On Wed, 2009-02-11, 042, debian debian wrote:
> > Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between
> > all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes.
>
> If ooconvert requires open office, then you may as well have X
> installed to meet all the requirements. If you have to install X ,
> then
> Hmmm. *Maybe* it would work from the console. Two ways to find out, and
> one doesn't require that you know C... :)
Yes, I did test it. :-) And setting the DISPLAY var seemed to make it
work.
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> $ DISPLAY= abiword -t txt /tmp/test.doc
> $ ls -l /tmp/test.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tzafrir tzafrir 58 2009-02-12 04:27 /tmp/test.txt
Thanks! That works from text mode. I'll have to do some tests and see
which is the best now... :-) does that trick work with other apps?
Daniel.
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On 02/11/2009 08:07 PM, debian debian wrote:
Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between
all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes.
If ooconvert requires open office, then you may as well have X
installed to meet all the requirements. If you have to install X ,
then you may as w
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:09:27PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > $ abiword --to=txt some_file.doc
> >
>
> Uh... I was hoping to avoid starting the gui...
$ DISPLAY= abiword -t txt /tmp/test.doc
$ ls -l /tmp/test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 t
> Ooconvert is a command line utility, converts between
> all 183 formats (!) that openoffice recognizes.
If ooconvert requires open office, then you may as well have X
installed to meet all the requirements. If you have to install X ,
then you may as well use OOo.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:22:44PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
> plane text?
> catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting.
> antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file...
>
On 02/11/2009 02:09 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,
What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
plane text?
catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot o
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:56:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
>> plane text?
>> catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting.
>
> Well, sure you
On 02/11/2009 01:22 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,
What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
plane text?
catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting.
Well, sure you lose formatting going from Word to text. Can you be
more specific as to wha
Hi,
What's the best console tool (text-mode), to convert ms word files to
plane text?
catdoc, seems ok, works on most files, but looses a lot of formatting.
antiword, seems quite good, but it doesn't work on every file...
What are people using, any better suggestions?
I have a script here ready
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