Re: Converting files...

Hi Braun,

I don't know what your problem with the plugin is, but
I can tell you a few things:

1) You can use AbiWord to convert between different
formats on the command line. To do this, you need to
do:

AbiWord --to=rtf file.sxw

This will convert file.sxw to RTF. Substitute "rtf"
with the extension of whatever format you want to
convert into.

2) AbiWord's OpenOffice importer is crap (I should
know, I wrote it...). If you care about fidelity or
anything of the sort, you shouldn't go this route.

Best,
Dom

--- Braun Brelin <bbrelin@openapp.biz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've downloaded abiword-2.2.5 onto my Linux (Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 4)
> system. I installed it from the RPM.
>
> I also downloaded the abiword-plugin rpm and the
> abiword-openwriter plugin
> RPM.
>
> I can't, however, seem to get this to work
> correctly. WHen I run Abiword
> and open the plugin manager, the openwriter plugin
> isn't listed as being
> installed and I can't seem to install it manually.
> I just get a pop up
> window sayhing "Could not activate/load plugin".
>
> The openwriter plugin rpm basically puts some .so
> and .la files into the
> /usr/share/AbiSource/AbiWord/plugins directory, but
> even when I browse to
> that directory in the plugin manager, it doesn't
> seem to recognize the
> files.
>
> Also, I'd like to know how to convert star office to
> .abw files on the
> command line. It is just: abiword-2.2 -t abw
> <myfile.sxw>?
>
> The real bottom line is that I'm trying to write a
> script to convert star
> office documents to MS Office (Don't ask why, it's a
> political thing) and
> I was hoping to use Abiword to accomplish this task
> rather than trying to
> use Open Office directly because it's such a hassle
> (Running a headless OO
> instance, writing Java scripts with the UNO API,
> etc...)
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> Braun Brelin
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 31 19:49:50 2005