Automatically generate PDF documents from ODT file

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Prerequisites

  • Have installed the open source software LibreOffice if it is not already done on the server.

Configuration

In Dolibarr

  • Connect with an administrator account
  • In Home, Configuration, Miscellaneous => Add the variable "MAIN_ODT_AS_PDF" with the value "libreoffice"

If Linux server, on the server

Nothing special to do beyond the installation of libreoffice.

If Windows server (example with DoliWamp), on the server

  • In the Windows control panel, Search for "modify system environment variables"
  • In the dialog box, click on environment variables at the bottom right.
  • In system variables go to "Path" and press modify
  • Click on add to add a line and browse to the LibreOffice installation folder "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program" (the place where soffice is installed)
Add soffice to cmd windows.png
  • Edit the odf.php files which are by default in:

C:\dolibarr\www\dolibarr\htdocs\includes\odtphp\odf.php

Search and Replace this line below: 

$command ='soffice --headless -env:UserInstallation=file:"//'.$conf->user->dir_temp.'" --convert-to pdf --outdir '. escapeshellarg(dirname($name)). " ".escapeshellarg($name);

            By:

 $command ='soffice --headless "//'.$conf->user->dir_temp.'" --convert-to pdf --outdir '. escapeshellarg(dirname($name)). " ".escapeshellarg($name);

Save the file

  • Edit the bootstrap.ini file again, which is located by default in:

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\bootstrap.ini 

[Bootstrap]

InstallMode=<installmode>

ProductKey=LibreOffice 7.1

//Replace this line with:

UserInstallation=file:///C:/ProgramData/LibreOffice/4

Save the file

Restart the doliwampmysqld and doliwampapache services or restart the computer.

Usage

Once the configuration is done, the PDF generation is enabled and will be done automatically by converting the ODT file to PDF after each generation of an ODT document from its template. The 2 types of files (ODT / PDF) will be present when generating a document. If there is an error on the ODT template, the PDF will not be generated.

Option to keep only the PDF file

In Dolibarr:

  • Connect to Dolibarr with an administrator account
  • In Home, Configuration, Miscellaneous => Add the variable "MAIN_ODT_AS_PDF_DEL_SOURCE" with the value "1"
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