Convert DocX to PDF (Aspose)

Hi, thanks for the information, able to achieve what i was looking for. 

As this smart service covert docx to pdf in letter but i want pdf in A4 size is it possible?

Hi Shaun Freeman,

Can you tell me whether the Aspose DocX to PDF plugin converts the word documents into 508 compliant PDFs? If not, are there plans to add the capability of converting into 508 compliant PDFs?

Thanks!

Hi Vikram, 

After some testing, I have found that I receive a 99 error code when the Aspose plugin tries to create a document object with the same name with a different extension in the same folder. 

For example,

Document1.docx in Folder1 -> Document1.pdf in Folder1, this will break

Document1.docx in Folder1 -> Document1.pdf in Folder2, this will work

Document1.docx in Folder1 -> Document1.pdf in Folder2 AND Document1.pdf already exists in Folder2, the document will OVERWRITE the original Document1.pdf that already existed

If possible, I would set the GeneratedDocFolderID to point to a DIFFERENT folder than the one the SourceDocID is in.

Hope this helps!

Hi Shaun.freeman(Author),

We are using Aspose docx to PDF conversion service and we have licence. In instance we are getting "error code 99" and not getting any error message. could you please help me here, what its mean.

Regards,

Vikram Kumar Singh

Would this allow appian to convert pdf to pdf/a?

Hi Shaun.freeman(Author),

We have below error when we deployed this Plugin, and we also tried to remove the old one and redeploy, but the issue is same. Can you pls help share any guidance? Thank you

2021-07-29 01:27:25,823 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO com.appiancorp.plugins.osgi.LoggingPluginFactoryDecorator - Plug-in Artifact 'com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose-1.2.1.jar' SHA256 hash is 275d7e231635cd0265043f8f1063c7f94070b2e85b3c88f51709f6f02e90d4d9 2021-07-29 01:27:26,959 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] WARN com.appiancorp.type.config.plugin.PojoDatatypesConfig - The data type [uuid={http://types.appiancorp.com/ps}DocumentData] in plug-in [key=com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose, module=DocumentData] was not imported because it or another data type in the plug-in module was already present on the system with a different structure, but the version of the plug-in that provided the existing data type could not be determined. If you intend to change the structure of this data type you must first delete the data type from the system and deploy this plug-in again. If the problem persists, check that all data type precedents of the data type are declared in the same plug-in module or are listed before this data type in the appian-plug.xml. If you did not intend to change the structure of this data type, this message can be safely ignored as it is a false positive in the structure comparison mechanism. Please submit the plug-in and accompanying log messages to Appian Support for further analysis. (APNX-1-4165-003) 2021-07-29 01:27:26,976 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager - There was an error loading the descriptor 'Convert DocX to PDF (Aspose)' of plugin 'com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose'. Disabling. com.atlassian.plugin.PluginException: com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: com.appiancorp.process.admin.IncompatibleSmartServiceRegistrationException: The Smart Service Module was invalid: Illegal attempt to change the data type for smart service com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.DOCXToPDFUtil, input or output named fileDataList (APNX-1-4104-005) at com.appiancorp.plugins.ExceptionHandlingModuleDescriptor.enabled(ExceptionHandlingModuleDescriptor.java:68) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.notifyModuleEnabled(DefaultPluginManager.java:1792) at com.appiancorp.plugins.AppianPluginManager.notifyModuleEnabled(AppianPluginManager.java:74) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.enableConfiguredPluginModule(DefaultPluginManager.java:1568) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.enableConfiguredPluginModules(DefaultPluginManager.java:1545) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.enableDependentPlugins(DefaultPluginManager.java:1214) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugins(DefaultPluginManager.java:1170) at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.scanForNewPlugins(DefaultPluginManager.java:891) at com.appiancorp.plugins.AppianPluginManager.scanForNewPlugins0(AppianPluginManager.java:212) at com.appiancorp.plugins.AppianPluginManager.scanForNewPlugins(AppianPluginManager.java:204) at com.appiancorp.plugins.AppianPluginManager.scanResultIfNotDeployingPlugins(AppianPluginManager.java:192) at com.appiancorp.plugins.HotDeployerRunnable.run(HotDeployerRunnable.java:30) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: com.appiancorp.process.admin.IncompatibleSmartServiceRegistrationException: The Smart Service Module was invalid: Illegal attempt to change the data type for smart service com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.DOCXToPDFUtil, input or output named fileDataList (APNX-1-4104-005) at com.appiancorp.process.ActivityClassSupplierModern.registerInternal(ActivityClassSupplierModern.java:338) at com.appiancorp.process.ActivityClassSupplierLazyData.register(ActivityClassSupplierLazyData.java:86) at com.appiancorp.process.ActivityClassSupplier.get(ActivityClassSupplier.java:85) at com.appiancorp.process.SmartServiceModuleDescriptor.enabledInternal(SmartServiceModuleDescriptor.java:203) at com.appiancorp.plugins.ExceptionHandlingModuleDescriptor.enabled(ExceptionHandlingModuleDescriptor.java:66) ... 18 more 2021-07-29 01:27:26,984 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to enable Plug-in 'Convert Docs To PDF' (com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose) version 1.2.1: 'There was a problem loading the module descriptor: Convert DocX to PDF (Aspose).<br/>com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: com.appiancorp.process.admin.IncompatibleSmartServiceRegistrationException: The Smart Service Module was invalid: Illegal attempt to change the data type for smart service com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.DOCXToPDFUtil, input or output named fileDataList (APNX-1-4104-005)'

Hi shaun.freeman(Author),

We have a random issue with this smart service. Please find the issue description and the error log file attached.

Issue Description:

We have used this node to convert Docx to PDF inside a sub-process. And we have configured an exception timer to the sub-process node with an exception of 5 minutes. At some cases, this smart service node takes more than 5 minutes to render the PDF document. So, after 5 minutes, the exception path is taken and the smart service becomes unfinished. 

As the process is taking exception path after 5 minutes, the input docx document for the smart service is reset to null which causes the null pointer exception error.

Please let us know if this null error can be fixed in upcoming versions. Also, we would like to know why is it randomly taking more time to render the PDF document.

FYI: The document is having only english fonts for some 3 pages and the same is rendered within few seconds in other environments(all environments are in same versions 19.4).

Thanks!

2021-07-06 07:09:36,230 [Appian Work Item - 650363 - execution02 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.utils.DocumentUtilAppian - com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.exceptions.InsufficientNameUniquenessException: Name is insufficiently unique

2021-07-06 07:09:36,230 [Appian Work Item - 650363 - execution02 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.utils.ConvertToPDFSvc - java.lang.NullPointerException

                at com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.utils.DocumentUtilAppian.createNewDocument(DocumentUtilAppian.java:145)

                at com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.utils.CreatePDFInAppian.convert(CreatePDFInAppian.java:55)

                at com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.aspose.utils.ConvertToPDFSvc.run(ConvertToPDFSvc.java:39)

                at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.lambda$call$0(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:131)

                at com.appiancorp.plugins.PluginUsageLogger.runWithPluginInformation(PluginUsageLogger.java:52)

                at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.call(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:131)

                at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor$1.call(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:125)

                at com.appiancorp.common.ContextClassLoaderSwitcher.runInContext(ContextClassLoaderSwitcher.java:25)

                at com.appiancorp.process.runtime.framework.DefaultActivityExecutor.execute(DefaultActivityExecutor.java:125)

                at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:83)

                at com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.execute0(UnattendedJavaActivityRequest.java:55)

                at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ContinuationRequest.executeOuter(ContinuationRequest.java:71)

                at com.appiancorp.process.engine.ContinuationRequest.execute(ContinuationRequest.java:100)

                at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.onMessage(UnattendedRequestHandlerBean.java:36)

                at com.appiancorp.process.workpoller.WorkItem.run(WorkItem.java:84)

                at org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager$DelegatingWorkAdapter.run(SimpleTaskWorkManager.java:239)

                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

                at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Compatible version was mentioned as 17.1+, 20.2. Does it mean it doesn't support 21.x+ versions? Will it support Arabic language?

Will plugin preserve Arabic language characters in PDF after it was converted the DOCX