HTML to PDF

Overview

Version 1.0.0 - Accepts inline and internal styles and also adds images in the PDF if they are publicly hosted. Based on content, multiple pages will be created in the PDF. The Smart Service will accept HTML files with properly closed tags including <br> and <img> tags otherwise the node will be errored out.

Version 2.0.0 - Everything with Version 1.0.0 and ability to generate PDF from HTML with landscape orientation.

Key Features & Functionality

Inputs

Source Document (Document) - The html file to be converted into PDF.
New Document Name (Text) - Name for the newly created PDF Document.
New Document Desc (Text) - Description of the output PDF Document.
Save In Folder (Folder) - Folder to which the output PDF Document to be saved in.

Outputs

New Document Created (Document) - The output PDF file.
Error Message (Text) - Error message received.
Error Occurred (Boolean) - Set to true on the occurrence of error.

Maciej Borkowski over 1 year ago in reply to Maciej Borkowski

I got it resolved, but don't know the root cause, however hope it can help someone.

So what you need to do is add any document as 'Font Document', close the smart service, open it again and remove the document. Maybe after the above action, service is sending 'empty' instead null, but just a guess.

Important is that it get back to work.
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Maciej Borkowski over 1 year ago

Dear Group,

After moving to version 23.4 and updating the plugin to the newest version, the smart service is erroring out with a message: "java.lang.NullPointerException". It is not specific to any process, just anything we are trying to convert is failing.

Anyone facing the same problem ?
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vigneshe over 2 years ago in reply to Rahul Nemani

Hi Rahul Nemani ,

Thanks for reaching out!

For now HTML to PDF plugin doesn't have that format of numbering, We will analyse on this and if this is possible we will update it in our future release.

Regards,
Vignesh E.
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Rahul Nemani over 2 years ago

Hi. Is there a way to output the format like 1 of 3, 2, 2 of 3, 3 of 3 at the bottom of each page in the PDF instead of just the number?
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Santhosh Kumar over 2 years ago in reply to ujjwalk

Hi ujjwalk ,

Yes, the latest plugin will generate the multipage PDF when the HTML is long.
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ujjwalk over 2 years ago in reply to Santhosh Kumar

Hi Santhosh,

is the plugin updated to generate multiple pages of PDF ?
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MohammedWasim over 2 years ago in reply to davidef0002

Hi davidef0002,

The plugin is supported in the 23.3 version of Appian. We are not facing any issues in the latest version. Could you please send the input parameter values so that we can debug on the issue you faced.

Thanks,
Wasim
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davidef0002 over 2 years ago

Hello. I'm constantly getting the following error message in a 23.3 Appian Environment: "java.lang.NullPointerException". I'm not getting any errors when running the smart service in a 23.1 environment, hence me thinking that this could be due to versions compatibility issues.

Are you planning to release a 23.3 compatible version any time soon?

Thanks in advance,

Davide
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Stefan Helzle over 2 years ago

Did you consider to enable the SVG rendering capabilities of the openhtmltopdf library? That would allow us to add dynamic charts to PDF documents.
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vigneshe over 2 years ago in reply to ericc0002

Hi ericc0002,

Thanks for reaching out,

Please let us know which version of the plugin are you using. If it is not the latest one (2.1.7) please update it and check whether you are facing the issue. If the issue is not resolved yet you can reach us via our email at team.int.swatcustomdev@vuram.com with a sample file that you are using which will be helpful in resolving the issue.

Regards,
Vignesh E
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