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[jira] [Created] (COMDEV-73) [GSoC2012] POI: Improve drawing support in HSSF

[GSoC2012] POI: Improve drawing support in HSSF
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                 Key: COMDEV-73
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-73
             Project: Community Development
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Mentoring
            Reporter: Yegor Kozlov


HSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel '97(-2007) .xls file format. 
One of drawbacks of the current implementation is limited support for Excel drawing layer: HSSF can create new drawings from scratch but cannot modify existing ones. 

This drawback is frequently reported on the mailing lists and the fix is in high demand.

The student will need to have deep knowledge of the Excel Binary
(Biff8) and MS Drawing (Escher) formats and current architecture of
HSSF.

Mentor: Yegor Kozlov (yegor@apache.org)

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