Fun with OpenOffice. Non-interactive fun, that is :-)

install

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-dev

OpenOffice::UNO

cd ~/.cpanplus/5.10.0/build/OpenOffice-UNO-0.06

. /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/sdk/setsdkenv_unix.sh
perl Makefile.PL
make
ooffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
# -nologo -headless -nofirststartwizard