[ic] Excel/PDF files on-the-fly

[Michael Stearne]

What do you mean by Excel format?  Excel is a closed binary format, 
there is no way to make a file that is truly in Excel's native format. 
What you might do is just create a CSV file and name it .csv.  Excel or 
any other spreadsheet that owns the .csv extension in Windows, OS X or 
Gnome/KDE will open the file and automatically translate it into it's 
native format.  As for PDF, you might export the data into an HTML table 
and then use HTMLDOC (http://easysw.com/htmldoc/) to convert that HTML 
file on-the-fly to a PDF.

Michael

If you name the file .csv Excel will be able to import the file and 
convert it automatically.

Rene Hertell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Has anyone created an excel or PDF file that is always downloadable with the
>source pulled out from the db in real-time? I tried to check the excel
>export-function from the UI, but that contains too many steps (and I don't
>want to write a file to the server when someone downloads these files).
>
>What I would need is a result from a sql query that should be in Excel
>format. A formatted version as a PDF-file would then be my next step after I
>have solved the excel problem...
>
>I'm able to create files that have text-content like vcards, csv-files etc,
>but everything else is seems to be to complicated for the moment...
>
>I would appreciate it very much if someone could give me some hints in how
>to solve these two problems.
>
>
>Regards, Rene
>
>
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