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Isaiah
Asked: 2010-11-20 09:11:24 +0800 CST

Mass printing ODT documents

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Is there a faster way to print multiple ODT documents besides opening each one in OpenOffice/LibreOffice and printing each document separately? It would be great if I could just select multiple documents in Nautilus and have some option to print them all with the same print settings.

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  1. Best Answer

    First, in Nautilus select the relevant .odt documents...

    UPDATE:
    You can fully "automate" the process by adding a Nautilus Action
    sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

    eg (nautilus-actions setup):
    Command: ooffice -writer -p -headless
    Parameters: %M
    Filenames: *.odt
    [*] Appears if selection has multiple files of folders

    or:
    here is my original "Terminal" version

    In Nautilus copy selected files to the clipboard (filenames are stored)...

    Set up your required printer settings in OpenOffice...

    In gnome-terminal, use the context-menu item Paste Filenames ...
    Note: the pasted filenames are: 'single-quoted' and space delimited

    • ooffice -writer -p 'YOUR' 'PASTED' 'FILENAMES' &

    I don't know how long a Terminal command-line can handle, but it does work..
    (I just tested it; printing to a cups-pdf virtual "printer")

    On newer versions of Ubuntu featuring LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice be sure to use the libreoffice-command instead.

    on libreoffice you might also have to use "--" instead of "-", the full command then is:

    libreoffice --writer -p --headless 'filename1' 'filename2'
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  2. What I think you need is a batch convert to get all your documents into pdf:

    http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html

    Once you have pdf files, it's much easier to send them all to the printer, by joining them all up into one big pdf using pdftk or by using the normal print option.

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