Re: [discuss] commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-14 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Markus, Thus my question: Is there a tool or a method which allows me to render ODT on the commandline? The tool should not require graphical output since it is meant to run on a system without an X-server (graphical engine) OOo is not working on such a tool, but the OpenDocument

[discuss] commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-14 Thread Markus Heller
Dear list, maybe some of you know the open source enterprise resource planning tool SQL Ledger or its German derivative LX-Office. This tool uses LaTeX template files for purchase orders, offers, bills etc. There are variable fields in the tex files which are filled with the according values,

Re: [discuss] commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-14 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2006/1/14, Markus Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This, however, makes it necessary that a server can generate PS or PDF files from the ODT templates on a scripting (commandline) base. Thus my question: Is there a tool or a method which allows me to render ODT on the commandline? The tool should

Re: [discuss] commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-14 Thread Daniel Carrera
Henrik Sundberg wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand the question completely. I expect it to be easy to create a macro that exports a document in PDF format. I don't know how easy it is. The OOo API is not exactly straight forward. But even if it's not hard, it would make OOo a dependency. Would

Re: [discuss] commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-14 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: I don't know how easy it is. The OOo API is not exactly straight forward. But even if it's not hard, it would make OOo a dependency. Would you want a command-line tool to have a 300MB dependency? (all this assuming that OOo doesn't require an X server if you provide the