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Me Myself and I | 1 Mar 2012 08:08

Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


-I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
 including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.

-Where can I find some basic instructions and help for activating these
sorts of abilities from the command line?

-Is it possible to access these without using a command line, but an api
(java, in particular)?
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Hub Figuière | 1 Mar 2012 09:08

Re: Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


On 29/02/12 11:08 PM, Me Myself and I wrote:
> 
> 
> -I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
>  including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
> conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.

Abiword does not support writing .doc anyway, so you can't do from rtf
to .doc.

> -Where can I find some basic instructions and help for activating these
> sorts of abilities from the command line?

http://abisource.com/wiki/Command_line_options

> -Is it possible to access these without using a command line, but an api
> (java, in particular)?

no as is, and unlikely from Java.

Hub
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Martin Sevior | 1 Mar 2012 12:50

Re: Questions about command line abilities and rtf conversion.


Actually you can script abiword using the abicommand plugin.

See:

http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiCommand

The advantage of this is that you don't need to unload/reload abiword
to do your document processing.

We use it extensively in our

http://abicollab.net

web service.

Cheers

Martin

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Hub Figuière <hfiguiere <at> teaser.fr> wrote:
>
> On 29/02/12 11:08 PM, Me Myself and I wrote:
>>
>>
>> -I have learned that abiword comes with a number of command line utilities,
>>  including its ability to activate the internal implementation for
>> conversion of Microsoft .doc to .rtf (file formats), and vice versa.
>
> Abiword does not support writing .doc anyway, so you can't do from rtf

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