On Wednesday 13 February 2002 9:42 pm, Michael Marcucio wrote:

> >Can you send me a small one that crashes please please?
>
> It seems like any presentation with a design template will crash (Maybe
> because of LZW compressed container??). The filter extracts the text out of
> all the other ppt files i used.

How interesting. BTW: I did some looking into LZW and could not come to any 
real conclusion if we wold be legally safe to decode it. Did you learn 
anything on this topic?

> >That's exactly what the current filter does when it works. It extracts the
> >text, and puts them on a set of slides. At the moment, it always seems to
> >create two extra slides at the beginning (possibly related to the master
> >layouts?) but that is a rather benign "bug".
>
> Definetly related to the master slide, the filter thinks it's a real slide.
> i am doing a little work on this filter when i have time. (if there were
> only 30 hours in a day instead of 24 ;))
> should i try to get a stable filter working first that extracts only the
> text from any file and check that code in then do the hard stuff?

Yes, definitely!

Thanks, Shaheed