py3o.renderserver 0.5

Requirements

Install the latest JDK for your plateform. Here is an example for Ubuntu (13.04 or 14.04):

apt-get install default-jdk

This will give you the necessary tools to compile the juno driver.

You will need to install (and compile) the py3o.renderers.juno driver.

Follow the instructions from the driver’s documentation to install it and then you’re ready to start your own RenderServer

Running the server

Here is how we start the server on a Linux host (Ubuntu 13.04):

$ start-py3o-renderserver --java=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so --ure=/usr/lib --office=/usr/lib/libreoffice --driver=juno --sofficeport=8997

You MUST have a running LibreOffice (OpenOffice) server somewhere. In our example it is running on localhost with port 8997. Here is how you can start such a server on Linux (Ubuntu 13.04 / LibreOffice 4.0.4):

$ libreoffice --nologo --norestore --invisible --headless --nocrashreport --nofirststartwizard --nodefault --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8997;urp;"

As you can see it works with OpenJDK, LibreOffice and even on 64bit systems :)