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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Abiword imported the doc file but wvware is CLI and converts
> > without having to go into X, open a file, and click on it.
> >
> >
> > wvware filename.doc > filename.html  2 sec later you have a .png
> > file and a matching html file if you started with a page of WORD
> > consisting of just one scanned image.  How would I do this in batch
> > mode?
>
> -----------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> for i; do wvware $i > $i.html; done
> -----------------------------------

I am going to need to compile this for linux first.  (No /bin/sh in DOS). 
wvware requires libpng and I will compile for BL2 (with glibc2.2.5).  The 
netpbm pngtopnm and pnmtopng you compiled most recently require libpng 
which I think you compiled for libc5.  libpng.so.3.  I have libpng.so.2 
from SW7.1 in BL2.  How would I go about compiling dynamically so 
that I used libpng.so.2 other than by simply not having libpng.so.3 on the 
computer?  Or should I compile statically (for libz and libpng) so that 
wvware will also work in BL3 once you add glibc 2.2.5?

I am thinking of using the statically compiled pngotpnm/pnmtopng with my 
netpbm  package but then having a second add-on package  just for BL3 
which overwrites those files with the dynamically compiled one while 
adding libpng (for libc5), and also omitting the tiff programs and library 
from the main package but including them in the add-on package.  Some day 
if you want to compile the tiff programs statically (or explain to me how 
to compile just those files and not the whole package) I can put them in 
the main package.  That way there would be no problems of having a libc5 
-dependent tiff or png library in BL2, which when I symlinked to it kept 
links2 from delinux from working (it needs a glibc version).

> Suppose that you write the above to /usr/bin/wvbatch. Then add executable
> permissions. Now, running wvbatch 1.doc 2.doc would be equivalent to:
>
> wvware 1.doc > 1.doc.html
> wvware 2.doc > 2.doc.html

Could I do this with files named abc.doc def.doc etc. or must they be 
sequentially numbered?  The ones I have now are Doc1.doc Doc2.doc.

> To use a different extension than doc.html, you'd probably need a sed
> script, too.

I don't care what the output .html files are named when I am only 
interested in the accompanying .png files.  Each html file here consists 
of a link to a .png file.  I don't know whether the png file from Doc2.doc 
(the first of one) will come out named differently from the one from 
Doc1.doc - will have to experiment some more.  At least I now have netpbm 
to print the png files (pngtopnm, pbmtolj).  I can't think of any way to 
do a 1-pass convert (doc to html and png) and print the png (via pbm). 
This is getting too complicated to follow.

Luckily we are getting the beginnings of 6" snow so I have time to play 
with this today.

> David
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