Re[2]: Getting the picture anchor point

[Yegor Kozlov <ye...@dinom.ru>]

> I had a stab at making sense of the escher records relating to pictures a
> few weeks ago. After many hours, I hadn't really made much progress, and
> my head hurt... I can't see support for it being added any time soon, as
> the way microsoft implemented it all is just such a horrible mess :(

I saw the commit messages but didn't have time to study the code.
It's unlikely we have it implemented in 3.0.2. I hope it will 3.1.

Yegor




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Re[2]: Getting the picture anchor point

[Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Yegor Kozlov wrote:
>> I had a stab at making sense of the escher records relating to pictures a
>> few weeks ago. After many hours, I hadn't really made much progress, and
>> my head hurt... I can't see support for it being added any time soon, as
>> the way microsoft implemented it all is just such a horrible mess :(
>
> I saw the commit messages but didn't have time to study the code.
> It's unlikely we have it implemented in 3.0.2. I hope it will 3.1.

Maybe when micrososft publish the updated file format documentation in mid 
feb we'll stand a chance. As it is, it's a nested mess of EscherContainers 
that all look almost the same, and you're never quite sure just how many 
levels of containers down everything will go :(

Nick

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