Issue 12817

Summary:	Export to PDF from commandline
Product:	General	Reporter:	petrbalas <petr>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, stp
Version:	OOo 1.1 Beta	Keywords:	oooqa, rfe_eval_ok
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	FEATURE	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description petrbalas 2003-03-29 10:45:07 UTC

Please add commandline parametr for exporting given file to PDF.
Something like
soffice -exporttopdf file [pdf_file]
This can be very usefull for batch conversion.

Comment 1 h.ilter 2003-04-01 08:25:55 UTC

This is already possible,if you have installed a pdf-driver as printer.
Just type in the command line: soffice pt <printer> <file>

But may you haven't such driver and want the same possibility from the
function bar.

Comment 2 petrbalas 2003-04-01 10:22:56 UTC

PDF printer driver needs manually enter file name for PDF file.
(I'm using PdfCreator from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
So this is not suitable for batch operations.

Comment 3 eric.savary 2003-04-16 15:31:24 UTC

Set to "NEW"

Comment 4 Unknown 2003-07-01 05:25:09 UTC

I am using OO in an intranet and such command would be very useful for
creating pdf views of OO files to be shown on line.
I strongly recommend it.

Comment 5 flibby05 2004-10-04 18:29:27 UTC

This may help you in the meantime:

"Experimental converter for OpenOffice.org documents", online version available at
http://www.oooconv.de/engine/OOOconv.php?lang=en

source code here:
http://www.oooconv.de/engine/HowToConv.php?lang=en

Comment 6 flibby05 2004-10-08 11:38:29 UTC

removing oooqa keyword

Comment 7 lohmaier 2005-08-06 18:28:19 UTC

*** Issue 26823 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 8 lohmaier 2005-08-06 18:29:25 UTC

*** Issue 27478 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 9 lohmaier 2005-08-06 18:33:11 UTC

setting keywords, reassigning.

Now that OOo has native-PDF export without the need for a PDF-"Printer" this
request makes more sense...

Comment 10 lohmaier 2005-08-06 18:35:04 UTC

forgot to correct component. This is not only for writer...

Comment 11 treblig 2006-01-22 18:05:18 UTC

Can we generalise this to be it should be possible to export to any supported
export form from the command line;

Certainly you would want to be able to go from any OOo format to pdf, html - but
why not just have an ooconvert which would take any supported file format
(either native or importable) and any corresponding output format (native or
exportable).

That would certainly be a very useful feature.

Comment 12 lohmaier 2006-02-22 22:30:53 UTC

*** Issue 62082 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 13 yreveill 2006-02-23 16:22:46 UTC

I have the same ask :)

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http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62082

Hi,
The use of OpenOffice in server environment (juste console) will be a good thing.
At the moment, i understand that it is not possible to convert odt to pdf using
openoffice without launch openoffice.

the launch in silent mode is not the good methode because it necessite more
ressources and a continualy launch.

Why not propose to use the converter function simply as :

soffice -convertfromconsole_oncetime -filter odt2pdf -s file.odt -d file.pdf
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Concerning treblig'post :
the use of ooconvert require the opening of OpenOffice or i think with silent
mode to make macro in OpenOffice before the conversion process.

The goal here is not to open OpenOffice neither use ressources for open any
OpenOffice interface in case of a production server.
The idea is to simply convert a OpenOffice document to PDF using only the part
of OpenOffice that can do that.

After the installation of OpenOffice, just use a command like in a console mode :
soffice -convertfromconsole_oncetime -filter odt2pdf -s file.odt -d file.pdf

Thanks :)