Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2023 at 4:45 PM From: "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Odd "soffice --convert-to xlsx" behaviour when called from shell script
If I do: soffice --headless --convert-to xlsx /home/me/sheets.ods --outdir /home/me/tmp from the command line everything works fine: func=xmlSecCheckVersionExt:file=xmlsec.c:line=188:obj=unknown:subj=unknown:error=19:invalid version:mode=abi compatible;expected minor version=2;real minor version=2;expected subminor version=25;real subminor version=26 convert /home/me/sheets.ods -> /home/me/tmp/sheets.xlsx using filter : Calc Office Open XML When I do it, it says that I need to install libreoffice-common, I guess from the repositories. However I have LibreOffice installed, but not my distribution's version, so I have to type libreoffice instead of soffice. Not important, So why even bring it up? Given that I said that it worked from the command line *why even bring it up*? So already when doing it directly from the terminal emulator, the result is totally different. No error=19:invalid version or anything like that. "from the command line everything works fine". I have little interest in whether some version of something I know nothing about is invalid, given that it does what I expect regardless. If I was interested then I'd have brought it up in my post. However, if I do the same thing from a shell script $(soffice --headless --convert-to xlsx /home/me/sheets.ods --outdir /home/me/tmp ) I get this: func=xmlSecCheckVersionExt:file=xmlsec.c:line=188:obj=unknown:subj=unknown:error=19:invalid version:mode=abi compatible;expected minor version=2;real minor version=2;expected subminor version=25;real subminor version=26 convert /tmp/magick-245771VE8simr9bq5 -> /tmp/magick-245771VE8simr9bq5.pdf using filter : calc_pdf_Export I have no idea why it should randomly decide to do anything with PDF. Quite aside from this, the script then hangs waiting for soffice(?) to finish, which it never* does. This didn't happen here. I got the exact same result as mentioned above. $ soffice -h | grep LibreOffice LibreOffice 6.0.7.3 00m0(Build:3) That might explain it. That's a super old version. As far as I know, a lot of work have been put into the conversation features since then. Your version was released 2017-12-23. That's almost six years ago. Big deal. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
