This is a guide to fix the use of PYODConverter on linux RedHat Centos 5 box users.
If you wanna use DocumentConverter.py written by artofsolving, you have to follow those steps.
1)Install openoffice on your linux box or verify installation through commands:
Install Packages
yum install openoffice.org-xxx.
Check Packages
yum list | grep "openoffice".
2)Install python-uno bridge
3)Download DocumentConverter.py
4)Add the following line below "import uno"...
import sys
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program")
5)Run openoffice like a service with -headless and -nofirtstartwizard options.
/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice -nologo -nofirststartwizard -headless -norestore -invisible "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1;urp;"
The port 8100 must be the same for client and server obviously.
If you execute this php code
$cmd = "/usr/bin/python /var/www/html/DocumentConverter.py inputfile $outputfile.pdf 2>&1 | tee /var/www/html/mylog.txt"; // tee used to log output and errors of cmd
exec($cmd, $results);
printf("Exec Output: {".print_r($results).";}\n"); //print results of exec command
you'll probably get this error:
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).javaldx failed!
And other permissions problems on tmp dirs.
To solve this, simply add into your php script those lines of code
if (!file_exists("/tmp/ooohomedir"))
{
mkdir("/tmp/ooohomedir");
chmod("/tmp/ooohomedir", 0777);
}
putenv("HOME=/tmp/ooohomedir");
If you have another workaround about this please leave a comment below.
C u.
