Convert office documents to PDF using LibreOffice / OpenOffice.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'libreconv'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install libreconv
You need to install Libreoffice or Openoffice on your system to use this gem. The code has been tested with Libreoffice 4.2.
require 'libreconv'
# Converts document.docx to my_document_as.pdf
# This requires that the soffice binary is present in your PATH.
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/my_document_as.pdf')
# Converts document.docx to pdf and writes the output to the specified path
# This requires that the soffice binary is present in your PATH.
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents')
# You can also convert a source file directly from an URL
Libreconv.convert('http://myserver.com/123/document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents/doc.pdf')
# Converts document.docx to document.pdf
# If you for some reason can't have soffice in your PATH you can specifiy the file path to the soffice binary
Libreconv.convert('document.docx', '/Users/ricn/pdf_documents', '/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice')The following people have contributed ideas, documentation, or code to Libreconv:
- Richard Nyström
- Fork it
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git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request