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On 21:31 Wed 04 Jan , Tom Martin wrote: |
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> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:44:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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> James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > Kind of a strange request, but I have been given a work assignment |
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> > that forces me to keep many documents in .doc format. If I have a dir |
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> > full of these, but I use to lp/lpr style printing, how do I print a |
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> > passel of .doc files without going into OO to load and print each one |
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> > individually? |
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> > |
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> > Command line of a simple script will do, but googling has produced |
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> > nothing. I did not find anything under KDE to acheive this, but, my |
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> > searching for a KDE method is, well lacking.... |
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> > |
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> > ideas? |
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> app-text/wv might be usable -- it can convert docs to PDF or |
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> postscript. If the quality isn't that great (I've never tried it) or |
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> the documents are quite complex, I think you're going to have to find a |
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> way to do it from within OpenOffice. |
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Other options would be antiword and catdoc. |
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You'll probably be able to get something readable as long as the .doc |
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files don't contain tables... |
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