Reproducibility for Libreoffice (ODT to PDF conversion)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2026-01-25, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> I've got one project where I have a few ODT files (containing
> documentation.) For easy accessibility, I like to also present them as
> PDF files (which, right now, are created during the build process by
> simply calling `libreoffice --convert-to pdf some.odt`.) The resulting
> PDF isn't reproducible. Are there known-good variants to generate a
> PDF from a ODT file? As an alternative, I'd obviously also manually
> export the ODT to PDF, but .. that's kind of cheating. ;-)

If it is just embedded timestamp differences, as far as I know, the only
way to fix it so far is with postprocessing...

There are a handful of Debian packages affected by this:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/timestamps_in_pdf_generated_by_libreoffice_issue.html

live well,
  vagrant
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