Re: shell tool OpenOffice2PS?

[Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>]

On 12/08/2005 10:20 AM, Robert Michel wrote:
> Salve!
> 
> Does anybody knows a tool to convert OOo documents to PS without GUI?
> On my laptop is not much space and such a converter could be handy to 
> have on a server.
> 
> And btw, does somebody knows a good overview about converters to make 
> life more easier on workstations (have to support only a few formats).
> 
> Greetings
> rob

Rob,

You /should/ be able to do that from command line with a suitable
printer or script.  Man oowriter:

>  -p filename...
>               Prints  the  given  files  to  the default printer and ends. The
>               splash screen does not appear.
> 
>               If the file name contains spaces, then it must  be  enclosed  in
>               quotation marks.
> 
>        -pt printername filename...
>               Prints  the given files to the printer printername and ends. The
>               splash screen does not appear.


However, in confirming this, I noted a bug and just filed #342594:
openoffice.org-writer: Ignores command -pt printer_name; prints to
default printer)

While there should be a better way, you could set cups-pdf as default,
then oowriter -p file | pdftops.

Regards,
Ralph