Created attachment 22645 [details] with the camera tool when i read the workbook with the object made by the camera tool and new HSSFWorkbook, it throws RecordFormatException. the sample workbook is attached. stack trace: org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unable to construct record instance at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecord(RecordFactory.java:208) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecords(RecordFactory.java:126) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:246) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:169) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:298) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:279) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecord(RecordFactory.java:196) ... 22 more Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordInputStream.checkRecordPosition(RecordInputStream.java:132) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordInputStream.readShort(RecordInputStream.java:152) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.EmbeddedObjectRefSubRecord.fillFields(EmbeddedObjectRefSubRecord.java:89) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.Record.<init>(Record.java:55) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.SubRecord.<init>(SubRecord.java:34) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.EmbeddedObjectRefSubRecord.<init>(EmbeddedObjectRefSubRecord.java:64) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.SubRecord.createSubRecord(SubRecord.java:62) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.ObjRecord.fillFields(ObjRecord.java:81) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.Record.<init>(Record.java:55) at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.ObjRecord.<init>(ObjRecord.java:54) ... 27 more
with 3.0-FINAL, it can work well.
fixed in svn r701569