Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 15:14 -0600 schrieb Phil Hess: > ----- "Matt Shaffer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use > > windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and > > if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself > > ;). > > > > > > I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel > > file, but working with excel files is never easy. > > > > Exactly. If there were an RTF equivalent for Excel files, that might be a > good choice.
There is (has been) a format called DIF (data interchange format) and another one that i forgot about. In ancient times gnumeric and excel and others could read them both. Maybe it's time for polishing up that old excel 4.0 and have a look ... ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Interchange_Format HTH, -- Marc Santhoff <[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
