[plug] probably very simple perl question

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 20:24, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> For just a few files, there's Open Office... if there's lots of them
> that'd be clumsy though.  I've no idea how easy it is to script OO to
> do batch conversions.

OpenOffice can be run from the command line and used to execute macros,
etc. In the OO.o help, check out the "command line parameters" entry
(it's there as of a recent OO.o680 build; I can't check 1.1 right now).

Additionally, there's the Python UNO gateway for OO.o. It comes
pre-packaged with OO.o. For time reasons I haven't done more than idly
play with it so far, but my impression is it's worth looking into for
what you want.

Maybe a search of the OO.o Users list archive might be useful.

Craig Ringer