On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:56:07AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:33:58PM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > > Steven W. Orr wrote: > >> I have about 75 doc files. If I bring one up in ooffice, I can save it > >> as a .html file with no problem. Is there a way to do it from the > >> command line? All this clickety is going to take me too long. > > sudo yum install wv > > for filename in `ls *.doc`; > > do > > htmlname=`echo $filename | sed -e 's/.doc/.html/g'` > > /usr/bin/wvHtml $filename $htmlname > > done; > > > > Depending on what your Word files are, your conversion mileage may differ. > > Or, since OpenOffice.org is giving you the results you like, rather > than switching rendering, you could do the following: > > 1. Make sure that the PyUNO bits for OpenOffice.org are installed. On > Fedora 10, this is the "openoffice.org-pyuno" package (go figure). > > 2. Download this helpful script, which I found by googling: > http://www.artofsolving.com/files/DocumentConverter.py > > 3. Do a batch conversion: > > for F in *.doc ; do > H="$(basename "$F" .doc).html" > python DocumentConverter.py "$F" "$H" > done > > Note my little batch command is very similar to the one above; I just > happen to be using the "basename" command, which I think most distros > include. Sorry to reply to myself, but I left out step 2.5: 2.5. Start an OpenOffice service so the script works: :-) ooffice -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;" -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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