https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-75
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Yegor Kozlov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > GSoC 2012 is on the way and it is a good change to draw more attention > to the POI project and attract new contributors / potential > committers. > > If there are no objections, I would like to submit a proposal. > > I've already registered as a mentor and if any one else fancy , please > go ahead and register. > > So far I have two ideas: > > (1) Improve drawing support in HSSF. The main issue is that HSSF can > create new drawings from scratch but cannot modify existing ones. This > means that you cannot add graphic elements such as pictures, shapes > and cell comments to sheets that already have drawings. This drawback > is frequently reported on the mailing lists and the fix is in high > demand. > > The student will need to have deep knowledge of the Excel Binary > (Biff8) and MS Drawing (Escher) formats and current architecture of > HSSF. > > (2) Support extraction of VBA macro code from both binary and OOXML > documents. The goal is to read VBA code as text. > It will be a new module and a new format parser and I guess a lot of > low-level hacking. Armed with the spec ([MS-OVBA].pdf ), it should be > feasible to implement within a month or two. > > > > Regards, > Yegor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
