From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][ODT] Converting to pdf (or other formats) via odt
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haz266yr.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81obthx7xn.fsf@gmail.com
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> I committed the changes only a few minutes ago as part of Org-mode
> version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.300.g9b820)
>
> So the Org version should be at or above the 300th version.
>
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks to Giles[1] for introducing us to the "--convert-to" option of
>> soffice.exe. The option seems to be a fairly recent development[2].
>>
>> With this change, one can export to pdf (or any other popular format)
>> via odt by a simple
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (setq org-export-odt-preferred-output-format "pdf")
>> #+end_src
>>
>> There is no need to install additional converters. It is assumed that
>> the user has a working and fairly recent LibreOffice installation.
>>
>> Footnotes:
>> [1]
>> http://imperfectsoftware.blogspot.in/2012/01/one-of-my-less-enjoyable-tasks-is-to.html
>>
>> [2] There seems to be a bunch of fairly recent bugs with this option. So
>> a cutting edge LibreOffice would definitely be needed.
>>
>> http://www.google.co.in/search?q=headless+%22--convert-to%22+site%3Alibreoffice.org&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&gbv=1&sei=L_gqT97rIMXorAf248C6DA
>>
>> Feedback welcome.
Hi Jambunathan,
this sounds great. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work for me.
Just pulled (last commit c4b233453ca846351bb5ba0893ebb2b8a5b3a941 Merge
branch 'maint') and I do get
"org-lparse: Don't know how to export to backend docx via odt"
What did I miss?
- Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-02 20:59 [RFC][ODT] Converting to pdf (or other formats) via odt Jambunathan K
2012-02-02 21:05 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-07 14:42 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2012-02-08 20:20 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-14 22:25 ` Andreas Leha
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