Note that you are running the soffice binary from the command-line,
which obviously is not at all a normal way to run LibreOffice on OS X.
Any messages printed to standard output or standard error are easy to
misinterpret, and unless you plan to investigate yourself what is going
on, you should ignore them. It is quite likely that the "Document is
empty" message is a red herring.
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