GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685095
Cannot open document files: "Error invoking Gd.pdf_loader_load_uri_finish: Cannot find "unoconv""
Last modified: 2013-05-28 09:09:36 UTC
Documents should be able to use abiword as an alternative to LibreOffice writer for opening document files.
Which exact version is this about? What are exact steps to reproduce this problem?
I have gnome-documents 0.4.2 installed and when i try to load a .docx file in it i am told to check my libreoffice installation. I dont have libreoffice installed, just abiword.
What is the exact error message?
There is an icon like this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Zeichen_267.svg The text that reads: "Unable to load $doc for preview Error invoking Gd.pdf_loader_load_uri_finish: Cannot find "unoconv", please check your LibreOffice installation."
*** Bug 671046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) > Documents should be able to use abiword as an alternative to LibreOffice writer > for opening document files. This is possible and has nothing to do with the error message. For changing default applications choose a file, right-click, and go to Properties > Open With > Set as Default. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_Applications also lists a lot of information.
I now pushed a patch to git to automatically prompt through PackageKit to install unoconv in case it's not found, as we depend on that in order to be able to preview office-like documents. I don't know what supporting Abiword would imply, or if it gives us the same ability to convert office documents for preview like LibreOffice does, but I don't think it's worth it to make this feature pluggable really.
(In reply to comment #7) > able to preview office-like documents. I don't know what supporting Abiword > would imply, or if it gives us the same ability to convert office documents for > preview like LibreOffice does, but I don't think it's worth it to make this > feature pluggable really. Abiword has a simple command line option '--to=FORMAT' which allows you to convert a lot of document types (notably abw, which LibreOffice doesn't support AFAIK) to for instance PDF. Abiword is software that has been developed in the Gnome ecosystem. That we would depend exclusively on LO for document preview is... a bit unfortunate, I would say.