Kevin Martin wrote:
What I'm trying to do is convert a bunch of Excel files to PDF. I can
open the Excel files in oocalc and export to PDF but I've been reading
that you can do this same thing by using Cups-PDF and "soffice -pt
"Cups-PDF" file.xls' and it will fire up oocalc and, essentially, use
the Cups-PDF "printer" to save the file out as a .pdf file. Well,
that's not working for me. I never get an output file when I run the
command from the command line and I can't figure out why. I'm running
on Fedora 8 with the latest openoffice, cups, cups-pdf rpms for that
platform. Can somebody else try on their end and see if it works for
them? FWIW, "soffice -p file.xls" doesn't print my file to the
default printer either.
Thanks.
Kevin
There are several tricks to this.
First, to do it remotely, or from an associated command line, you need
to fun a fake X server and set the display to that.
Second, you need to set up a macro to do exactly what you want when
evoked, and that includes writing of the output.
I cannot include the macro here because I did not write it.
We use:
Xvfb -pixdepths 8 24 -fbdir /usr/tmp
Here is a script (which I wrote) we use on a web based tool to convert
MS files:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 <file.doc>"
exit -1
fi
DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY
# macro is in: ~/.openoffice.org2.0/user/basic/Standard/Module1.xba
DOC=$1
/usr/bin/oowriter -invisible
"macro:///Standard.Module1.ConvertWordToPDF($DOC)"
exit $?
Good Luck!
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