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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: Linux Command Line Printing Broken?
From:       "G. Roderick Singleton" <grsingleton () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2003-12-04 21:15:56
Message-ID: bqo86c$e0a$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Udo Schröter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to print OpenOffice documents via command line.
> On Windows, that's no problem, I can just call "soffice -p <document>" and
> it works.
> 
> But on *Linux* I get this:
> 
>     Starting /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice...
>     /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice.bin:
>        cannot open display; DISPLAY environment variable is not set
>        please set it to the correct value and check
>        the permission to access that display.
>        (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
> 
> Obviously OO tries to init the GUI, which I tried to stop it from doing by
> adding the option "-headless" to the command call, but the result stays the
> same.
> 
> Of course does work with an active X session for the current user, but I
> want to print OpenOffice documents on a server with no X.
> 
> Is it broken?
> Is it supposed to actually need an X session even when in headless mode?
> Am I just being stupid?
> 
> Thanks in advance & best regards
> 
> Udo

First discover what command line options are available: soffice -h
Second soffice -headless -p <your document.swx>

See works just fine.


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