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.

raghulvishnud over 3 years ago in reply to azharb

hi azharb

Currently, we do not handle hidden tags when generating pdf. We will analyze this feature in the next versions. From Appian functions, we can filter out the HTML Elements hidden when generating the input HTML for the smart service as a workaround
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azharb over 3 years ago

Hello there, My HTML doc has some hidden tags which after converting to pdf doc gets displayed on the converted pdf.

<This is my DIV element> is hidden in my HTML doc as you see in the screenshot, but the converted pdf doc renders it.

Can you please let me know how can I get it fixed? Thanks in advance
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Appian AppMarket over 3 years ago
v2.1.0 Release Notes
- Upgraded to Latest Conversion Jar to fix image rendering issues.
- Support for Appian images if image tag has attribute appiandocid with the id of the image file (Images Will be Rendered If Environment provides access to JDK for accessing the Internal File path of image files).
- Additional Smart Service to generate PDF with Page Numbers and Custom Fonts.
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raghulvishnud over 3 years ago in reply to haigl0001

Image types PNG,Jpeg,bmp are currenlty supported.Currently Svg support is not implemented in the plugin.We will add this to the backlog analyse the feasibility and add this is in the future release
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haigl0001 over 3 years ago

Which image file types are supported? tried PNG with works, SVG doesn't
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Stefan Helzle over 3 years ago

Uses the library openhtmltopdf. Documentation is here: github.com/.../openhtmltopdf
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anjup136 over 4 years ago

May I know Is it possible to display image in the pdf from html. If so how to render the image?
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Santhosh Kumar over 4 years ago in reply to ashishk373

Hi ashishk373,

I believe your HTML will be missing the dependency file for the google chart library. So it can't produce the component at the place.
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ashishk373 over 4 years ago

I have a html file with google chart component and when converting to pfd using the plugin ,the component is missing .Any leads on this ?
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Appian AppMarket over 4 years ago
v2.0.0 Release Notes
- Includes landscape (accepts height and width as a parameter) orientation
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