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Old 12-11-2009, 12:21 PM   #1
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Convert ODT to PDF


Hello! How can i convert odt to pdf without using any open office tools?! Googling didn't tell me the answer. Waiting for your advices. Thx in advance.
 
Old 12-11-2009, 12:31 PM   #2
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Google gave me LOTS of answers:
http://www.google.com/search?q=conve...ient=firefox-a

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without using any open office tools?
Why?

I think there is now a "print to PDF" option in CUPS---Yes--Google found it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=print...ient=firefox-a

You can also presumably install acrobat using WINE/CrossOver
 
Old 12-11-2009, 01:08 PM   #3
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Well, i have to write a bash script that would convert our docs from open office format to pdf... and some users don't want to have open opffice tools installed on their PC, some users have OO fatal errors on docs converting. So i'd like to write a script using something else. Thank you for advise, i'll try too google more about PDF printing...
 
Old 12-11-2009, 01:12 PM   #4
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I followed those links and netsearched a bit wider but still didn't find anything that would convert .odt to .pdf without involving OOo at some stage. Would be surprising if there was because OOo is free and easy to install and there are several ways to do the job using OOo, including batch automation.

So back to pixellany's question: why do you want to do this job without using OOo?
 
Old 12-11-2009, 01:28 PM   #5
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You are right! It's quite difficult to find any method not using OOo. But when i use it for conversion, some users have troubles with my script. For example they have following errors:
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Starting docs convertion...
file=./qa/FW_Keybundle_ANSI_tr.odt

** (soffice:31329): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
error - missing word count in dictionary file
Hash Manager Error : 4
file=./qa/FW_Keybundle_test_tr.odt

** (soffice:31356): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
file=./qa/activation_cln.odt

** (soffice:31383): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
file=./qa/test_description.odt

** (soffice:31410): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
file=./qa/FWUpdate_cln.odt

** (soffice:31437): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
file=./fw_functional_release_notes.odt

** (soffice:31464): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
file=./not-for-release/FDS-get_scripts.odt

** (soffice:31491): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
Error + terrible warnings
 
Old 12-11-2009, 02:25 PM   #6
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Well, i have to write a bash script that would convert our docs from open office format to pdf... and some users don't want to have open opffice tools installed on their PC, some users have OO fatal errors on docs converting. So i'd like to write a script using something else. Thank you for advise, i'll try too google more about PDF printing...
Do you have to convert the documents on their PCs?
 
Old 12-11-2009, 02:29 PM   #7
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You are right! It's quite difficult to find any method not using OOo. But when i use it for conversion, some users have troubles with my script. For example they have following errors:


Error + terrible warnings
If it's only affecting some users it might be something to do with the OOo installation on their machines rather than the .odt files themselves ... have you tried converting such documents on computers where the conversion has worked OK?

Which conversion tool were you using? (I have no relevant experience but the answer might help someone else who reads it to help you)
 
Old 12-11-2009, 05:08 PM   #8
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Do you have to convert the documents on their PCs?
Yea, everyone should be able to convert docs.
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If it's only affecting some users it might be something to do with the OOo installation on their machines rather than the .odt files themselves ... have you tried converting such documents on computers where the conversion has worked OK?
So we need to tell everyone who had this problem to repair their open office. OK, we'll do so if there's no other solution.
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Which conversion tool were you using?
I use "unoconv *.odt" - simple conversion tool, which uses open office
 
Old 12-13-2009, 09:03 AM   #9
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I've found solution, so perhaps it would be interesting for someone else. There is a way to convert ODT => HTML => PDF using special PHP classes (ODT2XHTML class and HTML_TO_PDF class), which can be easily found on phpclasses.org. No OpenOffice - easy and fast To make this classes work you have to install php5-cgi and php5-xsl packages.

Last edited by CartmanYO; 12-13-2009 at 09:05 AM.
 
Old 12-13-2009, 07:25 PM   #10
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that is the power of Linux. many many many tools to accomplish the same task. Personally I have never had a crash with "export to PDF" button inside of OOo, but that is just me. I am sure others can say the same with MS Office with Adobe Pro installed on their system with print to PDF.

Nice solution you found.
 
Old 12-13-2009, 08:56 PM   #11
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An other way would have been to have a machine with OOo on it and executing the convertion of it, remontly using SSH RSA handshake without password.
 
  


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