On 12/11/2007 09:05 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it:
Usually when we work on web applications and offer user some spreadsheets for downloading, my primary choice is CSV format. This is because both Excel and OpenOffice users can open it. Now we need to generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it.
This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells.
I prefer not to create Excel formats because I don't wish to encourage use of Excel format. I cannot use ODF because no one can open it (people use things like Excel 2003). PDF also doesn't work because we need to allow users to do some calculation based on table sell data. Is there another format I can offer?
Would it be possible to go ahead and use the best choice, odf, and either allow them to use an add on for their MS Office, or co-install OpenOffice. It is still a free solution, and is better in the long run. Maybe they will learn OpenOffice is quite a viable choice and they will dump the MS tax. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org