Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?

From	"JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?
Date	2012-04-03 08:45 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<jlercf$rgm$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hi folks,

Hoping someone out there will have some tips or tricks for me.  Or can 
direct me in the right direction.

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.

If I can get this data into some sort of PCL "grid", I can convert that to 
PDF and my users would be much happier with the PDF files vs. the CSV files 
they get now.  Even though the current CSV opens into Excel with no problem. 
They much prefer the manual PDF files I was making daily.  But this job now 
runs seven days a week and I can't always be sitting AT my desk to make the 
file manually at the same time every day of my life.  So, I automated it but 
at the time, could only create a CSV for them.

Can anyone direct me on how best to create "cells" or boxes in PCL around 
data like this?

Thx in advance, JJ

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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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