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awead opened this issue
Oct 13, 2016
· 2 comments
Open
libreoffice silently fails
#116
awead opened this issue
Oct 13, 2016
· 2 comments
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Libreoffice returns zero status when it errors:
awead@pooh T $ soffice --invisible --headless --convert-to doc --outdir /. non-existent-file.txt Error: source file could not be loaded awead@pooh T $ echo $? 0
Output is directed to STDERR, so maybe we should parse that and raise something?
Hi, i have the same problem on Ubuntu Server 16.04 when trying to convert files, only the «file could not be loaded». I think its something that is not installed.
The problem was solved installing the complete libreoffice suite (sudo apt-get install libreoffice) not only the «commons» package (sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common).
Hope this helps.
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…ce required for some odd reason, instead of headless. Provision script will need to be updated
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A Python code to resolve issue : Error: source file could not be loaded
following code worked
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['soffice',
'--headless',
'--convert-to',
'docx',
sourceFileLocation,
'--outdir',
destiFileLocation
])
Description
Dieter Schmeer
2014-08-06 20:34:34 UTC
Created attachment 104179 [details]
Used test document
Call the following on command line:
"c:Program Files (x86)LibreOffice 4programswriter.exe" --headless --convert-to doc "test3.odt"
No PDF file is generated, only the file WERAB7E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml.
In Version 4.2.x.x, this still worked.
It seems the problem occurs for all documents containing a paragraph which is longer than one line. If you shorten all paragraphs to have only one line it works.
Comment 2
Joel Madero
2014-08-07 04:53:30 UTC
Just tested with: Ubuntu 14.04 x64 LibreOffice 4.3.0.4 I cannot confirm - converts fine. Note: "c:Program Files (x86)LibreOffice 4programswriter.exe" --headless --convert-to doc "test3.odt" converts to a DOC not a pdf. To convert to a PDF you need to replace "doc" with "pdf" in the above line.
Comment 3
Dieter Schmeer
2014-08-07 05:39:07 UTC
Sorry, "doc" was a copy and paste error, because I also tried converting to doc. On my Windows installation, neither pdf nor doc works, both conversions fail. Can anybody please try to confirm this on Windows?
Comment 4
michaelp
2014-08-14 22:27:06 UTC
I seem to be experiencing the same problem. Headless conversion to pdf is failing silently (ie not outputting any errors, but not generating the pdf). LO 3.6 and 4.2 are working, but 4.3.0.4 and 4.3.1.1 (ie the release candidate) are both failing.
Comment 5
Robinson Tryon (qubit)
2014-08-15 03:14:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> I seem to be experiencing the same problem. Headless conversion to pdf is
> failing silently (ie not outputting any errors, but not generating the pdf).
> LO 3.6 and 4.2 are working, but 4.3.0.4 and 4.3.1.1 (ie the release
> candidate) are both failing.
Hi michael,
On what OS are you testing?
Comment 6
michaelp
2014-08-17 23:12:15 UTC
I'm using Linux, but our clients are also having problems in Windows. The Linux distribution is a bit old - it's running under Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
Comment 7
pablo.olmos
2014-08-28 14:52:43 UTC
I am having the same problem while trying to convert a docx file on Windows 7 (64bit with service pack 1) with version 4.3.1.2: Headless conversion to pdf is failing silently (ie not outputting any errors, but not generating the pdf).
Comment 8
Florian Reisinger
2014-08-28 16:31:03 UTC
Working with 4.3.0.4 and your test document Can you enter "echo Exit Code is %errorlevel%" (without the "). If the exit code is "9009" the file does not exist (at least in my case here) So cannot reproduce
Comment 9
michaelp
2014-09-02 01:40:13 UTC
On Linux, I get a result code of 0, but nothing has happened. It seems to exit with 0 regardless of whether the source file (ie the file I'm trying to convert) exists or not.
Comment 10
tommy27
2015-01-04 15:13:29 UTC
status NEW since confirmations in comment 4 and comment 7 however it would be interesting to know from affected users if the issue persists in latest 4.3.5.2 release
Comment 11
Dieter Schmeer
2015-01-17 23:16:37 UTC
Update for newer LibreOffice Versions 4.3.5.2 and 4.4.0.2: The command line "c:Program Files (x86)LibreOffice 4programswriter.exe" --headless --convert-to pdf "test3.odt" does still not create a pdf file, the is no output file at all, the command silently fails. echo Exit Code is %errorlevel% outputs an exit code of 0. If I remove some letters in test3.odt until there is only one line of text it works fine. OS is Windows 7 x64 with all current updates installed. Version 4.2.8 still works fine.
Comment 12
michaelp
2015-05-14 04:21:17 UTC
I just tried again with 4.4.3.2 on Linux and it worked to convert an odt to pdf! I'm not sure if there's something in our installation that changed or if it was fixed in LO, but it's probably worth while for others who were having this problem to try out that version.
Comment 13
Florian Reisinger
2015-05-14 06:15:18 UTC
As per comment before this one
Comment 14
michaelp
2015-05-14 22:14:41 UTC
BTW - it is still exiting with a result code of 0 on Linux, though it is now nicely printing an error to stderr. Not an issue for my usage, but may be of concern to others. In the example below, the file "blah.odt" does not exist: ./libreoffice4.4/program/swriter --headless --convert-to pdf blah.odt Error: source file could not be loaded # echo $? 0
Comment 15
Robinson Tryon (qubit)
2015-12-17 10:57:50 UTC
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (notBibisectable) [NinjaEdit]
I use a script via my file manager context menu to convert various document formats (e.g. *.DOC) to ODT format like this:
for filename in "${@}"; do
if [[ -f "${filename%.*}.odt" ]]
then
newfile="${filename%.*}_$(stat "$filename" | grep "Modify" | awk -F " " '{print $2}').odt"
mv "${filename%.*}.odt" "${filename%.*}.tmp"
libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt "$filename"
mv "${filename%.*}.odt" "$newfile"
touch "$newfile" -r "$filename"
mv "${filename%.*}.odt.tmp" "${filename%.*}.odt"
rm "$filename"
else
libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt "$filename"
touch "${filename%.*}.odt" -r "$filename"
rm "$filename"
fi
done
Unfortunately, this results in removing a file without conversion if it is password-protected.
Terminal output in such case is «Error: source file could not be loaded»
I guess (and hope) it would take just a little bit more shell scripting skills to improve the very basic script above so that the input file is not removed but simply skipped (perhaps with an error message or log file as well).
asked May 11, 2022 at 13:39
SadiSadi
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In an ideal world libreoffice will let you know with an exit code that the conversion did not take place. But it seems that’s not the case.
So you have at least two alternatives, one is parsing the standard error and remove the file only if the error message is not there (you check the exit code from grep and hope for the pipe not be broken before that):
for filename in "${@}"; do
libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt "$filename" 2>&1 | grep "source file could not be loaded" || rm "$filename"
done
Another possibility is to check if the odt file has been created before removing the source (an incomplete conversion might trigger the removal though). Something like this:
for filename in "${@}"; do
libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt "$filename"
test -f ${filename%.*}.odt && rm "$filename"
done
answered May 11, 2022 at 14:26
Eduardo TrápaniEduardo Trápani
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