[gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[James]

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?
James

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[Tom Martin]

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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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[David Morgan]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Le 04 janvier à 21:44:05 James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> écrit notamment:

| 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?

have a look at question 9.1 here:

http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html#Misc0

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[James]

Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean <at> bornier.net> writes:


> 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?

> http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html#Misc0


Excellent, Thanks for the script and to everyone that answered with ideas.


James




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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files

[Richard Fish]

On 1/4/06, 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?

Use "oowriter2 -p" or "oowriter2 -pt"

-Richard

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