[ILUG] Open Office macro question...

[Darragh Sherwin]

Braun,

On Mar 29, 2005 2:44 PM, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at openapp.biz> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to do the following:
> 
> I'm writing a perl script that will take a star office document and
> convert it to an MS Office document on the fly.
> 
> I have a macro that converts Soffice to MSOffice that I took from the
> oooconv.de.  I've also got OO running in headless mode on my linux
> machine.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out the correct command line evocation to convert the
> doc.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> soffice mydoc.sxw --macro <my macro here>
> 
In OpenOffice.org 2.0/ StarOffice 8, you can run soffice with a macro
URL, something like
soffice mydoc.sxw "macro://Standard.Library.mymacro" 
For more on this, see http://framework.openoffice.org

Darragh