Conversion using OpenOffice under SLES 10 / Alfresco 1.3

[ilkazeh]

Hi all,

I've been trying (and failing) to make the alfresco/OpenOffice pair to convert word documents into PDF using automatic rules.  I'm aware that OO2.0.2 is bogus on this regard, so I tried both 2.0.0 and 2.0.3 with the same result:


Error  Please correct the errors below then click Finish.

* A system error happened during the operation: Transaction didn't commit: Content conversion failed: reader: ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2006/7/29/23/54/1807e696-1f7f-11db-913d-914d941828c4.bin, mimetype=application/msword, size=894464, encoding=UTF-8] writer: ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2006/7/29/23/54/194c7488-1f7f-11db-913d-914d941828c4.bin, mimetype=application/pdf, size=0, encoding=UTF-8] options: {}


The port 8100 is listening, and while the conversion is supposed to be occuring, I get :
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8100            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8100          127.0.0.1:14946         ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:14946         127.0.0.1:8100          ESTABLISHED

So I know it's not a firewall issue either.

The computer used for the server is a VM having 1Gb RAM dedicated to it, so I don't expect it to be a memory issue either.

Having tried for a few hours, I must say I'm at loss now. 

Any ideas?

[sandeep]

Hi David ,
Can u tell me how u follows the steps to convet doc file to pdf?



Sandy

[ilkazeh]

The methodology is as follow :

Under root space, create a new space named "test"

In that space, create a subspace called "converted documents" and create a rule (in space "test") stating that

Name property matches '*.doc'
Copies content to 'converted documents' and transforms to 'Adobe PDF Document'

Then upload any word document to the "test" workspace and voil?, don't edit any properties and click OK.  The error then appears after a few seconds.

BTW the OO process doesn't run as root, would that be an issue I wonder…  :?: