Re: Package Proposal: OLE

OpenOffice.org does a pretty good job of using MS Office formats as well as OOo. It opens MS Office 95-XP files. Word Perfect files are being worked on as well. Scott > Sure... are you paying for companies to change office suites/file > formats and all the stuff they have that relies on MS Office? > > :P > > Jon > > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 22:30, Scott Carr wrote: >> Writing of OpenOffice.org files is a breeze. All they are is an XML >> file >> that is then zipped up. >> >> Have the user download OOo, and it works on Windows, Linux, MacOSX, >> FreeBSD, and Solaris. The format is open and exists on the OOo site. >> >> Scott Carr >> >> > Since there seems to be some confussion on what am I proposing, I'll >> try >> > to >> > clear it up: >> > >> > The proposed name for the package is OLE. >> > >> > The proposed category is Structures (Windows being an alternative). >> > >> > The purpose of the package is to enable writing OLE containers without >> the >> > need for any Windows API. >> > >> > OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding, meaning an OLE file can >> > contain >> > several (or just one) Office document files (which can link each other >> or >> > be >> > embedded within each other). >> > >> > OLE replaces an older format, known as DDE, which didn't allow >> compounding >> > of files among several other limitations (like file size). >> > >> > Container and document format are handled separately by Office >> > applications. >> > Excel 2000 can read an Excel 5 file within an OLE file, just as well >> as an >> > Excel 2000 file within a DDE file. >> > >> > What could you gain from this package? >> > -The ability to write Office documents without worrying about DDE's >> > limitations. >> > -Eventually (when I extend it), the ability to read most Office >> documents >> > created from circa 1995 to the present day (KM applications?). >> > >> > Source code and docs are here: >> > http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~xnoguer/OLE/ >> > >> > The package is here: >> > http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~xnoguer/OLE/OLE-0.1.tgz >> > >> > The Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package to test it is here: >> > >> > http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~xnoguer/OLE/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.3.tgz >> > >> > >> > Xavier >> > >> > PS: The previous version of the package I posted had a bug on Solaris >> and >> > maybe other systems. The current one has been fixed. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >