Hi, I am currently using openoffice 1.1.x as a listener to do conversion of ppt to pdf with the JavaConverter. We have a script that does this with the following:
daemon Xvfb :1 -fbdir /tmp & daemon ooffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp" -display :1 & I have discovered that I can fix conversion problems with certain slides (that we end up converting to bitmap image files) if i do the conversion with openoffice 2.0. I have only verified this by opening the ooffice gui with the ppt and exporting to pdf manually. I tried doing the same as the above commands with 2.0, however I cannot get the 2.0 process to listen on port 8100 with the commandlines: daemon Xvfb :1 -fbdir /tmp & daemon /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp" -display :1 & the process starts, but it does not listen on port 8100, and the conversion with JavaConverter is not successful. for example: # netstat -nap | grep office unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 2117629 12892/soffice.bin /tmp/OSL_PIPE_0_SingleOfficeIPC_bfa67ba891bd9b76f67a649f29db7e59 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2117625 12892/soffice.bin whether I use "soffice" or "soffice.bin" in the command line. Rather than: # netstat -nap | grep office tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8100 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12933/soffice.bin tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:34288 127.0.0.1:631 CLOSE_WAIT 12933/soffice.bin unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 2118047 12933/soffice.bin /tmp/OSL_PIPE_0_SingleOfficeIPC_4475afd81af40edd91795492cfa4313 unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2118150 12933/soffice.bin unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2118045 12933/soffice.bin for 1.1.x Am I going about this correctly? Is there a different mechanism to start ooffice in 2.0 as a listener/server process. And also, should I be using a different JavaConverter program? Thanks, Patrice
