0 bytes generated PDF

[ottuzzi]

Hi there,

I'm struggling with PDF generation on a headless linux server.

Here what I've done:
1) I started Xvfb
2) I started OpenOffice headless
3) I changed PDFGeneratorAction.php to correct the python path

What is not working:
If I try to generate the PDF trough KTDMS I get:

An error occurred generating the PDF - please contact the system administrator.<br>Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/openoffice/pdfgen.py", line 100, in <module> doc.storeToURL(url_save, properties) __main__.ErrorCodeIOException

If I look in /tmp I can see a 0byte file has been created by the process.

After reading other posts I tried from the command line:

python /var/www/knowledgeTree-OSS/bin/openoffice/pdfgen.py /var/www/knowledgeTree-OSS/var/Documents/00/6 /tmp/ktpdfKWK3N7_1

and this is working OK.

Can anyone help me?
I'm running KnowledgeTree OSS Version 3.4.6 on Ubuntu Linux 7.10.

Please ask if you need more info on the steps to reproduce this problem.

Many thanks
Bye
Piero

[ottuzzi]

Hi there,

using the help in http://forums.knowledgetree.com/viewtopic.php?t=3043 I got the PDF generation working.

These are the steps for the Ubuntu 7.04:

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cd /var/www                                      #www-data user home
sudo mkdir .openoffice.org2                      #create the openoffice working dir
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .openoffice.org2 #set the owner
sudo chmod 700 .openoffice.org2                  #change permissions
sudo -s                                          #you need to be root
su - www-data                                    #if you want to be www-data

#start openoffice headless
xvfb-run -a soffice -accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless -invisible

Hope this help!
Bye
Piero