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+# -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; py-indent-offset: 4 -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+import officehelper
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+from com.sun.star.awt import Size
+from com.sun.star.text.ControlCharacter import PARAGRAPH_BREAK
+from com.sun.star.text.TextContentAnchorType import AS_CHARACTER
+
+
+def get_desktop():
+    desktop = None
+    try:
+        remote_context = officehelper.bootstrap()
+        srv_mgr = remote_context.getServiceManager()
+        if srv_mgr is None:
+            print("Can't create a desktop. No connection, no remote office servicemanager available!")
+        else:
+            desktop = srv_mgr.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", remote_context)
+    except:
+        traceback.print_exc()
+        sys.exit(1)
+    return desktop
+
+
+def main():
+    desktop = get_desktop()
+    if desktop is None:
+        return
+
+    print("Opening an empty Writer document")
+
+    try:
+        doc = desktop.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter", "_blank", 0, tuple())
+    except:
+        traceback.print_exc()
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    create_example_data(doc)
+
+    british_words = ["colour", "neighbour", "centre", "behaviour", "metre", "through"]
+    us_words = ["color", "neighbor", "center", "behavior", "meter", "thru"]
+
+    try:
+        replace_descriptor = doc.createReplaceDescriptor()
+        print("Change all occurrences of ...")
+        for british_word, us_word in zip(british_words, us_words):
+            replace_descriptor.setSearchString(british_word)
+            replace_descriptor.setReplaceString(us_word)
+            # Replace all words
+            replaced_cnt = doc.replaceAll(replace_descriptor)
+            if replaced_cnt > 0:
+                print("Replaced", british_word, "with", us_word)
+    except:
+        traceback.print_exc()
+
+    print("Done")
+
+
+def create_example_data(doc):
+    try:
+        text = doc.getText()
+        cursor = text.createTextCursor()
+        text.insertString(cursor, "He nervously looked all around. Suddenly he saw his ", False)
+
+        text.insertString(cursor, "neighbour ", True)
+        cursor.setPropertyValue("CharColor", 255)  # Set the word blue
+
+        cursor.gotoEnd(False)  # Go to last character
+        cursor.setPropertyValue("CharColor", 0)
+        content = (
+            "in the alley. Like lightning he darted off to the left and disappeared between the "
+            "two warehouses almost falling over the trash can lying in the "
+        )
+        text.insertString(cursor, content, False)
+
+        text.insertString(cursor, "centre ", True)
+        cursor.setPropertyValue("CharColor", 255)  # Set the word blue
+
+        cursor.gotoEnd(False)  # Go to last character
+        cursor.setPropertyValue("CharColor", 0)
+        text.insertString(cursor, "of the sidewalk.", False)
+
+        text.insertControlCharacter(cursor, PARAGRAPH_BREAK, False)
+        content = (
+            "He tried to nervously tap his way along in the inky darkness and suddenly stiffened: "
+            "it was a dead-end, he would have to go back the way he had come."
+        )
+        text.insertString(cursor, content, False)
+        cursor.gotoStart(False)
+    except:
+        traceback.print_exc()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+
+# vim: set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: