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 >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Problems-reading-and-writing-doc-files-in-POI-3.6-tp27307995p27307995.html >> Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Problems-reading-and-writing-doc-files-in-POI-3.6-tp27307995p27320134.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
