Hi,
The company that I work for use LibreOffice as the main word processor. We
convert a lot of client letters from doc/docx to open document format.
We are on Mac OS X Lion (10.7) btw.
We use: soffice --headless --convert-to odt …. to do the batch conversion.
The problems with this are:
- It takes quite a long time to start up. It becomes a problem when we have to
convert many documents.
- It won't work if there is already a LibreOffice instance running
So my boss asked me to fix these 2 issues. I managed to build the source code
on Mac OS X Lion and then try to see what's going on (unfortunately specifying
--headless fail to build).
I found out that to just do the conversion, there are many dynamic libraries
are loaded (so I guess this is why it takes a long time).
Trying to understand what's going on in the code is not a simple task to be
honest.
Can some one help or give me info on how to:
- build a bare minimum/small binary (without too many dependencies) just for
conversion to odt? also how do I link statically?
The conversion utility doesn't need all the gui libraries I believe. Minimum
dependency will make start up a lot quicker.
- what to do to allow conversion working while there is an instance of
LibreOffice already running? Should I modify something in the source code?
I'm sure a lot of people would love to have this light weight conversion
utility.
Many thanks before.
Jerry
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