[Libreoffice] -conver-to on master

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:48:16PM +0300, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I tried LibreOffice 3.4 (pre-release) and it works with 'csv' to 'ods'
>> conversion,
>> as described in http://www.mail-archive.com/users@libreoffice.org/msg03444.html
>>
>> ./soffice.bin --headless --convert-to ods /tmp/test.csv
>> convert /tmp/test.csv -> /opt/libreoffice/program/test.ods using calc8
>> Overwriting: /opt/libreoffice/program/test.ods
>
> Wow, this is interesting. :)
>
> ~/git/libreoffice/master/install/program$ ./soffice.bin --headless --convert-to ods test.csv
> convert /home/vmiklos/git/libreoffice/master/install/program/test.csv -> /home/vmiklos/git/libreoffice/master/install/program/test.ods using calc8
>
> -> works fine
>
> ~/git/libreoffice/master/install/program$ file hello.odt
> hello.odt: OpenDocument Text
> ~/git/libreoffice/master/install/program$ ./soffice.bin --headless --convert-to rtf hello.odt
> convert /home/vmiklos/git/libreoffice/master/install/program/hello.odt -> /home/vmiklos/git/libreoffice/master/install/program/hello.rtf using Rich Text Format
> Error: Please reverify input parameters...
>
> Maybe something is wrong with the RTF export filter registration?
>
> I'll try to have a look at it (I'm not yet familiar with this new
> passive registration stuff).
>

The encoding bug that I mentioned earlier in LibreOffice headless has
now a bugzilla report,
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36313

I am not familiar on how filters work. If you have give a high-level
description (which files to look into), it would be great. I assume
that both bugs are similar.

Simos