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Author of the engine is Pavel Ptacek | @foglcz | in/foglcz | birdie@animalgroup.cz
Copyright (c) 2012-2013.
This project has been created with love, in spare time. The main reason was to teach the ERP systems new & valid formats of excel - while in 2007 it was not suitable to generate xlsx formats, it's 2013 now. I think it's time we abandoned the SpredsheetML and started using OpenXML instead.
What we see is usually generating SpreadsheetML document, with an .xls extension - that is to force the OS to open the resulting .xml document in excel. Altough it might seem as ok, it's not. By using that aproach, you force your user into clicking mayhem - because Excel is correctly bitching about not-having proper format in that .xls extension.
And then there's the fact that when users try to
ctrl+sthis kind of document, excel offers the .xml extension by default - and therefore, it's not only hard to open SpreadsheetML file, it's even harder to save it!
When done properly and with care, using this engine you're capable of generating the .xlsx files the same way as you did up until now, just easier. Handling OpenXML format is actually easier than handling SpreadsheetML or the openoffice xml format (which is mayhem as well.)
In result, you should get ease of mind, and save a shit load of clicks every day to all your users.
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