to elaborate on my previous point the docs say that when cfspreadsheet is used it searches for an installation of OpenOffice first and if so it uses it libraries.
i dont have an installation of OpenOffice at present but also havent noticed any limitations in cfspreadsheet, therefore would there be different any difference if it was installed? > I believe that all the MS document types are be handled by the > OpenOffice document engine. In the CF Admin there is a sections in > Server Settings -> Document that asked you for the location of your > OpenOffice Directory. > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer/ > Systems Administrator > CF Webtools > www.cfwebtools.com > > [email protected] > www.trunkful.com > > On Jul 17, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Pradeep Viswanathan wrote: > > > > > because that XLSX being the latest format, i would want to go that > way. I > > think at this time, pretty much everyone has a MS Office 2k7 > installed or at > > least they got the addons to make office 2k3 to open 2k7 files. > > > > If my memory is right, the file size of XLSX file are lesser by more > than > > 50%, which should help in easier transportation. > > > > i wonder what would be the scenario where you would not want a > feature of > > XLSX ? > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Pradeep Viswanathan R > > > > > > > > On 17 July 2011 21:40, Richard White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> in fact you mention a good point, there are only a few scenarios > that would > >> require the functionality of 2007, instead of getting it to output > in xlsx > >> for everything we should only get it to export to that format if it > requires > >> it, else it exports it to xls. > >> > >> do you export to a different format in case they do not have ms > office > >> then? > >> > >> > >> > >>> Interesting.. what's the difference for the end user ? So if the > end user > >>> does not have office installed, we got to force the cfcontent... > right ? > >>> > >>> Thanks and Regards, > >>> Pradeep Viswanathan R > >>> > >>> On 17 July 2011 20:43, Richard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346247 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
