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PROGRAM:

NAME

ssconvert - a command line spreadsheet format converter

SYNOPSIS

ssconvert [OPTIONS] infile outfile

ssconvert [OPTIONS] --merge-to outfile infile1 infile2 ...

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.

ssconvert accepts either file names or URIs as infile outfile. The special URIs fd://0 and
fd://1 can be used for standard input and standard output respectively.

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
--recalc
Recalculate all cells before writing the result.

--list-exporters
List the available exporters (file formats that can be written).

-T, --export-type=ID
Specify which exporter to use; see below for a list. This is only necessary when
the right format does not follow from the output file name.

-O, --export-options=optionsstring
Specify parameters for the chosen exporter. optionsstring is a list of
parameter=value pairs, separated by spaces. The parameter names and values allowed
are specific to the exporter and are documented below. Multiple parameters can be
specified

--list-importers
List the available importers (file formats that can be read). -I, --import-type=ID
Specify which importer to use; see below for a list. This is only necessary when
the right format does not follow from the input file name.

-E, --import-encoding=STRING
Specify an encoding for imported content.

-M, --merge-to=FILENAME
Merge a collection of workbooks into one. Sheet size will expand to the largest in
all the workbooks. Names in the scope of individual workbooks will end up in the
scope of the merged workbook. The merge will be aborted if there are name
conflicts.

-S, --export-file-per-sheet
Export a file for each sheet if the exporter only supports one sheet at a time.
The output filename is treated as a template in which sheet number is substituted
for %n and/or sheet name is substituted for %s. If there are not substitutions, a
default of ".%s" is added.

Help options
-v, --version
Display ssconvert's version.

-h, --help, --usage
Display a brief usage message.

--help-all
Show all help options.

--help-libspreadsheet
Show Gnumeric options.

Path options
-L, --lib-dir=STRING
Set the root library directory.

-D, --data-dir=STRING
Adjust the root data directory.

LIST OF IMPORTER/EXPORTER IDS

The following IDs can be can be used both for import (reading) and export (writing).

Gnumeric_XmlIO:sax
Gnumeric's XML file format (*.gnumeric)

Gnumeric_OpenCalc:openoffice
OpenDocument ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument⟩ or OpenOffice Calc
⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc⟩ (*.sxc, *.ods) format. As an
exporter, this is ODF/OpenOffice without foreign elements (*.ods).

Gnumeric_dif:dif
Data Interchange Format ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Interchange_Format⟩
(*.dif)

Gnumeric_paradox:paradox
Paradox database ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_%28database%29⟩ or primary
index file (*.db, *.px)

Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant
Text (configurable)

Gnumeric_sylk:sylk
MultiPlan ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan⟩ Symbolic Link (SYLK) ⟨http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_%28SYLK%29⟩ (*.slk)

Gnumeric_Excel:xlsx
Microsoft Excel (tm) 2007 ("Office Open XML", OOXML ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/XLSX⟩ ) format

LIST OF IMPORTANT IMPORTER IDS

Gnumeric_stf:stf_csvtab
Comma or tab separated values (CSV/TSV) (*.csv)

Gnumeric_html:html
HTML (*.html, *.htm)

Gnumeric_Excel:excel
Microsoft Excel (tm) (*.xls)

Gnumeric_Excel:excel_xml
Microsoft Excel (tm) 2003 SpreadsheetML

LIST OF OTHER IMPORTER IDS

Gnumeric_QPro:qpro
Quattro Pro ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro⟩ (*.wb1, *.wb2, *.wb3)

Gnumeric_applix:applix
Applix (*.as)

Gnumeric_lotus:lotus
Lotus 1-2-3 ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3⟩ (*.wk1, *.wks, *.123)

Gnumeric_mps:mps
MPS (Mathematical Programming System) format ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
MPS_%28format%29⟩ Linear programming and mixed integer programming file format
(*.mps)

Gnumeric_oleo:oleo
GNU Oleo ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Oleo⟩ (*.oleo)

Gnumeric_plan_perfect:pln
PlanPerfect Format (PLN)

Gnumeric_psiconv:psiconv
Psion (*.psisheet)

Gnumeric_sc:sc
SC/xspread

Gnumeric_xbase:xbase
xBase ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase⟩ (*.dbf) file format

LIST OF IMPORTANT EXPORTER IDS

Gnumeric_OpenCalc:odf
ODF/OpenOffice with foreign elements (*.ods)

Gnumeric_glpk:glpk
GLPK Linear Program Solver

Gnumeric_html:html40
HTML 4.0 (*.html)

Gnumeric_html:html40frag
HTML (*.html) fragment

Gnumeric_html:xhtml
XHTML (*.html)

Gnumeric_html:xhtml_range
XHTML range - for export to clipboard

Gnumeric_pdf:pdf_assistant
Portable Document Format (*.PDF)

Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv
Comma separated values (CSV)

Gnumeric_Excel:excel_dsf
Microsoft Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP & 5.0/95

LIST OF OTHER EXPORTER IDS

Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff7
Microsoft Excel (tm) 5.0/95

Gnumeric_Excel:excel_biff8
Microsoft S Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP

Gnumeric_GnomeGlossary:po
Gnome Glossary PO file format

Gnumeric_html:html32
HTML 3.2 (*.html)

Gnumeric_html:latex
LaTeX 2e (*.tex)

Gnumeric_html:latex_table
LaTeX 2e (*.tex) table fragment

Gnumeric_html:roff
TROFF ⟨http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff⟩ (*.me) format.

Gnumeric_lpsolve:lpsolve
LPSolve ⟨http://sourceforge.net/projects/lpsolve/⟩ Mixed Integer Linear Programming
(MILP) solver

OPTIONS FOR THE PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (*.pdf) EXPORTER

sheet Name of the workbook sheet to operate on. You can specify several sheets by
repeating this option. If this option is not given the active sheet (i. e. the
sheet that was active when the file was saved) is used. This is ignored if the
object option is given.

object Name of the sheet object to print. If this option is given any sheet option is
ignored. Only the first object given is exported.

paper Paper size. Valid values include "A4" for ISO A4 and "na_letter_8.5x11in" for US
Letter. If an individual graph is specified through the object option, then a paper
size of "fit" reduces the size of the paper to the size of the graph.

OPTIONS FOR THE CONFIGURABLE TEXT (*.txt) EXPORTER

sheet Name of the workbook sheet to operate on. You can specify several sheets by
repeating this option. If this option is not given the active sheet (i. e. the
sheet that was active when the file was saved) is used.

eol End Of Line convention; how lines are terminated. "unix" for linefeed, "mac" for
carriage return; "windows" for carriage return plus linefeed.

charset
The character encoding of the output. Defaults to UTF-8.

locale The locale to use for number and date formatting. Defaults to the current locale
as reported by locale(1). Consult locale -a output for acceptable values.

quote The character or string used for quoting fields. Defaults to "\"" (quotation mark /
double quote).

separator
The string used to separate fields. Defaults to space.

format How cells should be formatted. Acceptable values: "automatic" (apply automatic
formatting; default), "raw" (output data raw, unformatted), or "preserve" (preserve
the formatting from the source document).

This deals with the difference between a cell's contents and the way those contents
are formatted.

Consider a cell in a Gnumeric input document that was input as "4/19/73" in a US
locale, with a format set to "d-mmm-yyyy" and thus formatted as "19-Apr-1973".

With the default format setting of "automatic" it will be output as "1973/04/19".
With "preserve", the formatting will be preserved and it will be output as
"19-Apr-1973". With "raw" it will be output as "26773" (Gnumeric's internal
representation: days since an epoch).

transliterate-mode
How to handle unrepresentable characters (characters that cannot be represented in
the chosen output character set). Acceptable values: "transliterate", or "escape".

quoting-mode
When does data need to be quoted? "never", "auto" (puts quotes where needed), or
"always". Defaults to "never".

quoting-on-whitespace
Controls whether initial or terminal whitespace forces quoting. Defaults to TRUE.

EXAMPLE

To convert the Gnumeric file foo.gnumeric to a Microsoft Excel(TM) format file foo.xls:

ssconvert foo.gnumeric foo.xls

The export format can be specified explicitly, to override the default (which is based on
the file extension):

ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_csv foo.xls foo.txt

To convert an Excel format file statfuns.xls to a text file, specifying the semicolon as
the separator character:

ssconvert -O 'separator=; format=raw' samples/excel/statfuns.xls statfuns.txt

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