[Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Samuel Viscapi]

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Dear all,

I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML page, 
using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I know, 
should I try to compile the newest version from source ?).

At first the conversion failed because of some UTF-8 related errors, but 
those are well documented in the manual:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#character-encoding

Now, I'm faced with a never ending process silently eating ~100% CPU time 
for hours (before eventually getting terminated by the system).

My command reads as follows:

iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 file.docx | pandoc -o output.html

Since the docx file originated from Windows, its character encoding is 
"Western Alphabet", thus I hope "latin1" is a close enough approximation.

I tried to explicitly tell pandoc about the input and output formats (-f 
docx -t html) but to no avail... (pandoc: Unknown reader: docx)

I also played a while with extensions (--from docx+empty_paragraphs, --from 
docx+styles, etc...), no luck so far.

What am I doing wrong ?

Best regards,

Samuel, from CINES (Montpellier, France)

https://www.cines.fr/en/

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Re: [Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Jesse Rosenthal]

Samuel Viscapi <sviscapi-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML page, 
> using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I know, 
> should I try to compile the newest version from source ?).

Way too old -- conversion from docx wasn't introduced until 1.13. 

Re: [Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[John MacFarlane]

You can try the linux binary on our GitHub releases page.
It's statically linked and I imagine it will work on your
system.

Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Samuel Viscapi <sviscapi-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML page, 
>> using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I know, 
>> should I try to compile the newest version from source ?).
>
> Way too old -- conversion from docx wasn't introduced until 1.13. 
>
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Re: [Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Samuel Viscapi]

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Thank you John and Jesse for you quick replies, that's really appreciated.

I just gave a go at the binary release from Github:

iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 file.docx | /path/to/pandoc-2.9.2.1/bin/pandoc -o 
output.html

Again, 100% CPU usage for some minutes. The new thing is: 80%+ of RAM usage 
too, out of 8GB.

The system had to terminate the process.

Output.html was successfully created, but empty.

What am I missing ?

Best regards,

Samuel

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 6:33:15 PM UTC+2, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> You can try the linux binary on our GitHub releases page. 
> It's statically linked and I imagine it will work on your 
> system. 
>
> Jesse Rosenthal <jrose...-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > Samuel Viscapi <svis...-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
> > 
> >> I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML 
> page, 
> >> using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I 
> know, 
> >> should I try to compile the newest version from source ?). 
> > 
> > Way too old -- conversion from docx wasn't introduced until 1.13. 
> > 
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Re: [Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Samuel Viscapi]

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Dear all,

Things are working now, thanks for your help.

My previous message has been deleted, I don't understand why though...

Best regards,

Samuel

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 6:33:15 PM UTC+2, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> You can try the linux binary on our GitHub releases page. 
> It's statically linked and I imagine it will work on your 
> system. 
>
> Jesse Rosenthal <jrose...-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > Samuel Viscapi <svis...-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
> > 
> >> I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML 
> page, 
> >> using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I 
> know, 
> >> should I try to compile the newest version from source ?). 
> > 
> > Way too old -- conversion from docx wasn't introduced until 1.13. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google 
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