Conversion of docx to pdf

[Wanderer123]

How to initialize libreoffice in listener mode and use it for docx to pdf conversion using headless command for multiple user instances?

[mikekaganski]

Multiple instances of soffice.bin at the same time

we are converting office documents to pdf’s using Libre office, Instead of sequential processing we need to do it parallelly hence we need to run multiple instances of soffice.bin, I understand that we need to use seperate user profiles to do that. So I decided to create a new user profile and the converting the document to pdf something like below command soffice.exe --headless -env:UserInstallation=file:///c:/temp/Userprofile --convert-to pdf --outdir "C:/temp/PDFs" "C:/temp/input/test.docx…

[Wanderer123]

I meant is it possible to run each user instance in listener mode and run the -convert to pdf command in headless mode for pdf conversion for each user instance?

[mikekaganski]

Any first LibreOffice instance starts as a “listener” for all subsequent instances using the same user profile.
Please spend time reading that topic. It basically discusses it all very thoroughly.