Re: Using Abiword for conversions

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com> wrote:
>
> I've been looking for a command line tool to convert word docs to ps or pdf
> that I can then pump into ghostscript to produce jpegs. I had used antiword
> some time ago but it does not support UTF-8 with ps or pdf.
>
> Does abiword allow it to be used in this means? Can it take a command line
> argument to convert a document?

Yup, a lot of work has been put into this (as well as using AbiWord as
a print server). The syntax is something like:

abiword --to=pdf file.doc

This will produce a PDF file called "file.pdf". It works with any of
AbiWord's supported file formats. So you can convert a document in any
format AbiWord can read into a document in any format AbiWord can
write. Which is quite a lot.

I strongly recommend using the latest AbiWord 2.6 release. I'm happy
to answer any other questions you might have about this feature
off-list.

Best,
Dom
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Received on Tue Dec 23 21:04:20 2008