ppt2text(1) General Commands Manual ppt2text(1)
NAME
catppt - reads MS-PowerPoint file and puts its content on standard out-
put
SYNOPSIS
catppt [-lV] [-b string ] [-s charset ] [-d charset ] files
DESCRIPTION
catppt reads MS-PowerPoint presentations and dumps its content to std-
out.
OPTIONS
-l list known charsets and exit successfully
-bstring
slides break string. This string (by default - formfeed) would
be output at the end of each slide page.
-dcharset`
- specifies destination charset name. Charset file has format
described in CHARACTER SETS section of catdoc(1) manual page. By
default, current locale charset would be used if langinfo sup-
port was enabled at the compile time.
-scharset
- specifies source charset. Typically, PowerPoint files use UNI-
CODE strings with known charsets, but for some reason you may
wish to override it.
-V outputs version number
SEE ALSO
cat(1), catdoc(1), xls2csv(1), strings(1), utf(4), unicode(4)
AUTHOR
Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
MS-PowerPoint reader Version @catdoc_version@ ppt2text(1)
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