Re: Excel Test Files

["Martin Kotulla (SoftMaker)" <martin-k softmaker de>]

John Machin schrieb:

> Please let me introduce myself: As well as being a user of Gnumeric, I'm 
> also the author/maintainer of xlrd, a Python package for programatically 
> extracting data from XLS files.
>
> In addition to what Morten wrote: those files appear to have been 
> written by Softmaker, not by Excel. They are also a test of how tolerant 
> XLS readers are when faced with XLS files that *don't* quite match what 
> Excel would write. [...]
>  
John:

Thank  you for these specific reports. I have forwarded them to our 
developers. Let's see what they can do to make PlanMaker files more 
amenable to your routines.

Of course, as you are most certainly aware, there is a wide range of 
file format variations that Excel has written over the years. Our files 
are within that spectrum, and Excel and OpenOffice.org have no problem 
opening them. So, use them as yet another test case for how flexible 
your code must be. Be liberal in what you accept... :-)

Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmBH