Hi Dave.

Thanks for your time, and also thanks for the straithforward explanation.
Many times in opensource project forums many doubts remain unanswered (low
expectations :) ).

Thanks again for your reply.

Best regards.

João Simas 


David Fisher wrote:
> 
> Hi João -
> 
> Just to let you know - none of the developers currently working on POI  
> have a real focus on HWPF. Years ago Microsoft hired aware that  
> contributer and put him under NDA, and that part of the API has  
> suffered since.
> 
> Please think that the lack of attention to your issue is an indication  
> of our lack of time and not our lack of interest in having a bug-free  
> POI.
> 
> I promise that someone will look into your issue before 3.7, but I  
> can't commit to when that will be, and I can't promise a fix.
> 
> One approach you could use to help solve this problem yourself is to  
> start by comparing the output produced by 3.1, 3.2, 3.5 and 3.6 - what  
> is the same and what is different. I am suggesting that you look into  
> 3.1 because you may be encountering a bug that was fixed between 3.1  
> and 3.2 that did not make it into 3.5 / 3.6. That could be enough to  
> help a developer find the bug quickly. Knowing more helps developers  
> decide if the fix is going to take a predictable amount of time -  
> right now your problem looks potentially large and so ... no one picks  
> it up from bugzilla.
> 
> If you want to fix the issue yourself we would be glad to help you  
> with ideas and pointers into the source. Come over to the poi-dev list  
> and ask questions there. You could look at svn yourself and check  
> through changes that have occurred in the HWPF package.
> 
> Patches are always welcome. Well-done contributions with unit tests  
> are especially so.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:15 AM, JSimas wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I already posted this problem regarding the 3.5 version of poi:
>> http://old.nabble.com/Problems-reading-and-writing-doc-files-in-POI-3.5-td26025879.html#a26025879
>>
>> Because no one answered me, i went to the bug tracker:
>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48065
>>
>> Once again no answer.
>>
>> I've just downloaded version 3.6 of poi, tried again, and still  
>> having same
>> error.
>>
>> Here is the code i'm using
>>
>>        public static void main(String[] args) {
>>              try {
>>                      File file = new File("c:\\input.doc");
>>                      HWPFDocument document = new HWPFDocument(new  
>> FileInputStream(file));
>>                      File outputFile = new File("c:\\output.doc");
>>                      FileOutputStream outStream = new 
>> FileOutputStream(outputFile);
>>                      try {
>>                              document.write(outStream);
>>                      } finally {
>>                              outStream.close();
>>                      }
>>              } catch (Exception e) {
>>                      e.printStackTrace();
>>              }
>>      }
>>
>> See the input.doc and output.doc to see what is my problem.
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p27307995/input.doc input.doc
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p27307995/output.doc output.doc
>>
>> Please help me! This is a very basic error. Maybe i'm doing  
>> something very
>> wrong... but if not... this is a major problem in the new versions  
>> of POI
>> (in version 3.2 this code works fine).
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> João Simas
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