On 21:31 Wed 04 Jan , Tom Martin wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:44:05 +0000 (UTC) > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
