I am now looking for
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| Author | Content |
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| peragrin Oct 21, 2005 1:40 PM EDT |
a simple command line tool that will convert Open office 1.0 files to Open Document files. Basically I am lazy don't want to open each file separately in Open Office, and then save them as the new format. That and Open Office 2.0 doesn't support OS X so i have to move my files to another machine in order to convert them. |
| DrDubious Oct 21, 2005 3:01 PM EDT |
I've been itching for a command-line document conversion tool in general, presumably based on the OOo 2.0 codebase. It'd be nice if I could, for example auto-run a ".doc to .odt" conversion program on received "Word(tm)" documents without calling up the whole "OpenOffice Writer" program... |
| PaulFerris Oct 21, 2005 4:03 PM EDT |
DrDubious: do you need the format of the document in tact? If you don't, google "antiword"... |
| mvermeer Oct 22, 2005 4:27 AM EDT |
Eh... if antiword is good enough then wvWare is better. It contains such
things as wvHtml, wvRTF and wvDocbook which may be better starting points. HTH Martin |
| jamesstansell Oct 23, 2005 1:07 AM EDT |
Or, you might be interested in what the OpenOpenOffice project is doing. The server they're building is based on a perl module that can be used for automatic document conversions, among other things. You'll find it in CPAN, and articles have been written about it. I think either linux.com, linuxjournal.com or perl.com. LXer has probably linked to at least one of the articles. http://www.phase-n.com/openopenoffice/ |
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