Hello Jody, thank you for your answer! I am looking forward eagerly to any improvements in Gnumeric and ssconvert! Unfortunately I am not a C coder and can not help with the development :(
Best Regards, Peter Kostov On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:37 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote: > Apologies for not responding sooner my keyboard time has been > limited lately. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:55:51AM +0200, peter kostov wrote: > > > > I urgently need to find a way to export many MS Exel files grouped in > > directories in plain text format. > > > > I use gnumeric version '1.2.13' on Fedora Core 3. > > > > ssconvert --export-file-per-sheet --export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv > > should be O.K. but the option --export-file-per-sheet does not work, or > > does not even exist in this version, or I am doing something wrong? > That argument was added in 1.4.x, but looking at the code it is not > implemented. I'll whip up a quick patch to add it for 1.4.4. > > > The separator used in the text files must be something different from > > the default "," (coma), because there are comas in the values of the > > cells, and I don`t want to lose the structure of the document. > Unsupported right now. We need to add a way to have cmd-line flags > for the exporters. It's on the list but no-one has taken up the > task. > > > What about "--export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant"? It produces empty > > files, I don`t know why. Are there any export flags available, e.g. > > using different separator, line termination or encoding? (I know the man > > page says "no export flags" for this version of ssconvert.) > That is totally untested, and even if it did work I doubt it would > help you for a mass conversion. Having that dialog appear dozens of > times seems counter productive. Your best bet would be to just edit > stf_write_csv in src/stf.c and recompile. > > > Is there a newer and better version of ssconvert? > There is a new version in 1.4.x that contains all the improvements > associated with 1.4 vs 1.2 > > > Can I get it without upgrading Gnumeric? > Unfortuantely not. ssconvert is a thin wrapper around the core of > gnumeric. > > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
