astaines has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi,
I want to make structured documents, possibly Excel sheets or Word documents, on a Linux machine. I am generating large numbers, (tens of thousands) of random telephone numbers, using Perl on a Linux machine. I have to generate worksheets, in a specific format, with 14 numbers on each page for use by interviewers.
I can (and am) making these worksheets as Excel sheets on a Win32 machine using Perl (Win32::OLE and it's friends). It occurred to me that it might be possible to make these files on my Linux machine. Not greatly to my surprise, Win32::OLE won't install under Linux. (This isn't a criticism of the dedicated and much appreciated coders who work so hard to make these modules.)
So, two questions :-
- Is it possible to run the Win32 modules, say under Wine, or some other way?
- I don't have to use MS Office - I just have to print these things, and share them with MS office users. Can I do something similar with OO and Perl? If so, how?
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Re: Making MS Office compatible files on Linux machines with Perl.
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 18, 2004 at 00:11 UTC | |
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Jun 18, 2004 at 00:36 UTC | |
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jun 18, 2004 at 13:27 UTC | |
Re: Making MS Office compatible files on Linux machines with Perl.
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jun 18, 2004 at 00:12 UTC | |
Re: Making MS Office compatible files on Linux machines with Perl.
by bibo (Pilgrim) on Jun 18, 2004 at 03:40 UTC | |
Re: Making MS Office compatible files on Linux machines with Perl.
by jZed (Prior) on Jun 18, 2004 at 01:59 UTC | |
Re: Making MS Office compatible files on Linux machines with Perl.
by jdavidboyd (Friar) on Jul 01, 2004 at 15:06 UTC | |
by astaines (Curate) on Dec 06, 2004 at 01:19 UTC |