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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: kword: The tableStream is missing]
From:       "Shaheed Haque" <shaheedhaque () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2000-06-08 13:38:58
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Hi Richard,

>It's a pity that no one has replied on this problem!
>Is there really no one from the koffice developers that
>can help me here?  I would like to use kde2 in a
>corporate environment, but this would be very difficult
>without koffice.

I'm sorry I missed your message. I normally follow the koffice mailing lists 
assiduously, but must have missed this somehow.

>Richard Bos wrote:
> >
> > today I compiled and installed koffice-1.90 on solaris 2.6.
> > As I'm very interested in processing MS word documents I
> > tried to read a MS word 97 document.
> >
> > The document was not read in, instead a message was displayed
> > in the document field stating the following:
> >
> > [msword.cc:48]
> > The tableStream is missing
> >

OK. This message means that the OLE reader code which does the OLE-level 
parsing of the document before passing it to the actual translation code did 
not correctly extract one of the key data structures. I have seen this error 
before, but only from Word 95 documents.

If your document is not private, or you can make a non-private version that 
shows this problem, I'd be most interested to have a look at it. Since I am 
travelling this week, and also Werner is the real expert on the OLE code, 
could you send me and Werner the document?

The other thing I could suggest is that you ensure that the document is 
"full-saved" (i.e. disable "fast-save", and then write the file out). That 
might just bypass the bug (this is a wild guess!).

Anyway, FWIW, the currently checked-in code SHOULD be able to read the 
contents of a full-saved Word 97 docment. It should be able to distinguish:

1. normal text
2. headings
3. lists (including multi-level), though the "numbering" of alphabetic list 
items starts from "Q" instead of "A".

However, the presence of tables confuses my code (this is my top priority 
right now, hence the floating-frame stuff mentioned in this list recently).

Finally, note that I make no attempt at character formatting at present. I 
have some plans in that area to implement difference-only coding of 
paragraph formats. This will not only make saved documents much smaller, but 
it make filters like mine much easier to write (and is the secret agenda 
behind the version number stuff I added recently :-)).

I hope to make significant progress in the next 4-8 weeks. Famous last 
words...thanks for your patience and interest.

    Shaheed


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