On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Maciej Zywno wrote: > >> And now the main question :) I found on the emailing list that there are >> no plans to implement charting unless Microsoft releases the Office binary >> formats ( >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/poi-user/200802.mbox/ajax/[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]). >> It happened In February ( >> http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx). >> > > Actually in terms of charting, it only happened a week back. The > documentation released in February didn't include the charting stuff, that > only came with the updated release last week. The key files would seem to be > MS-OGRAPH and MS-XLS, with possibly the odd reference to MS-ODRAW too. > > However, you also mentioned generating ppt files. ppt graphs and excel > graphs are quite different beasts. Yegor might be able to advise you on what > is and isn't supported by hslf in this area. > Thanks for the reply! At least I know what the status is :) Actually my user needs to export my app data 1) to .ppt as charts 2) to excel as table data. No need to export charts to excel. (However a chart in .ppt should be editable). Do you know if that makes things simpler? Thanks! Maciej
