Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs



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On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Bill <bill3@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]:
Hi folks,

I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail
merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be
faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can
handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a looping script using efax
which uses ps/tiff input and that works. But I can't find a
utility to convert OOo .swx files to ps. Any suggestions?
I've googled my fingers off.
.sxw would be the old Star Office format files so modern tools would
probably work with .odt files which are Open Document Format (ODF).
Other than opening the files in OOo and printing to a file. which
results in a .ps output, there doesn't seem to be an outside converter.

- Nate >>
Yes this is an older version of OO but like you say there
isn't an external filter such as pdf2ps. The problem though
remains the same - bulk conversion - so the export to pdf and
print to file .ps options are useless because they're done one
at a time. It would take me a week to get the job done.

It's a definite shortcoming in OO.

AbiWord might be able to do what you want.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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