In Ubuntu 19.04, soffice is already in the path, so I went to the directory containing my pdfs and entered:
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf: foo 20190630_deposit.xlsx
It ran without error message. I expected to find “foo.pdf” in that directory, but nothing. I tried:
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf: “~/temp/foo” 20190630_deposit.xlsx
and looked for foo.pdf in the temp subdirectory of my home directory. Nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
what are colon and “foo” after “pdf” should mean, and where are they documented?
–convert-to has no means to define output file name. It only allows you to define --outdir.
Thanks Mike. Works without colon and foo. My bad for using an example I found on the web without double-checking the documentation.
I would close this as answered and accepted but don’t know how.
For the record:
The problem is the incorrect usage of --convert-to syntax. Apparently the colon, space and “foo” after “pdf” were meant to specify output file name; but --convert-to has no means to specify output file name - only output directory using optional --outdir parameter.