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-- wesley
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Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice.

Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze of
dlls.

The following interactive session reproduces the problem:

| C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org
2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\bin>python

# OOo includes a complete python distribution. Note the directory name
says 2.3.4 ...

| Python 2.3.5 (#62, Feb  8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32

... but the program identifies itself as 2.3.5

| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
| >>> import sys
| >>> sys.path.append(r'C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program')

# The above directory contains all the dlls plus a handful of python
files

| >>> import pyuno # from pyuno.dll; there's no other pyuno.*
| >>> _g_ctx = pyuno.getComponentContext()

# crash

Has anyone managed to get further than this on Windows (XP Pro, SP 2)?

Is there any OO compiled with P2.4x for Windows somewhere ?

It seems that there is only one person to maintain the Python interface
and that there few users - no critical mass.  I hope that this will
change as OpenOffice is, with the exception of the Base component, a
solid package. The base (database) component is evolving.

Here is something that works for me under XPsp2 to either save a doc or
save it as PDF:

    filepath = argv[0]
    exportpdf  = argv[1]

    ctxLocal = uno.getComponentContext()
    smgrLocal = ctxLocal.ServiceManager
    resolver =
smgrLocal.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver",ct xLocal)
    url =
"uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext"
    ctx = resolver.resolve(url)
    smgr = ctx.ServiceManager
    desktop =
smgr.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",ctx)

    properties = []
    if exportpdf == "yes":
        p = PropertyValue()
        p.Name = "Hidden"
        p.Value = True
        properties.append(p)
    properties = tuple(properties)
    doc = desktop.loadComponentFromURL("file:///c:"+filepath+".odt" ,
"_blank", 0, properties)

    if exportpdf == "yes":
        properties = []

        p = PropertyValue()
        p.Name = "Overwrite"
        p.Value = True
        properties.append(p)

        p = PropertyValue()
        p.Name = "FilterName"
        p.Value = 'writer_pdf_Export'
        properties.append(p)

        properties = tuple(properties)
        doc.storeToURL("file:///c:"+filepath+".pdf", properties)

    else:
        doc.store()

    doc.dispose()

... and you have to start your py file with:

import uno, sys, socket
from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue

... and your start_oo_server.bat file with: