Administration Guide : Command-line manual pages
OFFICESYNC(8) manual page

Name

officesync - Makes PDF files out of Office documents using the OpenOffice.org export-as-PDF feature, then passes result to pdfsync (8) to extract previews.

Synopsis

officesync action

Description

The officesync program calls the main OpenOffice.org (or LibreOffice ) program, soffice , to make intermediate PDFs and then passes them on to pdfsync (8) . The system depends on two programs, officesync (8) and o2pdf.oxt . The program fpod (8) calls officesync to generate previews for a given fileid . The officesync program then calls soffice , having it run a macro that converts the file to a PDF, then passes the PDF file to pdfsync (8) to build Web previews. The WebNative Suite o2pdf.oxt program is an OpenOffice.org extension, which installs an OpenOffice.org BASIC macro called XinetLib.Venture.ConvertToPDF. (You can browse and verify its existence using the OpenOffice.org GUI.)

Prerequisites

See the Xinet Administration Guide's Installation chapter for supported versions of the Openoffice.org or LibreOffice.org software, which should be installed in the following locations:
Mac OS X
/Application/Openoffice.*
/Application/LibreOffice.*
Other Unix variants
/opt/openoffice*
/opt/libreoffice*
Windows
Anywhere

Command Options

The flags are defined as follows:
-D
Turns on debugging in the console for all other flags.
-install
Install o2pdf.oxt as an extension for OpenOffice.org and sets up the /usr/etc/venture/var/do_office_sync file with the installation path of OpenOffice.org. Success or failure messages will be written in file /var/adm/appletalk/at_log.
-libre  
Use LibreOffice instead of Openoffice. The option is only needed for the -install action.
-uninstall
Removes o2pdf.oxt as an extension for OpenOffice.org and removes do_office_sync.
-isinstalled
Examines the installation for completeness and returns either yes or    no. If no, it will also return a list of missing elements.
-ipath
Returns the path that is being used to call soffice.

Files

/usr/etc/venture/bin/officesync
/usr/etc/venture/bin/o2pdf.oxt
/usr/etc/venture/bin/pdfsync