Re: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net>
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 20:46:51 CEST

Is this error is happening only with one particular file, or with any
word file?

If it's any word file, it looks like perhaps there's a problem in wv or
libgsf.

Scott Prelewicz wrote:
> This could be for any file. Specifically, we want to be able to convert
> uploaded resumes to pdf for the client. Actually, the files could be
> Word files or .txt files, though 95% of them will be Word files.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:domlachowicz@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:30 PM
> To: Scott Prelewicz; abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion
>
> Is this for just 1-2 files in particular, or any Word
> file?
>
> --- Scott Prelewicz <scottp@noein.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am trying to convert .doc files to .pdf
>> programmatically. With help
>> from those on IRC, I've managed to make some
>> progress on this however I
>> am getting stuck at the error below while trying to
>> test on the command
>> line interface.
>>
>> I am not familiar with AbiWord much, a newbie, but
>> I'm thinking it's
>> possibly an installation issue? Correct? And if so,
>> what should I do? :)
>>
>> Running AbiWord 2.4 on OpenBSD 3.6.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> abiword --to=/tmp/foo.pdf /tmp/bar.doc
>>>>
>> (abiword:14375): libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **:
>> ole_get_block: assertion
>> `block < ole->info->max_block' failed
>>
>> ** (abiword:14375): WARNING **: failed request with
>> status 1030
>> Aborted
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /tmp/foo.pdf DOES get created, however it is a zero
>> length file unable
>> to be read by Acrobat reader. The test doc is a
>> simple one sentence Word
>> document.
>>
>> Thank you for any help,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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