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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This is an Appian supported plug-in. To the extent that this plug-in does not conform to its documentation, please submit a ticket to Appian Technical Support. Appian does not support customer-created customizations or outdated versions of the plug-in.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 25.2
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  • Cost: Free - Appian Supported
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Dynamic Document Generator

Overview

This version is for Appian 22.3 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 22.2 and lower version in the folder pre-22.3

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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  • in reply to Rudra Satya Sai Ram Prathipati

    We are also experiencing this issue. It looks related to the newer versions of Word. We found that if we simply save an existing document that had no prior issues with the newer version of word (after version 2407) and then reupload that we get the issue. 

    It also seems like it only affects the first template being merged. If the first template being merged was saved with a newer version of word then the document will produce this error. If that newer template is not the first in the list and the first template was saved with the older version of word, then the final document will not be corrupted 

  • Is there an example HTML document I can use to test the HTML to PDF?

    I tried below but receive a null pointer exception (using version compatible for pre-23.2):

    <html>
    <body>
    <table>
    <tr>
    <td>Val1</td>
    <td>Val2</td>
    <td>Val2</td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>

  • in reply to Rudra Satya Sai Ram Prathipati

    I am also seeing this pop up and will not be able to leverage the plugin even though it appears to be doing what it should after I click through it.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

        

     Support 

     

    Appian Solutions 

  • in reply to Rudra Satya Sai Ram Prathipati

    Hi Appian Support Team,

    We are also getting same pop up while we generated documents by using DOCX Merge smart service.

    Getting below error while trying to open downloaded document from Appian after merging with smart service DOCX Merge:

    Error:

    Word found unreadable content in "test 1.docx". Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If you trust the source of this document, click Yes.

    DOCX Merge smart service is working correctly, before merge we are able to download and open the single generated word doc without pop up. After merge of documents we are able to download it but while opening getting the pop up error. Below is the screenshot for reference:


    Please let us know if any fix available for this pop up issue.
    Let us know for more details. 

    Regards,
    Sandeep

  • 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

  • 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.

  • HI,

    We are using this plugin to generate word documents. there is no issue with generating the document, after generating the document we are getting popup message every time so business users reporting this issue. could you please help us to get rid of this issue. please find below screenshot for your reference.

  • in reply to julianj0001

    Hi, have you tried passing a font document that supports both English and Japanese with pdf from docx from single docx with fonts? Something like simsun or ms ya hei?

  • 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?

  • Am currently using the PDF from Single DOCX (with Fonts) smart service of Dynamic Document Generator 1.8.5 versions on cloud Appian version 24.2, We have a requirement to increase indent (white space) before starting of the sentence. But this is not working during the conversion because the spaces are trimmed. Below is the image of word document and the converted PDF document for reference.

     

    Can you please guide me if am missing something to achieve the result?

    Thank you!

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