Question

I have some documentation written in OpenOffice, and I would like to include some of it as PDF files in the final build deliveries. I would like to do this with the automated build script.

Is there a way to create a PDF file from OpenOffice with a command line command?

Answer 1

Art of Solving has also a very good API to perform the conversion in Java. It is a little slow but it is simple enough. This is how I use it:

        File inputFile = new File('C:\\oreyes\\hola.doc');          File outputFile = new File('C:\\oreyes\\hola.pdf');          OpenOfficeConnection connection = new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(8100);         try {              connection.connect();          } catch(Exception e) {}          DocumentConverter converter = new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);         converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile);          connection.disconnect();  

You can create a jar with that and process it from the command line.