How to convert an encoded text file into a pdf one

[TomDmitriev]

I have been trying to convert a cp1251 text file into pdf using unoconv and I am quite suripised that I have not been able to do that in an almost an hour. It seems that my encoding parameter is just ignored. This is what I have tried:

unoconv -f pdf --export FilterOptions=cp1251 rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export FilterOptions=cp-1251 rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export FilterOptions=Windows1251 rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export FilterOptions=Windows-1251 rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export 'Character Set'='cp1251' rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export 'Character Set'='cp-1251' rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export 'Character Set'='Windows1251' rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export 'Character Set'='Windows-1251' rus.txt
unoconv -f pdf --export 'Character Set'='Windows-1251 (Cyrillic)' rus.txt

I am pretty sure the export params are just ignored because if I try something like FilterOptions=whatever I get no warning or error. My unoconv installation:

unoconv 0.6
Written by Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com
Homepage at http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

platform posix/linux
python 3.3.2 (default, Mar 21 2015, 19:05:23)
[GCC 4.8.2]
LibreOffice 4.3

[dagwieers]

The documentation has a link to this website:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Filter_Options

According to that list you should be using:

unoconv -f pdf --export FilterOptions=34 rus.txt

Does that work ?

[TomDmitriev]

Nope. For those who might be interesting as a workaround I use iconv to
convert a cp1251-encoded file into a utf8-encoded one.

[dagwieers]

Sorry, I got it all wrong, we should have been using the import filters instead as we are importing a CP-1251 document. So:

unoconv -f pdf --import FilterOptions=34 rus.txt

Could you try that instead ?

[TomDmitriev]

In this case I get the following error

Warning: Option cannot be parsed, ignoring.
unoconv: file `FilterOptions=34' does not exist.

[dagwieers]

Alright, you found another issue that I just fixed bd0f756

Can you try this instead:

unoconv -f pdf -i FilterOptions=34 rus.txt

(Or get the fix from the commit above. Sorry for that...)

[TomDmitriev]

unoconv -f pdf -i FilterOptions=34 rus.txt

Unfortunately, it did not work either.

On 26 June 2015 at 23:08, Dag Wieers notifications@github.com wrote:

Alright, you found another issue that I just fixed bd0f756
bd0f756

Can you try this instead:

unoconv -f pdf -i FilterOptions=34 rus.txt

(Or get the fix from the commit above. Sorry for that...)

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[dagwieers]

I have been investigating this issue today and apparently the import FilterOptions are only support for the spreadsheet-type documents. I couldn't find any info supporting a claim that text-documents are supported by this :-(

I always assumed it was the case, but even my own documentation clearly states these are spreadsheet import options: https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/blob/master/doc/filters.adoc

Sorry for wasting your time.

[napasa]

kind man