Matt Needles wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:20 +0200, Tom Schindl wrote: >> Do you really need to get xls why not PDF? Do people have to change >> things afterwards? >> >> Tom >> >> Dave Calkins schrieb: >> > Tom Schindl wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >>> >> >> >> >> Did you thought about jakarta-POI? >> >> >> >> >> > Thanks for the pointer. I'll definitely take a look at that as well. >> > The downside there is that its Java and we're using C++, so we'd need to >> > do JNI or run a VM process and use RMI or something. Then that also >> > requires including the Java runtime with our installer. Anyway, worth >> > looking into and keeping on the list of possibilities. >> > >> > Dave >> > > If I were doing this, to avoid trying to produce a binary file in a > format that is not documented outside of Redmond, I would try producing > a file using the new Office XML format. That might be easier, too.
Though I'm a little late now I want to add a warning. The Excel 2003 XML file format is incomplete (it doesn't support everything the binary format does) and the OOo support for it is not as good as it is for the binary format. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
