Hi Max,
It is a bit frustrating that the code is in some places as poor as
it is,
outside of the refactoring you mentioned seeing all these unused
variables,
and this is a pattern that repeats makes the code scarier and hard
to follow.
All of which is unfortunate since it mostly works and that Ryan dude
certainly
put a bunch of work in to get it to that stage but I think when he
left the
project he took some important stuff that resided only his head with
him.
Very much since it was Microsoft that hired him to keep it out of POI
- but who can blame the guy for taking a paying job.
Since this time there is the Microsoft OSP and you can certainly find
documentation at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx
I hope this helps.
For what it's worth when I am done I am going to make a free open-
source
project of my library because I think it would be useful (creating
PDFs from
Word without any automation seems a good thing at least to me). And
I think I
am going to work on some of this HWPF stuff as I can as well.
That would be great. Be careful about the different licenses. See http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html
for ASF policy on cross licensing. iText is MPL and compatible with
ASF projects only in binary form. Take care in creating your source.
There is FOP in XML Graphics which creates PDF - it may not be as fast
as iText, nor as fully featured. Have you had a look at it?
BTW - Yegor and I came to the POI project in part because we needed to
make PPTs that looked like out PDFs and postscript. Finally we are
getting them nearly identical, but we needed HSLF first. We might want
to do similar output to Word - we just lack the time - it is not near
the top of the stack.
Regards,
Dave
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