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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 requested 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 numbered 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 export. 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 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. This is ignored if the object option 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_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.
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 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 "auto".
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
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 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 ⟨http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/⟩.
The GNOME project page ⟨http://www.gnome.org/⟩.