Bug 748269

Is this simply because LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org can't import abiword, i.e. it literally is "The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format."

>Is this simply because LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org can't import abiword, i.e. it
>literally is "The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format."

Why ?

Abiword and OpenOffice are both free software. 
Moreover, OpenOffice uses standard document format.

(In reply to comment #2)
> >Is this simply because LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org can't import abiword, i.e. it
> >literally is "The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format."
> 
> Why ?
> 
> Abiword and OpenOffice are both free software. 
> Moreover, OpenOffice uses standard document format.

But Abiword does not :) And LibreOffice cannot import .abw . Of course, both are free software, so we accept patches to LibreOffice to correct the situation :)

The only bug there is that unoconv should not crash in such situation.

Ok, thank you.

The problem appears to be with unoconv.  At least the version I found on the net (<http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv>) has code

  from com.sun.star.uno import Exception as UnoException
  [...]
  except UnoException, e:
    error("unoconv: UnoException during conversion in %s: %s" % (repr(e.__class__), e.Message))
    error("ERROR: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. (Error code %s)" % e.ErrCode)
    exitcode = e.ErrCode

that tries to read the value of a non-existing ErrCode member of a com.sun.star.uno.Exception.  (A UNO exception type that does have an ErrCode member is com.sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException; maybe that was meant instead.  Will contact Dag Wieers.)

Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

Comment
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Gnome-Documents is unable to handle any OpenOffice/LibreOffice document.

Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: i686
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

Comment
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Trying to open an odt file with gnome-documents as preview

Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

Comment
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open a word document in gnome-documents

input files is not exist

rating: (null)
Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

I ran the command on a file to convert to pdf and I got this error

rating: (null)
Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

the file was an odt file by the way, certainly unoconv supports odt files??

Tried to convert from odp to pdf with following command:

unoconv --doctype=presentation --format=pdf 01\ Project\ Overview.ppt


Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: i686
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

I improved the code to show an ErrCode only when there is one available. I also improved the documentation and manual to give instructions on how to convert to ErrCode to something sensible, hopefully this helps us find when a failing conversion is caused by unoconv or by LibreOffice.

The changes are available from:

    http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv

Feedback is appreciated.

I believe that my errors are caused by libreoffice. I was able to get it to work by opening writer and then running the command again. Somehow it is unable to start libreoffice in the background on its own??

I'd like to learn under what conditions this is the case.

Also, if you could do your test again with the latest release from Github, I would appreciate it. I'd like to release this as 0.5.

BTW This release also fixes the change in LibreOffice options (where before it was eg. -headless, it now is --headless if you want to avoid warnings).

try convert not existed file

[kotofos@kotofos-laptop ~]$ unoconv -f pdf dsf.odt
unoconv: file `dsf.odt' does not exist.
unoconv: UnoException during conversion in <class '__main__.com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException'>: URL seems to be an unsupported one.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 801, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 780, in main
    convertor.convert(inputfn)
  File "/usr/bin/unoconv", line 690, in convert
    error("ERROR: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. (code: %s)" % e.ErrCode)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/uno.py", line 318, in _uno_struct__getattr__
    return __builtin__.getattr(self.__dict__["value"],name)
AttributeError: ErrCode


Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

start Writter
try convert file 
[kotofos@kotofos-laptop Documents]$ unoconv -f pdf dropped\ text\ 2.txt 
Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting.

Package: unoconv-0.4-4.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

*** Bug 709066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Could you please try the latest version from Github ? We fixed a load of issues in the upcoming 0.5 release, improving the error output, etc... Fixing 0.4 is no longer an option if 0.5 is around the corner. We just need sufficient testing to make sure we don't have any regressions.

version fron git
./unoconv -f pdf WISHLIST1
unoconv: file `WISHLIST1' does not exist.
UNO IllegalArgument during import phase: Source file cannot be read. URL seems to be an unsupported one.

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(In reply to comment #20)
> version fron git
> ./unoconv -f pdf WISHLIST1
> unoconv: file `WISHLIST1' does not exist.
> UNO IllegalArgument during import phase: Source file cannot be read. URL
> seems to be an unsupported one.

This behavior is seen with unoconv-0.6-1.fc19 now.