[Tfug] Bulk OpenOffice Conversion

[Jim Secan]

At 04:15 PM 5/24/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:51:17PM -0700, Jim Secan wrote:
>> OK, truth-be-told, I was hoping for something really easy along the
lines of:
>> 
>> cat asciiColumn.txt | openoffice --Calc --noGUI --TextIn --ExcelOut >
xxx.xls
>
>Useless use of cat!  Should be `ooffice --Calc --noGUI --TextIn --ExcelOut < 
>asciiColumn.txt > xxx.xls`

Yeah, well I'm anal about left-to-right data flow, and if it means it costs
me 23 nanoseconds of extra CPU to run cat, tough!

>Seriously, though, you've just nailed my number one complaint of
>OpenOffice, Mozilla/Firefox, and the whole breed of GNOME/KDE/etc
>office suites and productivity applications: they're not Unix.  I want
>ooffice to be a library with a GUI bolted on.  I want Firefox to be an
>HTML pager on steroids.  I want to be able to control them, break them
>apart, rebuild them, and extend them into the tools that I need,
>rather than what the designers and developers think I need.

Amen to that.  This is exactly what I'm looking for.  I had hopes for the
pyUNO thing, but it doesn't appear quite ready-for-prime-time.

Jim
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