OpenOffice command line PDF creation

Question

I have some documentation written in OpenOffice, and I would like to include some of it as PDF files in the final build deliveries. I would like to do this with the automated build script.

Is there a way to create a PDF file from OpenOffice with a command line command?

Answer 1

Art of Solving has also a very good API to perform the conversion in Java. It is a little slow but it is simple enough. This is how I use it:

        File inputFile = new File("C:\\oreyes\\hola.doc"); 
        File outputFile = new File("C:\\oreyes\\hola.pdf"); 
        OpenOfficeConnection connection = new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(8100);
        try { 
            connection.connect(); 
        } catch(Exception e) {}

        DocumentConverter converter = new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);
        converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile); 
        connection.disconnect(); 

You can create a jar with that and process it from the command line.