On 9 February 2013 23:00, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
You could do it with openoffice.org/libreoffice, although I agree that getting all the dependencies right for running in the server is a bit tedious. You can also use Excel itself for that (eg. COM automation), as suggested by vitalif, supposing you are using a Windows server.
You can in fact automate OO/LO in this manner. We do this at work (an application that has to turn RTF and DOC into PDFs; if you want a fighting chance of rendering Word files, you need something of comparable size to Word). Not fast (and we never could get daemon mode working) so cache your results.
- d.