At 09:56 AM 16-05-01 -0400, you wrote:

>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.

So - a couple of follow-up questions then:

Where do I get a how-to for writing blob filters?

and

Could I write one in Delphi/Kylix?

Thks
Helen

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