I'm not sure if I need to update at all. I was looking at the minimum 
requirements for installation of unotools but I think I can maybe use 
something called PyUNO. I can't look at it now unfortunately, got to do a 
release. 

On Monday, 6 July 2015 18:36:47 UTC+1, Peter Suter wrote:
>
>  Do not update to Trac's Python to 3.x. That will definitely break things.
> Or do you mean to update to 2.7.10? That might be less of a problem, but 
> you might still need to recreate eggs etc. I'm not sure.
>
> Peter
>
> On 06.07.2015 10:51, Ita wrote:
>  
> Thanks, Peter. 
> I'm a little further along now. I started LibreOffice from the command 
> line in the way you suggested - thanks! So simple. It's there but the 
> plugin still isn't working. Looking back at the documentation I realised 
> I'd forgotten about the ooextract.py script, which must be located on the 
> path. I dropped in the script and it runs but can't import 'uno'. 
> 'uno' seems to be a tool that allows you to interact with Libreoffice. 
> Clearly, I will need it.
> It looks like I'll have to update my python version before I install 'uno' 
> (I'm at 2.7.6). At least my version of LibreOffice seems acceptable.
> If I update my python version I'm afraid I might break Trac, which 
> everyone else in the office depends on. What's the conventional wisdom 
> here? Should I be afraid, very afraid, or will it probably just work?
>  Cheers, Ita
>  
> On Saturday, 4 July 2015 06:34:15 UTC+1, Peter Suter wrote: 
>>
>> On 03.07.2015 11:33, Ita wrote: 
>> > My problem came with running init-script as it's not a Windows script. 
>>
>> I have not used docrenderplugin. From looking at the script it seems you 
>> can just start LibreOffice directly instead of using the script: 
>>
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" --headless 
>> --nologo --nofirststartwizard --nodefault 
>> "--accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" 
>>
>>
>> This starts a LibreOffice "in the background". I think that should be 
>> enough to get the plugin working. 
>>
>> > After peering at it for a while I decided that I could achieve the same 
>> > thing by running LibreOffice as a Windows Service. Unfortunately, I 
>> > haven't been able to discover a way of doing this, even with the help 
>> of 
>> > Google. 
>> > Since it looks like LibreOffice can be run as a service on Unix I can't 
>> > see why it wouldn't be possible on Windows, but I'm in new territory 
>> > here and would love some help from anyone who's done this or who knows 
>> > how to go about it. Maybe my approach is totally wrong and I should be 
>> > going about it another way? 
>>
>> But the above is not as a "real" Windows Service. If you need that,  you 
>> can apparently just wrap the above command in a generic Windows Service 
>> wrapper like srvany.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit: 
>>
>>
>> http://www.tonido.com/support/display/cloud/Running+Openoffice+as+a+service+in+Windows
>>  
>>
>> (This page uses OpenOffice but I assume the same also works for 
>> LibreOffice.) 
>>
>> You could maybe also try nssm (instead of srvany.exe): 
>>
>> http://nssm.cc/ 
>>
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