Re: HWPF contributions...

[Ryan Ackley <sa...@cfl.rr.com>]

Very cool!! I am going to forward this to the dev list. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piers Taylor" <pi...@GossInteractive.com>
To: <sa...@cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: HWPF contributions...


> Hi Ryan,
> 
> I work for an English software company, Goss
> Interactive Ltd. (http://www.gossinteractive.com)
> 
> We have been working with the old POI HDF code
> for a little while now. In the course of using
> this code in a business environment we have applied
> a number of tweaks to the code in order to make it
> work with real-world Word docs. In particular we have
> made changes and enhancements to work with Word 2000/XP 
> etc.
> 
> These include: 
> 
> * adding the code to handle sprmPHugePapx and the 
>   associated Data Stream part of the document which 
>   it uses for data storage.
> 
> * adding code for undocumented PAP sprm 0x46.
>   (sprmPHugePapx 2)
> 
> * adding code for undocumented CHP sprm 0x70.
>   (Word 2000+ 32bit RGB character colours)
> 
> * fixes for ints sign extending shorts into large
>   negative ints.
> 
> * some checks for nulls that appear in Word 2000/XP docs
>   and cause null pointer exceptions.
> 
> All our own work with the aid of open source. 
> Absolutely no MS NDAs.
> 
> We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
> your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
> Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
> be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
> 
> How would you like to proceed with this?
> 
> Best regards,
>   Piers
> 
> 
> Piers Taylor - Senior Developer
> Goss Interactive Ltd
> http://www.gossinteractive.com
> Telephone: +44 1752 517350
> 
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