conversion of first page or 5 pages of doc to pdf

[mohanmg]

Hello,

How to convert the first page or the first 5 pages of a doc to a pdf document from command line

I have been successful to convert it to pdf using the "writer_pdf_Export" filter in the macro and then calling the macro from the command line.

But, I am not sure how to just convert the first page or first 5 pages alone to pdf rather than all the pages.

Thanks in advance
Mohan

[David]

Delete all the other pages. [Do not resave, of course]. Then form the PDF from there.

David.

[mohanmg]

Thanks a lot David for the reply.

As it has to be done from the command line, can you please provide me a hint of some macro code snippet, that can guide me

how to write code to navigate to pages and then delete them.

or

call some delete/delete pages method provided by the Document model.

Thanks again,
Mohan

[mohanmg]

I found that there is com.sun.star.text.XPageCursor has jumpToPage(int) method. But, I don't know how to get the XPageCursor from the document controller.

For getting XPageCursor, I understand that the document cannot be opened in hidden mode. So, I open it in non hidden mode.

oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL( cURL, "_blank", 0, Array( ) )

After this, I get the controller.

docController = oDoc.currentController

But, I am not able to get the pagecursor from the docController. Any ideas would help. Actually, if I could get the pageCursor, then I can use

jumpToPage method and then select the contents until the end, cut the selection, save to pdf and then close the original document.

I have an idea to select until the end from the current cursor position using the code. Hope it is correct!

'create a dispatcher
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

'select the contents from the current cursor position to end of the document
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:EndOfDocumentSel", "", 0, Array())

'Now cut the information from page 2 to the end of the document
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:Cut", "", 0, Array())

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Mohan

[mohanmg]

Some progress has been made.

I am able to jump to a particular page, by being able to get the view cursor.

oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL( cURL, "_blank", 0, Array( ) )

docController = oDoc.currentController

viewCursor = docController.getViewCursor()

'jumpto Page number 2!!!
viewCursor.jumpToPage(2)


Once I jump to page 2, I thought that the following selection code would be able to select text until the end of document.

'create a dispatcher
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

'select the contents from page 2 to end of the page
dispatcher.executeDispatch(oDoc, ".uno:EndOfDocumentSel", "", 0, Array())

The above statement, results in run time error. An illegal argument exception.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mohan

[mohanmg]

Ok, I found the mistake. I need to get the document and pass it to the event dispatcher.
The code executed without any errors after that. But, the resulting pdf file is still the whole document rather than the required contents.

David, you told me to delete all the other pages.

I did a cut of all the contents from the pages I do not want. There were no errors.

But, finally, the pdf document is having all the contents. Can you please tell me what might be wrong?

Thanks,
Mohan

[David]

[mohanmg]

Instead of a "cut" option, if I use ":unoDelete" and then do a "storeAsURL" I am able to export the required pages only to pdf. After expoting I am able to close my origianl document without any dialogs and the original file is intact.

Another interesting thing that I found was that, the document can be opened in hidden mode and still I am able to work with view cursors for jumping to a particular page. The options provided by OOo are amazing.

Thanks again David for providing an initial pointer.
Mohan