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 ⟨URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
⟩ or OpenOffice Calc ⟨URL:
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 ⟨URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Interchange_Format ⟩ (*.dif)
- Gnumeric_paradox:paradox
- Paradox database ⟨URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_%28database%29 ⟩ or primary
index file (*.db, *.px)
- Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant
- Text (configurable)
- Gnumeric_sylk:sylk
- MultiPlan ⟨URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan ⟩
Symbolic Link (SYLK) ⟨URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_%28SYLK%29 ⟩
(*.slk)
- Gnumeric_Excel:xlsx
- Microsoft Excel (tm) 2007 ("Office Open XML", OOXML ⟨URL:
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 ⟨URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro ⟩
(*.wb1, *.wb2, *.wb3)
- Gnumeric_applix:applix
- Applix (*.as)
- Gnumeric_lotus:lotus
- Lotus 1-2-3 ⟨URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3 ⟩
(*.wk1, *.wks, *.123)
- Gnumeric_mps:mps
- MPS (Mathematical Programming System) format ⟨URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPS_%28format%29 ⟩ Linear programming
and mixed integer programming file format (*.mps)
- Gnumeric_oleo:oleo
- GNU Oleo ⟨URL: 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 ⟨URL: 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 ⟨URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff ⟩ (*.me)
format.
- Gnumeric_lpsolve:lpsolve
- LPSolve ⟨URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lpsolve/ ⟩
Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solver
- 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
LICENSE¶
ssconvert is licensed under the terms of the General Public License
(GPL), version 2 or 3. For information on this license look at the source code
that came with the software or see the GNU project page ⟨URL:
http://www.gnu.org ⟩.
COPYRIGHT¶
The copyright on the
Gnumeric software and source code is held by the
individual authors as is documented in the source code.
AUTHOR¶
ssconvert's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>;
ssconvert builds on the
Gnumeric codebase.
The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
<jdassen@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO¶
gnumeric(1), ssdiff(1), ssgrep(1), ssindex(1)
The Gnumeric Homepage ⟨URL:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
⟩.
The GNOME project page ⟨URL:
http://www.gnome.org/ ⟩.