Hi, Thanks for testing and validating my code
As you said I downloaded the trunk version from svn (git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk poisvngit --revision HEAD), then I built using ant jar. I added these jars into my project and then I assume now I get the latest version. However it did not work. Still getting java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.values.XmlComplexContentImpl cannot be cast to org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.main.CTPath2DQuadBezierTo at org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.main.impl.CTPath2DImpl.addNewQuadBezTo(Unknown Source) at org.apache.poi.xslf.usermodel.XSLFFreeformShape.setPath(XSLFFreeformShape.java:85) at org.reactome.server.rd2pptx.poi.TestBoneShape.main(TestBoneShape.java:22) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144) I tried xmlbeans version 2.3.0 and version 2.6.0 also but I don't this is the problem. I am also running Java 8 on OS X Thanks On Mon, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Dominik Stadler <domi... <>@gmx.at> wrote: Hi, Your sample code works with current POI trunk, maybe you can try with the latest version or at least a recent nightly build to see if your problem is actually fixed there already. Dominik. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Guilherme Viteri <gvit... <>@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: Dear Developers, Is there anyone monitoring the stack overflow forum for #apache-poi ? I have created a couple of post but I haven't gotten any replies recently http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39001499/apache-poi- <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39001499/apache-poi-> xslfautoshape-shape-offset-property <http://stackoverflow.com/ <http://stackoverflow.com/> questions/39001499/apache-poi-xslfautoshape-shape-offset-property> Besides that, I have one more issue when drawing XSLFFreeFormShape. I am trying to draw a kind of bone shape, however I am getting an exception in the low-level xml classes. I am adding the class. public class TestBoneShape { public static void main(String[] args) { try { XMLSlideShow pptx = new XMLSlideShow(); XSLFSheet slide = pptx.createSlide(); XSLFFreeformShape freeformShape = slide.createFreeform(); freeformShape.setPath(boneShape(300, 300, 200, 100, 20)); freeformShape.setLineColor(Color.RED); freeformShape.setAnchor(new Rectangle2D.Double(300, 300, 500, 200)); FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("custom- shape.pptx"); pptx.write(out); out.close(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } static Path2D.Double boneShape(double x, double y, double width, double height, double loopWidth) { Path2D.Double bone = new Path2D.Double(); double right = x + width; double bottom = y + height; double xAux = x + loopWidth; double yAux = y + loopWidth / 2; bone.moveTo(xAux, yAux); xAux = right - loopWidth; bone.lineTo(xAux, yAux); yAux = y + height / 2; bone.quadTo(right, y, right, yAux); xAux = right - loopWidth; yAux = bottom - loopWidth / 2; bone.quadTo(right, bottom, xAux, yAux); xAux = x + loopWidth; bone.lineTo(xAux, yAux); yAux = y + height / 2; bone.quadTo(x, bottom, x, yAux); xAux = x + loopWidth; yAux = y + loopWidth / 2; bone.quadTo(x, y, xAux, yAux); bone.closePath(); return bone; } } Thank you Guilherme.
