From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 09:38:06 EST
Just out of curiousity, why do we need this, since we
already have:
AbiWord --to=format file.doc?
Thanks,
Dom
--- msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> > En/na msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au ha escrit:
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> >> New abicommand feature - converttotext.
> >>
> >> Usage from within AbiCommand:
> >>
> >> converttotext source dest
> >>
> >> Converts the word processor file <source> and
> converts to the plain text
> >> file
> >> <dest>
> >> If <dest> is ommitted the destination file is
> source.txt
> >>
> >> This is useful for indexing a users documents.
> Now we just need some
> >> clever IPC code to feed
> >> AbiWord-2.2 --plugin AbiCommand
> >>
> >> whatever file needs indexing.
> >>
> >> Over to you nadav!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >
> > Do we need something special to make this work on
> non-unix platforms or is
> > complete XP code?
> >
> Hi Jordi,
>
> The AbiCommand plugin needs UnixNullGraphics which
> is Unix only. I *think*
> it might be possible to make it XP but at the time I
> wrote the code, there
> wasn't much interest in a command-line interface to
> AbiWord outside Unix.
> (and not much within the Unix users either...)
>
> It would be trivial to add another command line
> option to convert to any
> of the formats we can write to.
>
> With a bit of unix pipe magic we turn AbiWord into a
> server to transmute
> documents from any to any of our formats. We do
> this using Dom's ultra
> cool AP_Convert class and never have to build the
> layouts. With our speedy
> new piecetable methods, this is also very fast. This
> has many uses, the
> one being persued by nadav, me and the dashboard
> project is to index all a
> users documents based on content. A personal google
> for your desktop :-)
>
> > BTW, I finally fill up three bug reports with
> diferents documents that
> > make
> > Abi crash badly. I have more of those, but I want
> to wait until you guys
> > fix
> > these three.
> >
>
> I saw them thanks! I'll do a deal with you.
> Fix Windows HEAD so
> we can release 2.1.0 and I'll spend some time seeing
> why the docs
> crash :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
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