Add and Rotate Shapes in Word Document in Java

When creating a Word document, you can add many types of shapes, such as triangle, rectangle and circle, to highlight important items. Bring attention to those items helps readers to better understand the content of the document. Here I’ll show you how to add or rotate shapes in a Word document by using Free Spire.Doc for Java.

BEFORE START

Please download the latest version of Free Spire.Doc for Java from the link, unzip it and manually add Spire.Doc.jar located in the lib folder to your JAVA project as a dependency.

Besides, if you are creating a Maven project, you can easily add the jar dependency by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

<repositories>

        <repository>

            <id>com.e-iceblue</id>

            <name>e-iceblue</name>

            <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>

        </repository>

</repositories>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>

        <groupId> e-iceblue </groupId>

        <artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId>

        <version>2.7.3</version>

    </dependency>

</dependencies>

Code Snippets

Add Single Shapes

import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
import com.spire.doc.Section;
import com.spire.doc.documents.*;
import com.spire.doc.fields.ShapeObject;
import java.awt.*;

public class AddShapes {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //create a Word document.
        Document doc = new Document();

        //add a section and a paragraph
        Section sec = doc.addSection();
        Paragraph para = sec.addParagraph();

        //insert a rectangle
        ShapeObject rectangle = para.appendShape(130, 80, ShapeType.Rectangle);
        rectangle.setFillColor(Color.green);
        rectangle.setStrokeColor(Color.white);
        rectangle.setVerticalPosition(50);

        //insert a triangle
        ShapeObject triangle = para.appendShape((float)(160/Math.sqrt(3)),80, ShapeType.Triangle);
        triangle.setStrokeColor(Color.blue);
        triangle.setFillColor(Color.red);
        triangle.setVerticalPosition(50);
        triangle.setHorizontalPosition(200);

        //insert a circle
        ShapeObject circle = para.appendShape(220,80, ShapeType.Ellipse);
        circle.setFillColor(Color.yellow);
        circle.setStrokeWeight(5);
        circle.setStrokeColor(Color.lightGray);
        circle.setVerticalPosition(50);
        circle.setHorizontalPosition((float)(220 + 160/Math.sqrt(3)));
        //save to file
        doc.saveToFile("output/InsertShapes.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
    }
}

Output

Add Shape Groups
import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
import com.spire.doc.Section;
import com.spire.doc.documents.Paragraph;
import com.spire.doc.documents.ShapeType;
import com.spire.doc.fields.ShapeGroup;
import com.spire.doc.fields.ShapeObject;
import java.awt.*;

public class AddShapeGroup {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //create a Word document
        Document doc = new Document();

        //add a section and a paragraph
        Section sec = doc.addSection();
        Paragraph para = sec.addParagraph();

        //get page width
        float pageWidth = sec.getPageSetup().getClientWidth();

        //add a shape group, specifying width, height and horizontal position
        ShapeGroup shapegroup = para.appendShapeGroup(200, 150);
        shapegroup.setHorizontalPosition((pageWidth - 200) / 2);

        //calculate the scale ratio
        float X = (shapegroup.getWidth() / 1000.0f);
        float Y = (shapegroup.getHeight() / 1000.0f);

        //create a circle
        ShapeObject circle_1 = new ShapeObject(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);
        circle_1.setWidth(80 / X);
        circle_1.setHeight(80 / Y);
        circle_1.setFillColor(new Color(176, 196, 222));
        circle_1.setStrokeColor(new Color(176, 196, 222));
        circle_1.setHorizontalPosition(60 / X);//set its horizontal position relative to shape group

        //add the circle to shape group
        shapegroup.getChildObjects().add(circle_1);

        //add two more circles to shape group
        ShapeObject circle_2 = new ShapeObject(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);
        circle_2.setWidth(80 / X);
        circle_2.setHeight(80 / Y);
        circle_2.setFillColor(new Color(0, 128, 128));
        circle_2.setStrokeColor(new Color(0, 128, 128));
        circle_2.setHorizontalPosition(30 / X);
        circle_2.setVerticalPosition(50 / Y);
        shapegroup.getChildObjects().add(circle_2);
        ShapeObject circle_3 = new ShapeObject(doc, ShapeType.Ellipse);
        circle_3.setWidth(80 / X);
        circle_3.setHeight(80 / Y);
        circle_3.setFillColor(new Color(72, 61, 139));
        circle_3.setStrokeColor(new Color(72, 61, 139));
        circle_3.setHorizontalPosition(90 / X);
        circle_3.setVerticalPosition(50 / Y);
        shapegroup.getChildObjects().add(circle_3);

        //save the document
        doc.saveToFile("output/InsertShapeGroup.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2010);
    }
}
Output

Rotate Shapes

import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.DocumentObject;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
import com.spire.doc.Section;
import com.spire.doc.documents.*;
import com.spire.doc.fields.ShapeObject;

public class RotateShapes {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Load the Sample Word document
        Document doc = new Document();
        doc.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Test1\\Desktop\\InsertShapes.docx");

        //Get the first section
        Section sec = doc.getSections().get(0);

        //Traverse every paragraphs to get the shapes and rotate them
        for ( Paragraph para: (Iterable<Paragraph>) sec.getParagraphs()) {
            for (DocumentObject obj : (Iterable<DocumentObject>) para.getChildObjects())   {

                if (obj instanceof ShapeObject) {
                    ((ShapeObject) obj).setRotation(20);
                }
            }
        }
        //Save to file
        doc.saveToFile("output/RotateShape.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
    }
}
Output