Converting docx to pdf using LibreOffice causes error

[Jason Pather]

I have 1000 .docx files that I want to convert to pdf so I have written a program to do this, but I can never get through all 1000 files before an error is thrown. I start a headless version of LibreOffice using soffice --headless --accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002;urp;". I am using LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 and JODConverter 2.2.2. This is my conversion code (prior to this I just iterate all the .docx files in a directory):


    try {
            File inputFile = new File(sourceFile);
            if (!inputFile.exists()) {
                return -1;
            }

            File outputFile = new File(destFile);
            OpenOfficeConnection connection = new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(host_Str,
                Integer.parseInt(port_Str));
            connection.connect();
            DocumentConverter converter = new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);
            converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile);

            connection.disconnect();

            return 0;
        }

        catch (ConnectException e) {
            System.out.println("Openoffice listener exception!");
            return 1;
        }

I can always convert at least 50 files or so before an error is thrown; this is one of the errors I have had:



    Exception in thread "main" com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException:
        conversion failed: could not save output document; OOo errorCode: 3088
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.loadAndExport(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:142)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convertInternal(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:120)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:104)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:74)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:70)
    at previews.ConvertToPdfJOD.office2PDF(ConvertToPdfJOD.java:119)
    at previews.ConvertToPdfJOD.beginConvert(ConvertToPdfJOD.java:91)
    at previews.ConvertToPdfJOD.main(ConvertToPdfJOD.java:177)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)

    Caused by: com.sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException: SfxBaseModel::impl_store <file:///C:/dev/testFiles/docx/newsletter_t3w7-2012.docx.pdf> failed: 0xc10
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job.remoteUnoRequestRaisedException(Job.java:182)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job.execute(Job.java:148)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JobQueue.enter(JobQueue.java:344)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JobQueue.enter(JobQueue.java:313)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JavaThreadPool.enter(JavaThreadPool.java:101)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.java_remote_bridge.sendRequest(java_remote_bridge.java:652)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.ProxyFactory$Handler.request(ProxyFactory.java:154)
    at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.ProxyFactory$Handler.invoke(ProxyFactory.java:136)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy8.storeToURL(Unknown Source)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.storeDocument(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:156)
    at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.loadAndExport(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:140)
    ... 12 more


Other error examples include:


    Exception in thread "main" com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException:
        conversion failed: could not save output document

    Caused by: com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException: [msci_uno bridge error]
        UNO type of C++ exception unknown: "std.bad_alloc", RTTI-name=".?AVbad_alloc@std@@"!

and



    Exception in thread "main" com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException:
        conversion failed: could not save output document; OOo errorCode: 283

    Caused by: com.sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException: SfxBaseModel::impl_store
        <file:///R:/document%20preview%20DY/speedTests/doc/cm9draftfinallist.doc.pdf> failed: 0x11b

and

    Exception in thread "main" com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException:
        conversion failed: could not load input document



In every situation (so far), I have been able to retry the conversion on the docx file where the error occurred and the conversion has been successful.

I have looked at similar questions on this site but most them are for situations where an error is thrown the first time a conversion is attempted, whereas in my case there are always some successful conversions before a failure. I have also tried using OpenOffice with the same results. I have tried googling error messages but to no avail.

My question is why are these errors occurring, and what can I do to convert all 1000 docx files? Also I am aware of [docx4j](http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j) but I need to be able to convert .doc files as well which this does not support.

[Cristian Gómez]

Hi Jason

I'm working with PHP and using the python script to convert and I faced a problem similar to yours, I had errorCode 283 and SfxBaseModel::impl_store <file:///R:/document%20preview%20DY/speedTests/doc/cm9draftfinallist.doc.pdf> failed: 0x11b.

I have an Apache server that runs with apache user and a regular user that runs LibreOffice service, let's say theuser, theuser is on apache group in order to write on tmp folders of my app. When I convert to pdf I create a folder (let's call it thefolder) to store the converted file (using mkdir function on PHP) I saw that thefolder hasn't group write permission and I test with other location from terminal (with theuser user) and it works, on thefolder I have errorCode 283, what I did is use mask function in PHP to change the permission for the creation of thefolder.

Summary: Check permissions on folder in wich you'll put the resulting file

Hope this help you