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I have seen posts on how to batch convert various documents to PDF via command line for both windows and linux. Now OSX being unix based I figure it must be similar to the linux posts but I have yet to figure out the correct syntax. Im using LibreOffice 4.0.0.3. on OSX 10.6.8. I aslo have access to Acrobat Pro 9 on this machine if someone knows of a better way to do the batch conversion and can point me in the right direction with that. Thanks in advance!

How do I edit "soffice script" on Mac OS X?
#2

how would you specify the output folder?

#3

Hi,

You can do the same using the Terminal in Mac OSX (tested using Mac OSX 10.8.2).

  • Open Terminal
  • cd to your LibreOffice installation like:
cd /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS
  • then you can run the same command as you used in Linux:
./soffice --headless --convert-to

Example to convert all odt files to pdf in my Downloads folder:

./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf ~/Downloads/*.odt
  • To specify an output folder you can add the --outdir option

    For example:
 ./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir /home/user ~/Downloads/*.odt
  • For other options or help you can use:
./soffice --help

Kind regards,

Joren

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#4

Hi
I tried this with 10 files for test, succes.
But not works on the full folder (contains 4500 doc files)
Terminal said too many arguments

What is the limit?
Thanks
Peter

#5

Not working… Once in LibreOffice installation I used this syntax:
./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir ~/Desktop /Users/user/Desktop/*.doc

And returns this:
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/–-headless does not exist.
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/–-convert-to does not exist.
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/pdf does not exist.
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/—-outdir does not exist.

Using 4.2.6.3, on Mac OS X 10.10

Thanks

#6

Quick Start

sudo curl sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/psjinx/3ad78df6290b5ba931c1/raw/soffice.sh > /usr/loca/bin/soffice && sudo chmod +x /usr/loca/bin/soffice

Create a shell script at /usr/loca/bin/soffice with following content

#!/bin/bash

# Need to do this because symlink won't work
# It complains about some .plist files
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice "$@"

Make it executable

sudo chmod +x /usr/loca/bin/soffice

Usage

Now you can run soffice command from anywhere

Convert an excel file to pdf

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf:"calc_pdf_Export" /path/to/some/.xlsx/file
#7

The exact solution I was looking for =D Thanks !

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I tried but without result with this command shell
cmd="/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf /Users/lismax/Desktop/MioFile.rtf"

where I’m wrong ?

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