Re: [Fwd: "ssconvert --export-file-per-sheet --export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv", or better (?) "--export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant" NEEDED!]

[peter kostov <peter light-bg com>]

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.