xlsgen versions

A tool to read, write, calculate, display, and print Excel spreadsheets
4.0
Nov 24, 2021
Review
3.5
May 22, 2014
3.0
Oct 28, 2011
Review
2.9
Oct 16, 2009
2.1
Dec 30, 2008

What's new

v4.0 [Feb 4, 2017]
- Pivot tables (XLS and XLSX files).
- Import web pages.
- Import JSON streams.
- PDF Encryption.
- Chart anti-aliasing.
- More beautiful charts (for instance, rounded up scales).
- Effects API (blur, glow, shadow, reflection, soft edges, material, camera).
- Save as XLSB files. Use XLSB files as templates and preserve anything in them including objects not currently supported by xlsgen.
- Excel 2016 charts.
- Excel 2016 compatibility and support for the 5 new functions.
- Security update : libPNG updated to close 3 vulnerabilities.
- Ability to decrypt password-protected XLS files whether they are encrypted with XOR or RC4.
- Improved style management.
- Gradient fill in cells (XLS read-only, XLSX, XLSB).
- Support for trigonometric functions in the calculation engine.
- Fuzzy string matching.
- Form controls.
- VBA macro association for pictures, text boxes, vector shapes and charts.

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