From b5afee88034691f4d360e25f5533d9fcfeead81d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Günther Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:11:10 +0200 Subject: Add TODO and README file --- README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d94a767 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Migrating from legacy binary document formats to ODF can be a pain if documents +use fonts that only support some non unicode encodings (e.g. armscii or +viscii). +Odfrecode allows to remap these characters sets to the appriopriate unicode +codepoints after they've been converted to ODF and makes it therefore possible +to get rid of the legacy fonts used in this documents. + +There are two tools available: + +* odfrecode is noninteractive and can be used for batch conversion +* odfrecode-gtk shows a dialog after conversion which allows the user to + direclty open the converted Document in OpenOffice (or another ODF capable + application). This can e.g. be used in a Nautilus/Konqueror/Dolphin context menu. + +The following example recodes foo.odt from armscii8 to unicode: + + odfrecode-gtk --recoder=armscii8 foo.odt + +New converters can easily be added. For a simple example have a look at +odfrecode/recoders/romanian.py. -- cgit v1.2.3