[Fix] LibreOffice does not support multi-threading

[hkkenneth]

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[afolarin]

I wonder if we might investigate another tool?
http://documents4j.com/#/
https://angelozerr.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/how-to-convert-docxodt-to-pdfhtml-with-java/

alternatively a pool of isolated Open Office instances in Docker containers as a temporary workaround

[afolarin]

@hkkenneth could we update the docs to show using this for scaling the pipeline for Patient Timeline although I wonder if this should be treated using the modular mechanism suggested in #17

[hkkenneth]

You mean pull this logic out as a plugin? Yes that seems to be a cleaner solution. There was a bit of "history" behind this current implementation... the PDF / thumbnail generation feature was written before I had the "plugin" idea. So this feature went straight into master even though no other projects need it at the moment.

I am a bit hesitate to write this in the doc as "standard feature" yet because I have never confirmed our SLaM jobs really ran stably in a reasonable "multi-threading" scenario (e.g. 8 threads or more).

Some more testing in the new dev VM would be helpful.

[afolarin]

On 13 May 2017 at 00:37, Kenneth Lui ***@***.***> wrote: I am a bit hesitate to write this in the doc as "standard feature" yet because I have never confirmed our SLaM jobs really ran stably in a reasonable "multi-threading" scenario (e.g. 8 threads or more). Some more testing in the new dev VM would be helpful.

​>> ok sure... I'll see if the dev env is cleared to be used again. Would be good to test. ​

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[afolarin]

This issue was moved to CogStack/CogStack-Pipeline#22