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frabjous · 02-17-2010, 10:50 PM

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.

02-17-2010, 10:50 PM	#3
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	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.