PyODConverter
PyODConverter (for Python OpenDocument Converter) is a Python package that automates office document conversions using LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org.
Important note
For more recent versions of LibreOffice (4.3.0+) you can use pylokit.
Setup
PyODConverter requires LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org to be running as a service and listening on port (by default) 2002; this can be achieved e.g. by starting it from the command line as
$ apt-get install unoconv
$ unoconv -l -v
Usage
from PyODConverter import DocumentConverter
listener = ('localhost', 2002)
converter = DocumentConverter(listener)
# LibreOffice automatically converts relative paths
converter.convert('kittens.docx', 'kittens.pdf')
# So, if you run this code from /opt/
# It'll be interpreted as this:
# converter.convert('/opt/kittens.docx', '/opt/kittens.pdf')
# That's all.
# If you want some bookmarks or user fields to be filled by custom data on
# generated document, you can give this data to converter like this :
converter.convert('/opt/kittens.docx', '/opt/kittens.pdf',
data={'age': 4,
'name': 'Felix',
'birthdate': datetime.date(2010, 12, 24)},
)
# (this is not available in command line)ChangeLog
v1.9 - Unreleased
- Tests pass via setup.py command
v1.8 - 2014-06-28
- Tests pass under buildout context
- We can fill bookmarks, document properties and user fields of generated document with custom data given as a parameter of converter.
- Avoid border effects of uno import on python import system
v1.7 - 2013-11-01
- Python 3.3+ support
- Add default arguments to paperSize and paperOrientation parameters
v1.6 - 2013-06-05
- Fix support to print all sheets
- Fix parameters to initialize SOffice service
v1.5 - 2013-01-07
- Adding method to be able to get file base name
- Improvement files export from Presentation to Images. Now for each slide, an image will be created.
v1.4 - 2013-01-03
- Improvement the toProperties method to be able add array Uno properties
- Adding the Overwrite and IsSkipEmptyPages options.
- Update the README.
v1.3 - 2013-01-02
- Adding new docx format support.
- Adding paper size and orientation capable.
- Updated the options parser.
- Updated contributors.
v1.2 - 2012-03-10
- Changed default port to 2002
- Moved to GitHub
v1.1 - 2009-11-14
- Fixed HTML import issues by adding FAMILY_WEB
- Support for specifying input formats and options
- Support for passing filter options to output formats
- Added CSV and TXT as input and output formats
- Support for overriding Page Style properties, especially useful for specifying how spreadsheets should fit into pages when exporting to PDF
v1.0.0 - 2008-05-05
- Let OOo determine the input document type, rather than using the file extension. This means all OOo-supported input types should now be accepted without any additional configuration.
Contributors
- mirkonasato mirko.nasato@gmail.com
- marcelaraujo admin@marcelaraujo.me
- Thomas Desvenain thomas.desvenain@gmail.com