2006/7/5, Matt Needles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:16 -0400, Dave Calkins wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
>
> I didn't think the new format opened in older versions of office. I
> don't think we want to require our customers to have Office 2007. Does
> OOo support the new format?
>
That format was introduced with Office 2003. OOo 2.x supports it.
Do we have a license problem here?
I browsed this story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829355,00.asp
And this:
http://www.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=14384&messageID=288763&start=0
(I googled "Office XML license")
Is OOo really allowed to implement Microsoft's XML?
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