Re: Using Abiword for conversions

On (15:04 23/12/08), Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
>
>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 is interesting. I've been looking for some way of making rtf from
console so I imagine taking a plain text file made with Vim and then doing
abiword --to=rtf file.txt would work?

>
>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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