Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] convert xlsx to CSV (and utf8?)

Tom Davies <tomcecf -AT- gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:40:30 +0100

Dohhh again !
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Tom Davies" <tomcecf@gmail.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2017 09:38
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] convert xlsx to CSV (and utf8?)
To: "A" <publicface@bak.rr.com>
Cc:

Hi :)

Sorry about the "One direction" gag.  Attempting humour before my 1st
cuppa tea was unwise and I'm not hip enough to keep up with boy-bands
anyway.

Not all email-clients have a "Reply to List" feature.  I think M$ Outlook
doesn't and ones on hand-helds (such as phones, tablets etc).  Microsquish
users are likely to be by far the largest percentage of new users that are
unfamiliar with our strangeness.
Regards from
a Tom :)

On 29 Aug 2017 09:12, "A" <publicface@bak.rr.com> wrote:

Would it be possible for list users to use "Reply List" and not "Reply
All"?   The latter provides two identical messages; one to the list which
is of course copied to me plus another sent to me directly.  Thank you for
your consideration.



On 08/29/2017 12:59 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
Prolly best to avoid one direction surely?  Anyway didn't they split up
and
go different ways?
Regards from
Tom :)


I have no idea.  The point I'm trying to make is that I investigated one
option.  unoconv was not that option.



On 29 Aug 2017 08:43, "A" <publicface@bak.rr.com> wrote:


Thank you.  I may end up doing that, but I'm trying to avoid it. I picked
one direction (before I knew about unoconv) and I want to see it through
to
the end.  It's supposed to work.  I may be forced to revisit this solution
if all else fails.



On 08/28/2017 12:28 PM, Tony Arnold wrote:

Have you looked at the 'unoconv' command? Specifically designed for

conversion of office documents from one format to another.

(I've come to the thread late, so apologies if this has already been
suggested.)

Regards,
Tony.

On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 10:21 -0700, A wrote:

Thank you for responding.  Yes it opens without issue.


Yet another look at the conversion details made me notice I needed
changes.  Below are two incarnations.  For one thing I had left out
column formatting, which I guess is required?  No difference in any
event.

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
-env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/libreoffice-1 --headless --
nolockcheck
--convert-to txt:Text \(encoded\):UTF8 --infilter=MS Excel
97:44,34,76,1,1/2/2/2,1033,true,false KGI_Discontinued.xlsx
Error: source file could not be loaded
Error: source file could not be loaded
Error: source file could not be loaded
convert /usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.xlsx ->
/usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.txt using filter : Text
Error: Please verify input parameters... (SfxBaseModel::impl_store
<file:///usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.txt> failed:
0xc10)

Also tried:

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
-env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/libreoffice_1 --infilter='MS Excel
97:44,34,76,1,1/2/2/2,1033,true,false' --headless --nolockcheck
--convert-to 'csv:Text - txt - csv (StarCalc):44,34,76,1'
KGI_Discontinued.xlsx
*Error: source file could not be loaded*

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$ ll KGI_Discontinued.xlsx
-rw-rw-r-- 2 apb apb 88334 Aug 18 16:00 KGI_Discontinued.xlsx


Which is an improvement, but not the solution.  All I really did was
rearrange the order of the parameters, change a hyphen to an
underscore
in the tmp file path and change double quotes to single quotes.  I
think
I recall reading somewhere that order matters so that's what likely
eliminated the "verify input parameters" message.  You may also
notice I
changed output from utf8 to csv. I need *both* utf8 & csv.

Maybe I need yet another rearrangement to eliminate the file load
error?

Thank you!



On 08/27/2017 06:41 PM, James Knott wrote:

On 08/27/2017 08:59 PM, A wrote:


I'm trying to convert a file from .xlsx to CSV.  After googling

until
my eyes were bleeding, the below is the best I could come up
with.
I've tried various incarnations of the below this is just the
latest.
Any ideas what's wrong here?  The input file clearly
exists.  ubuntu
16.04 LibreOffice 5.1.6.2 10m0(Build:2)

Thank you in advance!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
-env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/libreoffice-1 --headless
--nolockcheck --convert-to csv:Text \(encoded\):UTF8 --
infilter=MS
Excel 97:44,34,76,1,,1033,true,true,false,false
KGI_Discontinued.xlsx
Error: source file could not be loaded
Error: source file could not be loaded
Error: source file could not be loaded
convert /usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.xlsx ->
/usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.csv using filter :
Text
Error: Please verify input parameters...
(SfxBaseModel::impl_store
<file:///usr/local/src/greetonix/src/KGI_Discontinued.csv>
failed: 0xc10)
apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$ ll KGI_Discontinued.xlsx

-rw-rw-r-- 2 apb apb 88334 Aug 18 16:00 KGI_Discontinued.xlsx

apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$

What happens if you just open the file in LibreOffice?


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Re: [libreoffice-users] convert xlsx to CSV (and utf8?) (continued)
- Re: [libreoffice-users] convert xlsx to CSV · Cley Faye
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