Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Bulk conversion

Before continuing the “API saga” I needed to have an infrastructure to be able to load a bulk of documents and save them using a certain filter. For me the reason was mainly for testing purposes, however its very convenient for “bulk conversion” too.
The syntax is:

./soffice.bin -bulk [targetDir]/[filterName].[targetExt] [dir] ... [dir]


E.g. the following call will convert all *.odt documents from /home/freuter/tmp/ to “/home/freuter/tmp/out/*.doc” documents using the “MS Word 97” filter:

./soffice.bin -bulk "/home/freuter/tmp/out/MS Word 97.doc" /home/freuter/tmp/*.odt


This command will convert all ~/tmp/*.doc documents to ~/tmp/out/*.odt using the ODF converter:

./soffice.bin -bulk ~/tmp/out/writer8.odt ~/tmp/*.doc


And finally this call will convert all ~/tmp/*.doc document to ~/tmp/out/*.pdf PDF document using the “ writer_pdf_Export” filter:

./soffice.bin -bulk ~/tmp/out/writer_pdf_Export.pdf ~/tmp/*.doc


The patch is here. I additionally fixed a bug in the m_nRequestCount logic and I enabled it in the [Experimental] section.

4 comments:

Bodo said...

Hello Florian,

your bulk conversion looks interesting, but why you use the target as first argument?
i would expect it the other way around:
./soffice.bin -bulk [dir] ... [dir] [targetDir]/[filterName].[targetExt]

Florian Reuter said...

Hi Bodo,

I used the "-pt" [print to] command line parameter as a template and here its "-pt [pintername] [dir]...[dir]". So that basically the reasons for the syntax ;-)

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