.xls to .pdf

fave_17 · General User Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5

Hi, I would like to know how can I convert an excel file to pdf using the command line. I can print to pdf converter if I use the user interface but I want to do it in command line of linux. thanks!

DannyB · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject:

See these threads....

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3772

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5513

All you have to change is the export filter name in the macro. In the first link above, see where the code says....

MakePropertyValue( "FilterName", "writer_pdf_Export" )

replace "writer_pdf_Export" with one of the filters from the list...
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3549
probably "calc_pdf_Export".
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fave_17 · General User Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5

can I have a linux script of the windows batch file from the first link?

DannyB · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject:

Yes. I'll do that, probably, sometime tomorrow. Probably in between breaks to check out what is happening in the SCO vs. IBM hearing.
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fave_17 · General User Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5

thanks!

I already changed the writer_pdf_Export to calc_pdf_Export. I tried to run the macro in BASIC but the calc_pdf_Export is not recognized.

I used your code in http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3549 to see if my computer have calc_pdf_Export. It does not have calc_pdf_Export.

Where can I get it? thanks again!

DannyB · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

In order to have any of the PDF export filters, you must be on OOo version 1.1.
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Want to make OOo Drawings like the colored flower design to the left?

fave_17 · General User Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5

Thanks! I downloaded ver 1.1 and it works.