On 02/21/2013 07:37 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Pimental <nathansai...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure if help for reading direct binary or hex is being looked for,
or even wanted, but I would be glad to develop a dll that reads and writes
pure 1s and 0s for oo.
What would be an example of scenario where this would be useful?
OpenOffice obviously reads specific binary formats, such as MS Word
Doc files, or JPEG images, etc. But what would be the case for
generic binary or hex support?
Maybe reading data into a spreadsheet from instruments or sensors?
OpenOffice Calc + Arduino ???
I have certainly had a few times when I needed to inspect files at a
binary level. I have even had the need to edit files at a binary level
and write them back out.
You asked for examples...
1. My ODT file is damaged and it cannot be opened.
$ hexdump -C some_file.odt
00000000 50 4b 03 04 14 00 00 08 00 00 c5 0c e4 3c 5e c6
|PK...........<^.|
00000010 32 0c 27 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 6d 69
|2.'...'.......mi|
00000020 6d 65 74 79 70 65 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f
|metypeapplicatio|
00000030 6e 2f 76 6e 64 2e 6f 61 73 69 73 2e 6f 70 65 6e
|n/vnd.oasis.open|
00000040 64 6f 63 75 6d 65 6e 74 2e 74 65 78 74 50 4b 03
|document.textPK.|
2. Check if a file begins with a bight order mark (BOM). For example, if
the file begins with 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF, that means something different than
if it beings with U+FEFF.
3. I used a binary editor to modify a PDF file to remove a watermark.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
