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Now that OpenOffice.org 2 is getting more and more popular, people is starting to migrate and to write documents in ODT format. However, for people who still aren’t able to install OO2 on their machines (outdated distros, outdated hardware or whatever) it’s a pain to receive such documents by email.<\/p>\n
It would be nice to have a tool that allows command line document conversion. So, a company can have that tool installed on a centralized host and the users would ssh into it in order to convert documents. to old formats or even to PDF.<\/p>\n
Browsing the web, I have found an article telling exactly how to do that<\/a>. I’ve tried the instructions and all worked fine.<\/p>\n I went beyond and move the macros to a common place (\/opt\/openoffice.org2.0\/presets\/basic\/ConvertidorPDF), so they can be used by all users without the need to install them in every account. You may need to edit some script.xlb files to make it work, just have a look about how it has been done for the other macros and macro libraries.<\/p>\n In addition to that, I wrote a script and put it in \/usr\/local\/bin, so all users can now convert documents to the format they like without the need to launch any window.<\/p>\n I stopped here, but I’ve great ideas in mind: create a kind of CGI, maybe in PHP, and publish a webpage in our intranet, so everyone could go there, submit his or her document, and receive a PDF or an older format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that OpenOffice.org 2 is getting more and more popular, people is starting to migrate and to write documents in ODT format. However, for people who still aren’t able to install OO2 on their machines (outdated distros, outdated hardware or whatever) it’s a pain to receive such documents by email. It would be nice to … Continue reading Converting OpenOffice documents using command line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}