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Re: Perl invoking abiword
by holo (Monk) on Dec 05, 2003 at 09:03 UTC

    This is slightly OT so I won't go into details but IIRC, the command line should be qw/abiword -html/, $file. See man abiword.

    Update: You are right Allolex! My memory betrayed me (++)

      I'm not sure what version of abiword you're using, but I can't find any documentation on the Internet for the -html parameter. It tried it on my build 1.0.4 and it didn't work.

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      Allolex

Re: Perl invoking abiword
by allolex (Curate) on Dec 05, 2003 at 11:57 UTC
      Previous posters fail to note that this is a question about neither Abiword nor Perl but the latest in a series of anonymous posts concerning the conversion of MS Office files to HTML. Specifically, the poster is referring to this post made by chromatic a couple of days ago.

      While Abiword is capable of converting simple .docs to HTML its handling of embedded images is imperfect, hence the question.

      Since MS Office applications are in many cases incompatible with different versions of themselves, automating the required procedure in a way that does not involve using MS tools is likely to be tricky. The W3 maintain a list of word processor filters and, while I cannot personally attest to the quality of any of them, it seems the obvious place to continue this enquiry.

      MB