soffice.bin is now built for console subsystem, which allows using it in abovementioned scenarios, having the stdout and stderr output, as well as return code, properly sent to console (or redirected using normal means) in debug builds, the debug output is also visible on the console. Now LibreOffice has proper console mode on Windows. I have just pushed a commit that changes the situation. Sometimes one could not even see why the entered command line was rejected as invalid. The hacks used to redirect the output of the GUI application to the calling console were unreliable and didn’t work at all on some supported versions of Windows. The main executable module – soffice.bin – being a GUI subsystem application, it could not properly output its messages to the calling console, as well as return error codes to check ERRORLEVEL for success. Using LibreOffice CLI in various scripts is a very common scenario.īut until now, it had somewhat suboptimal support for this on Windows. LibreOffice has always supported usage of command line switches that allow operations like conversion of documents to different file types, or batch-printing.

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