Problem configuring open ofice with alfresco

[francois]

Hi I have installed alfresco, everything works fine except openoffice:
When i want to convert pdf to openoffice format, the extensions concerning openoffice are missing.
I have pdf plaintext xml jpeg flash… but not openoffice
So I don t know what to do


Here is my configuration:
Debian
alfresco 1.1.2

Here is the line concerning openoffice in the start_oo.sh

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless &
Of course this is all in one line in the script.

Here is a part of catalina.out log:

Jan 4, 2006 11:08:45 AM net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
INFO: connecting using "socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1"…
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:45 AM net.sf.joott.uno.UnoConnection connect
INFO: connected

11:08:46,841 INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Open Source) - v1.1.2; repository v1.1.2
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:49 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:50 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:50 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/52  config=null
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:50 AM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Jan 4, 2006 11:08:50 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 25020 ms

I have no error messages in this log

Help me please

:cry:

[derek]

Hi,

I am not aware of OpenOffice being able to open PDF documents.  I might be wrong here, though.  As a general rule, if the editors cannot import or export a format, then the soffice server won't be able to do it.  Let me know if you are able to open the PDF in any of the editors.  At any rate, the UnoContentTransformer does not have any such transformation enabled.

You have a case for transforming some other things to OpenOffice document formats.  If you want a particular mimetype listed in the UI, check out the web-client-config.xml.

      <transformers>
         <transformer name="text/html"/>
         <transformer name="application/pdf"/>
         <transformer name="text/plain"/>
         <transformer name="text/xml"/>
         <transformer name="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>
         <transformer name="image/gif"/>
         <transformer name="image/jpeg"/>
      </transformers>
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Having something in the list does not mean that the transformation will necessarily succeed.  As I said, if you attempt a PDF to XML for instance then you will not have any luck.  If the OpenOffice formats are interestring, then we can add them into the code as part of the build.

Regards