Transform CGM to MARKDOWN via Java
On Premise Java API to Render CGM to MARKDOWN without using any third party application
Converting CGM to MARKDOWN is a simple two-step process. To begin, you need to render the CGM file to DOC using Aspose.PDF for Java. Aspose.PDF for Java is a powerful PDF document processing API that is part of the Aspose.Total for Java package. With Aspose.PDF for Java, you can easily render CGM files to DOC format.
Once the CGM file is rendered to DOC, you can then use Aspose.Words for Java to convert the DOC to MARKDOWN. Aspose.Words for Java is a powerful document processing API that is also part of the Aspose.Total for Java package. With Aspose.Words for Java, you can easily convert DOC files to MARKDOWN format.
By using Aspose.PDF for Java and Aspose.Words for Java, you can quickly and easily convert CGM files to MARKDOWN. Both APIs are part of the Aspose.Total for Java package, so you can access both APIs with a single license. With these two APIs, you can quickly and easily convert CGM files to MARKDOWN format.
Java API to Convert CGM to MARKDOWN
Get Started with Java File Manipulation APIs
You can easily use Aspose.Total for Java directly from a Maven based project and include Aspose.PDF for Java and Aspose.Words for Java in your pom.xml.
Alternatively, you can get a ZIP file from downloads .
// load CGM file with an instance of Document class
Document document = new Document("template.cgm");
// save CGM as a DOC
document.save("DocOutput.doc", SaveFormat.DOC);
// load DOC with an instance of Document
Document outputDocument = new com.aspose.words.Document("DocOutput.doc");
// call save method while passing SaveFormat.MARKDOWN
outputDocument.save("output.markdown", SaveFormat.MARKDOWN);
Open Password Protected CGM Document via Java
While converting CGM to MARKDOWN, even if your document is password protected, you can still open it using PDF Manipulation API Aspose.PDF for Java . In order to open the encrypted file, you need to create a Document object and open the CGM using the owner’s password.
Document document = new Document("input.cgm", "password");
// save CGM as a DOC
document.save("DocOutput.doc", SaveFormat.DOC);
Save MARKDOWN Document to a Database via Java
While saving your input document to MARKDOWN file format, you can also save your document to database instead of a file system. You may need to implement storing and retrieving Document objects to and from a database. This would be necessary if you were implementing any type of content management system. In order to save your MARKDOWN to database it is often necessary to serialize the document to obtain a byte array. This can be done using Aspose.Words for Java API. After getting your byte array, you can store it in the database using SQL statement.
public static void StoreToDatabase(Document doc, Connection mConnection) throws Exception {
// create an output stream which uses byte array to save data
ByteArrayOutputStream aout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// save the document to byte array
doc.save(aout, SaveFormat.MARKDOWN);
// get the byte array from output steam
// the byte array now contains the document
byte[] buffer = aout.toByteArray();
// get the filename from the document.
String fileName = doc.getOriginalFileName();
String filePath = fileName.replace("\\", "\\\\");
// create the SQL command.
String commandString = "INSERT INTO Documents (FileName, FileContent) VALUES('" + filePath + "', '" + buffer + "')";
Statement statement = mConnection.createStatement();
statement.executeUpdate(commandString);
}