Hello George, since OM 2.0 there is no need to run soffice daemon, it is run automatically by JODConverter on-demand.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:55 AM, George Kirkham <[email protected]>wrote: > Jaime, > > I may learn something here, but I understood that soffice is still used > for the conversion, and that JODConverter uses soffice to do the > conversion. If this is not the case, is there a way to select which will > do the conversion? > > If I am wrong, when others respond to your question, I will learn > further. > > I have found that the document conversion for PowerPoint 2007 .pptx > files is not great and so I always save out to PDF from PowerPoint and > then upload the PDF file, then OpenMeetings uses SWFTools' pdf2swf for > the conversion and so text with font and layout looks much more like the > original PowerPoint presentation. > > I always use /etc/init.d/red5 script to start and stop both soffice and > red5 services. And to check the status of the running services. > > Regards, > > George. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaime Balbino [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: soffice and red5 daemon > > Hi, > > There is one thing I do not understand. When I run the script "red5.sh > &" in the main directory I do not need soffice. But when I use the "/ > etc/init.d/red5 the" soffice runs as daemon and can not be disabled so > that the text conversion to work. > > The soffice daemon is no longer necessary because of JODConverter. Why > keep it inside the daemon red5? > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
