Alon Blich A.B.C

 Printer Languages (Escape Codes) ◦ PCL, PostScript, Canon etc.  ActiveX/OLE Automation Server  PDF Utilities ◦ PDFInclude, PDFlib etc.  XSL-FO ◦ Apache FOP  Excel HTML Files  Reporting Tools

 XML Files in a ZIP File  Set of Markup Languages and Conventions Called Together Office Open XML  Open and Well Documented ◦ ECMA-376, ISO/IEC Standard  Open Office and MS Office Format War

 Rich and Powerful File Format ◦ Pivot Tables, 3D Charts, Images etc.  Widely Supported ◦ MS Office 2000 or better, Open Office 3.0, Google Docs, Apple iWorks, IBM Lotus Notes, Corel WordPerfect even WordPad and Text Edit  Generate Documents and Read Data from Documents  Use as a Neutral Document Format to Convert to other Document Formats

 Runs on UNIX/Linux/Windows and Progress V9 or better  Visual Design in Office Merge Data in Progress  100 Times Faster then ActiveX/OLE  Conversion to Open Office, PDF, HTML etc. even future formats as they become available

 Based on the Standard Libraries Open Source Project ◦ V9 Exception Handling ◦ V9 Logging ◦ HTTP/S ◦ ZIP ◦ XML ◦ Win API ◦ Timing Events ◦ Code Parsing ◦ SVN UIB/Editor Hook ◦ Backup/Archive/Restore tools ◦ Salesforce.com Integration etc. ◦ Google API  4GL Query Optimizer ◦ Please come to the Session

 Word and Excel Utils Test Drive Version and Samples  Standard Libraries Open Source Project