tags 465741 + wontfix On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:59:53AM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Is it possible to provide some wrappers to convert documents using > abiword? For example, small wrappers like doc2txt, doc2pdf, abw2pdf, > etc. > > It can output files in .abw, .awt, .doc, .html, .mht, .rtf, .txt, > ..zabw and .pdf > > Conversion can be made with "abiword -t <output format> inputfile" > Example: "abiword -t pdf file.abw" will create a file.pdf > > In case a wrapper conflicts with an already available converter, it can > be possible to use the alternatives system (like it's already done with > odt2txt and unoconv, both providing odt2txt).
As opposed to OpenOffice.org, abiword natively provides an easy-to-use command-line interface: $ abiword --to=EXT inputfile where EXT is the extension of the format of your choice. I don't see any benefits in providing additional aliases for this syntax. Kind regards, Patrik
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