ssconvert

Langue: en

Version: 113650 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

ssconvert - a command line spreadsheet format converter

SYNOPSIS

ssconvert [OPTIONS] infile outfile

DESCRIPTION

ssconvert is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats. It is a companion utility to Gnumeric, the powerful spreadsheet program created by the GNOME project.

ssconvert accepts either file names or URIs as infile outfile. The special URIs fd://0 and fd://1 can be used for standard input and standard output respectively.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options starting with two dashes (`--').

Main options

--list-exporters
List the available exporters (file formats)
--list-importers
List the available importers (file formats)
-E, --import-encoding=STRING
Specify an encoding for imported content. This is only necessary when the right encoding does not follow from the input file name.
-T, --export-type=ID
Specify which exporter to use; see below for a list. This is only necessary when the right encoding does not follow from the output file name.
--recalc
Recalculate all formulas before writing.

Help options

-v, --version
Display ssconvert's version
-h, --help, --usage
Display a brief usage message

Path options

-L, --lib-dir=STRING
Set the root library directory
-D, --data-dir=STRING
Adjust the root data directory

LIST OF IMPORTANT IDS

Gnumeric_XmlIO:sax
Gnumeric XML file format
Gnumeric_Excel:excel_dsf
MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP & 5.0/95
Gnumeric_pdf:pdf_assistant
Portable Document Format
Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv
Comma Separated Values

LIST OF LESS IMPORTANT IDS

Gnumeric_sylk:sylk
Multiplan
Gnumeric_Excel:xlsx
MS Excel (tm) 2007
Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff8
MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP
Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff7
MS Excel (tm) 5.0/95
Gnumeric_dif:dif
Data Interchange Format (*.dif)
Gnumeric_html:roff
TROFF (*.me)
Gnumeric_html:latex_table
LaTeX 2e (*.tex) table fragment
Gnumeric_html:latex
LaTeX 2e (*.tex)
Gnumeric_html:xhtml_range
XHTML range - for export to clipboard
Gnumeric_html:xhtml
XHTML (*.html)
Gnumeric_html:html40frag
HTML (*.html) fragment
Gnumeric_html:html40
HTML 4.0 (*.html)
Gnumeric_html:html32
HTML 3.2 (*.html)
Gnumeric_OpenCalc:openoffice
OpenDocument/OpenOffice (*.ods)
Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant
Text export (configurable)

EXAMPLE

To convert the gnumeric file foo.gnumeric to a Microsoft Excel(TM) file foo.xls:

ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_Excel:excel_dsf foo.gnumeric foo.xls

BUGS

ssconvert is a recent addition to Gnumeric. Its main limitation is that there is currently no provision for importer or exporter specific flags.

LICENSE

ssconvert is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page at http://www.gnu.org/.

The copyright on the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code.

AUTHOR

ssconvert's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>; ssconvert builds on the gnumeric codebase.

The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

gnumeric(1)

The Gnumeric Homepage at http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

The GNOME project page at http://www.gnome.org/