Re: Your automagic screenshots!

[Alan Mead]

You are probably aware, but the XLSX format used in recent versions of 
Excel is significantly more accessible (it's a ZIP file containing XML 
and similar data) than the older XLS format.

Also, it's fairly easy to open an XLS/XLSX file in LibreOffice and save 
it as CSV, but you can also use LO in a batch mode (Windows/DOS example):

"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\scalc.exe" --convert-to csv 
"excel_file.xls"

produces "excel_file.csv" in CSV format.

-Alan

On 3/22/2022 1:29 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> It's an extraordinarily common feature request, so if there's a
> practical way to support direct import then we should consider it.
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:26 AM John Darrington
> <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > So far as I'm aware, there's no way of importing directly from excel.  You would
> > first have to convert the excel file to something else like gnumeric or 
> > opendocument
> > format.
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:45:32AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> >       Hi John,
> >
> >       i just had a look at your automagic screenshots that you take for the 
> > documentation. Very nice. This Nina who asked on the mailing list
> >
> >       https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html 
> > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html>
> >
> >       how to import from Excel mentioned that it would be nice to have a 
> > description for this in the manual. I wanted to propose her that she could
> >       make such a manual which would currently mean to write the texi code 
> > which would require to have a build system running to see the rendered pages. 
> > Automagic screenshots would be even more advanced.
> >
> >       Did you ever propose users just to make some kind of handcrafted tutorial 
> > or documentation, provide it in pdf under some CC license and we would publish 
> > it on the gnu website?
> >
> >       Cheers
> >
> >       Fritz