Hi all.
I'm having a spot of bother trying to get a .ps or .pdf produced from a
.odt using the command line.
I've revisited some code last used a few years ago, whose last step is
just to use LO to do this conversion. It used to make a .ps file, but
that now seems to have changed, and I get a .pdf instead - which is corrupt.
So I get for example
libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --outdir "./" "./y.odt"
print /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web
generator/y.odt -> /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet
production/web generator//y.pdf using <default_printer>
pdfinfo y.pdf
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error (2432): Illegal character '{'
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
The resulting pdf won't load into a browser and upsets several of the
pdf tools, although gimp or xreader can read it. Fortunately, pdf2ps
accepts the file, so as a workaround, I do the LO --print-to-file and
then run the result through pdf2ps and then back through ps2pdf; the
result of that contortion seems OK.
Looking at the GUI instead, under the tools|options|print page, if I try
to set options for print to file, the tick box for pdf is set and
disabled. Yet if I select print to file in the normal print dialogue, I
get a valid .ps file not a pdf.
I need to run this as a print job, since '--convert-to pdf' doesn't
honour the brochure setting in place in the document. Using the GUI and
printing works fine, but isn't useful for automated processing.
If anyone has a way better of doing a command line conversion to a pdf
while honouring in particular the 'brochure' setting, I'd be grateful.
(This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20)
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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