[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said:
> > > > Based on your schedule when do you think you may get the opendocument 
> > > > format or the Excel 5 working under Linux/FreeBSD?
> > > > 
> > > > Also, any plans to have the help in anything other than chm?
> > > > I found some viewers/converters, so I think I will be able to open it or 
> > > > convert it, but would be nice if there was something other than chm. If I 
> > > > get to conver it, should I put it somewhere for you? Haven't tried yet, but 
> > > > I think I will be able to convert to PDF. 
> > > 
> > > The document generator already generates PDFs? The problem with PDFS is that
> > > while these are great as reference, they are (IMHO) in the current setting
> > > not usable as help system.
> > 
> > Why not ?
> 
> Same as a browser, but maybe worse:
> How do you instrument a PDF reader platform independantly? And (specially
> with recent Adobe readers): speed.

That's an implementation detail, but doesn't make PDFs a priori unsuitable
as help format.

I use PDF as the help system for my daytime job apps. Works fine.

Michael.