Re: [O] the role of org-odt-preferred-output-format etc

[Ken Mankoff]

I convert to DOC with the following on OS X:

(use-package ox-odt
  :ensure nil
  :config (progn
            (setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
            (setq org-odt-convert-processes
                  '(("LibreOffice" 
"/path/to/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to %f%x 
%i")))))

It fails if LibreOffice is running, but works if it is not running.

  -k.




On 2016-04-10 at 09:41, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    > Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>    >> Hello
>    >> 
>    >> Maybe I misunderstood the manual 
>    >> http://orgmode.org/manual/Extending-ODT-export.html
>    >> and
>    >> 
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Configuring-a-document-converter.html#Configuring-a-document-converter
>    >> 
>    >> I can successfully convert a org file to odt, but sometimes I need it to
>    >> be directly in doc format.
>    >> 
>    >> So I thought I set org-odt-preferred-output-format 
>    >> to «doc».
>
>    > I set that option to the string "rtf", and everything works as expected.
>    > You don't actually specify the preferred output, you just export to ODT,
>    > and then the secondary conversion happens automtically. Ie, I now just
>    > export to ODT, and automatically end up with an RTF file. I haven't
>    > tried that programmatically, but I'd guess it works the same way: just
>    > don't put the "doc" in there at all. Does that work?
>
> I made some progress, I tried out docx and it failed I went back to doc
> format in in the message buffer, the following lines
>
> Executing soffice --headless --convert-to doc:"MS Word 97" --outdir 
> /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/ 
> /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/cv-libre.odt
>
> Export to /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/cv-libre.doc failed
>
> Indicate that it fails again, but I don't understand why.
>
> I tried rtf and got
>
> Executing soffice --headless --convert-to doc:"MS Word 97" --outdir 
> /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/ 
> /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/cv-libre.odt
>
> Export to /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/cv-libre.doc failed
>
> He also claims that the directory
> /home/oub/tex/Proy-MTM-2016/LaTeX-org/rft does not exist. Why the heck
> he needs it is beyond me.
>
> What I understand is that he uses soffice, which is the official old
> version from my ubuntu version, I have newer versions which I installed
> in /opt/libreoffice4.3 and /opt/libreoffice5.1.
>
> How can I tell org to use those?
>
> Uwe Brauer