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    Posted by Ross  · 21-01-2016 - 19:38

    I'm having issues creating an html file from a docx file.  I'm copying the example from http://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/format-conversion/convert-Word-docx-into-pdf-with-PHP. My code is 100% identical, except I'm converting it to .html.  This is the only difference in my code:

    $docx->transformDocument('example_text.docx', 'example_text.html');

    When this runs, the example_text.docx file is created as expected, but example_text.html is not.

    Any ideas why this may be failing?

    Posted by Ross  · 21-01-2016 - 19:43

    I should also note that it won't convert to any format.  Trying to convert to example_text.pdf for example does not work as well.  No target file is generated.

    Posted by admin  · 22-01-2016 - 08:43

    Hello,

    UPDATE: phpdocx 8 added DOCX to HTML native conversion:

    https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/introduction/word-to-html-PHP

    Are you using the plugin based on OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

    Please follow the instructions available on (http://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/conversion-plugin) to debug it.

    The most common error is rw access to the temp folder access of any of both programs.

    Regards.

    Posted by Ross  · 28-01-2016 - 20:06

    Hi, I am using Open Office.  

    Following the debug instructions, I ran the script with debug and got this back:

    [INFO][/tmp/tempDocX_56aa7359acbda.docx] Converting tempDocX_56aa7359acbda.docx into tempOdt_56aa7359ae2fe.odt
progress:w:pPrprogress:w:rPrprogress:w:pPrprogress:w:pPrprogress:w:pPrprogress:w:pPrprogress:w:pprogress:w:rprogress:w:tprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:styleprogress:w:style[INFO][/tmp/tempDocX_56aa7359acbda.docx] Conversion succeeded
[INFO][/tmp/tempDocX_56aa7359acbda.docx] Total conversion time: 00:00:00.9641689
Done.
Jan 28, 2016 3:00:27 PM com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.AbstractOpenOfficeConnection connect
INFO: connected
Jan 28, 2016 3:00:29 PM com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.AbstractOpenOfficeConnection disposing
INFO: disconnected
Exception in thread "main" com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException: conversion failed: could not load input document
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.loadAndExport(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:134)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convertInternal(OpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:120)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:104)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:74)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.openoffice.converter.AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.convert(AbstractOpenOfficeDocumentConverter.java:70)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.cli.ConvertDocument.convertOne(ConvertDocument.java:154)
        at com.artofsolving.jodconverter.cli.ConvertDocument.main(ConvertDocument.java:133)

    Any ideas?

    Posted by Ross  · 28-01-2016 - 23:21

    You can ignore this.  I switched to LibreOffice and everything seems to work fine.