.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH KOCONVERTER 1 "May 9, 2003" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME koconverter \- convert between office suite file formats .SH SYNOPSIS .B koconverter [ \fIgeneric-options\fP ] [ \fB\-\-mimetype\fP \fImime\fP ] \fIinput\fP \fIoutput\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBKOConverter\fP is the KOffice file format converter. It uses the KOffice import and export filters to convert from any file format that is understood by KOffice to any other. .PP This tool is part of the KDE Office Suite. .SH OPTIONS Below are the koconverter-specific options. For a full summary of options, run \fIkoconverter \-\-help\fP. .TP \fB\-\-mimetype\fP \fImime\fP Use \fImime\fP as the mime type for the output file. This option should be used when the desired type of output file cannot be determined from its name alone. .SH EXAMPLES The following line will convert an Excel spreadsheet to a native KSpread file. .PP .RS \fIexample$\fP koconverter file.xls file.ksp .RE .PP The following line will convert an Excel spreadsheet to a plain text file. Note that this conversion is done internally by first importing to a KSpread spreadsheet and then exporting as plain text. .PP .RS \fIexample$\fP koconverter file.xls file.txt .RE .SH AUTHOR KOConverter was written by David Faure <faure@kde.org>. .br This manual page was written by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).