Re: [Sheflug] Word Doc convertor

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 21:15, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> There was an example of printing all the files in a directory with OOo
> (linuxtoday.org, or slashdot.org can't remember where), that would do
> the conversion to postscript/pdf. 

You can print to the standard print using a command line switch (without
bring up the GUI), similarly there is a headless mode for scripting
(again sans GUI). I would hesitate to call it a command line tool ;),
but it's definitely useful.

> There is a library to convert Word to Latex (it may have been via RTF
> first though),

Reading RTF is no problem at all. * -> RTF is a common route, because
RTF is well understood, and if you name the RTF file as a .DOC, MS Word
will silently convert it, giving the impression it was originally a
.DOC.

> I came across. 
> http://wvware.sourceforge.net/, which seems to fit the bill.... Not
> really tried it yet but looks promising..

wv2 is still under development, I think, although apparently Abiword is
using/will use it. What would be good is a simple wv2 cli app that
inspects the .DOC and dumps it to XML. That would probably be a
reasonably easy project for someone wanting to do something useful in
C/C++.

Cheers,

Alex.

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