Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

This will never get looked at unfortunately unless you report it to 
freedesktop.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

Make sure to be very concise in what you are requesting.

Regards,
Joel

On 10/20/2012 10:22 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 09:08 PM, anne-ology wrote:
> >         One suggestion:
> >              convert to .pdf -
> >                  from here you can view all in order to do whatever;
> >                     as: 'select all' text --> delete; the images would
> > remain yet the text would be gone.
> >         Then you could 'save as' in whatever form you desire.
> Hello All,
>
> Unfortunately, as stated, this is for batch jobs. Converting to PDF is
> an option (only because of other filters such as pdftotext). The problem
> with that, is this is a system that will be used heavily. Every
> conversion setup will slow things down and possibly cause loss of
> context of the text (where such context exists).
>
> I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes,
> Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use
> spaces (if this can be done on the command line then calc works. Impress
> needs a text export.
>
> Why? It is text, let me get it out easily. Why not through <insert
> convoluted conversion chain>? Because, the text, as I understood it, is
> stored in UTF-8 in all ODT/ODS/ODP, etc. formats. Is this true for files
> imported (Word, Excel, etc.)? I don't know. If I just needed the Open
> Document formats, I would use odt2txt, ods2txt, odp2txt, etc. (I believe
> I have seen all of them). However, I need fast, one-stop conversion to
> UTF-8 text for all office formats that LibreOffice can read.
>
> My feature request: Please, implement conversion to text for Impress and
> Calc as well. As stated, just dump the text out of ODP (use a newline or
> other whitespace character between text objects and slides, otherwise
> just straight text). For ODS, csv export works if the comma can be
> replaced by a space.
>
> If a bug report belongs elsewhere, I am sorry. I was unable to find a
> bugzilla or similar and this seemed the best list for it.
>
> Thank you,
> Trever Adams


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