Converting Word DOC files to PDF's using the Linux command line

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Showing you how to combine the find command with AbiWord to convert a folder full of Microsoft Word files to PDF files.

find *.doc exec abiword --to=PDF -o {}.pdf {} \;

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hi this is paul I hope everyone is
having a great day
this is video number eight and today I'm
going to show you how to use
I B word from the command line to
convert to full diplomatic a software
documents
into PDF files for this you will need to
have
I B word installed I'm most Linux
distributions have
I B word in that package managers so it
should be easy enough to install if you
don't already have it
I B word considered Microsoft Word files
to PDF files
but what makes I B word so useful is
that it can be done by the command line
without unlocking the full graphical
user interface
here are a couple Edward hours I'm going
to use in this demo
first I'm going to compare to the I'm a
doc .doc
car rental PDS my calling I B word
I'm telling get to convert the file to
PDF crossing gate
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you can see the Guri didn't come but
basically
I B word loaded the file into memory and
did a file save ours
said measles to armato doc .doc .pdf
had to process whole folder of files we
need to combine this command
find command here I have assigned to the
command to analysis of PDEs
which will save me having to retype it I
will paste the full command in the notes
below the video
the command finds all the doc files
passing the name of each
chrome frame to be a puss which on the
input switch
now when I run the alias PDF it will
convert
all the documents in the current folder
there we go the tree files have been
converted to PDS
theme my homie friend Tim useful
anyone has any topic ideas that would
like me to cover
then please leave a comment in the next
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