RTFEditorKit is it worth using it.

Question

Hello.
Its been well documented that a RTFEditorkit does not save(persist) images,tables using a JTextPane.
Does anybody have a solution to this or is it worth using it at all.
Feedback appreciated.

Answer 1

You asked for solution.
The code to save/load images below.
If you want to develop your own RTFEditorKit I'll be glad to answer questions.
regards,
Stas
    protected void writeIcon(Element leaf, Writer out) throws IOException {
        AttributeSet attr = leaf.getAttributes();
        ImageIcon icon = (ImageIcon) StyleConstants.getIcon(attr);
        int w = StyleConstants.getIcon(attr).getIconWidth();
        int h = StyleConstants.getIcon(attr).getIconHeight();
        if (icon != null) {
            ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
             * perform saving as PNG image It's MS Word approach to images. PNG
             * format is used because of free licensing of PNG format.
            ImageEncoder pe = ImageCodec.createImageEncoder("PNG", os, null);
            BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
            bi.getGraphics().drawImage(icon.getImage(), 0, 0, null);
            pe.encode(bi);
            byte[] ba = os.toByteArray();
            int len = ba.length;
            int i;
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(len * 2);
            for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                String sByte = Integer.toHexString(ba[i] & 0xFF);
                if (sByte.length() < 2) {
                    sb.append('0' + sByte);
                } else {
                    sb.append(sByte);
            String s = sb.toString();
            out.write("{\\pict\\pngblip ");
            out.write(s);
            out.write("}");
    protected void insertImage(String content) {
        int len = content.length();
        //converts to binary representation
        byte[] buf = new byte[len / 2];
        for (int j = 0; j < len / 2; j++) {
            byte b1 = get16(content.charAt(j * 2));
            byte b2 = get16(content.charAt(j * 2 + 1));
            buf[j] = (byte) (b1 * 16 + b2);
        //creates image from binary
        Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(buf);
        ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon();
        icon.setImage(img);
        if ((icon.getIconHeight() < 0) || (icon.getIconWidth() < 0)) {
            return;
        MutableAttributeSet attr = new DefaultBajtextAttributeSet();
        StyleConstants.setIcon(attr, icon);
        //inserts image in the document
            document.insertString(currentOffset, " ", attr);
            currentOffset++;