Solved: pyUNO Converter

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:18:12 +0100 schrieb Andreas Kuntzagk:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:41:07 +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> 
>> This script will convert files to PDF with OpenOffice. Other formats
>> (html, doc ...) should be possible, too.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Is there any way to start soffice without a display? 
> Could be used to offer a webservice-documentconverter.

No, but there is a special X-Server which does not need
a real display. But I don't think that it is thread save.

Untested: 
You could start e.g. 5 office instances listening on 5
different ports and syncronize the access yourself.

Fortunately I only need it for batch processing.

 thomas