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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: MS office filters
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-06-08 17:21:28
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Werner Trobin wrote:
> 
> I also had a look at MsWordView, which creates HTML output, but the
> (plain C) code looks (at least) strange so I thought I'll write this
> on my own...

I haven't looked at MSWordView at all but I am slightly shocked about
the size (~1MB source). Will every filter be that big ? I hope it won't.

> AFAIK MsWordView does some OLE-magic, but I didn't look into it.

It has to (to extract the data from the file) but they're all based on
the information the LAOLA guy found out.

> 
> It would be cool to talk about this with anyone interested in writing
> M$ Office filters to avoid duplicated work!
> 
> Werner
> 
> P.S. Maybe you can send me the specs you have (Excel, OLE 2.0,...?)

The Excel specs are avaible for free and without any registration on the
Microsoft site. The OLE storage structure isn't documented _at_all_.
That's the difficult part about it. I'm not sure about the legal
perspective (reverse engineering!).

Harri.

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