Re: command line conversion

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:33:20AM +0200, Aubrey Kilian wrote:
> *SNIP*
> > > How about making Gnumeric able to be used as a command-line tool? I believe
> > > Gnumeric is one of the best spreadsheet format converters on Linux platforms,
> > > so it would be nice to use it in some scripts, to convert from plain-text to
> > > XLS files... ;-)
> *SNIP*
> > I believe Jody has this in his sights, but it is still a little while
> > away.
>
> Does anybody know if "Jody" ever got around to doing this?  Almost two years
> have passed since then, and rummaging through the user manual and the mailing
> list turned up nothing much more...
>
> The issue is to be able to use gnumeric as a command-line tool to be able
> to convert from one spreadsheet format to another...
>
> Anybody have any ideas?  I have a specific Excel spreadsheet (Office XP I think)
> that I've tried putting through many many other converter utilities (ALL of the
> ones in the FreeBSD ports at least), and none of them can actually process this
> specific spreadsheet...  Yes, I can open it in excel and then save as, but
> what's the point in that?  I receive this spreadsheet from a customer on a
> regular basis...

We're still working on it.
The development tree is now well arranged to support this, but none
of us have focused on it.  I'll see if I can work it into some
changes to the i/o subsystem that will start shortly.