Hi :) Ahh, just spotted the give-away ".exe" so it sounds like you are using Windows. It is still worth trying the "--help" tag to see if you do get a quick-help cheat-sheet.
Let us know either way! :) Regards from Tom :) On 10 April 2014 14:26, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > We call it "headless mode". Errr, which OS are you using? Is it a > Windows or a Gnu&Linux or Mac? > > Headless mode can be scripted and there might even be a thread in the > archives that shows a decent script worth copying. I think the better way > is to try using LibreOffice on the command-line and get it doing more and > more until you've figured it out. For example does > soffice > or > lowriter > work from the command-line? On my Gnu&Linux both work but some OSes might > be limited to using just 1 of those. Then try, for example > lowriter --help > to get a quick cheat-sheet of options. > > Hopefully people on this list can help but there might also be > documentation at > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers > or scroll up a bit to see what is in the "Corporate Users" section of the > page. > > > Attachments don't get to the mailing-list anyway! You can use Nabble to > upload them to a central place so that people can choose to look if they > want. > > > I would try to keep the original documents in MS format so that if there > is any problem with some tiny subset of all the ones being converted then > you can focus on those and do them with a bit more finesse. However from > Doc, Xls etc to Odt, Ods etc should work reasonably well. > > It's the DocX, XlsX etc that is a bit more unpredictable thanks to MS's > constant changing of that format (currently on at least 3 different > "transistional" versions and at least 1 "strict" none of which seem to > fully comply with their ISO promise). Even with those i think a > batch-process using a scripted headless mode is the best plan and then deal > with individual oddities later. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 10 April 2014 13:30, Joe B <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> This is my first post. >> >> I am working on migrating a website. I am trying to convert many files >> written in an old version of MS Word, which were then saved as old >> Microsoft 2002/2003 XML files. The files were saved using an .htm >> extension. The files are filled with Microsoft xml crud. (I will just >> refer to them as .htm files for the rest of this e-mail) >> >> I found a simple solution, in simply opening the file in LibreOffice >> Writer, and re-saving the file in HTML Document (Writer) (.html) format. >> Now the files work great. >> >> I don't want to do this one file at a time obviously, as there are >> hundreds >> of these .htm files. I am trying to figure out a way to do this for >> multiple files in a folder...I think the term is "batch processing". >> >> In other words, have a script that will: >> 1. iterate through each .htm file in a folder >> 2. open the file in LibreOffice Writer >> 3. save the .htm file in HTML Document (Writer)(.html) format >> 4. close the file >> 5. iterate over all the remaining files in the folder until all files have >> had their formats changed >> >> Is there a way to do this via a command line script. Or by creating a >> batch file? >> >> I'm sorry, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to the command line or >> batch >> files. I know how to open LibreOffice Writer.exe from the command line >> with one argument, which will open that document, but that's about it. >> >> I have some experience in other scripting languages, like Python, Perl, >> etc, but not windows scripting. I am having a very difficult time getting >> this to work in Python, so I thought I would come here and try to ask for >> guidance. >> >> I could attach a copy of one of the .htm files that I am converting if >> that >> would help, but don't want to attach a file in my very first e-mail. >> >> thank you, >> Joe >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
