Back when I was first working with HSSF, I couldn't find a way to do a 'fitToRect' operation on an HSSFPicture, so I wrote my own - essentially cloning and modifying the resize() logic to scale a picture to fit within a rectangle of rows and character cells without distorting its shape. Trickier than it sounds, since I also wanted the resulting picture centered in the requested rectangle.
I use this to insert differently shaped logos into a reserved rectangle in report headers and to put checkmark glyps, etc into cells. I'd love for this functionality to be added to POI - if only so I wouldn't have to worry about maintaining it. But that's not my question (yet). I'm thinking of changing my code to support XSSF as well as HSSF, and before I dig into the differences between XSSFPicture and HSSFPicture (or more specifically their respective ClientAnchor's, I'm wondering... 1. Does anybody know if the internal stuff for pictures in XSSF is completely different than for HSSF (i.e., is this likely to be doable for XSSF)? 2. How would I go about suggesting native POI support for a Picture.fitToRect() function (including sharing how I implemented it - if that helps)? 3. I'm not a serious Java programmer, and I couldn't figure out how to simply 'extend' the HSSFPicture functionality, so I ended up having to clone some of the private HSSFPicture methods used by resize() in order to build my fitToRect() variant. Is there an easy way in java to extend HSSFPicture and get access to its private stuff? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
