Hi Joe,
I'm also running Win 7 64 bit, and my LO (4.1.1.2) executable sits under
c:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe
running that with the "--help" parameter gives a dialog window with a
bunch of options, too many for the dialog window, which doesn't have a
scroll bar, so I can't see them all. It even writes over the close
button. There seems to be a bug...
Also, the close button cannot actually be clicked...
Luckily, at the bottom just before it gets cut off I see the
following, which, as I can't actually copy any of the text, is typed
out and may contain a spelling error or two, plus is badly formatted:
--convert-to output_file_extension[:output_filter_name] [--outdir
output_dir] files
Batch convert files.
If --outdir is not specified then current working dir is used as
output_dir.
Eg. --convert-to pdf *.doc
--convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export --outdir /home/user *.doc
This seems to be what you need. You should be able to put all the files
in one directory and run LO with the parameter "--convert-to pdf
*.htm", possibly giving another directory as outdir, and possibly with
the --headless parameter.
Hope this helps.
Paul
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:56:32 -0500
Joe B <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> Thanks for being so nice and offering your help.
>
> Yes, I am running Windows 7 64 bit.
>
> My cmd.exe does not recognize "lowriter", but it does recognize
> "soffice". When I typed "soffice --help", a window pops up called
> "Help Message" It lists the LibreOffice version I am using. Then it
> says : "Usage: soffice [options] [documents...]"
> Then there is a list of options flags. But the list is quite
> short...only a page. There's nothing in it about batch processing.
> I really didn't glean anything from it.
>
> I followed the link you gave me to
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmersand
> ...well it's pretty overwhelming. I then followed the link for
> "Andrew
> Pitonyak's macro page", hoping that he might have some pre-baked code
> to run as a macro in LibreOffice to batch convert files between
> different formats. I downloaded his "Useful Macro Information" file,
> but it's 518 pages! I did look through the contents to try to find
> something about batch processing or file format changing, but there
> is nothing.
>
> So...I'm stumped on what to do next.
>
> Secondly, I should clarify more the files I'm starting with. I
> believe they were written in Microsoft Word from...whatever version
> existed in the 90s. Then at some later point, the files were somehow
> converted to this crazy Microsoft XML format, but saved with an
> ".htm" file extension. The files are full of bizarre Microsoft
> Server-specific instructions that just totally break the webpage.
> I'm using Apache as my server, not Microsoft Server, and Apache can't
> understand all those weird Microsoft Server-specific commands like:
> xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
> xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
> xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
>
> I understand that file attachments are not allowed. If it would help
> to get a look at the source code for one of these files, just so you
> have some inkling of what I'm talking about, I can try to post it
> somewhere for you to take a gander at.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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]
> >>>
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