Re: [fw-general] Support for Office 2007
I have been thinking on this since I started Cerebral Cortex, along
with OOo support.
I /will/ be needing this for work sometime in the near future, so
count me in for working on it :)
My final goal for this sorta thing is the ability to abstract it out
enough do something like:
$document = new Document;
$document->addHeader("My Header", $options);
$document->addParagraph("My paragraph goes here", $options);
$renderer = Document::getRenderer(Document::WORD_XML_2007);
$document->render($renderer);
But I think we need to work on more complete support for the formats
first and THEN
abstract on top of that for those who want it simpler.
I would like to see fairly complete support for:
Documents:
* OfficeHTML Word
* Word XML 2003
* Word XML 2007
* OOo Write
* PDF
Spreadsheets:
* OfficeHTML Excel
* Excel XML 2003
* Excel XML 2007
* OOo Calc
Further to this, I would love to see a Graphing library, would be
very cool if you
export the graphs to any of the formats above, as well as regular
images formats (JPG,
GIF, PNG, SVG). Charting is the *one* thing I really liked about
ColdFusion - automatic
drilldown with image map/flash generation and such :)
- Davey
On Dec 18, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Hi all,
I've been thinking for a while now to see if there are people
interested in
adding support for Office 2007 documents to framework. Thanks to
the new
format being XML-based and apparently an open-standard it should be
much
easier to pull-off than the previous binary Office formats. It's
also pretty
useful that Microsoft made available a compatibility plug-in for
Office 2003
(http://tinyurl.com/y4eeye) which allows it to load the new XML-based
format.
Recently Maarten (cc'ed) posted some code which refers to some work
he did
to create some basic Office 2007 Excel spreadsheet support. This
reminded me
of my interest in working on this subject.
Judging by the amount of work Alex has put into Zend_Pdf I must say
that
this will definitely not be a small trivial amount of work. The
Office 2007
formats are huge, and even if we limit what we support (like we did
with
PDF), it will still be a large amount of work and will probably
require
several contributors and a good sense for making decisions of what
we should
support and what not (the latter usually being the hard part :)
If any of you are interested, I suggest to join the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (please don't respond to fw-
general@)
so that we can try and see whether there's enough interest and
enough people
willing to contribute to making this happen. Let's start the
discussion only
on Tuesday so that interested developers have a chance to join the
mailing
list prior to that.
Andi
Re: [fw-general] Support for Office 2007
>I guess this is going to be one of the most important/interesting components >similar to Locale. We look forward to seeing this in the incubator. Thank you for the roses for my (locale-) baby... ;-) Greetings Thomas (I18N Team Leader and Main Author)
Re: [fw-general] Support for Office 2007
I guess this is going to be one of the most *important*/*interesting *components similar to Locale. We look forward to seeing this in the incubator. Thanks for the initiative... On 12/18/06, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've been thinking for a while now to see if there are people interested in adding support for Office 2007 documents to framework. Thanks to the new format being XML-based and apparently an open-standard it should be much easier to pull-off than the previous binary Office formats. It's also pretty useful that Microsoft made available a compatibility plug-in for Office 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/y4eeye) which allows it to load the new XML-based format. Recently Maarten (cc'ed) posted some code which refers to some work he did to create some basic Office 2007 Excel spreadsheet support. This reminded me of my interest in working on this subject. Judging by the amount of work Alex has put into Zend_Pdf I must say that this will definitely not be a small trivial amount of work. The Office 2007 formats are huge, and even if we limit what we support (like we did with PDF), it will still be a large amount of work and will probably require several contributors and a good sense for making decisions of what we should support and what not (the latter usually being the hard part :) If any of you are interested, I suggest to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (please don't respond to fw-general@) so that we can try and see whether there's enough interest and enough people willing to contribute to making this happen. Let's start the discussion only on Tuesday so that interested developers have a chance to join the mailing list prior to that. Andi
[fw-general] Support for Office 2007
Hi all, I've been thinking for a while now to see if there are people interested in adding support for Office 2007 documents to framework. Thanks to the new format being XML-based and apparently an open-standard it should be much easier to pull-off than the previous binary Office formats. It's also pretty useful that Microsoft made available a compatibility plug-in for Office 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/y4eeye) which allows it to load the new XML-based format. Recently Maarten (cc'ed) posted some code which refers to some work he did to create some basic Office 2007 Excel spreadsheet support. This reminded me of my interest in working on this subject. Judging by the amount of work Alex has put into Zend_Pdf I must say that this will definitely not be a small trivial amount of work. The Office 2007 formats are huge, and even if we limit what we support (like we did with PDF), it will still be a large amount of work and will probably require several contributors and a good sense for making decisions of what we should support and what not (the latter usually being the hard part :) If any of you are interested, I suggest to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (please don't respond to fw-general@) so that we can try and see whether there's enough interest and enough people willing to contribute to making this happen. Let's start the discussion only on Tuesday so that interested developers have a chance to join the mailing list prior to that. Andi
