Hi,
I am currently using openoffice 1.1.x as a listener to do conversion of ppt to pdf with the DocumentConverter.java. 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 DocumentConverter 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 DocumentConverter.java program?
Thanks,
Patrice
