Jeff Abrahamson on Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:21:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OT: MS Office compatible Java programs 

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:39:53PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> Anyone know of any Java programs (or applets even) that can read (write?)
> Doc and Xls formats? I'm googling and coming up a little shy. Any Open
> Source projects doing this?

Can't help on java, but abiword and gnumeric do decent jobs of
understanding doc and xls respectively. In cases where they don't do
good enough jobs, OpenOffice (formerly StarOffice) gets more details
right, at the expense of slamming your CPU and imposing a bad
interface for no good reason.

-- 
 Jeff

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