I am trying to convert my libre office document into an ms word document through the following command
pandoc CS141Exam.odt -f markdown -t docx -s -o test1.docx
but I'm getting the following errors
pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\xac': Data.Text.Encoding.Fusion.streamUtf8: Invalid UTF-8 stream
What is the correct command to achieve this?
You've got pandoc trying to convert "from" (-f) markdown, "to" (-t) docx. But you're giving it an odt file. So it's trying to read that odt as though it were markdown and choking, because it isn't markdown. You want something closer to:
pandoc CS141Exam.odt -f odt -t docx -s -o test1.docx
but... odt isn't supported until pandoc 1.15.1, so do pandoc -v to make sure you've got a current version, too. My Ubuntu stable repo gave me 1.12.4.2 -- I had to get the latest directly from pandoc, but then this worked fine for me:
pandoc -f odt -t docx -o example.docx example.odt
(Though I don't have MS Word so all I know is that example.docx looks fine in LibreOffice Writer)