LibreOffice

Description

Docker image with LibreOffice.

This image can be used to convert documents from one format to another with the headless feature of OpenOffice.

Building

You can use a pre-built Docker image from the following repository:

https://hub.docker.com/r/ppizzo/libreoffice

or build it by yourself with the following command:

$ docker build -t ppizzo/libreoffice .

Usage

The image working directory is /doc, therefore you could mount the directory containing your input files in the /doc directory inside the container and run libreoffice command with the required parameters.

For example, to convert a .docx file to a .pdf format, you could issue the following command:

$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):/doc \
             ppizzo/libreoffice \
             libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf \
             FILE.docx

$ docker run -ti -v $(pwd):/doc \
             ppizzo/libreoffice \
             chown `id -u`:`id -g` FILE.pdf

The second container in needed to change the outpuf file owner because libreoffice doesn't work with UIDs not listed in /etc/passwd.