http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/ Sat, 26 May 2012 15:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338159 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:01:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338159 [...] Tales From the Command Line: textutil Useful tour through the textutil utility, a command line utility in Mac OS X for converting among txt, doc, docx, rtf, rtfd, HTML, wordml, odt (?), and webarchive formats. (tags: macosx) [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338158 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:16:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338158 [...] more palatable than starting from scratch, I’d say. As with any command-line based tool there are options a plenty so knock yourself [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338150 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:58:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338150 there’s an online tool that converts some formats to .lrf
http://www.lib2go.com

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338149 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:45:30 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338149 Bob, have a look at whsmith.co.uk they do prs500 compatible ebooks cheaper then sony’s store and you can use adobe on mac with the prs now

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338156 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:55:38 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338156 @Mike lay out an interface that you think would work and I’ll be glad to put one together.

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338155 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:01:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338155 textutil seems like the sort of Unix application just begging for someone to create a full-featured GUI version with drag-and-drop. Anyone interested?

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338154 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:55:46 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338154 @Randy that is an awesome resource. *thank you*. @Sam I’m hoping to expose more cool, hidden utils

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338152 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:19:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338152 You should check out Calibre – its an opensource eBook manager that can be used with the Sony to get items onto and off of it. It also can do some file conversion too for different eBook formats: http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/

]]> http://gigaom.com/apple/tales-from-the-command-line-textutil-2/#comment-338151 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:52:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=12908#comment-338151 Great post. I have never used textutil, but now that I know about it, I can think of many good uses for it.

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