Groovy Document Builder

A document builder for Groovy for PDF or Word documents. This is still very much a work in progress.

Documentation

Note	Because of the use of Groovy traits within the project, the minimum version of Groovy required is 2.3.

Example

@Grab(group='com.craigburke.document', module='pdf', version='0.5.0')
@Grab(group='com.craigburke.document', module='word', version='0.5.0')
importcom.craigburke.document.builder.PdfDocumentBuilderimportcom.craigburke.document.builder.WordDocumentBuilderdef builders = [
newPdfDocumentBuilder(newFile('example.pdf')),
newWordDocumentBuilder(newFile('example.docx'))
]
String[] COLORS= ['#FF0000', '#FF7F00', '#FFFF00', '#00FF00', '#0000FF', '#4B0082', '#8B00FF']
StringGROOVY_IMAGE_URL='http://www.craigburke.com/images/posts/groovy-logo.png'byte[] groovyImageData =newURL(GROOVY_IMAGE_URL).bytes
builders.each { builder->
builder.create {
document(font: [family: 'Helvetica', size: 14.pt], margin: [top: 0.75.inches]) {
heading1 "Groovy Document Builder v.0.5.0", font: [color: '#990000', size: 22.pt]
heading2 "Paragraphs"
paragraph {
font.size =42.pt
"Hello World".eachWithIndex { letter, index->
font.color =COLORS[ index %COLORS.size() ]
text letter
font.size--
}
lineBreak()
text "Current font size is ${font.size}pt"
}
paragraph "Back to default font and aligned to the right", align: 'right'
paragraph(margin: [left: 1.25.inches, right: 1.inch, top: 0.25.inches, bottom: 0.25.inches]) {
font << [family: 'Times-Roman', bold: true, italic: true, color: '#333333']
text "A paragraph with a different font and margins"
}
paragraph(align: 'center') {
image(data: groovyImageData, width: 250.px, height: 125.px)
lineBreak()
text "Figure 1: Groovy Logo", font: [italic: true, size: 9.pt]
}
heading2 "Tables"
table(width: 6.inches, padding: 4.px, border: [size: 3.px, color: '#990000']) {
row {
cell('Left Aligned', width:1.5.inches, align:'left')
cell('Center Aligned', width:2.inches, align:'center')
cell(align:'right') {
text 'Right Aligned'
}
}
}
}}
}

License

The core project as well as the Word document and Pdf builder are all available under the MPL2 license.