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Old 02-17-2010, 04:51 PM   #1
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I know that under ms-windows that calibre can convert doc to other file types via Word. Koffice has the same functionality. How would one make calibre talk to Koffice so that one-button doc conversion can be had under linux? Is it just an issue of calling Koffice with options via python or is it a lot more complex?
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Old 02-17-2010, 04:57 PM   #2
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calibre doesn't convert doc on windows either. But it should be relatively easy to make a custom input format plugin that uses another program to convert doc to html first.
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Old 02-17-2010, 10:50 PM   #3
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I don't know how easy it would be to do this with KOffice, but using AbiWord, I've got a very simple bash script set up to do conversion from .doc to .html (with AbiWord) and from .html to whatever (with calibre's commandline).

E.g. save this as
~/bin/docconvert.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
filein="$1"
fileout="$2"
abiword --to=html $filein
ebook-convert ${filein%.doc}.html $fileout
Then from the command-line, something like:

docconvert.sh myfile.doc myfile.epub

will convert from .doc to epub.

This could of course be improved a zillion different ways, and can of course, be one of the associated applications for .doc files in nautilus to skip having to open a terminal.
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Old 02-18-2010, 07:25 AM   #4
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excellent, many thanks. Didn't twig that abiword can do this
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Old 02-18-2010, 09:29 AM   #5
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For a command line conversion of Word documents prior to docx you can use antiword

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
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Old 02-18-2010, 03:19 PM   #6
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If it wasn't clear, AbiWord can do .docx from the commandline too. You may need to tweak the script above for it, though.
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:55 AM   #7
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thanks for the tips guys. been a long while since I used antiword
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I use "antiword -x db" to convert to docbook, then db2epub to convert to epub and then ebook-convert to convert to lrf. You lose all images but most of the format and the chapter structure stays. Sweet and easy!
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You lose all images ...
I'm afraid that would be a deal breaker to me.
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