create one of the following filetypes with an iOS-App: RTF, DOC or DOCX. The user should be able to write text and also add images to it. The building of the UI isn´t the problem, only the creating of the File.
Are there any best practice to do this?!
3rd Party Frameworks are an option, but i would like to do it myself.
Thanks
I can help you for docx files (RTF files are easier and doc files are quite the same as docx but less well organised)
I think the best you could do is to start by opening a docx file into a text editor. You have first to unzip the file.
You will have the following folders
>_rels
>customXML
>docProps
>word:
>_rels:
document.xml.rels //this document tells word where the images are situated
>media //Here are the images
>theme
>document.xml //Here is the actual content of the file
>header1.xml //Here is the content of your header
>[Content_Types].xml
To insert some text, have a look at the document.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<w:document mc:Ignorable="w14 wp14" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wp14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wpc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas" xmlns:wpg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup" xmlns:wpi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk" xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape">
<w:body>
....
</w:body>
</w:document>
Docx uses <w:p> tags for paragraphs.
It uses <w:r> for blocks of texts that have one format.
It uses <w:t> for the actual text
This will produce a simple Hello world
<w:p w:rsidP="00CA7135" w:rsidR="00137C91" w:rsidRDefault="00137C91">
<w:r>
<w:t>Hello world</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
For images, you will have to put more information:
<w:p w:rsidP="00CA7135" w:rsidR="00B12C70" w:rsidRDefault="00B12C70">
<w:r>
<w:rPr>
<w:noProof/>
<w:lang w:eastAsia="fr-FR"/>
</w:rPr>
<w:drawing>
<wp:inline distB="0" distL="0" distR="0" distT="0" wp14:anchorId="7CC0BC42" wp14:editId="09031C8D">
<wp:extent cx="866775" cy="1323975"/>
<wp:effectExtent b="9525" l="0" r="9525" t="0"/>
<wp:docPr id="13" name="Image 13"/>
<wp:cNvGraphicFramePr>
<a:graphicFrameLocks noChangeAspect="1" xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main"/>
</wp:cNvGraphicFramePr>
<a:graphic xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main">
<a:graphicData uri="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture">
<pic:pic xmlns:pic="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture">
<pic:nvPicPr>
<pic:cNvPr id="0" name=""/>
<pic:cNvPicPr/>
</pic:nvPicPr>
<pic:blipFill>
<a:blip r:embed="rId15"/>
<a:stretch>
<a:fillRect/>
</a:stretch>
</pic:blipFill>
<pic:spPr>
<a:xfrm>
<a:off x="0" y="0"/>
<a:ext cx="866775" cy="1323975"/>
</a:xfrm>
<a:prstGeom prst="rect">
<a:avLst/>
</a:prstGeom>
</pic:spPr>
</pic:pic>
</a:graphicData>
</a:graphic>
</wp:inline>
</w:drawing>
</w:r>
</w:p>
The id (13) inside this tag: <wp:docPr id="13" name="Image 13"/> must be unique. Word wil then look at the document.xml.rels to see where the image is stored.
Document.xml.rels:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships">
<Relationship Id="rId8" Target="endnotes.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/endnotes"/>
<Relationship Id="rId13" Target="media/image5.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId18" Target="media/image10.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId26" Target="header3.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/header"/>
<Relationship Id="rId3" Target="styles.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/styles"/>
<Relationship Id="rId21" Target="media/image13.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId7" Target="footnotes.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/footnotes"/>
<Relationship Id="rId12" Target="media/image4.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId17" Target="media/image9.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId25" Target="footer1.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/footer"/>
<Relationship Id="rId2" Target="numbering.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/numbering"/>
<Relationship Id="rId16" Target="media/image8.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId20" Target="media/image12.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId1" Target="../customXml/item1.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/customXml"/>
<Relationship Id="rId6" Target="webSettings.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/webSettings"/>
<Relationship Id="rId11" Target="media/image3.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId24" Target="header2.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/header"/>
<Relationship Id="rId5" Target="settings.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/settings"/>
<Relationship Id="rId15" Target="media/image7.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId23" Target="header1.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/header"/>
<Relationship Id="rId28" Target="theme/theme1.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/theme"/>
<Relationship Id="rId10" Target="media/image2.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId19" Target="media/image11.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId4" Target="stylesWithEffects.xml" Type="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2007/relationships/stylesWithEffects"/>
<Relationship Id="rId9" Target="media/image1.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId14" Target="media/image6.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId22" Target="media/image14.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
<Relationship Id="rId27" Target="fontTable.xml" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/fontTable"/>
</Relationships>
as you can see, with this tag, the image with id 13 is locafted at the Target attribute.
<Relationship Id="rId13" Target="media/image5.png" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image"/>
