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Changes up to 0.5.2 * implemented auto text color colour check for table cells, no more black on black, or black on blue. i must look closely at what other auto changes word makes. * some uber-simple greyscaling code when table look says no-color. * verified it works under AIX, made a few changes that showed up due to its stricter malloc, theres probably a few more malloc related issues hiding in there. * column breaks show up as well now. * the various types of section breaks are distinguisable from the others, and from page breaks. * a few changes to make sure formatting and tables get on better together. * sequence field supported, i.e caption numbering, i just use the last fields that msword left in there. * changed hyperlinking so that it works with bookmarks that are in comments (annotations). * i now support multiple bookmarks that end on the same location. * multiple bookmarks that start on the same location should be supported, but no examples yet. * the comment author initials are extracted and used in the main document when referencing comments. * comments now end when they are supposed to, only the correct comments get included, should work for fastsave, not tested. * removed unused variables, sorted out a few other warnings, maybe itll squeak by the irix compiler now ? * names and initial info for comments is extracted as well, and stuck in a table at the end of the document. * fixed the <a name= for comments, should work in fast saved. * custom graphics for annotations. ALL TODO * whats the story with the page number ref that shows up in annotations ? * the bounds of the comment in the main document ? * strikethrough and annotations ? * start using the same structure names as word, and putting stuff like get_FIB in order, switch to using bit fields where word uses them rather than the current promotion to U8 that i do to keep my sanity. * allow the various colors that im using to specifiy different attributes to be modified by the user. * bookmarks embedded in html tags break them, constructs such as e.g <A href="stuff">stuf<a name="here">f</a></A> are being output even though thats well wrong in html. * optional html correct handling of lists. * hmm, with bookmarks implemented, it might not be too hard to do the toc * place all wingding and symbolfont names directly in the makefile for make install. * convert the cross-referenced "above/below", into hyperlinked above and below. * support ole embedded graphics ? * optional support for specifying special fonts, not recommended for use on publishing for internet sites, but useful for internal use for those of you who have done the funky chicken dance with unix netscape to work with ms winding etc fonts or are using ie/netscape on windows. * all the fields, document background colour, wmf converter . * it might be possible to support right indentation, if its simultaneous with equal left indentation by using <blockquote> instead of <dir>, but i dont see that as essential. * inside/outside page numbering doesnt work, dont know where its set. * find the location of whatever sets the footnote & endnote styles of numbering, as its currently unknown, i havent figured it out yet, this isnt super essential though, but it is annoying. * all endnotes are listed at the end of the section rather than optionally at the end of the document, i dont know how this is done, doesnt appear documented. * two pass parser for finding best fit html tables for word tables. * you know i could really do with a nifty logo. * gtk+dps wysiwyg viewer, output to ps from this * --> xml support ??, im told that xml is the way to go, i dont know a thing about it yet, so the next task is to learn it. * use incremental zlib functions to do decompressing rather than use mmap. * make sure annotations references always get shown in the normal font ? * hyperlink sequence fields ? * doesnt compile under neXt ? * do a check for mman.h and dont do compression if not there. Changes up to 0.5.1 * forgot to change the version no in the source. * damn sunsite broke connection half way through uploading. Changes up to 0.5.0 * Martin Kalms <kalms@lysator.liu.se>, configure fix for sunos 4.1 in relation to strerror. * added option where you can ignore table widths. * custom graphics for comments. * endnote autonumbering now works, now defaults in roman numerals. * fast save footnote problem fixed, though i think things might be even more complex that i thought, so keep an eye on that area. * footnotes are in a colour of their own. * symbols as footnotes, required a change to the 4a30 sprm that might fix a few other char formatting issues. * restarting footnotes on each page, and each section works, this is encoded in the the number itself it appears, a href and a name, and some invalid html code fixed in the footnote area as well, footnotes are now in a colour of their own *but* the location of whatever sets the footnote & endnote styles of numbering is unknown, i havent figured it out. * all endnotes are listed at the end of the section rather than optionally at the end of the document, i dont know how this is done, doesnt appear documented. * textmarks / bookmarks and explicit hyperlinking supported, bugs in old code removed hopefully and internal hyperlinks put in via insert hyperlink are supported. * support for bookmarks, i.e they are converted to <a name>[text]</a> html code. * converted cross-referenced textmarks/bookmarks into hyperlinks. * wmf files can now be decompressed thanks to peter.brandstrom@ericsson.com now i need a wmf --> something useful converter. i see that theres a new one available off the gimp plugin page, with some uberhacking it might do the trick, the notes/wmf dir has a goodly chunk of info on the format if anyone wants to do it for me. * when bookmarks are embedded in bookmarks something odd appears to occur, but nonetheless the ms save as html does the same, so im assuming that its ok * added bookmark support to fastsaved, should work fine, not tested. * pagebreak gifs are correctly centered if the next para is a centered etc one. * author field supported. * proper positioning of page numbers, general layout of headers appears to be fine, except that tab stops are used in headers to center, left and right align headers, which doesnt work so well in html mode. * added defensive code to some sort of list bug. * mimic strike-through and double st by setting the text color to either #ed32ff or #ff7332 * disallow height commands inside tables, as the model of paragraph heights doesnt fit well with the architecture for tables, so im ignoring them in tables, hopefully noone will notice :-) * fixed a small bug in sprm which was causing errors later in lists. * tables and paragraph formatting were misaligned across td boundries. so now i clear specials and fonts on entry to a table, and on exit of each cell, hopefully i broke nothing else on doing so. * at least one really bad conversion with a file called RESUME.doc, but in my defence i looked at the msword conversion of this to html, and its just as buggered up so rasp ;-P * added credits file * found problem in decompress code, i didnt make it good enough for real world usage, i now use mmapping so make my life easier, dont know if this is fully portable, works on linux and solaris. * oledecod had bugs on cleanup, so sent filters group wmf.doc and Contribu.doc to demo the problems. * i now use oledecod 0.0.4 which fixes cleanup problems, but Contribu.doc style problems continue, they return 5 but laola can extract the streams nonetheless while oledecode cannot, i modified the original laolareplace.c to handle this as well. * oledecod 0.0.4 has a bug in relation to 1812bb.doc, laolareplace.old.c hasnt this bug, so im back to using that again. * those ffffffff's in lists that haunted me in earlier releases are *back* grrrrr!!, anyway ive another massive nasty workaround that im using that hasnt crashed any docs, and appears to do the right thing, at least in propos~s.doc * wmf decompression code changed to use mmap, replaces the original code that ate memory, if mmapping doesnt work try looking at the zlib docs and change the code to fixed buffer incremental decompression. * added a bailout to ignore encrypted documents, wonder how id decrypt them if i had the correct password, anyone know ? * added a bug fix for crossreference parsing. * beginnings of tables of contents included, doesnt always work yet. * bug where if the word file ends on a table, the table wasnt closed off is fixed. * bug where non built in graphic types were causing hangs. * im now often happily (if slowly) converting 90 and 100 page documents, the only thing i really am unhappy with is table handling, which is also one of the reasons the conversion is *soooo* slow sometimes, the other reason is those godforsaken fastsaved files. * fixed some other mem related bugs, converted sucessfully the last two problem docs without crashes. * table looks are somewhat supported, though theres no support for last row and last column different from the rest of the cells as of yet, this will have to wait until multi pass on tables is implemented. * the foregrounds and character attributes in general for tables appear to always set correctly in general, but i believe i have to look into how the "auto" text color selects is final colour, as ive been assuming that it gets set to black, which is a fairly valid assumption most of the time, but not always, so a few docs will have black text on black backgrounds in table cells, but the situation is much improved. * ran purify over mswordview, removed a load of dodgy code out of it, theres still a bug or two hiding in the list code, which i belive is the reason that lists are sometimes missing in complex documents, e.g meeting.doc i think i love purify, its the bees knees. * dib's are now extracted as well, though i dont do anything with them yet, this fixes yet more crashes. * fixed laolareplace.old.c, which is the version im going to use for this release, to work on 64bit platforms, a few longs had crept into the code there which shagged the whole thing up. I havent done extensive tests on 64bit yet, but im confident that itll work. * fixed defines to make it work if theres no zlib present. * no crashes after running mswordview on 300 megs of uploaded files. * good enough to upload to sunsite, version number reflects this. changes up to 0.4.9 --This is an interim release while im in scotland until later this november-- added features are that the gateway is included, endnotes are supported, pagebreaks that split tables are supported and some more bugs are fixed, especially in relation to graphics. * added -o - option to gateway, like i should have about 4 releases ago. * fixed graphics again, forgot to reset the extra amount that some have before the graphic data begins, means more jpgs and pngs should work. * endnote text done in simple saved * cleaned up beginning whitespace from footnotes/endnotes/comments. * endnotes in complex mode is in, needs testing. * changed url code to match the other field code, fixes a big bug there. * header and footer colours were wrong again, fixed. * indent drift is fixed again, moved do_indent into decode_?_specials * pagebreaks can occur in the middle of a table, this sort of confusion is fixed for full saved files, and is probably fixed for fastsaved files * pagebreaks now look like they occur after footers,footnotes and endnotes. * custom graphics replace <hr>'s as there were too many of them at the bottom of a page to figure out what was what. * custom graphics for footnotes, and comments changes up to 0.4.8 * this has a slew of bug fixes related to graphics and a new option to put images in a certain directory * fixed f006 code in blip handling, removing a slew of hangs. * ignore every graphic that isnt an understood type, removes hangs. * figured out when theres an extra 16 bytes to delete from the beginning of a blit, and where one of my magical 17s were coming from * got a bug fix off Harry Shamansky (shamansky@adinc.com) as to why the default make wouldnt work under irix. * the current spid handling was mismatching spids and the graphics involved. * i cant handle forms, or ole data, so ive added a check to avoid doing them, removes crashes. * also ive added some other code to watch out for unsupported graphic features. * msword can include wmf and emf files, these are stored in compressed form, using lz encoding in a fashion supposedly compatable with the zlib library, but i havent been able to decompress them yet and even if i could i dont know of any source to convert wmf/emf files to anything usable under linux * ive changed blip handling, so that it works better, well i believe its more crash resitant, but im still not 100% happy with 0x01 handling. * if you insert a bmp via insert->picture->from file, it appears to be converted to png for you, handy. * paragraph indentation is back in, lists and table were confusing the indentation code. * fixed titchy bug so that space at beginning of lists isnt underlined. * support paragraphs whose first lines indentation is greater that the rest of it * support vertical space between paragraphs. * sorted out end_para for the first paragraph found in complex mode, i think i have it right now, in passing i reckon a load of those pap searches in complex mode are unneeded, but i dont want to rock a working boat, if it aint broke dont fix it as an uncle of mine used say, though we did seem to spend an awful amount of time panically fixing things that broke dramaticlly after years of neglect. * finally settled on dirs for left indentation, blockquotes indent from both sides automatically * added an option to put graphics in a specified dir. * added an option to find the graphics at a specified url. * updated man page. * made another change to blip handling, fixes some problems. changes up to 0.4.7 * warning !, in this release mswordview no longer outputs by default to the screen. use -o - for this behaviour. This is an interim release to reassure people that im still working on it, its got quite a few new features and bug fixes since 0.4.4 read down for them all. * implemented tabbing with trans gif, optionally use hardspaces or dont do it at all. * added some support for borders such that the vertical space between paragraphs due to width of borders is retained through the use of vertical trans gif space. changes up to 0.4.6 * indentation of paragraphs dithered to <blockquote>'s is out again as it its doing strange things on long complicated documents. * table cell shading done, fully supported i believe. * drew all the available table patterns in all available colors, made small transparent gifs out of them, if someone wants to do better copies of the ms ones go ahead, use the convert.sh script in the patterns dir to generate pics in all necessary colors. * text color support is in * word underline, which iswhere whitespace isnt underlined is supported. * courier as an alternative to courier new, times alternative to times new roman font face, helvetica as an alternative for everything else. * all caps supported, Small caps supported, though i want full tests of those two babies in all modes. Similiar to the fontfaces these two babies are only supported in ascii languages, as i dont really know how to convert utf-8 unicode into upper case ! * text animations supported by converting them to blink :-) features-examples dir added, supported-font-features.doc has what i believe is all the font features that word supports demonstrated in it. id be happy to have omissions noted, mswordview now supports 1) font size 2) colored text, (in headers and footers as well) 3) font face in ascii based languages 4) underline, including word underline, where whitespace is nt underlined 5) super and sub script 6) All caps and small caps (ascii based languages only) 7) text animations dithered to blink tag mswordview doesnt support due to html limitations (at least i dont think i can do them) strikethrough,double strikethrough,shadowed and outlined text, embossed or engraved text. "hidden text" is shown, coz i dont know the purpose of it yet all caps, small caps and font face for non ascii languages. character spacing * centralized pap initialization code * fixed a crash causing blip bug * fixed a crash due to sep sprms showing up in a papx !!, i ignored them im sure that will bite me hard in the future, but ive documented it here so i wont forget. - Problem: now we have a problem with paragraph properties which is only making a difference now that i want to use the paragraph justification codes. there exist pieces which have fc's greater than the maximum one listed in the plcfbtePapx !, ive been pushing them around for the last 2 days to no avail, im beginning to think that maybe this means that they have no native formatting of their own, the catch is to find the paragaph that they belong to, the spec says to find that by taking the smallest fc in fkp tables that is bigger than the current fc, but there *is none* thats bigger. my thought is to remember if this piece is the beginning of a paragraph mark and if not inherit the previous piece's formatting, and keep going backward until we get one. If it is then either im supposed to default to a new one or go forward to find one. + Solution: Ah-ha i believe i have it, + firstly varient 1 gpprls have to be supported, and i had some offsetting in them wrong + secondly i had a very subtle bug where i changed the value of the avalrgfc, from when i didnt know why sometimes they were +400000000, of course i now use it to determine if the end of the piece if twice the distance of its reported character len of not, and with the val reset i ocassionally had the piece recorded as being too long, so the paragraph properties of the wrong paragraph were being used. * added is paragraph formatting information, supported well is 1) centering, center 2) right justification , div align=right * made a closing paragraph thing like the closing chp for the blurb at the bottom to avoid having the version info centered of justified. * 0x01 fSpec graphics are now supported in addition to 0x08 graphics while both of these are draw objects, only non-vector graphics are supported, and only partial support of those i.e png and jpg. as with the 0x08 graphics theres a lot of magic emperically derived offsets being used to put it together, so dont be too surprised at getting corrupt images. though i *have* fixed a bug in png handling i believe for 0x08 graphic which was the previous subset i supported. changes up to 0.4.5 * i now open graphic and doc files in binary mode to support platforms where this makes a difference. * replaced laola, perl no longer required, thanks to the mighty Andrew Scriven who replaced the OLE functionality i needed with C * got a bug fix off above to handle files with more blocks * optional support for fontface if the text if an ascii based one, i.e if were guaranteed that this is a western european language then we do font faces, fastsaves will probably confuse this test and mean we wont get faces even when we can handle them correctly. * changed indent method for outline lists to multiple hard spaces, rather than <dir>'s, in the future ill make an optional proper html conversion, but it wont look like the original, so its a TO-DO. * indentation of paragraphs dithered to <blockquote>'s is in, alpha support. * absolute width and height of tables is in as well. * i now default to outputting to a file whose name is the same as the input file, with .html appended. graphics are output to the files with the same prefix as the .html file. use -o - to output to stdio * new ole code was broken on a few files ( 1 :-) ), fixed this. changes up to 0.4.4 * a good few bug reports in, crashes and what not, i got the use of purify on a sun box (thanks to martin mellody et al) and sorted out *all* the uninitilized mem reads there, (3000 of them in the course of a typical conversion!!), it still leaks memory like a sieve but thats not important for mswordview, though i will sort that out. purify is a wonderful piece of work i have to say. * changed ffffffff handling for lists, i think it means that the list in question isnt actually there, so to skip it. * changed blockquotes to dir, looks neater and word itself does it, biggest software company in the world cant be wrong, can it ? :-) changes up to 0.4.3 * oops, i shafted the inclusion of getopt for systems that need it. changes up to 0.4.2 * fixed broken simple mode footnotes (doh!) * fixed bug in blip where having drawings where none of them was a picture caused a crash changes up to 0.4.1 * did some tweaking to remove a crash. changes up to 0.4.0 * and big breaking news, preliminary graphic support is now in!! yes, gifs/pngs/jpgs added to a document through the insert->picture->from file mechanism now convert correctly. They are stored in the office draw format which ive just cracked the rough layout of. (through the handy ms spec on the msdn site), graphic support is messy for now, as the files are generated in the cwd of mswordview and named graphic*mswv.*, ill tidy it up later, this news is too good to not get an announcement. changes up to 0.3.0 * added -m --mainonly option if you dont want headers and footers. * added a few more places to look for lls-mswordview search order is now 1 in the path. 2 the same dir as lls was run from if ran absolutely. 3 the current dir. 4 a dir called laola off the absolute path. 5 a dir called laola off the current dir. but stuff line ../../mswordview isnt in there though, coz folk should just put lls-mswordview into their path dammit! * diffent numbering formats for pagenumbering is in, a vs i vs 1 etc. * gpprls for sep's work now, complex sections are in. * found some strange code in clx_headers and clx_footers so i blew it away. * section support in for simple saved files. * sections that restart pagenumbering work now. * sections that have no footers/headers at the beginning work now. * complex support for sections is in as well, should work hopefully needs extensive testing. * TO-DO text color, eventually font faces, but no sleep lost on that i have to say. * TO-DO shaded cells in a table, think up a better table handling method. * i now stick a space into an empty cell so that it shows up. * another U8 wraparound bug removed. * i now use the piecetable for simple docs, so as to skip over sections that arent to be processed, i.e the simple format is just as complex as the complex format :-), i think ive done this right and it wont break anything, ill have to wait and see though. * changed slightly the portions of a field that dont get printed, to make some html ones work, hope i havent shafted anything else. * hmm, really need to cleanup character handling, unicode & special reserved ms symbols and so on, im just plinking at them for the moment. * aghh, found another U8 overflow, what possessed me to put them in in the first place ?, i should have guessed that there would be hundreds of pieces in a file. * received report that it compiles and runs with Sparc solaris 2.5.1 - sparcworks compiler & Intel x86 solaris 2.5.1 - gcc compiler * added patch from diakka <diakka@staff.sinanet.com> to run create_bins on a make rather than make install changes up to 0.2.2 * compiled it on a solaris account i got, and its fine, got confirmation that it works from Will Renkel <renkel@cig.mot.com> * changed fastsaved chpnextfc check to be >= rather that >, hope that i dont break anything cox of it. * foolish error, U8 used for number of pieces, extended to U16 * changed embedded link handling to not end character properties in the middle of a URL ! * changed embedded link handling so as to *not* place "" around urls, as sometimes they are there already, and not having them doesnt hurt, though it offends my sense as to how they should be done. * would you *believe* these ms guys, now they are hitting me with file offsets that are past the end of the file !!, so now i have to watch out for that, the complex format is *such* a collection of hacks, ah-ha ive just checked in word, this file crashes word :-) so this is the first reported case of mswordview being better than msword, though i have to say that in recovery mode word pulled loads of text out of it that i didnt get, :-(, still its a corrupt file so doing anything at all is a success. * i forgot to reset the higher list levels when changing a lower one, fixed now, i think ive it right. * added a define of SA_RESTART to 0 if it isnt there. bash does it so i should get away with it, sunos seems to need it. * added a little patch from Zachariah Baum <zack@studioarchetype.com>, that should help get around folk who run mswordview absolutely and dont stick lls-mswordview in their path, ie make and then dont make install. * fixed yet more bugs, for some reason i thought that the order of evaluation was from right to left !!!! i.e i was doing if ((*p == 'a') && (p!=NULL)) doh! * changed web interface so that utf-8 is always on. * font characteristics turn off when going into tables now. and turn back on when inside, gets rid of some off look and feel. * checked out corel's wordperfect import functionality with office 97 files, conversion isnt as good as mswordview i think. missing header numbers, and one or two didnt convert at all. though of course corel retains layout which mswordview cant do with html, and does shading, ill check pictures at some stage. * have a report that suns pcfileviewer similarly covers about 50% of mswordview's functionality and vice versa. * gzipped uploaded word file collection has just hit 120megs :-) * i now look at this section table so i know whether its a section break or page break. If its a section break, then the header/footers revert to the beginning again. TO-DO, add an space to empty cells to make them look reasonable in netscape. TO-DO check page numbering with sections. TO-DO, do endnotes, should be easy. make new pic to replace hr lines, theres too many hrs now at the bottom of a page to make sense to anyone anymore. if theres no footers, then dont do the lines. TO-DO, continue with the sent files since 0.1.0, and the rest of them. changes up to 0.2.1 * removed bug that caused lists to drift further and further right. 1. checked out the blockquote indention for lists, doesnt appear to be right for srom*.doc, fixed now took closer look at font scanning in decode_letter, in particular special chars, the < 39 wasnt precise enough, being in a wingding/symbol font seems to make you automatically a special char. 2. something not fully right with lists that take their text as special chars (i.e sectionnumber), not done by ms in an obvious fashion. edit doc down to just the 2 headers and then see what happens. 3 AHA!!!, 1 and 2 are wrong, as was previous ideas to ignore lists that appear to have nothing in them, they are there to artifically bump lists up to a different starting number without requiring a seperate list definition for each one, ms shoves in dummy elements to get the list up to the right number, the section id just before one of them threw me entirely, i thought the section number should have been the text of the list. ive got it now! * 3 above is *rubbish*, thats not it at all, i was right originally, ignore those 0 len lists, and the problem was with my list restarting mechanism which didnt work if there was more that 1 list between list section that had to continue numbering. * numerical outline list sublevels will retain the prefix of the above levels, this required a change of the number figuring out code, its now rather heavy of silliness, but it works, i dont love it and im sure lists will be back to get me again at some stage, but outline lists now work, in particular the 1 1.1 1.1.1 style. * TO-DO sections, srom*.doc has them, check them out. * TO-DO change web interface so that the utf-8 can kick in if needs be. * fixed bug where the new piecetable check in simple saved files fell apart after hitting a footer. (tempcp = tempcp, rather than realcp=tempcp, doh!) changes up to 0.2.0 * well arse again, ive revised my ideas as to what consititutes the end of a piece, rather than the beginning the the next piece as i was doing, i now believe thats its the beginning of the piece + the twiddled cp len. makes more sense, and removes crashes from the latest doc i was given. * distinguishs between odd & even page footers. * TO-DO odd & even headers * added the tm symbol as a special case, theres quite a large range of unicode that ms is using that is part of the customizable section, i.e theres loads of glyphs that ms can use that are not part of the standard unicode set, the tm appears to be one of hundreds. eventuallly ill have to get a table of them. * woweee, is ms an evil designer of data formats, they have two types of simple saved docs i thought, those in 8 bit (basically ascii) and those in 16bit (unicode), hah bloody hah, ive been given one which is a mixture of both, and i have to use the damn piecetable to shove it together. and its not as if the document shifted into a different language of anything. if this was fastsaved id not blink an eye, but simple saved, come *on*, why bother calling it simple saved. so i have to keep an eye on the piecetable to determine what exact offset to use after all. * added a huge bit filthy hack in for more list twiddlings, the previously mentioned unknown 4 byte sequence now rears its head as an optional 8 byte sequence !!, but always ffffffff, it might be some kind of flag or summat. anyhow i now chew up any 4 bytes consisting of this if they show up in the place that they might appear, this removes a large crash that occurs otherewise, as all the counters get thrown off course by them. changes up to 0.1.1 * added Makefile patch from Pavel.Roskin@ecsoft.co.uk (says it works on hpux) * well the good news is that the unicode utf-8 is working for taiwanese and im sure other languages, the bad news is that everyones telling me that noone in their language group is actually using unicode :-) so i suppose i require a huge unicode --> JIS/EUC/KSC/Big5/GB converter. :-) * rudimentary support for annotations, i havent too many examples of these but i think they'll work fairly well. * rudimentary support for all special ascii codes for time,page no etc. p.s by rudimentary support i mean that if asked for e.g the current date in a particular format i output the date, maybe in the correct format maybe not. i.e the meaning is the same, though the look might be different. * added a supported sprm, that changes chp information totally to the chp of a different style. * added support for custom footnotes, had to do a bit of a hack to get the <a name> stuff right, hopefully it'll always work, even if it doesn't itll still be readable. * twiddled the char formatting dependancies about again, really ill have to redesign that a bit. * broke the mswordview.c file down a bit into other files. changes up to 0.1.0 * hell ive enough done to warrent a new numbering system. so from now on x.y.z x is a stable bug free (hah) release. folk packaging for commercial unices probably should wait for these releases (none yet, i know) y is a new feature or enough bugs fixed that you better use this version if you want to keep up with the jones. z is some small bug or change that is small enough that i wont upload it to sunsite et al automatically, itll be mostly for me. * added a defaultfont size option, so that if you think the output is too big or small, you can skrink or enlarge it. * added a horizontal padding option, you have the option of 3 different ways to handle a run of multiple line breaks, though the default is probably the best. * tweaked char formatting system, TO-DO overhaul all of that, theres quite a few dependancies between the tags thats becoming a little to difficult to do by hand, a little stack is called for methinks. * added some support for a type of holdover list format found in docs converted to word8 from older versions. works on the one i have so far though theres more testing to be done with it. missing bullets and incorrect numbering may be related to this. pass them on to me. * battered LFO's into submission, this time they'll stay down (i hope). found a 4 byte field that i cant figure out where it came from. *shrug* wouldnt be the first time that happened though. * changed footer and header handling, i now take notice if the first pages headers and footers are different that all the others. i still dont get section breaks, which i think impact on this, i dont have any examples of this to work against. Theres a discrepency between header/footer documentation and what i see before me in the hex, maybe im missing something. * ok theres some difficulty with tables, ive implemented this baby as a one pass parser, later ill have to add multipass (or backpatch) to figure out the number of pages so as to get that field right, but with ms tables you can start off with 2 cols then go to e.g 4 in the same table, you dont know in advance how many rows and cols there are in maxiumum, or which ones span which, which is a pain in the butt, really as far as word is concerned each row is a table into itself, so ive done it this way - each table has the cols of the first row counted and the widths figured out in % of the page width, if a subsequent row has a different number of rows or different widths than the previous row a new table will be begun. the % width will cause netscape to line them up correctly. itll do for now. not perfect i know but hey what is. Itll do the job for the primary task which is making word readable as close to the original layout as possible within html. - to get the tap that tells me all the above we have to scan forward until we find a rowend char, and get the pap of that to get the tap. and with fastsaved theres the usual complexity - The problem will be that netscape and other browsers dont take the width% as their primary factor in determing the actual width of a cell, if the text in it cannot be broken on a space then the cell is expanded to fit, breaking the lineing up. Im considering a somewhat more sophisticated (and questionable) technique where i stick the tables together using dithering of the cells to a (max 64 cell (msdefined)) cell grid. using colspan and so on to do it. * TO-DO theres something called a header text box that i have to figure out and some companion of it for the main doc. i have to implement something to handle these beasts. * TO-DO more testing for bugs and stuff. * TO-DO code overhaul to simplify it. * TO-DO support all fields, ive some supporte page no, date and time. but not perfectly in the same format that word has them in. * TO-DO,figure out how to extract ole embedded msoffice draw and equation editors data, and see if i can get them converted as well. * TO-DO provide alternative outputs, tex/rtf and friends. ive a load of formatting information that i think i can get into those formats. * TO-DO provide basic formatting for html, i.e centering. * TO-DO think about writing word docs :-), now that would be a hunk of work. so to all you asking me about it i recommend you dont even bother with it, just write rtf files and get on with it, thats even what ms did for word 8, saving as word 6/95 just creates a rtf file, if its good enough for them, its good enough for us. * TO-THINK-ABOUT i dont keep very much information in memory really, i just work out what i need for any given instant and drag it out of the file, and then dump it often to only get it again in a few seconds. this leads to an impressive amounting of seeking back and forth across the streams. theres a groove burnt in my hd where im working, its not really optimum behaviour, (works though :-) ) * NEED_HELP-ON, can this compile and work under sgi ?, have success reports from linux, solaris,hpux,aix,freebsd and one failure to compile under sgi, ive one message that it compiles under os/2, though it needs some work to do that. changes up to 0.0.27 * know how to do the right thing with embedded sprm list gets rid of a few wild bugs. * found the list documentation after all, maybe i forgot to download it the last time (doh!), or it wasnt there when i downloaded it. so i removed all of my rather good but unnecessary hex determined code. * added a special case for "*" in lists, make it a bullet point instead, seems to be the right thing to do (?) * changed laola commands name to append -mswordview to avoid overwriting newer lls commands etc. * changed the INC in perl files to reflect final install dir. * TO-WORRY-ABOUT, quite a few ??'s displayed in netscape when dealing with those utf-8 docs, dont know if thats my lack of correct fonts, or a great big dirty bug. also ive a few special cases in the decode_letter to translate letters into what *i* think they should be, its rather questionable and very emperically based. * added some hook code to protect lists from pagebreaks. in doing so i notice that my complex code is a wee bit confused, but it works, so im leaving it alone for now, the added code doesnt make for reability but hey, neither does any of the rest of the code :-) * fiddled list interpertation so that ilfo isnt looked at until the last pap and chp sprms have changed it. fixes difficulties in fast saved files. * TO-DO (list stuff) LFO override not implemented correctly may cause crashes. this is surely the last major list related thing to do. restarts are probably incorrect as are a few other minor list related bits and pieces changes up to 0.0.26 * changed laola lib to a subdir of mswordview and changed laola program names to custom mswordview ones, to avoid clashing with newer versions or original version of laola, as ive doctored things slightly for my own needs. * applied Martin Schultze patch to add lib path to perl include path, though i twiddled it to make a nice tree in my lib. * lists start on the correct number (well ones that are simple numerals do anyway). * understand list continuing and restarting now. * added a defensive patch from Peter Silva <Peter.Silva@ec.gc.ca> * lists now get the char formatting that they should get. * yes!, sorted lists out, have bulleted lists, arabic & roman numerals, lowercase and uppercase lettering systems done. multilevel also works i believe, works on all examples i have anyway * fixed bug that made mswordview fail on files without an extension * TO-DO look at list indentation, if they are true multilevel then i blockquote them (for now), but if they have a set indentation value then like all the other layout constructs i dont preserve this into html. * TO-DO fields, table of contents should be easier with lists done. * TO-DO find out if my unicode (utf-8) support actually works for anyone except me. What fonts do various people need, this is a general netscape question. * middleterm TO-DO, reorganize tags to external data files, to make extensible to other formats, i.e raw ascii, an attempt at latex, rtf. changes up to 0.0.25 * changed list handling slightly, removes a bug where you get too many list levels inserted * i believe that most lists will now be handled correctly as to whether they are numbers or not. I have isolated the undocumented section and have a handle on the situation so its just a matter to comparing theory with practice again. * removed bug where header pap gets used in the main document following a header * finished checking all uploaded files beginning with a, yipee. now theres quite a few elements not addressed yet in those files, but i understand whats involved, in short, section support, proper list support, justification support (centering anyway) decoding of the DATE and TIME fields, would you believe that the TIME field can encode the DATE, despite the fact that theres a DATE field whos job this is !, gagh what can you do with people who do this to you. but anyhow the uploaded all convert without crash, all text is in the right place, and in the right language ( i think :-) ). all bold,italic,font sizes, underline, manual page breaks, the content of footnotes,footers and headers is all shown, albeit not always the way they appear in word, yeah we're getting there. * changed utf conversion code as the original code i was using wasnt quite gpl compatable, anyhow new code is better designed for my needs. * TO-DO, grr!! is someone reading this log, as after my weeks holidays i note thats theres a huge amout of files beginning with a to go through again, i never did make it to b. changes up to 0.0.24 * fixed NULL complex pap bug. * supports underline tag now as well :-) * footnotes supported, all the ones referenced before a pagebreak get listed at the manual pagebreaks and document end . (thats a <hr> in my current output, splitting word docs into different files is a challenge id rather not accept for now as itd just be guesswork and mess), not checked in fastsave yet though. * TO-DO support sections, so as to know what pages get headers and which dont, etc. * TO-DO proper table of contents, the text is now listed but theres no link between the table of contents and the text it purports to describe, for the moment. * TO-DO differenciate between different types of underline i.e word for word etc * EVENTUALLY-TO-DO, i have come across one case where a symbol used in a footnote isnt working !, if i create one of my own it works fine, but when i alter the given one it still occurs, strange. changes up to 0.0.23 * verified it works on linux, aix and solaris. * fixed a very silly overflow byte vs int bug. * overhauled unicode conversion, fixed my sprm size detection. * changed table handling so that tables dont end prematurely. * fixed img insertion dummying of wingding font support. * massively changed my paragraph end detection for complex files, i had the idea all wrong, but close enough that it worked on fairly uniformly formatted files. * works with all uploaded files beginning with A and a theres soooo many to go through :-), im looking forward to getting to b soon. * TO-DO, continue checking against uploaded files, verify header and footer support, start on list information (dum de dum dum dummmm) changes up to 0.0.22 * check for errno * fix list related crash bug, found by Wayne Roberts <milcom@netcom.com> * TO-DO, go through the 50 megs of uploaded word files and see do the convert fairly correctly :-) lists need to be done better. i need to confirm language conversion. and check out table of contents field. changes up to 0.0.21 * for simple format i now decode to utf-8, when appropiate. on viewing many docs with windows netscape 4 it works fine, i dont have the X fonts to do half of the languages under my own X, but hopefully those in the various language blocks can figure out fonts for themselves ? * complex format non-west-european docs might still be shagged, id love to hear from an asian language group as to whether or not the utf8 works for them * some bug fixes by Pavel Machek <pavel@Elf.ucw.cz> changes up to 0.0.20 * headers are fairly correct now, the spec and me are confused as to headers and footers though, so while i *can* do headers and footers, it might require a bit of fine tuning, so i need docs with all sorts of header and footer types in them until im sure im right , but its close enough. * docs with subdocs in them should return the output of the main doc now. *to do, from the veritable deluge of documents in languages i cant read :-), id better handle the non-standard, well non standard to me anyway ! russian and one or two others that i hope fall out in the process, asian would be wonderful. changes up to 0.0.19 * header support added to complex format * wingding font hack added like symbol font * headers are still not right, footers and headers are all appearing at the top of the document, ive more work to do on that next. * ive shagged up the parsing of lls output, so docs with ole inside ole will not work even though theres no good reason they dont, bear with me on this * mswordview.wrapper added to allow inline viewing of word docs. changes up to 0.0.18 * new option to not change msword headings to html headings to support those dodgy people who dont use them correctly. * fixed what looks like a specialized case for recognizing tables * fixed the lack of - sign. * have a new group of files that convert correctly. * these are minor changes, ill add header handling to complex format tomorrow changes up to 0.0.17 * lack of getopt.h on some systems taken into account now. * sub and super scripting now in for simple format. * laola.pl changed to continue even if it thinks the file is the wrong length. * added option to not attempt to dummy up formatting done with whitespace. * using gifs for symbols, this will do for html output, for other output in the future we'll have to organize something a little more sohpisticated * i have some alpha support for headers in at the moment, if you have headers you "might" see them in russet text.