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

sawsan asa'ad over 2 years ago

Hello, I try to use "PDF from HTML" smart service ,but it crop the html data in PDF, And doesn't show all table as photo

Can help me please?
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Appian AppMarket over 2 years ago
Release Notes - v2.0.0
- Updated EML to PDF smart service to support the jakarta mail library introduced in Appian 22.3. This smart service will not work on pre 22.3 with this version of the plugin. 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 22.2 and lower version by downloading from the app market.
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andreg over 3 years ago

Hello, per Appian Technical Support, the 22.3 Upgrade may impact custom plug-ins that use javax.mail. After doing a quick scan it appears that this plug-in does use this library.

Will an updated version of this plugin be provided to address this issue?
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gauravg568 over 3 years ago in reply to sultan.kilani

Hi, Has anyone been able to resolve the issue with Arabic fonts not working? If so, can you please share the resolution?
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jeffg0002 over 3 years ago

I've run apache fop 2.5 locally against my xsl-fo and xml and I get my pdf with an embedded svg image but using the same xsl-fo and xml using Appian and this plugin results in a generic java error "An error occurred in executing an Activity Class." When will this bug be fixed so we can host svg embedded images?

Also, is there a way to configure fop to not use strict-validation?
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Chiara Gambone over 3 years ago

Hello, try to use PDF from Multiple DOCX (No Fonts) with version 1.9.1 we get the following error:

org.docx4j.openpackaging.exceptions.Docx4JException: Exception exporting package

Is there anything we can try out?
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Chiara Gambone over 3 years ago in reply to aarthis409892

Hi, have you seen any update to this problem? Because we are seeing it in versione 1.9.1
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anushac0001 over 3 years ago

Using "PDF from single DOCX with Fonts" for "Arial" font, the pdf is still using "Times New Roman" font even though I specify "Arial" in "Font Documents" in the smart service, can anyone please let me know if you were able to resolve this issue?
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Guy Levine over 3 years ago in reply to rishabhs0004

Same for us
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Guy Levine over 3 years ago

Has anyone used this successfully with 22.2? We had it working with 22.1, but since the upgrade the fonts we supply as constants aren't taking effect.
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