#6 Warnings/Errors with Excel2002

[Anonymous]

Larger files created with pyExcelerator do not open
smoothly in Excel2002 - a warnig is genereated with the
message "Too many fonts...". This happens, for
example, with the big-16MB.py sample.

[John Machin]

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I cannot reproduce this problem with pyExcelerator 0.6.3a and any of: Excel 2003 (I don't have Excel 2002), OOo Calc 2.0, and Gnumeric 1.7. In fact there are only 6 FONT records in the created big-16Mb.xls file.

[Simmol]

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It's huge problem because it not only warning, Excel remove formats. This happen when more then 2500( not accurate) are with format. pyExcelerator as long as i see, work with only one cell at a time and make one format each cell. Witch work ok with 10x10 table :), but when you try 1000x10 or evan 10 000x10 it's crash. In pyXlWriter project, has range methods and have no such problems. Bad thing is that no one support it anymore.

[Chris P. Ross]

I attempted to reproduce this, and even after modifying big-16Mb.py so that a bold red font and borders were applied to all cells, Excel 2003 (on Win XP) doesn't complain, and appears to load it correctly.

Perhaps this issue was fixed since it was reported. If anyone else is seeing this, please let us know.