Piers, Excellent! Cant wait to see some patches being applied!
Have you arranged a method with Ryan for contributing patches? Ryan, Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world developers coming onboard. I can see quite a lot of use for HWPF. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Ackley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2004 3:35 AM To: POI Developers List; Piers Taylor Subject: [SPAM Detected] Re: HWPF contributions... References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: bulk 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] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail (including attachments) is confidential information of Australian Submarine Corporation Pty Limited (ASC). It may also be legally privileged. Unauthorised use and disclosure is prohibited. ASC is not taken to have waived confidentiality or privilege if this e-mail was sent to you in error. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender promptly. While ASC takes steps to identify and eliminate viruses, it cannot confirm that this e-mail is free from them. You should scan this e-mail for viruses before it is used. The statements in this e-mail are those of the sender only, unless specifically stated to be those of ASC by someone with authority to do so.
