soffice for convertion only

[PhE]

Is soffice involved in the templating step ?

I understand that soffice is used to convert to a different format like ODT -> PDF.
But if the output format is the same as the input format, like ODT -> ODT, is soffice called or is it only python code that is used for templating ?

It matters for memory consumption and stability.

[PhE]

I look at the source and the templating step rely on soffice.
I will do some benchmark to see how it compare to a pure Python template engine.

[philippe-levan]

Yes, all the templating system uses libre office. Python only uses the API on the libreoffice headless. Python never modify the file without libreoffice.

It is a bit difficult to make a good benchmark because it depends a lot of features used in the template, but we generate docs of 25 pages with a complex 75 pages template in about 10 seconds in the website of one of my client with a small vm of 4 cores.