Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread jomali
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote: > On 10/20/2012 12:53 PM, jomali wrote: > > > >> >> I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes, >> Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use >> spaces (if this can be done on the com

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/20/2012 12:53 PM, jomali wrote: > > > > I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes, > Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use > spaces (if this can be done on the command line then calc works. > Impress > needs

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/20/2012 01:02 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > On 20/10/2012 at 20:53, jomali wrote: > >> A text export would be so rarely used >> that I doubt you could get any developer to be interested in adding such a >> feature. > Especially since you can just take ODP file, unzip it and strip all XML t

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 20/10/2012 at 20:53, jomali wrote: > A text export would be so rarely used > that I doubt you could get any developer to be interested in adding such a > feature. Especially since you can just take ODP file, unzip it and strip all XML tags from content.xml file inside. Of course result wil

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread jomali
> > > I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes, > Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use > spaces (if this can be done on the command line then calc works. Impress > needs a text export. > > In Calc: 1. Save As... 2. Choose to save as c

Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp

2012-10-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/19/2012 11:32 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Trever, > > Why do you need text? Because a typical slide has text not only in the > presentation objects but also in graphic objects, it seem useless to > me. I do not see an export filter to text in the UI. Where do you find > an information abo

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/20/2012 11:25 AM, Joel Madero wrote: > This will never get looked at unfortunately unless you report it to > freedesktop. > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ > > Make sure to be very concise in what you are requesting. > > Regards, > Joel > Joel, Thank you very much for helping know where thi

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Joel Madero
This will never get looked at unfortunately unless you report it to freedesktop. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Make sure to be very concise in what you are requesting. Regards, Joel On 10/20/2012 10:22 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote: On 10/19/2012 09:08 PM, anne-ology wrote: One suggesti

BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

2012-10-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/19/2012 09:08 PM, anne-ology wrote: >One suggestion: > convert to .pdf - > from here you can view all in order to do whatever; >as: 'select all' text --> delete; the images would > remain yet the text would be gone. >Then you cou

Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp

2012-10-19 Thread anne-ology
One suggestion: convert to .pdf - from here you can view all in order to do whatever; as: 'select all' text --> delete; the images would remain yet the text would be gone. Then you could 'save as' in whatever form you desire. On Fri, O

Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp

2012-10-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Trever, Trever L. Adams schrieb: Hello Everyone, I am strugling with something. I need to dump the text out of presentation files (Impress, PowerPoint, anything that LibreOffice Impress can read). The problem, I can convert to pdf, but not text. Is there any reason why? After all, grabbing

[libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp

2012-10-19 Thread Trever L. Adams
Hello Everyone, I am strugling with something. I need to dump the text out of presentation files (Impress, PowerPoint, anything that LibreOffice Impress can read). The problem, I can convert to pdf, but not text. Is there any reason why? After all, grabbing text strings should be easy. However, I