Re: Using Abiword for conversions

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Dave Wood <dave@unrealize.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On (15:04 23/12/08), Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com> put forth
> the proposition:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been looking for a command line tool to convert word docs to ps or
>>> pdf
>>> that I can then pump into ghostscript to produce jpegs. I had used
>>> antiword
>>> some time ago but it does not support UTF-8 with ps or pdf.
>>>
>>> Does abiword allow it to be used in this means? Can it take a command
>>> line
>>> argument to convert a document?
>>
>> Yup, a lot of work has been put into this (as well as using AbiWord as
>> a print server). The syntax is something like:
>>
>> abiword --to=pdf file.doc
>
> This is interesting. I've been looking for some way of making rtf from
> console so I imagine taking a plain text file made with Vim and then doing
> abiword --to=rtf file.txt would work?
>
abiword --to=rtf file.txt

Yes. That will work. If you want to convert to *.odt simply do:
abiword --to=odt file.doc

etc etc
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Received on Wed Dec 24 01:27:57 2008