Reproducibility for Libreoffice (ODT to PDF conversion)

[Holger Levsen]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 09:03:09PM +0100, 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 you aware of https://bugs.debian.org/1065448
and thus https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/160033 ?

these are still open bugs. :/

> 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. ;-)

pfft. if it works, is it really a workaround or is just an non optimal
solution? :)


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	Holger

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