[3.6]PDF document conversion

[3.6]PDF document conversion

by Richard van Iwaarden -
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What a pain in the *** is pdf conversion for me.

Finally, I had it al working for about one year. Now I upgraded to Moodle 3.6 and it's all bad again.

unoconv - doesn't work (hosting on WHM panel)

Google: stopped working. Deleted everything, tried to get a new service going but the docs on this are outdated. Google Developer Console looks totally different and I can't find out how to set it up anymore.

Microsoft: this ons worked best in the past, but also stopped working. Also deleted it, set it up again but still the same error:

×Debug info: 

Error code: conversionfailed

$a contents: Array

(

[statusmessage] => The file was not uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive.

)

×Stack trace:

line 494 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown

line 223 of /files/converter/onedrive/classes/converter.php: call to print_error()

line 52 of /files/converter/onedrive/test.php: call to fileconverter_onedrive\converter->serve_test_document()


What happens if I can get this working later, will everything that still needs to be converted be in a queue?
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Re: [3.6]PDF document conversion

by Richard van Iwaarden -
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Just to add: I also added a new Google document converter.

Doesn't work either, finally gives the error: 'can not open PDF file' upon testing.

System account is connected for both services.



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Er: Re: [3.6]PDF document conversion

by Iñigo Zendegi Urzelai -
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Hi Richard,

Did you finally get the OneDrive converter working?

I'm testing it and when try the test conversion I get that same message (Error code: conversionfailed - The file was not uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive), but on the other hand I can see the tmp file on OneDrive, so the message seems inaccurate and I don't know what else can I try.

I haven't found any documentation about how this should be configured (only vague remarks in the plugins' readme), so any help will be appreciated.

TIA

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Re: Er: Re: [3.6]PDF document conversion

by Richard van Iwaarden -
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Nope, never got it working again. Same with Google btw.

I had to switch back to Unoconv, but this also crashes sometimes. This PDF conversion is just an Achilles heel for Moodle.
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by Iñigo Zendegi Urzelai -
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>> This PDF conversion is just an Achilles heel for Moodle

I agree with that, we're actually using Google Drive and Unoconv but there are some files making all kind of trouble (CPUs at 100%, cron executions consuming GBs of RAM...) and that's the reason I'm trying with OneDrive (as those troublemaking files are often Microsoft's Office files, Microsoft may get them converted correctly).

BTW, we have the Google Drive converter working (on 3.5 and 3.7); we set it up following the docs, but if you have any specific question perhaps I can help you...

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