Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 22:16 -0800, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi, I am using Calc (actually soffice) in a headless manner (using —headless). I am running it on a server that doesn’t have X server and communicating with soffice using JOD converter. Generally it hasn’t been a problem, however when I export the spreadsheet to PDF, wide spreadsheets get truncated and take multiple pages, which is highly undesirable. However, when I run the same program on my local dev machine, which has X server running, the output PDF gets auto scaled to a certain extent. Can you please direct me how to get auto scaling on server that doesn’t have X server running? When running in headless mode, what OS setting are picked up by LibreOffice. What do I need to set them on my server? I have spent couple of days trying out different options, e.g. using Xvfb on my server with different screen sizes, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Sunil Sunil, When I have exported a document to a pdf file the conversion using the default page such as A4, US Letter, etc. to paginate the document. Also, normally the pagination uses the default orientation (portrait or landscape). The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. Also, which version of LO are you using and which OS are you using; it sounds like Linux? -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
Hi Jay, Thanks for the response. I am using Linux and tried LO 3.5 and 4.0 but same behavior. I want to share the doc and the recipient might not have LO hence the need to convert to PDF. Any insights will be appreciated. Sunil On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 22:16 -0800, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi, I am using Calc (actually soffice) in a headless manner (using —headless). I am running it on a server that doesn’t have X server and communicating with soffice using JOD converter. Generally it hasn’t been a problem, however when I export the spreadsheet to PDF, wide spreadsheets get truncated and take multiple pages, which is highly undesirable. However, when I run the same program on my local dev machine, which has X server running, the output PDF gets auto scaled to a certain extent. Can you please direct me how to get auto scaling on server that doesn’t have X server running? When running in headless mode, what OS setting are picked up by LibreOffice. What do I need to set them on my server? I have spent couple of days trying out different options, e.g. using Xvfb on my server with different screen sizes, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Sunil Sunil, When I have exported a document to a pdf file the conversion using the default page such as A4, US Letter, etc. to paginate the document. Also, normally the pagination uses the default orientation (portrait or landscape). The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. Also, which version of LO are you using and which OS are you using; it sounds like Linux? -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:49 -0800, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the response. I am using Linux and tried LO 3.5 and 4.0 but same behavior. I want to share the doc and the recipient might not have LO hence the need to convert to PDF. Any insights will be appreciated. Sunil Sunil, Try export/saving as xls or xlsx instead of pdf. xls is probably the better format for MSO users because MS apparently likes to tweak the xlsx format with every MSO release. This will preserve the formatting and the formulas. If format and formulas are not important to the others you can save as a csv file. The problem is some users might panic when the import wizard opens in their spreadsheet program. I am not sure how do this when working headless. Jay On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 22:16 -0800, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi, I am using Calc (actually soffice) in a headless manner (using —headless). I am running it on a server that doesn’t have X server and communicating with soffice using JOD converter. Generally it hasn’t been a problem, however when I export the spreadsheet to PDF, wide spreadsheets get truncated and take multiple pages, which is highly undesirable. However, when I run the same program on my local dev machine, which has X server running, the output PDF gets auto scaled to a certain extent. Can you please direct me how to get auto scaling on server that doesn’t have X server running? When running in headless mode, what OS setting are picked up by LibreOffice. What do I need to set them on my server? I have spent couple of days trying out different options, e.g. using Xvfb on my server with different screen sizes, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Sunil Sunil, When I have exported a document to a pdf file the conversion using the default page such as A4, US Letter, etc. to paginate the document. Also, normally the pagination uses the default orientation (portrait or landscape). The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. Also, which version of LO are you using and which OS are you using; it sounds like Linux? -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
Even though you are running headless, it may require CUPS-PDF to be setup on the server. You may also have to set defaults for CUPS. See this article to get an idea of what may be needed. http://thismightbehelpful.blogspot.com/2008/09/remote-access-to-cups-web-interface.html Hope this helps, as I am not sure this will actually answer your problem. On 11/14/2013 1:16 AM, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi, I am using Calc (actually soffice) in a headless manner (using —headless). I am running it on a server that doesn’t have X server and communicating with soffice using JOD converter. Generally it hasn’t been a problem, however when I export the spreadsheet to PDF, wide spreadsheets get truncated and take multiple pages, which is highly undesirable. However, when I run the same program on my local dev machine, which has X server running, the output PDF gets auto scaled to a certain extent. Can you please direct me how to get auto scaling on server that doesn’t have X server running? When running in headless mode, what OS setting are picked up by LibreOffice. What do I need to set them on my server? I have spent couple of days trying out different options, e.g. using Xvfb on my server with different screen sizes, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Sunil -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
On 14/11/2013, Sunil Agrawal su...@armor5.com wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the response. I am using Linux and tried LO 3.5 and 4.0 but same behavior. I want to share the doc and the recipient might not have LO hence the need to convert to PDF. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. You should please use ods to promote LO; the native format can be seen on numerous spreadsheet software such as gnumeric and m$excel. Does m$ continue to remove formulae from spreadsheets and show only the results? If yes and your recipient does not need to view formulae, only results, native format ods will be acceptable to m$excel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
On 11/14/2013 10:31 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 22:16 -0800, Sunil Agrawal wrote: Hi, I am using Calc (actually soffice) in a headless manner (using —headless). I am running it on a server that doesn’t have X server and communicating with soffice using JOD converter. Generally it hasn’t been a problem, however when I export the spreadsheet to PDF, wide spreadsheets get truncated and take multiple pages, which is highly undesirable. However, when I run the same program on my local dev machine, which has X server running, the output PDF gets auto scaled to a certain extent. Can you please direct me how to get auto scaling on server that doesn’t have X server running? When running in headless mode, what OS setting are picked up by LibreOffice. What do I need to set them on my server? I have spent couple of days trying out different options, e.g. using Xvfb on my server with different screen sizes, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated. TIA, Sunil Sunil, When I have exported a document to a pdf file the conversion using the default page such as A4, US Letter, etc. to paginate the document. Also, normally the pagination uses the default orientation (portrait or landscape). The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. Also, which version of LO are you using and which OS are you using; it sounds like Linux? For the original question - exporting it to PDF without truncating. . . . I tend to export it to PDF but set my paper size to a larger size, like 8.5 by 14 or 11 by 17 inches, then print it out with the printer option of shrinking the page to fit the paper size you need. Since I use CUPS-PDF for Linux and doPDF for Windows, I can export the document to PDF of a larger size and then use the external PDF printers to shrink the larger page size to a letter page size. I have done this many times with a Writer document and a few time with a Calc graphics printout. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export as PDF using Calc
The OP may want his spreadsheets available on machines that don't have *any* spreadsheet software, hence the need for pdf. I think we should try and solve that issue, not suggest alternative formats. On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:34:01 + e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/11/2013, Sunil Agrawal su...@armor5.com wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the response. I am using Linux and tried LO 3.5 and 4.0 but same behavior. I want to share the doc and the recipient might not have LO hence the need to convert to PDF. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is why are your using a pdf document and not using ods format or even another format for your documents. The pdf format is often used for file sharing when the recipient is expected to only view the results and not edit them. You should please use ods to promote LO; the native format can be seen on numerous spreadsheet software such as gnumeric and m$excel. Does m$ continue to remove formulae from spreadsheets and show only the results? If yes and your recipient does not need to view formulae, only results, native format ods will be acceptable to m$excel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
