unoconv-stdout-fix
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Wrapper for converting documents with unoconv.
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node-unoconv
A node.js wrapper for converting documents with unoconv.
Requirements
Unoconv is required, which requires LibreOffice (or OpenOffice.)
Install
Install with:
npm install unoconv
Converting documents
var unoconv = require('unoconv');
unoconv.convert('document.docx', 'pdf', function (err, result) {
// result is returned as a Buffer
fs.writeFile('converted.pdf', result);
});
Starting a listener
You can also start a unoconv listener to avoid launching Libre/OpenOffice on every conversion:
unoconv.listen();
API
unoconv.convert(file, outputFormat, [options], callback)
Converts file
to the specified outputFormat
. options
is an object with the following properties:
bin
Path to the unoconv binaryport
Unoconv listener port to connect to
callback
gets the arguments err
and result
. result
is returned as a Buffer object.
unoconv.listen([options])
Starts a new unoconv listener. options
accepts the same parameters as convert()
.
Returns a ChildProcess
object. You can handle errors by listening to the stderr
property:
var listener = unoconv.listen({ port: 2002 });
listener.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
console.log('stderr: ' + data.toString('utf8'));
});
unoconv.detectSupportedFormats([options], callback)
This function parses the output of unoconv --show
to attempt to detect supported output formats.
options
is an object with the following properties:
bin
Path to the unoconv binary
callback
gets the arguments err
and result
. result
is an object containing a collection of supported document types and output formats.