On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:59:16 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In any case, I would say that your exercise is the Wrong Way to go about > it. A task as simple as "produce PDF output from this file" shouldn't > need access to the internals of the OpenOffice GUI application. The Right > Way (in some Ideal World where OO wasn't so stupid) would be some > variation of: > > oowriter --print some.doc | ps2pdf
Can be done this way… :: soffice -invisible macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsPDF(some.doc) …if you write a small macro in StarBasic for the conversion. Full story: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list