docxcompose 1.0.0a5

Compose .docx documents

docxcompose is a Python library for concatenating/appending Microsoft Word (.docx) files.

Example usage

Append a document to another document:

from docxcompose.composer import Composer
from docx import Document
master = Document("master.docx")
composer = Composer(master)
doc1 = Document("doc1.docx")
composer.append(doc1)
composer.save("combined.docx")

Changelog

1.0.0a5 (2018-01-11)

• Renumber bookmarks to avoid duplicate ids. [buchi]

• Add support for shapes. [buchi]

1.0.0a4 (2017-12-27)

• Fix handling of styles when composing documents with different languages. [buchi]

• Also add numberings referenced in styles. [buchi]

• Avoid having multiple <w:abstractNum> elements for the same style. [buchi]

• Restart first numbering of inserted documents [buchi]

• Add support for anchored images. [buchi]

• Handle referenced style ids that are not defined in styles.xml [buchi]

• Remove header and footer references in paragraph properties. [buchi]

1.0.0a3 (2017-11-22)

• Make removal of property fields optional. [buchi]

1.0.0a2 (2017-11-06)

• Fix handling of footnotes containing hyperlinks. [buchi]

• Add functionality to deal with custom document properties. Properties can be updated and fields containing properties can be removed. When appending or inserting documents their custom document properties get removed automatically. [buchi]

1.0.0a1 (2017-09-13)

• Initial release [buchi]