we should save a backup of this broken release of the new spec and contact them asking for a fixed version.
It is also very important to keep a backup copy of the previous version of the spec since they seem to have removed it from the website (am I wrong?). I think I have the file in my laptop at home, but I am not able to check it right now because I am travelling at the moment. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20-06-2010 12:31, Till Heuschmann wrote: >> >> Hi All. >> >> Have you noticed that there is a new version of the specs available? >> The new version contains informations about r2007 header compression and >> r2010 fields in objects. > > It looks like there's nothing about R2010 file structure (section 6 is > empty). Although, there's information on R2010 object fields. > >> Recently we got stuck with r2007 rs decoding which turns out is not the >> problem (ignoring the rs-parity bytes the data bytes can be used as they >> are!) but the compression of the headers. Fortunately the compression >> algorithms are covered (~90% of them, the spec-document seems to be >> broken ;) ) >> >> I will spend some time with the headers. Is someone else working in this >> area? > > Are you going to work on R2010 header decoding as well? I can update > dwg.spec - the updated specs can also give us a light on obscure fields and > objects. > > -- > Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva > GNU LibreDWG maintainer > FSF Associate Member #7788 > PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP > >
