Possible to create PowerPoint or Excel chart objects? about officegen HOT 8 CLOSED

Just found this fork: https://github.com/vtloc/officegen

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I want to add this feature but a bug in archiver 0.4.x blocking me from
doing that. I can move to use a newer version of
archiver but then I'll not support node 0.8.x anymore.
What should I do?
I'm still preferring to keep officegen clean of external tools and pure
code as possible.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:55 AM, gradualstudent [email protected]
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Just found this fork: https://github.com/vtloc/officegen

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I think moving to node 0.10.x at this point would be ok (but i'm curious what others think).

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OK. Waiting for your comment on this. I want to continue the development of
officegen.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Seth Pollack [email protected]
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I think moving to node 0.10.x at this point would be ok (but i'm curious
what others think).

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Node 0.10 is fine from my perspective, have long ago migrated from 0.8. Re purity, it would be completely fine to leverage external tools for specific functionality, and to make that a documented dependency.

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Out of curiosity, did you add charts and/or is that something you might be able to? This version (i.e. yours, the primary branch) works beautifully in Node 0.10, whereas the fork does not

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The vtloc fork works as cloned from https://github.com/vtloc/officegen but it does not work if installed via "npm install officegen-2". If I replace the contents of ./node_modules/officegen-2 with the contents of the GitHub clone then it works correctly.

cd ~/MyRepos/
git clone [email protected]:vtloc/officegen.git --out officegen-2
cd officegen-2
node examples/make_pptx.js  
// open out.pptx - works!  c

cd ~/MyRepos/MyProject
npm install officegen-2 --save
// ... project fails to generate PPTX file, it almost works but hangs without error
cd node_modules/officegen
node examples/make_pptx.js  
// open out.pptx - error opening file, charts are blank after repair
cp -rf ~/MyRepos/officegen2/* .
node examples/make_pptx.js  
// open out.pptx - works! charts appear correct
// project now works correctly

So I suspect the npm version of the vtloc fork is out of date. Would be great to (a) use your version and the updates since then, and (b) get charting in PowerPoint.

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Created a fork of the main repo that https://github.com/protobi/officegen that

• merges in @vtloc 's work,
• translated the XML strings into JS objects that compile into XML, allowing chart options to be set,
• Uses jar instead of zip for compression so it works on Heroku (and possibly solves the external dependency issue, or at least converts it into relatively standard).
• Added basic ability to add tables

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