SSCONVERT

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.

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
-T, --export-type=ID: Specify which exporter to use; see below for a list.

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 IDS

Gnumeric_xml_sax:xml_sax: EXPERIMENTAL SAX based Gnumeric (*.gnumeric)
Gnumeric_dif:dif: Data Interchange Format (*.dif)
Gnumeric_html:roff: TROFF (*.me)
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_Excel:excel_dsf: MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP & 5.0/95
Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff8: MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP
Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff7: MS Excel (tm) 5.0/95
Gnumeric_stf:stf: Text export (configurable)
Gnumeric_XmlIO:gnum_xml: Gnumeric XML file format

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/.