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Writing Plugins for Numbers / Exporting into a non-standard format

Hello all together,

maybe it's already somewhere on the net, but I didn't find it..

Is there any possibility to write sort of a "plugin" for Numbers? What I would like to do is export data to a specific format thats not already covered by Numbers' export function, let's say to use it with Grapher or the open source Software "Plot".

At the moment I export the data into a CSV-File, replace all quotes and change the numbering format from the German to the English one (using a dot as the decimal separator, whereas in Germany it's a comma) - this, however, takes some time...

So, if there is a possibility to write an addition to the traditional Export-Dialog, it would be great if you could give me a hint where to start.

Thanks in advance,
Alexander Hofmann.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 8, 2009 8:59 AM

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Posted on Jan 8, 2009 9:04 AM

There is no "plug-in" architecture yet for Numbers. the '09 version does have some basic scripting ability it looks like. But I haven't gotten it to work yet. Waiting for someone that knows more than me to post some examples.

You cold also write, in any of multiple different language, a program that could convert CSV to your different format.

Jason
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Jan 8, 2009 9:04 AM in response to AlexHofi

There is no "plug-in" architecture yet for Numbers. the '09 version does have some basic scripting ability it looks like. But I haven't gotten it to work yet. Waiting for someone that knows more than me to post some examples.

You cold also write, in any of multiple different language, a program that could convert CSV to your different format.

Jason

Writing Plugins for Numbers / Exporting into a non-standard format

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