[Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread Alister Hood
Hi everybody, Just a couple of thoughts: As others have mentioned, many people want to export to Excel mainly for formatting and printing, perhaps with some added calculations. The ideal would be to improve formatting and printing in QGIS so that this isn't necessary. Spreadsheets aren't particul

[Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
> As others have mentioned, many people want to export to Excel mainly for > formatting and printing, perhaps with some added calculations. The > ideal would be to improve formatting and printing in QGIS so that this > isn't necessary. > Spreadsheets aren't particularly great for it anyway, and do

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Alister On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Alister Hood wrote: > Hi everybody, > Just a couple of thoughts: > > As others have mentioned, many people want to export to Excel mainly for > formatting and printing, perhaps with some added calculations.  The > ideal would be to improve formatting an

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, These are almost exactly the reasons why want to export to spreadsheet: * people want to print tables * people want to reformat tables * people want to share the data (e.g. sending an email, post results on the webpage) - for this purpose a PDF would also be good enough often. For the lon

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread bernhard . stroebl
Hi Andreas, I am running JasperReports from QGIS Python plugins using PyJasper https://github.com/hudora/pyJasper I do not know if it is elegant but it works :) I can send you an example if you drop me a line. Bernhard Am 02.12.2011 07:44, schrieb Andreas Neumann: Hi, These are almost exact

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread Alister Hood
Hi Tim, > -Original Message- > From: Tim Sutton [mailto:li...@linfiniti.com] > Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 7:16 p.m. > To: Alister Hood > Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > > Hi Alister > > O

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-01 Thread Bob and Deb
e- > > From: Tim Sutton [mailto:li...@linfiniti.com] > > Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 7:16 p.m. > > To: Alister Hood > > Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > > > > Hi Alister > > >

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
Message- > From: Tim Sutton [mailto:li...@linfiniti.com] > Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 7:16 p.m. > To: Alister Hood > Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > > Hi Alister > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM,

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
Also see http://fosslc.org/drupal/content/earth-observation-scientific-workflows- distributed-computing-environment From: Alister Hood Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 9:01 p.m. To: 'Bob and Deb' Cc: Tim Sutton; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel E

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi all, maybe it's better to integrate into QGIS report generator? Composer is a nice feature but it don't allow to create advanced reports. Something like FastReports [0], NCReport [1] or CrystalReports will be great adition (I know, this solutions are commercial but this is just example). [0] h

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > > Hi all, > > maybe it's better to integrate into QGIS report generator? Composer > is a nice feature but it don't allow to create advanced reports. > Something like FastReports [0]

RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
ginal Message- > From: Alister Hood > Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 9:53 p.m. > To: 'Alexander Bruy' > Cc: Bob and Deb; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: RE: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > > I seem to remember some previous discussions about a r

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
b and Deb; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS Hi all, maybe it's better to integrate into QGIS report generator? Composer is a nice feature but it don't allow to create advanced reports. Something like FastReports [0], NCReport [1]

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-02 Thread Alister Hood
t be an option - Tim is doing some work with Javascript in QGIS. > Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:19:27 +0100 > From: Bernhard Str?bl > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS > To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Message-ID: <4ed8981f.4050...@jena.de> > Con

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

2011-12-05 Thread bernhard . stroebl
g difficulty finding a report generator suitable to use in QGIS. I wonder if there are any that are javascript based. Perhaps that might be an option - Tim is doing some work with Javascript in QGIS. Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:19:27 +0100 From: Bernhard Str?bl Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: E