On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:07:39 +0100 "Josh Blacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an open office file that I'm constantly updating and sharing > with a friend. Emailing it to him every so often is a chore - what I > want is a cron script to do this for me, say every evening. Any ideas? > [As he's on a mac without oo.org, ideally it would save it as a pdf > first...]
Open office can be scripted from a bunch of different languages, a python example to convert an OOo file to pdf is available at http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter Once you have the pdf you need a way of sending it. I'd got for a python script, but it can be done in another language or using a mail application. There is an example in python at: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/757 Once you have a script that will do the conversion and mail the file you need to set up a cron job to trigger the script. A short intro to cron: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. --Schroedinger's wife -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
