Exporting

There are often problems exporting unicode symbols to CSV file format. Developers tend to forget to add the UTF-8 BOM at the start of text and text is displayed incorrectly when opened in Excel application. Therefore I add a small example of such an export which might be useful for developers who have come to that problem too.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most popular file format for presenting documents on all devices, operating systems and software applications. Each PDF file contains a fixed-layout document that may include text, fonts, graphics and other information.

Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet application used nowadays on all kinds of operating systems and devices. It provides functionality for formulae calculations, graphs and charts, pivot tables, and other great enterprise features.

ShieldUI now provides the ability to export data in two wide-spread Excel file formats - XML and XLSX, which are very flexible and fully-compatible with other spreadsheet software like Apache Open Office, Star Office and others.