Alfresco File Tranformation to PDF

[bucklao]

I currently have Alfresco 2.1 running on RH linux and Tomcat 6.0. Everything seems to be running fine except when i try to to create a business rule to transform files to .pdf. From what i understand OpenOffice should be capable to do the conversion. I tried the transform to .txt transformation and it works perfectly. What am i missing? Here is the error that i receive:

No transformation exists between mimetypes text/plain and application/pdf

Thanks.

[rjackson]

I get this when openoffice isnt running…

can you verify that it is?…or have you solved this?

[saravanan]

When openoffice is not bootstrapped and an attempt to do some content transformation will throw out an error in the log

org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NoTransformerException: No transformation exists between mimetypes application/octet-stream and application/pdf
        at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.TransformActionExecuter.executeImpl(TransformActionExecuter.java:189)
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The solution is available at http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=10765
Edit the openoffice-startup-context.xml file to point to the exact installation of openoffice

Cheers

Saravanan