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  <refmiscinfo class="date">24 Feb 2009</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>
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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>
a GNOME Structured File Library</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>libgsf-gnome-1</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>
a GNOME Structured File Library</primary></indexterm>
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  <refname>&cmd;</refname>
  <refname>libgsf-gnome-1</refname>
  <refpurpose>a GNOME Structured File Library</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libgsf-1-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>
  <para><literal>&cmd;</literal> reads and writes common file types and handles structured formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics.  There are some additional utilities for document centric applications.</para>
  <para>Support exists for MS OLE2 streams and ZIP import. There is also support for document metadata and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for future conversion to other languages.This library is used in gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice.</para>
 <para>To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the package.
</para>
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<refsect1 id="libgsf-1-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>
<para>The following files are used by this library:</para>
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<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/libgsf-1.so</filename> </term><listitem>
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<para>	libgsf-1 shared library</para>
<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/libgsf-gnome-1.so</filename> </term><listitem>
</listitem></varlistentry>
<para>	libgsf-gnome-1 shared library</para>
<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gsf</filename> </term><listitem>
</listitem></varlistentry>
<para>	Location of developer documentation</para>
</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgsf-1-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>
  <para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>
    <refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>
for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

  <informaltable frame="all">
    <tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">
    <colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">
    <thead>
      <row>
        <entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>
        <entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row> </thead>
    <tbody>
      <row>
        <entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>library/desktop/libgsf</para></entry></row>
      <row>
        <entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>
        <entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row> </tbody> </tgroup> </informaltable> </refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgsf-1-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>
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  <para>
  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gsf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gsf-office-thumbnailer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gsf-vba-dump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
  </para>
  </refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgsf-1-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>
  <para>Written by Jerry Tan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2009.</para></refsect1>
  </refentry>
