From: David Morgan <david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:41:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104214105.GA15114@sif.dynalias.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060104213105.60c673e8@pohl.lj.net>
On 21:31 Wed 04 Jan , Tom Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:44:05 +0000 (UTC)
> James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Kind of a strange request, but I have been given a work assignment
> > that forces me to keep many documents in .doc format. If I have a dir
> > full of these, but I use to lp/lpr style printing, how do I print a
> > passel of .doc files without going into OO to load and print each one
> > individually?
> >
> > Command line of a simple script will do, but googling has produced
> > nothing. I did not find anything under KDE to acheive this, but, my
> > searching for a KDE method is, well lacking....
> >
> > ideas?
>
> app-text/wv might be usable -- it can convert docs to PDF or
> postscript. If the quality isn't that great (I've never tried it) or
> the documents are quite complex, I think you're going to have to find a
> way to do it from within OpenOffice.
>
Other options would be antiword and catdoc.
You'll probably be able to get something readable as long as the .doc
files don't contain tables...
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 20:44 [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files James
2006-01-04 21:31 ` Tom Martin
2006-01-04 21:41 ` David Morgan [this message]
2006-01-05 5:13 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2006-01-05 14:31 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-01-05 15:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish
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