OpenXML spreadsheet created in .NET won't open in iPad

Question

I am trying to generate a spreadsheet in .NET which will be opened by my manager on his iPad when he\'s out of the office.

The spreadsheet opens fine on a Windows PC

Answer 1

Comradsky's answer of sending a pdf is a good idea, but in case anybody needs to be able to resolve this, I have come up with a solution. I know this is a horrible hack but it works and I've spent hours trying to find a way to do it "legally" to no avail.

It involves opening the .rels file and directly editing the xml within the file after the document has been closed.

    public static void MakeRelativePaths(string filepath)
    {
        // Get the namespace strings
        const string documentRelationshipType = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument";
        const string relationshipSchema = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships";

        string documentUri = null;
        string documentDirectory = null;
        string documentName = null;

        Uri relDocUri = null;

        XName targetAttributeName = null;
        string targetValue = null;

        //  Open the package
        using (Package xlPackage = Package.Open(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
        {
            // Get the directory and filename of the main document part (e.g. /xl/workbook.xml).
            foreach (System.IO.Packaging.PackageRelationship relationship in xlPackage.GetRelationshipsByType(documentRelationshipType))
            {
                documentUri = relationship.TargetUri.ToString();

                documentName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(documentUri);
                documentDirectory = documentUri.Substring(0, documentUri.Length - documentName.Length);

                //  There should only be document part in the package, but break out anyway.
                break;
            }

            // Load the relationship document
            relDocUri = new Uri(documentDirectory + "_rels/" + documentName + ".rels", UriKind.Relative);
            XDocument relDoc = XDocument.Load(xlPackage.GetPart(relDocUri).GetStream());

            // Loop through all of the relationship nodes
            targetAttributeName = XName.Get("Target");
            foreach (XElement relNode in relDoc.Elements(XName.Get("Relationships", relationshipSchema)).Elements(XName.Get("Relationship", relationshipSchema)))
            {
                // Edit the value of the Target attribute
                targetValue = relNode.Attribute(targetAttributeName).Value;

                if (targetValue.StartsWith(documentDirectory))
                    targetValue = targetValue.Substring(documentDirectory.Length);

                relNode.Attribute(targetAttributeName).Value = targetValue;
            }

            // Save the document
            relDoc.Save(xlPackage.GetPart(relDocUri).GetStream());
        }
    }