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Read in a Word document
with minimum formatting
(no lists, tables, footnotes,
endnotes, headers, footers)
and write it back out with the
result viewable in Word
97/2000
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07/11/2003
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Ryan
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Add support for Lists and
Tables
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8/15/2003
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HWPF 1.0-alpha release with
documentation and examples
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8/18/2003
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Praveen/Ryan
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Add support for Headers,
Footers, endnotes, and
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8/31/2003
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?
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Add support for forms and
mail merge
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September/October 2003
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?
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< p > HWPF Task Lists< / p >
< p > Read in a Word document with minimum formatting (no lists, tables, footnotes,
endnotes, headers, footers) and write it back out with the result viewable in Word 97/2000< / p >
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Create classes to read and
write low level data
structures with test cases
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7/10/2003
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Ryan
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Create classes to read and
write FontTable and Font
names with test case
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7/10/2003
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Praveen
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Final test
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7/11/2003
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Ryan
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< p > Develop user friendly API so it is fun and easy to read and write word documents
with java.< / p >
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Develop a way for SPRMS to
be compressed and
uncompressed
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Override CHPAbstractType
with a concrete class that
exposes attributes with
human readable names
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Override PAPAbstractType
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exposes attributes with
human readable names
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exposes attributes with
human readable names
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Override DOPAbstractType
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Override TAPAbstractType
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exposes attributes with
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Override TCAbstractType
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exposes attributes with
human readable names
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Develop a VerifyIntegrity
class for testing so it is easy
to determine if a Word
Document is well-formed.
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Develop general intuitive
API to tie everything together
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< p > Add support for lists and tables< / p >
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Owner
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Add data structures for
reading and writing list data
with test cases.
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Add data structures for
reading and writing tables
with test cases.
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< p > HWPF 1.0-alpha release with documentation and examples< / p >
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Document the user model
API
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Document the low level
classes
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Come up with detailed How-To’ s
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< font size = "-2" > by Ryan Ackley< / font >
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