In continuation of Khairil's meme for foss.my, "I love OOo!"OpenOffice.org has been my only office suite for the past 5 years (or more?) and its extremely flexible.
Just today I learnt something new: a certain govt agency needed files in PDF because their "IT Department" just haven't gotten round to install OpenOffice.org in their machines. Its quite a few files, and I didn't fancy doing it manually.
So a quick google brought up two options: Use the Macro language, which involved copy and pasting some Basic code, or using unoconv which is a command line python script, by dag wieers. I prefer the command line, so I apt-get installed it.
#sudo apt-get install unoconvAnd then running it may get you this error:
# unoconv -f pdf TC4-*.od?The reason is because you need to have OpenOffice.org running in the background (or in a remote server) first. Launch soffice, and run the command line again, and everything will succeed quietly.
Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting. javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Isn't it wonderful that a UI app can be used to convert files from the command line? Isn't it great that it can be driven from the command line with the wierd wildcards (*s and ?s). Isn't it just awesome?
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