Very cool!! I am going to forward this to the dev list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piers Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: HWPF contributions...
> Hi Ryan, > > I work for an English software company, Goss > Interactive Ltd. (http://www.gossinteractive.com) > > We have been working with the old POI HDF code > for a little while now. In the course of using > this code in a business environment we have applied > a number of tweaks to the code in order to make it > work with real-world Word docs. In particular we have > made changes and enhancements to work with Word 2000/XP > etc. > > These include: > > * adding the code to handle sprmPHugePapx and the > associated Data Stream part of the document which > it uses for data storage. > > * adding code for undocumented PAP sprm 0x46. > (sprmPHugePapx 2) > > * adding code for undocumented CHP sprm 0x70. > (Word 2000+ 32bit RGB character colours) > > * fixes for ints sign extending shorts into large > negative ints. > > * some checks for nulls that appear in Word 2000/XP docs > and cause null pointer exceptions. > > All our own work with the aid of open source. > Absolutely no MS NDAs. > > We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in > your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.) > Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would > be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements. > > How would you like to proceed with this? > > Best regards, > Piers > > > Piers Taylor - Senior Developer > Goss Interactive Ltd > http://www.gossinteractive.com > Telephone: +44 1752 517350 > > <smallprint> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of > which may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient > only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this > e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail. > If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, > distribute, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. > > Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free > as information may be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, > arrive late or incomplete or contain viruses. This email and any > files attached to it have been checked with virus detection software > before transmission. You should nonetheless carry out your own virus > check before opening any attachment. Goss Interactive Ltd accepts no > liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software > viruses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
