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LibreOffice (LibO) is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org (OOo) in 2010.

LibreOffice (LibO) is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org (OOo) in 2010.

The tag can be used for all LibreOffice questions. If your question is limited to one of the programs included in LibreOffice you can further add , , or . Questions targeting LibreOffice API and extension development should additionally be tagged with .

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Libreoffice --headless refuses to convert unless root, won't work from PHP script

Running headless Ubuntu server 12.something. root@server: chown www-data /my/path/ -R root@server: chgrp www-data /my/path/ -R root@server: chmod 755 /my/path/ -R root@server: libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export…
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LibreOffice Calc shows formulas in the cell instead of results

The LibreOffice Calc (version 6.3.4.2) shows the definition of the formula in the cell instead of executing the formula and displaying the result. What affects the behaviour? I am starting to use LibreOffice (simple things; newbie). Update: The…
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Is LibreOffice (headless) safe to use on a web server?

I have my-template.docx that I convert into my-report.docx with OpenXml and then my-report.pdf with: soffice --headless --convert-to pdf my-report.docx I feel compelled to say that this functionality is very much appreciated . Anyways, one thing I…
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how to disable LibreOffice Impress to use multiple display?

I have my Ubuntu Desktop configured on with Dual Monitor. On it Whenever I launch a LibreOffice Impress, it uses both screens, one for current slide and next slide and another for actual presentation. What I want is to use only one monitor which…
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Imagemagick on linux to convert EMF to PNG

I am trying to convert an image in EMF format to PNG using Imagemagick on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga), but I am running into the following error: convert: no decode delegate for this image format `thumbnail.emf' @…
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Convert ODS to CSV using command line when Libreoffice instance is running

I'm working with an ODS file in LibreOffice, and every now and then I want to convert it to CSV from the command line. I have found two tools for this: libreoffice --headless --convert-to csv and unoconv -f csv but none of them works when there is…
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How do I change the date format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY in libreoffice calc?

I have a spreadsheet with existing date values that I'd like to convert from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY format. Is there any way of doing this? The spreadsheet comes from a csv file from someone else that i have opened in calc.
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How to create a PDF/A from command line with Libre Office Draw in headless mode?

LibreOffice Draw allows you to open a non PDF/A file and export this a PDF/A-1b or PDF/A-2b file. The same is possible from the command line by calling on macOS /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless \ --convert-to…
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How to convert PDF to DOCX on linux

I try to convert pdf file to word, excel and powerpoint. I already tried a lot of command like these: soffice -env:UserInstallation=file:///$HOME/.libreoffice-headless/ --convert-to docx:"Microsoft Word 2007/2010/2013 XML" file.pdf /usr/bin/soffice…
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Removing borders in libreoffice writer

I created a LibreOffice Writer document, and copied some text from a web page. Now whenever I create a bulleted list, the items have a top and bottom black border. I can remove the border using Format - Paragraph - Borders - none, but then the…
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unable to run oowriter as web user

I have a web server set up on my laptop. I am building a web application which I am accessing through the local network. I have a php file which contains the following lines: $command = "/usr/bin/oowriter --invisible --convert-to pdf…
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ODS file to JSON

I would like to convert my speadsheet of data to a JSON array of array. This site do it: http://www.shancarter.com/data_converter/index.html And I looked into the source code. But what I would like is a macro / script / extension or any way to…
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is there a pip install plugin for maven?

In an existing java project that uses python (think python plugin for libre office) would like to use mvn to install a pypi (Python Package Index). Right now we have the solution to package the tar in mvn and then use maven-dependency-plugin to…
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apply template in LibreOffice Writer to existing document

is there a way to apply a template to an existing document? It only seems to work when I create a completely new document, and i don't want to copy&paste everything.
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unoconv not working on ubuntu 12.04 server

I am using unoconv to convert different file formats to pdf. It is working well on my local machine for all formats. But on my ubuntu 12.04 server unoconv is failing for some formats such as xls, ppt, pptx etc. However it is working fine for doc…
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