Hello, Could you tell me why an error occurs when I try to produce a template / reference file either in odt or docx file format ? $ pandoc -o custom-reference.odt --print-default-data-file reference.odt Then the terminal print this types of characters and pandoc quit with a 0 error code. 6�>A!�%&�z���8K���*g��RK�T�u��9▒���;�~���hM�=q�}�9Y�QA+H"��0���.(��� But there is no custom-reference.odt file in the user data directory Is it because the version is 2.2.1 on Kubuntu 18.10 ? $pandoc --version pandoc 2.2.1 Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.4.2, texmath 0.10.1.2, skylighting 0.6 Default user data directory: /home/pierre/.pandoc Pandoc has been installed in /home/pierre/.locale/share/pandoc I have tried both copying the directory in /home/.pandoc/ and created a symlink from .locale/share/pandoc but result still be the same. Thank you for your help -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/7b9dfe11-7483-431c-9a11-1e40d65b7ebd%40googlegroups.com.