Re: [CentOS] openoffice & command line printing

On 18/02/2011, at 2:29 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

Everyone,

I am trying to print some *.doc files from the command line with openoffice on centos 5.5 with using cups as the print server.

I can open the file from the command line with open office and then print it manually from the gui, but when I open the file and print from command line I am not getting anything.

The commands that I have used are the following :

/usr/bin/openoffice.org -pt lpt4 /mnt/lp/document.doc -terminate_after_init

This works for me on LibreOffice on my Mac (also uses Cups)

LibreOffice 3.3 330m12(Build:1)

/path/to/soffice -headless -pt PRINTER_NAME doco.doc

Note though that if you wanted to do this outside of X11, it might fail...