Hi,
Themistoklis Dakanalis wrote:
> i have some fundamental questions about the HWPF and the word elements it
> supports. Particularly, I am interesting in the following word elements:
General limitation: HWPF can read a lot of real life Word files, but not
write them. (I seem to remember that "fast saved" files cannot be read
reliably.)
> 1. Text (headings, paragraphs,...)
Text can be retrieved, YMMV with 2-byte characters.
Headings should be identifiable by reading the paragraph style and
comparing its id with the predefined heading style numbers.
(I think that these codes are not yet declared conveniently in HWPF, so
you need to look at the Word spec if you need them [get yourself a nice
comfy chair when reading the Word spec and put away all heavy and
dangerous objects in case you become furious while reading it :-) ].)
Formatting information (bold, italic, ...) can be retrieved. If you need
very accurate formatting information, you need to create a few relevant
test cases and check that everything works as expected. I remember that
HWPF sometimes uses other defaults than Word and may for instance
sometimes say font size is "12pt" when it actually is "10pt".
> 2. Tables
There is a getTable method in Range which retrieves a Table instance for
the table starting at the supplied Paragraph. I don't know how well that
works. You should expect that you get most, but not all Table
properties, because several property codes occuring in table information
are not documented in the public Word spec.
> 3. Images
Simple images should work, Office Art is not supported.
I doubt that images referenced by fields only ( {INCLUDEPICTURE} ) are
supported (Fields are not supported). If the image is cached in the Word
file, it may be accessible via the PicturesTable class, but I did not
check that.
> 4. Headers & Footers
> 5. Footnotes
Those are not fully supported. Trouble increases with 2-byte characters,
fields and bookmarks in these parts.
I hope that this is roughly the detail level you were interested in. If
you need more details, just ask :-)
If anybody has a different view on these topics, please correct me.
Best wishes, Rainer
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