How to print docx and pdf using Java in Python?

[LalangNina01]

I actually can print using the txt file to printer, however, when I change to docx or pdf I get many undefined characters which cannot be understood at all. Do you guys have any ideas on how to solve this.

The code I used.

import system
import javax.print
import java.io
from java.lang import Thread
 
filestream = java.io.BufferedInputStream(java.io.FileInputStream("C:/GEEKS.txt"))
 
psInformat = javax.print.DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE
 
myDoc = javax.print.SimpleDoc(filestream,psInformat,None)
 
aset = javax.print.attribute.HashPrintRequestAttributeSet()
aset.add(javax.print.attribute.standard.Copies(2))
 
services = javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService()
 
job = services.createPrintJob()
 
job.print(myDoc, None)
 
Thread.sleep(20000)
 
filestream.close()

[sicarie]

Why are you using Java inside Python? Is that a requirement? It looks like you're opening a file, getting a hash, looking up an attribute and printing it. I would imagine this is possible through Python without using the javax, but that is your decision on implementation.

Anyway, as .docx is a Microsoft proprietary format, you would need to know how it's formatted, and import a library that is able to read it and get through all the cruft that MS put in there.

From my Google search, it appears a docx is a zip'd openxml doc, so if you're doing it in Python you can import zipfile and use that. There also look to be a few custom-made libraries that will read docx's as well.