[Speakers] Automation via Abiword

[Brock Inglehart]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:31 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:25:23 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:10 -1000, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >
> >> This article seems to provide som e really cool automation stuff; if it
> >> works it might make an excellent topic for a presentation -
> >> http://www.advogato.org/person/msevior/diary.html?start=65
> >> 
> >> It looks allot easier than automation with OOo.
> >
> >
> >But in the real world of creating word processing documents by users,
> >most of us are not command line folks.  We are mouse point and shoot
> >folks.  Who would use it?
> 
> The intent of this facility is to manipulate the documents overall,
> not use the software and documents to interactively modify content.
> 
> You might not need this, but others do; they are just as much part of
> the "Real world" as any other needs, and they improve the acceptance of
> the product overall.
> 
> For example, if we want to take a whole bunch (hundreds, for example) of
> documents and convert them to HTML, does anyone want to sit there and
> hit LOAD and SAVE AS (and all the other mouseclicks that go with) a few
> hundred times to accomplish this? It is way better to write a script
> that will run through this, and use the package as a document converter.
> 
> That's one simple example, and maybe a lot of people don't need this, but
> those that need it will need it A LOT. 
> 
> 						Regards, and...
> 						Happy New Year!
> 						-> RGB <---


Ah Hah, now I understand, thanks.

Brock

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