Does anyone else have an issue with columns/section breaks when converting from .docx to .pdf?

[DavidAyliffe]

Any .docx documents with section breaks in ruin the format of the converted file.
I'm running unoconv on Mac with LibreOffice (of course)

[regebro]

Does it work if you export it to PDF with LibreOffice directly?
If so, can you make an example file, and also provide the command line you use to convert to PDF?

[DavidAyliffe]

Test from Unoconv.pdf
test from LibreOffice 4372.pdf
test from Word.pdf
test.docx

The output from LibreOffice and UnoConv are consistent but it's annoying that LO is putting text directly after a section break on a new page.

This really screws up the formatting of a lot of our documents.
Is there any solution?

Maybe this has been fixed in the latest version of LO. Any timeframe on when UnoConv will support this?

My command line is:
if ( system ( 'unoconv', '--preserve', '-f', 'pdf', $item->{filename} ) == 0 ) # success!
{ ... }

[regebro]

I hope to get some time to spend on Unoconv during December, but I can't promise anything. But in any case this is a LibreOffice problem, not a Unoconv one. I'll keep it open until we can officially support Libreoffice 6.

[DavidAyliffe]

If you can find some time, that'd be great. This section break issue a big problem for us and benefiting from the other features and fixes in LO6 is also desirable. Thanks again.

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:12, Lennart Regebro ***@***.***> wrote: I hope to get some time to spend on Unoconv during December, but I can't promise anything. But in any case this is a LibreOffice problem, not a Unoconv one. I'll keep it open until we can officially support Libreoffice 6. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#477 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AbQ77MKLR4rEqgl2yYywusy33WBhi2YOks5uzlOFgaJpZM4Ypqjd> .

[DavidAyliffe]

To add some context to your work. We are a university teaching English to students for whom English is not their first language. We create a lot of our materials ourselves in docx format and store them centrally on a Learning Management System (like Facebook but for learning). Periodically, we pull all of our material down and use unoconv to convert these docx files first to pdf and then into one big pdf which we make available to our students to print off and bring to class. We currently have lots of issues with section breaks and documents not looking the same when we create them in Word as they do in LO. We understand that this is LO misbehaving and no unoconv.. But, the sooner unoconv can support LO 6.X, the sooner we can get back to focusing on making materials better instead of wasting hours removing section breaks. Thanks again for your work on this project.

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 13:01, David Ayliffe ***@***.***> wrote: If you can find some time, that'd be great. This section break issue a big problem for us and benefiting from the other features and fixes in LO6 is also desirable. Thanks again. On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:12, Lennart Regebro ***@***.***> wrote: > I hope to get some time to spend on Unoconv during December, but I can't > promise anything. But in any case this is a LibreOffice problem, not a > Unoconv one. I'll keep it open until we can officially support Libreoffice > 6. > > — > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#477 (comment)>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AbQ77MKLR4rEqgl2yYywusy33WBhi2YOks5uzlOFgaJpZM4Ypqjd> > . >

[regebro]

Unoconv seems to work with Libreoffice 6 as far as my testing goes.