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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
  • First Released:
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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 have an issue converting Japanese characters using the module that converts HTML to PDF. All of the Japanese characters are converted to "####################################". I see that the same issue was reported by another user 2 months ago for the conversion from DOCX.

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  • We have an issue converting Japanese characters using the module that converts HTML to PDF. All of the Japanese characters are converted to "####################################". I see that the same issue was reported by another user 2 months ago for the conversion from DOCX.

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  • in reply to normanc

    I had the same issue when I used the PDF from single DOCX with Fonts smart service where Japanese and Chinese characters would return hashtags. I ended up getting the characters to show by using the Microsoft Yahwei font in my docX template and including the MS Yahwei font file in the Fonts parameter. I don't have experience with the HTML to PDF smart service but you could consider switching to the PDF from single DOCX with Fonts smart service or there might be a way to configure fonts with the HTML to PDF within your html template

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