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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 23.2+, 24.1
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  • Cost: Free
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Dynamic Document Generator

Overview

This version is for Appian 23.2 and above. Cloud customers on a lower version of Appian that want to install this plugin should open a support case. Self-managed customers can find the latest jar for Appian 23.1 and lower version in the folder pre-23.2

Convert, merge and generate DOCX, PDF and XML files automatically in an Appian process

Key Features & Functionality

  • PDF from single DOCX with Fonts
    • Convert multiple DOCX files into a single PDF. Please note that the translation from DOCX to PDF is not always 1:1. The template may need to be tweaked or simplified to achieve the desired results.
  • PDF from DOCX without Fonts
    • Convert multiple DOCX files into a single PDF. Please note that the translation from DOCX to PDF is not always 1:1. The template may need to be tweaked or simplified to achieve the desired results. This will not support fonts.
  • PDF from XSL-FO Transformation
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to XSL-FO which is then converted to PDF
  • PDF from HTML
    • Converts an HTML document into a single page PDF.
  • PDF from HTML Transformation
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to HTML which is then converted to PDF
  • Text Doc from XSLT
    • Uses XSLT to convert an XML to a plain text document (such as HTML, another XML doc, etc).
  • DOCX from XHTML With Styling
    • Converts a valid XHTML file into a DOCX, allowing you to provide your own template file for style reference. Useful for creating dynamic documents that are editable
  • DOCX Merge
    • Merges one or more DOCX files together. If a header or footer exists in any document, they will be removed during the merge process.
    • A configurable separator can be specified: none, line break or page break

Function: xsltransform - Transform source XML using XSL Transform

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  • We are having a weird issue where we are using this plugin to convert docx to PDF. The plugin is working fine in lower environments but making the text bold in the converted PDF in the production environment. We tried deleting and reinstalling the plugin but nothing seems to work. Anyone has any idea how to fix it?

  • in reply to keertihasyagar

    Did you pass in a constant to the "Font Documents" parameter that points to all OTF files that represent the font you are using in the Word document? For example, if the font you used is Source Sans Pro, you would need to download the OTF files from (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/source-sans-pro), add the .otf files that you need into Appian as documents, and then create a constant of multiple document type that points to all these documents you added. When I didn't add this constant to the parameter, I faced the same issue you faced. After the constant, it worked without issues. Hope this helps!

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  • in reply to keertihasyagar

    Did you pass in a constant to the "Font Documents" parameter that points to all OTF files that represent the font you are using in the Word document? For example, if the font you used is Source Sans Pro, you would need to download the OTF files from (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/source-sans-pro), add the .otf files that you need into Appian as documents, and then create a constant of multiple document type that points to all these documents you added. When I didn't add this constant to the parameter, I faced the same issue you faced. After the constant, it worked without issues. Hope this helps!

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