Image(not so)Magick [SOLVED]

Linux Support
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I used to use ImageMagick quite a lot for changing image file type but now it fails. Example output is:

keith@T500:~/Desktop/SRP_paper$ convert figure_A.odt figure_A.pdf
mv: cannot stat ‘/tmp/magick-6157IzrgszU4QNdt.pdf’: No such file or directory
convert: delegate failed "soffice" --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir dirname “%i”"%i" 2> "%Z"; mv "%i.pdf" "%o"' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1310. convert: unable to open image/tmp/magick-6157HjVpYQjHjWsc’: No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2712.
convert: unable to open file /tmp/magick-6157HjVpYQjHjWsc': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/540. convert: no images defined figure_A.pdf’ @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3210.
keith@T500:~/Desktop/SRP_paper$ ls /tmp
config-err-4iNf6I mozilla_keith0
dropbox-antifreeze-oKTxn3 OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_f9becb49e6949950453a99477647d7c
gnome-software-CAQ5DZ qt-trayicon-FW2296.png
gnome-software-DLEXDZ systemd-private-e7343bee0bfd45b9bcf23191a5d89a94-colord.service-S3xhgA
gnome-software-VQH4DZ systemd-private-e7343bee0bfd45b9bcf23191a5d89a94-rtkit-daemon.service-6OiJCh
gnome-software-YLWNDZ systemd-private-e7343bee0bfd45b9bcf23191a5d89a94-systemd-timesyncd.service-C6BKcD
gnome-software-ZTW3DZ thunderbird_keith
lu3002eoqqh0.tmp
keith@T500:~/Desktop/SRP_paper$

Another weird thing is that there are two instances of ImageMagick in the Applications menu and in the Software Installer. When I un-installed (via the software installer), the listings in the applications menu disappeared but there were still two in the s/w installer each with two buttons: Remove and Launch. Re-installing one of them put two instances back into the applications menu - and it still doesn’t work.

Any ideas?

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ImageMagick uses Libreoffice as a delegate for that conversion anyway … so why not just:

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf figure_A.odt
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Thank you, Mark.

I tried your suggestion and although there was no error, there was no PDF file either.
I looked for the PDF file using the “find” command in case it went to another directory, but apparently not.

Hmmm!

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But

 unoconv -f pdf mydocument.odt

does work.
The man pages say: “convert any document from and to any LibreOffice supported format”.
unoconv can be installed by:

sudo apt install unoconv

Sorry to have troubled you, Mark, but you put me on the right path. Many thanks for your advice.

EDIT
… and I’ve just realised that I could have simply have “exported” the document as a PDF from within Libreoffice!