Re: Word files Build vs. Buy?

2006-02-14 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Christiaan Fluit wrote: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. Having this in POI would benefit me a lot though, as I hardly understand the POI basics to be honest (my fault, not POI's). OK, that's now in POI (you'll need a scratchpad build from late yesterday or today, see

Re: Word files Build vs. Buy?

2006-02-10 Thread Christiaan Fluit
Dmitry Goldenberg wrote: Awesome stuff. A few questions: is your Excel extractor somehow better than POI's? and, what do you see as the timeframe for adding WordPerfect support? Are you considering supporting any other sources such as MS Project, Framemaker, etc? I just committed a

Re: Word files Build vs. Buy?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Christiaan Fluit wrote: My experience is that the WordDocument class crashes on about 25% of the documents, i.e. it throws some sort of Exception. I've tested POI 2.5.1-final as well as the current code in CVS, but both produce this result. I even suspect the output to be

RE: Word files Build vs. Buy?

2006-02-09 Thread Dmitry Goldenberg
From: Christiaan Fluit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 2/9/2006 4:09 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Word files Build vs. Buy? Hello all, I'm replying to two threads at once as what I have to say relates to both. My company recently started an open source project