Roll Your Own Automator Actions

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bowjest

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Hello to all,

I've been scouring Google for an Automator action that will allow me to drop .doc or .docx files into a directory and convert them to .odt, but so far I've had no luck.

Can this easily be done or does it require a lot of programming knowledge to pull off?

I really hope someone can help as this is a repetitive task that would save me a great deal of time.

Thanks,

Bowjest
 
If Automator is not the way forward, can somone recommend a site or resource where I can find an AppleScript solution.

This must be fairly easy for a seasoned Mac user to pull off (which I'm unfortunately not).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I think you need to open the file with OpenDesktop and tell it to save as .odt, perhaps somewhere else. Check out Quicksilver. I use it as a launcher, but it has many more capabilities, some of which sound like they may do what you want.
 
Hi Whitehill,

Unfortunately, I've never been able to get Quicksilver to work right on my Mac.

I've seen some more AppleScript examples on the web about various "save as" functions, but they are far more complicated than what I need.

Because I don't understand the syntax, I'm just stuck trying to find the right words and put the focus for the conversion on any .doc or .docx file that I drop on the droplet.

The process, as I understand it, needs to be something like

activate "OpenOffice.org"
save document as *.odt
end

Or whatever the right syntax is.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction? I'm more than happy to learn, but have no idea how to handle AppleScript syntax. So far I've managed to open OpenOffice and get part way through a save function, but no idea how to get it to accept an item dropped on it, convert to .odt and then close OpenOffice.

Thanks
 
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