[Libwpd-devel] librevenge and other generators

2013-11-08 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, I just wanted to make public some disparate decisions that we took around this week: 0) Since the family of libraries that depended on libwpd/libwpg is growing steadily, we decided to create librevenge (blame me for the name, but

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-24 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 24/04/11 07:17, Fridrich Strba wrote: >> 4,100 seems to be 1D11E >> 4,101 seems to be 1D122 > > Don't know what to do with these ones though. We store the conversion > results as UCS2. Let me see what we can d

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Thanks, Edward, On 24/04/2011 07:05, Edward Mendelson wrote: > 1. Quite a few WP characters have no unicode equivalents, and there is no way > to fix that. Yeah, as they say in Swahili: "Maisha ndyvio, alivio" or as we say here in the socialist Europe, "C'est la vie" :) Indeed, we cannot do muc

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, Edward, On 23/04/2011 23:01, Edward Mendelson wrote: > I've run both files through wpd2text - and the results did not seem useful at > all (see the linked file). However, if you want me to run them through > wpd2odt, then the results were very useful indeed. I'll check them later. > See t

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward, On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 11:13 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x for > DOS is here: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/CHARACT6.DOC > It includes all 14 sets. Thanks for this one. I run it over wpd2text and it might be

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Smokey I wrote a quick generator and generated a wp document with all charsets from 1 to 14. Would be nice to open it in a mac that is on a system where all the WorldScript goodies are installed, so that we can see how the missing mac characters will

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/04/11 08:18, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > I can't believe that a company would move around blocks of characters > from one version of the software to the next, especially when those > characters' codes are the canonical ways of identifying them :

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Results for wpd2odt with some real-world WPMac files

2011-04-22 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward, On 22/04/11 16:15, Edward Mendelson wrote: > However, I also tried the conversion with two real-world files that I was > sent by the person who first asked about this. These real-world files are > here: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/Attac

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-21 Thread Fridrich Strba
Thanks, Edward, On 21/04/11 15:46, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Some sample Arabic WPDOS files that I use for testing are here: > http://www.un.org/popin/unpopcom/32ndsess/gass.htm Here I realized that we were not doing any conversion of arabic for WP5. Now. I found this program here http://www.li

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-21 Thread Fridrich Strba
Smokey, On 21/04/11 11:49, Fridrich Strba wrote: > So, unless we know which encoding the document uses for the mac > character part of the 0xC0 functions, we are a bit grilled. I almost > feel like actually converting the WP5 pair first and then the mac char > only if the WP5 is not g

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Beginner question about building from git sources

2011-04-21 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward On 21/04/2011 08:30, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > Last time I built from the source (which has been a while, > admittedly, and predates the git migration), it was necessary to run > ./autogen.sh Yup, that is still the way, the git migration did not change anything to the libwpd sources and bu

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-21 Thread Fridrich Strba
Smokey, On 21/04/2011 08:20, Smokey Ardisson wrote: > Just for my own information, your recent commits have only been for the > double-byte languages; there's still no support for the single-byte ones > in WP-Mac files, right? I have problem with this for this moment. Because they are basically i

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-20 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward, On 20/04/2011 02:48, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Not to make your life more difficult, but would it now be possible to > add the CHINSIMP and CHINTRAD and KOREAN to the tables? They are all in already. All CJK two-byte codes are inside http://libwpd.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libw

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-20 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward, On 20/04/11 02:46, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Amazing!! Deeply impressed!! May I ask the person I've been working with > for a few test files that I can send along? Even better, you can build the libwpd/libwpg/writerperfect from souces and test yourself :) /me is on vacation until the en

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, Smokey, my old buddy. Nice to know you alive and kicking :) On 19/04/11 19:40, Smokey Ardisson wrote: http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/JAPANESE.TXT (and other files in http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ for other Mac encodings). (Someone else please commit t

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
So, On 19/04/11 17:16, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Here's a link to a PDF created by saving to a .PS file and letting OS X > convert it: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/Kanji.wpmac.pdf > And here's a screen image of the file open in WPMac: > Again, I can't judge. Does anyone on the list have the n

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
Edward, On 19/04/11 16:52, Edward Mendelson wrote: I'll have to look at this later today when I can get back to my Mac. It looks interesting! Disregard the previous attachment, check the following one. F. -- Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.or

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
Is the attached html file at least marginally looking like having some characters right? f. On 19/04/11 16:07, Edward Mendelson wrote: I'm not expert enough in the WPMac file format to learn anything from it, but perhaps it may be useful to someone who knows a lot more than I do. When I open i

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, Edward On 19/04/11 16:07, Edward Mendelson wrote: > I created a WPMac 3.5e file with a few lines of Japanese kanji. The text > is nonsense - I simply typed in random characters because I know about > ten words of Japanese and don't know how to type them. But it should > give you an idea of

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

2011-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:22 -0400, Edward Mendelson wrote: > Thanks for that quick reply. I don't have such a document, but I'll > ask the person who asked me for help, in the hope that he might be > able to create one. Yup, would be good to see how that document is. Whether the characters are st

Re: [Libwpd-devel] submitting .wpd files?

2011-04-18 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hi, Mark, On 18/04/11 17:18, Mark Coolen wrote: > BTW, I have libwpd 0.9.1 and libwpg 0.2.0 from Arch Linux. Is that new > enough? Writerperfect I'll have to install myself (0.8.0). OK, there was a fix landing to the libwpd master after 0.9.1, which was solving some issues with loading documents

Re: [Libwpd-devel] submitting .wpd files?

2011-04-15 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, Mark, On 15/04/2011 19:51, Mark Coolen wrote: > Would it be at all useful to submit .wpd files that don't open > correctly with the latest version of libwpd? Very useful indeed, provided that they don't open correctly with the master branch of libwpd/libwpg/writerperfect mix. I fixed some

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: libwpd 0.9.0 and writerperfect 0.8.0 released

2010-11-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, good people, The good news is that on Tuesday, November 16th 2010, after more then five years of development, libwpd 0.9.0 and writerperfect 0.8.0 have been released. libwpd 0.9.0 is not backward compatible with libwpd 0.8.14. Both 0.9.x and 0.8.x series are installable in parallel except

[Libwpd-devel] New way of updating web-pages

2010-11-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, good people. Since the shell access on sourceforge.net is now a bit more difficult to script, I came with a different approach to updating the web-pages: For libwpd: I cloned a read-only libwpd-www git repository to htdocs directory and updating is done basically by pushing your local git

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Doing away with WPXString

2010-11-01 Thread Fridrich Strba
I would prefer to have it pushed as it goes. I will be in Hamburg for a hack-weekend from this Friday and would like to finalize the LibreOffice plug-in. So, if it was possible to do the functionality first so that I can try to craft the plug-in and then try to beautify the stuff later :) I would n

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Doing away with WPXString

2010-10-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Will, On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 15:41 -0400, William Lachance wrote: > I imagine I could convert everything libwpd-related (libwpd, > writerperfect, bindings, libwpg, the abiword plugin) to this approach > (with the insertSpace function I mentioned above) in the space of an > afternoon next week. Ok,

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Doing away with WPXString

2010-10-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
Will, My first wild idea is that if you do it all properly, go for it. Like to be sure that we don't require user to free anything she did not allocate and that we don't return reference to a temporary from a function, try it. Now, concerning the binding, we don't have big issues with binding lib

Re: [Libwpd-devel] tested Patch with some WP 5.1 greek characters fixes

2010-06-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
Sorry for having ignored this patch. I somehow did not see the e-mail :( Thanks a lot, it is committed in both the STABLE-0-8-0 and HEAD. Cheers Fridrich On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:20 +0100, Johannes Poehlmann wrote: > Hi libwpd Developers, > > As mentioned in the "open discussion" forum, i mad

[Libwpd-devel] Imminent release of libwpd 0.9.0 and libwpg 0.2.0

2010-06-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello good people, On Friday, February 11 2005 we announced the release of libwpd 0.8.0 and writerperfect 0.7.0, which later showed to be the most stable release cycle libwpd had. The API was so well designed that we were able to add support of several new WP file-formats and add an impressive lis

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwpd2-bindings and mono

2009-05-13 Thread Fridrich Strba
OK, I just tried the build using MSys and it succeeded. My configure line is: WPD2RAW=/target/bin/wpd2raw.exe GMCS=/c/PROGRA~1/Mono-2.0.1/bin/gmcs JAVAC=/c/PROGRA~1/Java/jdk1.5.0_16/bin/javac.exe JAVA=/c/PROGRA~1/Java/jdk1.5.0_16/bin/java.exe PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/target/lib/pkgconfig SWIG=~/swigwin-1.

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwpd2-bindings and mono

2009-05-13 Thread Fridrich Strba
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 02:35 +0200, Nam Quang Tran wrote: > - Is there a precompiled Mono package for MSYS? There is no precompiled Mono package for MSYS, but you don't need any. I just used the one that is distributed by Mono project. It is currently 2.4.x but I used even 2.0.1 and it worked, anyt

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Does libwpd2-bindings compile on Windows?

2009-04-04 Thread Fridrich Strba
OK, normally, one needs to have pkg-config development files in the system in order to get the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro right. When you run your autogen, do it in following way: ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I/patch/to/where/is/pkg.m4' ./autogen.sh Cheers Fridrich BTW: Google is sometimes good to ask first, fa

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Does libwpd2-bindings compile on Windows?

2009-04-03 Thread Fridrich Strba
OK, I would simply refrain from using autotools outside the msys /usr mounted directories. It is known that msys has problem handling the autotools in a random path. Why don't you just use the autotools distributed by http://www.mingw.org project? Cheers Fridrich On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 16:54 +020

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Does libwpd2-bindings compile on Windows?

2009-04-03 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, I just tried the autogen.sh in my msys and it works for me. Now, it is looking for two things: autoconf >= 2.53 and autoheader >= 2.53. Now, maybe the command has a problem with your autoconf and autoheader. Can you send the autoconf --version and also autoheader --version output? Cheers

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwpd java bindings: which native libraries needed?

2009-01-09 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, these libraries should be basically in systems LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But a more detailed error would maybe help. Now, after you compiled the bindings, did "make check" succeed? Cheers Fridrich Nam Quang Tran wrote: > Hello, > > I have compiled libwp

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwpd-bindings build problems

2009-01-08 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had similar problems with Mono 1.9.x. It was surely a bug in the compiler. Using Mono 2.0.1 fixed it. Maybe I should add a check for gmcs version. But for the while, upgrade Mono and things will work. Cheers Fridrich P.S.: Please, subscribe to lib

Re: [Libwpd-devel] [Libwpd-cvs] libwpd2-bindings/src/csharp Makefile.am, 1.10, 1.11

2008-11-13 Thread Fridrich Strba
It is possible, but if you pass --libdir=/usr/lib64 without passing --libexecdir=/whatever, the Global Assembly Cache will be assumed to be in /usr/lib64/mono/gac. So nothing is hardcoded, just more possibilities :) Cheers F. J.M. Maurer wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 14:12 +0000, Fridr

[Libwpd-devel] [Fwd: Some progress report]

2008-11-06 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since this one never made it to the list, I am trying to repost Cheers F. - Original Message Subject: Some progress report Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:42:17 +0100 From: Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: libwpd-devel m

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: writerperfect/wpd2sxw 0.7.3 is out

2007-12-03 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, just to give you heads up that I just released writerperfect/wpd2sxw 0.7.3. It is a minor bugfix release that mainly deals with the gcc 4.3 build issues. If you never had problem to compile this one, the upgrade is completely useless, since the

Re: [Libwpd-devel] [Libwpg-devel] Positioned objects in WPD files

2007-10-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
Ariya, Ariya Hidayat wrote: > Fantastically cool! Really a good job, Fridrich! Don't thank me, doing just my job :-) > BTW, what do you think about my recent proposal to split the stream library? Yes, as we agreed, working towards it. With the libwpd 0.9.0 release, the stream library will be a

[Libwpd-devel] Positioned objects in WPD files

2007-10-18 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, just to give you head up about the fact that we are now kind of able to get the positioned objects position and size right inside a WPD file. Moreover, the images are converted as editable ODG objects which I find really cool. All t

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: libwpd-0.8.12 is out of the door.

2007-10-10 Thread Fridrich Strba
kages (Robert Staudinger, Fridrich Strba) - - Package also the tools automatically for win32 (Fridrich) - - Do not build doxygen documentation on win32 unless explicitely asked for it (Fridrich) - - Convert Tab Set function for WP5 parser (Fridrich) - - Basic conversion of tabulators and indent

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN writerperfect/wpd2sxw 0.7.2 released

2007-08-31 Thread Fridrich Strba
ository in opensuse.org build service <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/fstrba/>. Take them, download them and use them. Cheers Fridrich Strba P.S. If you feel an irresistible urge to hack on libwpd and/or writerperfect, you are most welcome to drop me a line. There is a lot a

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: Belated announcement of libwpd 0.8.11

2007-08-31 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people As Smokey noticed it already, libwpd-0.8.11 went out of the door last week. The main changes are: - - Fix incorrect conversion of tables with cells spanning more then 127 rows due to incorrect information in the file-format - - Fix

[Libwpd-devel] Intention to release a bugfix 0.8.11 this or next week

2007-08-23 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people A recent run of tests we did with sum1 showed that the Corel documentation lies. The following embedded subfunction in the EOL group reads: 0xD085 Cell Spanning Information Embedded Subfunction <133 (0x85)> (size = 4) bit 7 is s

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WP6TibetanMap

2007-07-12 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, William Lachance wrote: > How does WordPerfect disambiguate this type of information? Perhaps > character set handling inside a list prefix/suffix needs a special > case? I'd really prefer to keep Tibetan character support in libwpd: > taking i

[Libwpd-devel] WP6TibetanMap

2007-07-11 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, I wanted just to ask some information about the WP6TibetanMap. It is true that it makes the M*.wpd document look nice, but I have quite a problem with what we do concerning this map because the charset 12 is specified as user define

[Libwpd-devel] First images in WPD files are converted :-)

2007-06-27 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people Just to attract your attention to this one http://www.go-oo.org/~fridrich/first_pictures.png For the while just the image stream without information about its frame like anchoring and scaling. Struggled to create and ODT that OOo w

[Libwpd-devel] Branches for libwpd2 and writerperfect

2007-06-25 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, so this is the situation after Monday: 1) libwpd2 has branch STABLE-0-8-0 for bug-fixes of 0.8.x series 2) writerperfect has branch STABLE-0-7-0 for bug-fixes of 0.7.x series. Maybe a release of 0.7.2 would not be bad idea 3) libwpd

Re: [Libwpd-devel] My intentions next week

2007-06-24 Thread Fridrich Strba
, any ideas, so that I can be 100% sure we are producing a compliant odt? Cheers Fridrich Fridrich Strba wrote: > Today, I branched the writerperfect module and in the fs_odf_porting, I > am trying to create a wpd2odt tool that will create an opendocument > instead of sxw. The goal is

[Libwpd-devel] libwpd branched

2007-06-24 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, So from yesterday, I branched libwpd with a STABLE-0-8-0 branch tag for 0.8.x ABI compatible changes. All ABI breaking changes should go to head. Happy hacking (if someone by any chance is planning it :-) ) Cheers Fridrich - -- P

[Libwpd-devel] My intentions next week

2007-06-22 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people. Today, I branched the writerperfect module and in the fs_odf_porting, I am trying to create a wpd2odt tool that will create an opendocument instead of sxw. The goal is that the resulting xml validates against the strict schema. Ne

Re: [Libwpd-devel] ATTN: intention to release libwpd-0.8.10 this week

2007-06-12 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Hislop wrote: > That OASIS document seems to be mostly in-content metadata handling. In > any case, it contains nothing new that would change the way we do WP6 > metadata. > The ODT meta.xml file contents are explained at > http://books.evc-cit.i

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: intention to release libwpd-0.8.10 this week

2007-06-12 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people! I just wanted to make you know that I am intending to release libwpd-0.8.10 sometimes this week. The reason is that I discovered a locale-dependency in generating strings from floats and would like to fix it, since many OOo users (

[Libwpd-devel] Branch fs_experimental merged into Head and GSFStream marked as deprecated

2007-05-05 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people. I just merged the fs_experimental branch into HEAD. It passes correctly 1) the stream implementation unit tests and 2) our regression suite on x86_64 and i386. The main advantage is that we have in libwpd now an alternative stream

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPD Metadata...

2007-05-03 Thread Fridrich Strba
d look at it also. > > I was hoping to hear that someone cleavar was able to add this to the > library. > > :) > > Thanks, > Ismail. > > > -Original Message- > From: Fridrich Strba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:00 PM

Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPD Metadata...

2007-05-02 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ismail, Please, send me the document and I will see what I can do for you. Cheers Fridrich Ismail Ibric wrote: > Hi, > > > > I’m new to libWPD and came across the wpd2text utility. > > If I use the –info parameter I can get the Metadata. >

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-27 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, David, thanks for your work. David Hislop wrote: >> David Hislop wrote: >> > 1. src/conv/text/TextListenerImpl.h >> > *28a29 >> >> #ifndef _MSC_VER >> > 29a31 >> >> #endif// _MSC_VER >> >> This one I do not really understand :-( > > It's

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-26 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, thanks for your work. David Hislop wrote: > 1. src/conv/text/TextListenerImpl.h > *28a29 >> #ifndef _MSC_VER > 29a31 >> #endif// _MSC_VER This one I do not really understand :-( > *2. src/conv/*/Makefile.am > *(changes to each of the

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-21 Thread Fridrich Strba
David Hislop wrote: > Also quickly hacked together an MS VC version of the lib and wpd2text > and it also works fine. Minimal changes: just added the new files to > the VC project, and created a simple CLR wpd2text app. I gladly accept patch that will build wpd2* CLR apps into libwpd:-) F. ---

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-08 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, David Hislop wrote: >> It is possible that the msvc iostream implementation has some differences > So obviously there is something different in MSVC iostream. I think it's > in basic_istream (and so probably basic_ostream as well). It seems tha

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-06 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, David, Thanks for your great work. Just for your information, I created now a branch in CVS called "fs_experimental", where I add to the libwpd-stream library a second implementation WPXStreamImplementation.{cpp,h} and WPXOLEStream.{cpp,h}. I w

Re: [Libwpd-devel] File format problem with some WP files

2007-04-03 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, they are most probably WP files embedded in an OLE2 storage. If Larry is not implementing the getDocumentOLEStream() and isOLEStream() from the WPXInputStream interface class, they will not be recognized by his indexer. Most probably, he does no

[Libwpd-devel] libwpd 0.8.9 "Integers, integers, integers, ..." released

2007-03-16 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, The libwpd development team has a pleasure to announce that today, 16th of March 2007, *libwpd 0.8.9*, codename "Integers, integers, integers, ..", has been released. This release fixes an integer arithmetic related security issues

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Making "-Wall -Werrro" default

2006-11-12 Thread Fridrich Strba
ossible to change for 0.9.x whenever it will be. Cheers F. William Lachance wrote: > On 11/12/06, Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to search your advice on my intention to make the "-Wall >> - -Werror" default for libwpd build. Still with a pos

[Libwpd-devel] Making "-Wall -Werrro" default

2006-11-12 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would like to search your advice on my intention to make the "-Wall - -Werror" default for libwpd build. Still with a possibility to switch off -Werrror with a "--disable-werror" configure option. The reason is following: OpenOffice.org is b

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Intent to release libwpd 0.8.6 this weekend

2006-10-06 Thread Fridrich Strba
I start to be old and forget things. The binaries are at http://hei.unige.ch/~strba5/libwpd/ > I found in spite of everything a moment and I built the win32 binaries. > The naming convention is the same like for 0.8.6 release. The wpd2sxw > version is only the normal wpd2sxw 0.7.1 statically link

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Intent to release libwpd 0.8.6 this weekend

2006-10-06 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hi William, thanks for this. You will be releasing 0.8.7 though. If I find an oasis in this job-searching desert, I will be back alive and kicking. My todo list has a lot of things that can be done without breaking the API. I estimate it to some 12 months of free-time work. The main goal is to bri

Re: [Libwpd-devel] patch to fix memory leak in converters

2006-09-04 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for this one, Andrew. Committed :-) Fridrich Andrew Ziem wrote: > Valgrind says it's worth 16 bytes in the "definitely lost" category. > > > Andrew > > > > > --- lib

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Generalizing WPXInputStream::getDocumentOLEStream()

2006-09-04 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Andrew, Excited to see the advance in your coding. Andrew Ziem wrote: > Would it be possible to make a change to > WPXInputStream::getDocumentOLEStream() to include a parameter for the > name of the stream? It would make the class more gener

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwps for Microsoft Works (.wps)

2006-08-31 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Ziem wrote: > Thank you. By the way, I did have a small, positive discussion on the > OOo development list[1]. Also, I was thinking I'd like to try getting > the code into Abiword first since it is cross-platform and seems to have > a mor

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwps for Microsoft Works (.wps)

2006-08-28 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I definitely think that this interest that the M$ Works converter has already is justifying to submit for a new SF.net project (libwps?). I promis that if the library is stable enough, even with limited converted features, I will try to do my best to

[Libwpd-devel] WP Mac 1.x support

2006-08-25 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people, I just realized that I did not spam for long time this list with one of those e-mails that say a lot of stuff, but nobody cares about them. I am doing so now partly for those who would like to have some information on WP Mac 1.x fi

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwps for Microsoft Works (.wps)

2006-08-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Come, on, Will, write the specifications, maybe someone will find it interesting to implement. If not, I will try to push it as a Google SoC 2007 project :-) Cheers Fridrich >> Of course, >> there is the problem of figuring out how to properly facto

Re: [Libwpd-devel] libwps for Microsoft Works (.wps)

2006-08-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Andrew, Andrew Ziem wrote: > I have started* a Microsoft Works (.wps) document importer. Since > libwpd has been incorporated into three word processors, I thought I'd > emulate the libwpd API to make it easy to implement support for Works.

Re: [Libwpd-devel] Is "libwpd" ready to test it with thousands of WP5.1 (UNIX) documents?

2006-07-20 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would prefer though that we continue this discussion on libwpd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net so that it can be than eventually googled for and the information will be available to everyone. Concerning the WP 5.x support, at present moment it is

[Libwpd-devel] [ATTN] libwpd 0.8.6 "sum1 is someone" released

2006-07-15 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, everybody, The libwpd developer community is proud to announce a new release of libwpd library, codename "sum1 is someone" as a recognition of the contribution of sum1 to libwpd's stability. THANKS, MR. SUM1! Enjoy the comparison with libwpd 0.8.5 based on more than 46'000 of random doc

[Libwpd-devel] Intention to release 0.8.6 this (or next) week

2006-07-09 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people! Just to tell you that last some weeks I was working together with AbiWord's QA expert "sum1" on trying to improve the stability and robustness of libwpd. The goal was to avoid crashes and handle as much documents as possible. In or

[Libwpd-devel] libwpd-0.8.5 crasher regression -- patch

2006-06-11 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, one of the best QA guys in the known universe, Sum1 of AbiWord fame, run a lot of WP documents through the wpd2raw 0.8.5 and discovered a crash in a very rare situation in WP5 parser (if the font descriptor packet is there, but not the font list

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: libwpd-0.8.5 "reward for your patience" is released

2006-06-01 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After you waited for it patiently for almost six months, the libwpd developer community has the pleasure to announce you that libwpd 0.8.5, "reward for your patience", has been released. This version adds, inter alia, header and footer conversion in W

[Libwpd-devel] Intention to release tomorrow -- some comment on the design

2006-05-31 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, it has been almost 6 months without a libwpd release. There has been quite number of things done in the meantime and the three is stable for a new release. I am planning it for tomorrow (Thursday 1 June) just to throw some shadow on the insignif

[Libwpd-devel] Someone ready to QA test the new features in WP5.x format?

2006-05-24 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since Smokey's QA efforts helped to fix the issue with headers/footers in WP3 format and uncovered a long standing bug we had in our WPXPageSpan class, I would like to ask those who have WordPerfect 5.x to test the new features in the libwpd CVS versio

[Libwpd-devel] FYI: libwpd-devel mirrored at news.gmane.org

2006-05-24 Thread Fridrich Strba
Just to let you know that libwpd-devel list is also mirrored at news.gmane.org as gmane.comp.lib.wpd.devel newsgroup. Fridrich --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest nu

Re: [Libwpd-devel] ATTN: RELEASE-0-8-5 tag removed

2006-05-22 Thread Fridrich Strba
Yes, I have tagged the tree last week and was just holding back waiting for AbiWord 2.4.5 to be released, since 0.8.5 exhibits an anoying bug in AbiWordperfect. Smokey, one of the best QA guys libwpd has :-), was testing the new features and realized that there is problem with certain WP3 docum

Re: [Libwpd-devel] ATTN: intention to release 0.8.5

2006-05-18 Thread Fridrich Strba
]:/cvsroot/libwpd co -P libwpd2 writerperfect regression I am just trying it from home in anonymous and it works well ;-) Cheers F. Smokey Ardisson wrote: At 9:25 PM +0200 on 5/15/06, Fridrich Strba wrote: I have done everything I was having in my TODO list with 0.8.5 target. The changes are

[Libwpd-devel] ATTN: intention to release 0.8.5

2006-05-16 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people! I have done everything I was having in my TODO list with 0.8.5 target. The changes are basically: adding font/colour information, foot/endnotes and headers/footer for WP5, headers/footers for WP3, as well as changes in the way we h

[Libwpd-devel] libwriterperfect and KWord

2006-04-27 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am writing this just to let you know that we are finalizing with Ariya a KWord's WPD import filter that reuses completely the libwriterperfect code. I think that this work can be of benefit for all, the KWord's WPD import, SXW import, as well as for

[Libwpd-devel] Re: WordPerfect Graphics conversion and Google Summer of Code 2006 ?

2006-04-27 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, William, William Lachance wrote: > On 4/19/06, Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds like a wonderful idea. I'd be happy to help in whatever > way I can (I suppose subscribing to libwpg-devel would be a go

[Libwpd-devel] WordPerfect Graphics conversion and Google Summer of Code 2006 ?

2006-04-19 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people Yesterday, I blogged about the need of developer interested in helping with the progress of libwpg and WordPerfect Graphics conversion in general. Mathias Bauer from OpenOffice.org Framework project proposed me that if I am ready to

[Libwpd-devel] Future plans?

2006-04-11 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, good people! I hope everybody is doing fine and looking forward to a new seasonal festivals. I am writing to you this e-mail in order to let you know what my own plans are for the next feature of libwpd and ask for your plans too. *Headers/fo

Re: [Libwpd-devel] anyone working on a beagle filter for wordperfect documents?

2006-03-15 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hi, William Lachance wrote: On 3/13/06, John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do like the idea of making a filter which supports hot words, metadata and snippets, but alas, the weekend is over. Maybe next time I have some hacking time I'll have another look. You could definitely outpu