Hi Tom, a little warning (GNU/Linux): Dont use headless soffice while soffice is running in a visible window. It might screw up your window dimensions, when opening the next window i.e. in writer. I had soffice headless run by a script in the background for faxes and it drove me crazy. Now I am using an older version of LO in parallel for headless fax spooling.
Yours Walther Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2014 schrieb Tom Davies: > 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
