I get the following error on my macbook:

unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents ERROR: Please locate this library and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues No module named uno unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system. ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues

I'm running OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 My unoconv version is 0.5, it is placed in /usr/bin and given read and execute permissions

It fails if called directly, also if called with sudo

Searched for openoffice files and found: pyuno.so at /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/basis-link/program/pyuno.so soffice.bin at /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice.bin

I traced the error to this bit of the code:

        try:
            print >>sys.stderr, "lalala %s", of.basepath
            import uno, unohelper
            print >>sys.stderr, "lelele"
            office = of
            break
        except:
#            debug_office()
            print >>sys.stderr, "unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in %s" % of
            print >>sys.stderr, "ERROR:", sys.exc_info()[1]
            print >>sys.stderr

When running as root I get this:

# /usr/bin/unoconv -f pdf -o "/var/www/tmp/test2" "/var/www/tmp/test1"
lalala %s /opt/libreoffice3.6
lelele

Then running the same root through a webpage with apache, I get this:

lalala %s /opt/libreoffice3.6
unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in /opt/libreoffice3.6
ERROR: Error during bootstrapping uno (RuntimeException):cannot open file:///root/.ure/types.rdb: 13

lalala %s /opt/libreoffice3.6
unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in /opt/libreoffice3.6
ERROR: Error during bootstrapping uno (RuntimeException):cannot open file:///root/.ure/types.rdb: 13

So basically the try bit fails with apache but works as root. I suppose it might be a permissions issue, or something in the environment, but I haven't been able to find any info.

Thanks for your attention!

lalala %s /opt/libreoffice3.6
unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in /opt/libreoffice3.6
ERROR: Error during bootstrapping uno (RuntimeException):cannot open file:///root/.ure/types.rdb: 13

unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system. ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issue

Currently I am using Unoconv together with OpenOffice on a production webserver running Ubuntu to generate PDF files from dynamically written ODT documents.

Initially I ran into problems without using Unoconv that OpenOffice would get randomly stuck and unresponsive without completing the conversion.

I had hoped that Unoconv would solve this problem but that seems not to be the case. From time to time OpenOffice instances still seem to hang and operations never complete resulting in unexpected behavior from my web application.

It seems only 1 process can call Unoconv / OpenOffice at the same time system wide!

As a temporary workaround I have created a locking mechanism in my (Ruby on Rails) web application using a Mutex-Redis lock.

Is this an issue of Unoconv that needs to be fixed, or am I simply not using Unoconv correctly? If you have any idea on how to properly implement this use case, please let me know.

I'm trying to get unoconv up and running on a shell only Debian system. Do I need to install LibreOffice separately?

I've managed to install it using simple apt-get install unoconc, but when I try and run a command to convert a ppt to jpgs, I'm getting some "Format not supported" complaint. Example below:

:~/ppt-test# unoconv -f jpg my-file.ppt unoconv: UnoException during conversion: URL seems to be an unsupported one. The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format.

Maybe the basic command structure is simple wrong?

I'm using Mac OS Mavericks, LibreOffice 4.2.5.2, and unoconv 0.6 (install via homebrew).

LibreOffice soffice install path is /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice.

Error message is:

unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system.
ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to:
       http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues

Hi,

I installed editors/openoffice-3 from the FreeBSD ports (Apache OpenOffice 3.4), under a recent FreeBSD-9 (Stable).

The path for pyuno.so: /usr/local/openoffice-3.4.0/openoffice.org/basis3.4/program/pyuno.so

unoconv does not work yet.

I tried the tarball for unoconv-0.4. First I had to add in the extrapath glob.glob('/usr/local/openoffice*/openoffice.org/basis*/program')

After that it comes up with

~/unoconv-0.4/unoconv -f pdf -o ~/test.pdf ~/test.odt Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/unoconv-0.4/unoconv", line 68, in os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = oolibpath + os.pathsep + os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 23, in getitem raise KeyError(key) KeyError: 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'

LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't set.

Anyway, I tried to use the latest version checked out via Subversion.

~/svn/unoconv/trunk]//unoconv -f pdf -o ~/test.pdf ~/test.odt unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system. ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues

I wasn't successful with the extrapath addition as I did on unoconv-04. The error stays the same (Cannot find a suitable office..)

As a side node, I replaced "#!/usr/bin/python" with "#!/usr/bin/env python" (FreeBSD installs it under /usr/local/bin).

OpenOffice 3.4 and python 2.7 are compiled at the same time (same ports snapshot from last Friday, same gcc etc.) so python and pyuno.so should fit together.

Any ideas?

Regards Peter

I did a git clone and running into following error message. I don't have openoffice but I have libreoffice write/calc/Impress installed on my machine. Any thoughts what's the issue? (I'm using Fedora16 and Python-2.7.2)

./unoconv

unoconv: Cannot find a suitable pyuno library and python binary combination in /usr/lib64/libreoffice ERROR: Please locate this library and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues No module named uno unoconv: Cannot find a suitable office installation on your system. ERROR: Please locate your office installation and send your feedback to: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/issues

When converting txt files (without extension) to pdf files unoconv is crashing. When converting same file with extension, then everything is OK. In other case if file have extension and is it link to file who don't have extension, then don't work. This is only for txt files.

unoconv -f pdf 'file' - Not working unoconv -f pdf 'file.txt' - Working

In installed unoconv error is:

unoconv: UnoException during conversion: 
The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format.

In last branch in gitHub the error is:

unoconv: UnoException during export phase:
Unable to store document to file:///home/developer/Desktop/a.pdf (ErrCode 2074)

Properties: ((com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"FilterName", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (string)"writer_pdf_Export" }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE }, (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"OutputStream", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x-4c64b9a4{, supportedInterfaces={com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider,com.sun.star.io.XOutputStream}} }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE }, (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"Overwrite", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (boolean)true }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE })

If I try to convert http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch2.doc, I get an error:

$ unoconv -f pdf antioch2.doc 
unoconv: UnoException during conversion in <class '__main__.com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException'>: URL seems to be an unsupported one.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 801, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 780, in main
    convertor.convert(inputfn)
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 690, in convert
    error("ERROR: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. (code: %s)" % e.ErrCode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/uno.py", line 318, in _uno_struct__getattr__
    return __builtin__.getattr(self.__dict__["value"],name)
AttributeError: ErrCode

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo

As I am trying to export doc files to jpeg I get the following error.

I have restarted all my instances of openoffice, reinstalled everything, but still the same issue. Any idea what the reason is as I am on a dead end

Input file: EWAD-CZ_press_release.doc
Selected output format: Joint Photographic Experts Group [.jpg]
Selected ooffice filter: draw_jpg_Export
Used doctype: graphics
unoconv: UnoException during conversion in <class __main__.com.sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException at 0x7f1e302f0590>:
ERROR: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. (code: 2074)

While unoconv -f pdf -o out.pdf input.doc works without a problem, unoconv -f pdf --stdout input.doc > /dev/null gives this error:

unoconv: UnoException during export phase:
Unable to store document to private:stream (ErrCode 3088)

Properties: ((com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"Overwrite", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (boolean)true }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE }, (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"FilterName", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (string)"writer_pdf_Export" }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE }, (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue){ Name = (string)"OutputStream", Handle = (long)0x0, Value = (any){ (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)0x2142228{, supportedInterfaces={com.sun.star.lang.XTypeProvider,com.sun.star.io.XOutputStream}} }, State = (com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState)DIRECT_VALUE })

This is with LibreOffice 4.1.0.

This also has been reported to Debian as bug #718481

So I have an issue where students submit Moodle assignments and when they get converted by unoconv, the documents formatting is off. (I.E. Page numbers in the headers shift)

Possibly relates to #237 #483 #402 - Root cause found in https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/issues/516 (issue is in unoconv)

Goal

Converting plain PDF-files to PDF/A-1a files

Commands

unoconv --no-launch --format pdf --port 45379 -vvv --export SelectPdfVersion=1 --output out.pdf xxx.pdf

Problem Description

Using the listener-mode the PDF conversion will work at first, but fails after the libreoffice listener hasn't received any jobs in a bit (e.g. 20 minutes). In that case, the following output will happen (exit code 5):

Verbosity set to level 3
Using office base path: /usr/lib/libreoffice
Using office binary path: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program
DEBUG: Connection type: socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=45379,tcpNoDelay=1;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext
Input file: xxxx.pdf
unoconv: UnoException during import phase:
The document 'file:///home/gotenberg/xxxx.pdf' could not be opened.

Sadly I haven't found any logs regarding LibreOffice anywhere. When killing the libreoffice process, which will force a recreation of libreoffice by unoconv, that'll be fixed. That's just no option for a production usage.

Expectation

The libreoffice listener should accept commands even after having no jobs for a few hours or more. The instance itself seems to be healthy, no error is thrown in https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv/blob/master/unoconv#L1015 which makes the debugging not really possible.

Are there any alternatives?

Sadly, https://github.com/unoconv/unoserver/ is no alternative in this case as unoserver does not support the PDF/A conversion (yet?)

I'm trying to convert a docx file that contains a png image without a background, after I convert to pdf the png image it has a white background, how do I keep the document with my image without a background ?

For the record, it would be quite useful for our purposes (education) if Unoconv could convert HTML with equations (MathML or LaTeX) to docx with editable equations. Would this be possible?

When converting to pdf, it keeps all special characters and arts, this is very good indeed, but I want to remove them when the conversion is done.

Is there anyway to do this?

Anyone could help?

Thanks,

Hi there,

I know unoconv is deprecated, but for reasons of my project, I have to use it.

So, my computer has Windows 10 : how to install the deprecated unoconv lib? Which version of Python do you recommend us?

Thanks in advance. Brs.