Hello,
we develop a product that uses OpenOffice.org as a document converter, running as a server in headless mode. We use JODConverter as a client API library. OpenOffice.org has serious problems running in headless mode on Mac, documented in issue #91990. In short, a running WindowServer is required, and that makes running a daemon very unreliable if not impossible. In OpenOffice.org 3.1, we solved this problem by building on Mac with the --with-x option. The X build doesn't require any running X server and everything runs perfect. Now I see that in 3.2, the --with-x option for the Mac build has been removed, probably because it was considered useless and because the removal allowed to cleanup some heavily #ifdef-ed code. But it certainly isn't useless in headless mode. Any advice on what should we do? It seems that the headless mode is kind of an obscure feature that is being constantly overlooked and forgotten. But if one wants a cross-platform software that is able to render virtually all common document formats into HTML or PDF, then OpenOffice.org doesn't really have any viable alternative. Jarda Snajdr Kerio Technologies
