At 07:30 PM 5/16/2001 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:

>I have a reason at the moment to want to write a blob filter for Word
>documents. Does anyone know of a doc that explains (with examples) how to
>do that? Is there some kind of API for them? I assume that (on Windows)
>the library filters.dll is where they belong - or is it like a udf
>library, which you can create under any suitable name and declare to the
>database in some fashion?

No, I believe there is no such thing. Microsoft published the specs for
Word documents briefly, several years ago. They are not currently available
except from a site in Russia - Jim may have the URL. He spent nearly a week
(with much cursing) learning to reverse engineer a Word document. Unless
you're willing to use Word itself as the translator, that filter is going
to be a bitch.

>Are filter libraries portable?

Within the bounds of the language in which they are written.


Regards,

Ann
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