Reproducibility for Libreoffice (ODT to PDF conversion)

[Nicolas Vigier]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> 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...

Using `faketime` to run the command might be an other workaround.