a tool to export invoice and receipt fromlibreoffice calc into pdf file
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a tool to export invoice and receipt from libreoffice calc into pdf file
virtualenv has to be created with option --system-site-packages as it needs to use system site-packages which has uno module installed by $ sudo apt-get install python3-uno, on Ubuntu. (Unfortunately, uno module is not available from pip.)
The code is based on Christopher5106’s tutorial (many thanks to him):
('http://christopher5106.github.io/office/2015/12/06/openoffice-', 'libreoffice-automate-your-office-tasks-with-python-macros.html')
How it works
we open LibreOffice with socket open
we use Python to send commands to LibreOffice through the socket (you should use iptables to block incoming connection on the specified TCP port for security reason)
To open LibreOffice with socket open, use the command line below:
libreoffice \ --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
INSTALL for TESTING
On Ubuntu 14.04
install python3-uno as a system-wide package as this package is not available via pip:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-uno
create virtualenv (probably, with virtualenvwrapper) with --system-site-pacakges:
$ mkvirtualenv --system-site-packages invrcptexporter
install required packages from pip:
$ pip install -r requirements-test.txt
install poppler-utils from apt as we have to use pdftotext in our tests:
$ sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
I have tried a few other alternatives such as extractText() from PyPDF2, it doesn’t work for many cases
configure ~/.invrcptexporterrc:
$ cd ~ $ cp /your/project/path/source/invrcptexporterrc .invrcptexporterrc
adjust settings in this rc file, the most important one is SCRIPT_PATH which is the absolute path to ‘source’ directory
run the test:
$ /your/project/path/source/test.sh
notes: test.sh is a hack (you can see details from comments inside test.sh ), each time you run it, you have to manually close (exit or ctrl+q) the opened libreoffice ui so that the test will continue to run
INSTALL for USER
install python3-uno as a system-wide package as this package is not available via pip:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-uno
install invrcptexporter from pip:
$ pip3 install invrcptexporter
use /sample_invoice_list.ods as the template
the program is currently shipped as a library only, please see sample codes for how to use it from: /source/sample-code/invrcptexporter/
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