LibreOffice – How to Specify Encoding with –convert-to CSV

The same can be done with paps;

#!/bin/bash
#This script converts UTF-8 txt to postscript
paps | lpr
Sometimes you need to specify the prinqueue;

#!/bin/bash
# This script converts UTF-8 txt to postscript
paps | lpr -P lj

Paps does a much better job then cups' texttops.

That is unlikely going to work, as the suggestion in the comment is both incomplete (you cannot just specify some directory) and incorrect (--env:... should be -env:... Here is what I recommend you do:

1. Stop all instances of libreoffice

2. Start libreoffice from the commandline without specifying --headless:

   libreoffice -env:UserInstallation=file:///home/username/.config/libreoffice-alt
   

   you should replace /home/username with your home directory (and adjust .config if you don't have that on your CentOS, I did this on Ubuntu and Linux Mint). The above will create a new configuration directory for the alternate libreoffice in your .config directory, without which you would get some error about java not being found.

3. Exit that instance of libreoffice
4. That directory /home/username/.config/libreoffice-alt should now have been created for you.

Now start another libreoffice from the command-line (doing so allows you to see some useful messages if things go wrong when starting the second instance), without the -env:..., and while that is still running start the conversion using:

libreoffice -env:UserInstallation=file:///home/username/.config/libreoffice-alt --headless --convert-to pdf *.odt