Rendering .xls Excel files
I'm currently writing an application that compiles a lot of information to PDF, including Excel files.
I was hoping to find some way of rendering an Excel spreadsheet without using Excel. Let me explain:
All the products out there that print Excel to PDF, export Excel sheets to JPEG or BMP, export Excel sheets to PDF, display Excel sheets on the monitor, etc... or in ANY way try to render an Excel sheet use Excel to do it.
In other words, no program tries to guess what the Excel sheet looks like without physically using MS Excel to tell it what the sheet looks like.
I was wondering if anyone knew an exception to this rule. Is there anything out there that can render an Excel sheet as a graphic, PDF, or anything else that does not use Excel to tell it how to draw this image?
Rahul PrasadPosted Jun 24, 2014, 10:13 PM
Also, what I can provide is this online Excel Programming Guide in C# ,which contains plenty of useful sample codes and demos to process Excel documents, including how to create Excel document ,how to render Excel to other formats and how to insert chart to Excel, etc.Hope it can help developers who dedicate to operating Excel file efficiently without MS Excel Automation.
Regards
Ivan VasilyevPosted Jun 17, 2014, 9:01 AM
Also I think it will cover your requirement in an easy and straightforward way, here is an article about how to read excel (XLS) files in a C# and after that you can just call the Save method in order to convert it to any format you need (PDF, image format, etc.) and also if interested here is how you can print your excel files with .NET.
Craig MurphyPosted Mar 15, 2006, 4:53 PM
If this is the case, I believe that Office Writer might go some way to answering your needs:
http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-8.aspx