Hi Mike,
I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless command line
instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the pdfinfo check with
flying colours. I just rechecked to make sure. So maybe your problem is
distro related?
But I don't use the --headless command very often because it breaks the links in my
pdf output. So, I make use of the LO Writer gui to do file> export as>export
as pdf which gets me a workable pdf with working links (clickable table of contents
etc). If I need to reassemble some pdf docs, I use pdftk utility because so many of
the others break those links.
Philip
On 11/04/2022 10:51, Mike Scott wrote:
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)
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