Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)
On 05/10/2007 09:07 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Amy Templeton wrote:
> [large snip]
[large snip]
>> So even if I were willing to go through the rigamarole of layer
>> after layer of menus and mouse clicks to get to what I want to
>> read, it's only a band-aid, and one that could fall off any day.
>> And (since band-aids are TOTALLY addictive; okay, maybe the
>> band-aid was a bad metaphor. Pain killers, perhaps?) I don't want
>> to get hooked and used to depending on such a system when that day
>> comes.
>
> You could install Openoffice.org and run it from the CLI.
> - From man oowriter:
>
> /---------------
> -pt printername filename...
> Prints the given files to the printer printername and
> ends. The splash screen does not appear.
>
> If the file name contains spaces, then it must be enclosed
> in quotation marks.
> \---------------
>
> Just configure your printer to output a pdf and/or parse that pdf to
> pdftotext to extract the text.
>
[snip]
Actually, 'oowriter -pt printername filename' is known to be broken;
see bug 342594 openoffice.org-writer: Ignores command -pt printer_name
Regards,
Ralph
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