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Bug 359796

Summary:	no tool for viewing xls output using linux
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	hage Mising name <hage42>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-Report-inbox <Birt-Report-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	jouyang
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description hage Mising name

2011-10-04 03:50:05 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

there seems to be no tool (for linux, acutally ubuntu 11.04.), that is able to render the xls files, that were produced by the xls emitter. OpenOffice fails to open it. I installed microsofts excel viewer via wine, but it also failed opening the file. Current excel version on a windows machine is able to open the file, but it seems, that this is the only possibility to get to the content of a report in excel format. Output of the doc emitter is working with OpenOffice(/LibreOffice) and also with the Wordviewer by Microsoft using wine.
I discussed this in the forum with jason, who asked me to file this as a bug:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/243226/

(I'm using BIRT 3.7.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create report with report engine api and xls emitter
2. try to open it in an ubuntu (/linux) installation

Comment 1 Jun Ouyang

2011-10-27 04:26:50 EDT

Duplicate of 349492

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 349492 ***