Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?

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From	"Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject	Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?
Date	Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:36:09 -0400
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"JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> writes:
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> I'd like to be able to read in a CSV file that my system creates into a PCL 
> file and somehow simulate the cells that you would see in an Excel 
> spreadsheet.  In other words, I need the little cells/boxes around the 
> numerical data or it will be just too hard to read.

I don't know if you have to worry about wrapping onto multiple pages or
anything, which complicates things a little extra, but it should be
fairly easy to write a program that reads your CSV and writes out
PostScript that renders what you want, then there are opensource tools
that can convert PostScript to PCL. Let us know a bit about what extra
complications might exist, like multiple pages or multi-cell-spanning
special cells, if you want to do something like this and would like
further help. For instance, you mention numerical data: does it need
some special justification, like right- or by-decimal-point or anything?
And, there isn't any special character or font stuff to worry about,
like text in Hebrew? Is the simplest one-page center-all-data or
whatever good enough?

Mark

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Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-03 08:45 -0400
  Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2012-04-03 18:36 -0400
    Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 07:13 -0400
      Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 01:07 -0700
        Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-05 06:53 -0400
          Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2012-04-05 07:20 -0400
            Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-05 14:14 -0400
  Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-05 11:11 -0700

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