Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-18 Thread Kirk Kerekes
-- And it is easy to wrap in a Cocoa wrapper -- I've done so. The interface is appended to this email. The libxls open source project on sourceforge.net allows you to read and parse .xls files. This library works under OSX - I know, I'm one of the developers :-) // // XLSWorkbook.h // PE

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-17 Thread David Hoerl
The libxls open source project on sourceforge.net allows you to read and parse .xls files. This library works under OSX - I know, I'm one of the developers :-) David ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin req

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-17 Thread Dimitri Bouniol
You could try to see if you could use applescript to convert between office formats and iWork formats, then just read through the xml-based iWork formats. Most of them are detailed in the developer documentation. On May 17, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote: I've looked at the file fo

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Alexander Cohen wrote: Does anyone know of any libraries that can read microsoft formats ( xls, ppt, doc, etc, ... )? I'd rther not reinent the wheel if something is already out there. You could look at the source code for OpenOffice.org. It does a pretty good job of handling MS Office files.

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-17 Thread Alexander Cohen
I've looked at the file format spec a bit and i'm not sure i really want to get into it. It's something like 200 pages long. thx AC On May 17, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Тимофей Даньшин wrote: TextEdit doesn't render quite a lot of things in doc files, such as footnotes, headers/footers, comments a

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-17 Thread Тимофей Даньшин
TextEdit doesn't render quite a lot of things in doc files, such as footnotes, headers/footers, comments and lots of other things. I've tried to find a library that would do that, but failed. If you do find anything like that (or reinvent it for that matter ;) ), please, let me know as well.

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-16 Thread Thomas Davie
Op 17 May 2009, om 02:02 heeft Alexander Cohen het volgende geschreven: Does anyone know of any libraries that can read microsoft formats ( xls, ppt, doc, etc, ... )? I'd rther not reinent the wheel if something is already out there. For .doc, go look at the TextEdit sources - it's in the

microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-16 Thread Alexander Cohen
Does anyone know of any libraries that can read microsoft formats ( xls, ppt, doc, etc, ... )? I'd rther not reinent the wheel if something is already out there. thx AC ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post adm