There are some APache projects to consider.

Apache PDFBox - pdfbox.apache.org
APache POI - poi.apache.org for docx.

You could also take a look an the newly incubating 
corinthia.incubator.apache.org

Regards,
Dave

On Feb 15, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Leonardo Sapucaia wrote:

> HI,
> 
> A couple years ago I started to develop a TLF text editor with many
> features found in MS Word, as header, footer, footnotes, and that could
> export PDF files.
> 
> Despite finding few examples and open source projects, necessary for me to
> be an area that had very little experience, I could code a reasonable
> editor allowing pagination, headers and footers.
> 
> In the meantime I had to devote myself to other projects and I could not
> quite finish the editor. Features such as footnotes and the generation of
> PDFs were left unfinished.
> 
> Now I have to resume the project and since a long time passed, I wonder if
> there is already some example or project that anyone here could show me.
> Some reference so that I can use.
> 
> Need to generate PDF files from the TLF code (and may need to generate docx
> too). Must also create a reference (marker) in text positions within the
> TLF code (maybe a custom element?) which are linked to topics within the
> footnotes block.
> 
> Could someone enlighten me?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leonardo Sapucaia

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