Dave Calkins schrieb: > Niklas Nebel wrote: >> Dave Calkins wrote: >>> I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file from my app which will >>> be running in a shop floor environment on a machine which would not >>> have MS Office or Open Office installed. >> >> Why don't you just install OOo and control it using the API? >> > I don't have control over the machines on which our app is running, so > the only thing I know for sure is that they'll have our app installed. > Also, the machines on the shop floor running our app don't have a need > for a full office suite, since they're collecting/generating the data > and only want to be able to export to Excel for review later on other > machines. Having them install OOo would probably be overkill. Of > course, there's the option of including the OOo installation within our > app's installation, but that would probably really grow the size of our > installer. > > For similar reasons we wanted to avoid the MS Office automation > interfaces. Using them would require having the MS Office SW installed > on the machine where our app was running and we couldn't ensure that > either. Which is why we're looking for something to let us directly > write the binary file format and OOo seemed liked a good possibility.
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