Bug 63324

Similar problem here:

soffice.bin --headless --convert-to pdf document.docx
convert /root/document.docx -> /root/document.pdf using writer_pdf_Export
Error: Please reverify input parameters...

and no document is created.

If I run it without the "--headless", it works! The pdf document is created.

LibreOffice 4.0.1.2
Debian linux 7.0
uname: Linux xxx 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Riccardo - are you aware of this one ? :-)

I did some more research. I have libreoffice 3.5 and 4.0 installed on the same linux (Ubuntu 12.04). 

With libreoffice 3.5 it works and the pdf is generated in headless mode. With 4.0 version it doesn't work in headless mode.

It happens only with the one particular docx document (which I cannot share for privacy reasons, unfortunately)

And I also tested on Windows in headless mode and it works in 3.6 and 4.0 as well.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Riccardo - are you aware of this one ? :-)

Never used / touched convert-to but i'll try to take a look at this later today.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Here is the command I'm running:
> 
> [gwarner@arch system_test]$ soffice --headless --convert-to html:HTML
> test_plan.doc

Can you share your doc file please?

This also doesn't work for odg to svg

Sorry forgot to mention lo 4.1.0.2 linux amd64

(In reply to comment #8)
> Sorry forgot to mention lo 4.1.0.2 linux amd64

Thanks for confirming, but what we are tracking here is something document specific although the error libo is returning is pretty generic and possibly has nothing to do with parameters :) Please upload the broken document and post the exactly command line invocation you have tried.

I want to add that I have this bug. And it is not document specific but platform specific (Windows) for me.

I can not convert any doc/docx documents.

LO just writes something like:

Convert "D:/a.docx" -> "D:/a.docx"   (yes, same extension, but I wanted "pdf")
Error: Please reverify input parameters...

On GNU/Linux - everything is fine.

LO - 4.0.2, 4.1

I am seeing this error, or one that acts just like it, on 4.1.3 on Ubuntu (in a Docker instance). I've also tested on 4.2 and it is still present (but 4.1.3 is the current version installed via apt-get).

docuser@f475eb7a9f39:~$ libreoffice --version
LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 410m0(Build:2)

png conversion works just fine:

docuser@f475eb7a9f39:~$ libreoffice --headless --convert-to png example.odg 
convert /home/docuser/example.odg -> /home/docuser/example.png using draw_png_Export
docuser@f475eb7a9f39:~$ ls
example.odg  example.png  libreoffice

But svg conversion fails:

docuser@f475eb7a9f39:~$ libreoffice --headless --convert-to svg example.odg 
convert /home/docuser/example.odg -> /home/docuser/example.svg using draw_svg_Export
Error: Please reverify input parameters...

I will attach my example odg file and Dockerfile, but any odg file seems to have this problem.

Created attachment 97790 [details]
docker config file

Created attachment 97791 [details]
libreoffice draw file which demonstrates issue

... And if there's any debugging I can do, or anything else to help move this forward, please let me know. This is a very important feature for me.

Is there any progress on this bug as I have just come upon it in 4.2.4.2 version? I can save a ODP to SVG with the UI but from the command line it fails and it does not matter what ODP/PPT/PPTX I use.

This is still open on the current version on Ubuntu. Please notice the error: "Error: Please reverify input parameters..." it looks like it is a parsing error on the command line. It should not be difficult to fix.

(In reply to comment #16)
> This is still open on the current version on Ubuntu. Please notice the
> error: "Error: Please reverify input parameters..." it looks like it is a
> parsing error on the command line. It should not be difficult to fix.

Unfortunately it's not that simple, that message is printed for every exception raised.

(This is an automated message.)

LibreOffice development currently prioritizes bugs with the so called MAB (most annoying bugs) -- as this bug has not run through that process (including writing a short rationale for this bug being a candidate and other who are watching the tracker bug silently approving that rationale etc.) its priority is set to high. Note this is effectively no change in the urgency assigned to this bug, as we are currently not making a difference between high and highest and severity is untouched.

You can find out more about MABs and how the process works by contacting libreoffice qa on irc:

 http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-qa

The QA wiki page also gives you hints on how to get in contact with the team (if IRC fails you, your next best choice is the mailing list):

 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA