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SSCONVERT(1) GNOME SSCONVERT(1) 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. --set CELL=CONTENTS Set the value of CELL to CONTENTS. To put an expression in a cell, add an extra =, for example --set "A11==A10+1". This option may be repeated as many times as needed. The workbook will be recalculated after all cells have been set, provided that the workbook is set for automatic recalculation. If not, recalculation can be forced with --recalc. -v, --verbose Be slightly more verbose about what is going on. --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. The list of available export formats can be generated using the --list-exporters option. However, when image export is re- quested using the --export-graphs option, the list of image formats should be consulted instead. That list can be generated using the --list-image-formats option. -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 --export-graphs Export the graphs (or charts) inside the input spreadsheet to num- bered image files (SVG by default). The list of available image formats can be printed with --list-image-formats --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. --list-image-formats List the available image formats for graph export -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, sheet name is substituted for %s, and sheet object name is substituted for %o in case of graph ex- port. If there are no substitutions, a default of ".%n" is added. Help options --version Display ssconvert's version. -h, --help, --usage Display a brief usage message. --help-all Show all help options. --help-libspreadsheet Show Gnumeric options. 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 Open- Office Calc <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc> (*.sxc, *.ods) format. As an exporter, this is ODF/OpenOffice with- out 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. This is ignored if the object op- tion is given. active-sheet Select the active sheet to operate on. The value for this option is irrelevant, but the equal sign is mandatory. 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_let- ter_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. active-sheet Select the active sheet to operate on. The value for this option is irrelevant, but the equal sign is mandatory. eol End Of Line convention; how lines are terminated. "unix" for line- feed, "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" (ap- ply automatic formatting; default), "raw" (output data raw, unfor- matted), or "preserve" (preserve the formatting from the source doc- ument). 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, i.e., characters that can- not be represented in the chosen output character set. Acceptable values: "transliterate", or "escape". The former will rewrite char- acters that cannot be represented in the output character set into an approximation with one or more characters that can. See iconv(1) for more details. The default is "escape" which will replace an un- representable character with an escape sequence identifying the uni- code code point. quoting-mode When does data need to be quoted? "never", "auto" (puts quotes where needed), or "always". Defaults to "auto". quoting-on-whitespace Controls whether initial or terminal whitespace forces quoting. De- faults 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 stat- funs.txt To export the charts from the input file input.gnumeric to numbered SVG files: ssconvert --export-graphs input.gnumeric 'output.%n.svg' To export the charts from the input file input.gnumeric to numbered PNG files: ssconvert --export-type=png --export-graphs input.gnumeric 'output.%n.png' 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 <http:// www.gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT The copyright on the Gnumeric software and source code is held by the indi- vidual 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 <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/>. The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/>. gnumeric 2020-04-19 SSCONVERT(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | LIST OF IMPORTER/EXPORTER IDS | LIST OF IMPORTANT IMPORTER IDS | LIST OF OTHER IMPORTER IDS | LIST OF IMPORTANT EXPORTER IDS | LIST OF OTHER EXPORTER IDS | OPTIONS FOR THE PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (*.pdf) EXPORTER | OPTIONS FOR THE CONFIGURABLE TEXT (*.txt) EXPORTER | EXAMPLE | LICENSE | COPYRIGHT | AUTHOR | SEE ALSO
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