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SUMMARY

Utilizes OpenOffice / JODCoverter as a service to convert documents between various formats.

Supported formats

PDF format

• Portable Document Format (*.pdf)

Text Formats

• OpenDocument Text (*.odt)
• OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text (*.sxw)
• Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
• Microsoft Word (*.doc)
• WordPerfect (*.wpd)
• Plain Text (*.txt)
• HTML1 (*.html)

Spreadsheet Formats

• OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods)
• OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet (*.sxc)
• Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
• Comma-Separated Values (*.csv)
• Tab-Separated Values (*.tsv)

Presentation Formats

• OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp)
• OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation (*.sxi)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)

REQUIREMENTS

• Open Office
• [JODConverter] (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jodconverter/)
• libraries

INSTALLATION

Open Office (Under Ubuntu 13.04)

Install Open Office and the required dependencies.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/office
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openoffice
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-writer
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-draw
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-calc
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-impress

Start OpenOffice service:

Make sure you start OpenOffice as the same user that apache is running as.

soffice --headless --accept=socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;

or

soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" -nofirststartwizard

If you are using an older version

JODConverter

Download from here Unzip it and place into Drupal/base/path/sites/all/libraries