PDF Tools

Overview

Contains multiple Smart Services and Functions for interacting with PDF Documents.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services:

Merge PDF - Merges multiple PDF documents into a single document.
Extract PDF Pages - Extracts a range of pages from an existing PDF into a new PDF.
Fill PDF - Populates the fields of a PDF Form and optionally flattens it disallow further changes.
Create PDF Content - Allows text to be added to a PDF with control over the style, position, and angle. An existing PDF can be updated or a new one created from scratch.
Convert PDF to Image - Creates an array of images or a multi-page tiff from a PDF.
Compress PDF - Compresses the images in the PDF to make it smaller.
Un-protect and Copy PDF - Using the document password, create an un-protected copy of a protected PDF.
Convert Image to PDF - Creates a PDF starting from one or many images. It also supports multi-page tiff images.

Functions:

Get PDF Metadata - Retrieves metadata on the PDF: page count, title, author, security, encryption, etc.
Get PDF Text - Retrieves the text content from a PDF.
Get PDF Form Fields - Retrieves the populated form field values of an unflattened PDF.
Get PDF Signature Fields - Retrieves the populated signature field values of an unflattened PDF.
Get PDF Bookmarks - Retrieves the raw list of bookmarks in the PDF.

Richard Michaelis 6 days ago in reply to Patilgani

this works pretty well. What you mean by
"I'm doing with hardcode value."?
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Patilgani 7 days ago

Hi all,

How to convert image to pdf with multiple documents

I'm doing with hardcode value.
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asifh 1 month ago in reply to asifh

we have on-Premise Appian installation
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asifh 1 month ago

Why is this plugin not working with 18.1? we have deployed this plugin in _admin/plugins folder and after JBOSS restart it is still missing.

kindly quick response is required
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naeemm3619 2 months ago

After upgrading to the latest version PDF Tools 2.4.1, the generated PDF is having format font issues. I created a new word template from scratch which it uses the word template to convert to PDF and still no luck. I have attached screenshots of the pdf and snippet of the process model. Anyone faced this issue? Please give me your suggestions on how to solve this issue.
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vbhardwaj 2 months ago

Hi,

I am using Create PDF smart service to generate a PDF with plain text.

Am getting the following error in the Create PDF node.

???contents.error.alertMsg???

Error Text: U+000A ('controlLF') is not available in the font Helvetica, encoding: WinAnsiEncoding

Am using the following expression to generate PDF contents

a!localVariables(
local!text:
"Firstname Vikrant " & char(10) &
"Lastname Bhardwaj " & char(10) &
"Address 100 NW AVE " & char(10) &
"City Irving " & char(10) &
"Zipcode 12345 "&char(10) &
"Country USA",
'type!{urn:appian:ps:pdftools}PdfContent'(
sections:{
'type!{urn:appian:ps:pdftools}PdfSection'(
style:'type!{urn:appian:ps:pdftools}PdfStyle'(
font:"Times New Roman"
),
components: {
'type!{urn:appian:ps:pdftools}PdfText'(
value:local!text
)
}
)
}
)
)

Please let me know how to resolve it.

Thanks,
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valterf 2 months ago in reply to valterf

issue addressed as the functions are not of this plugin.
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valterf 2 months ago

Hi we have upgraded form an old version 2.2.11 to 2.4.1 and now the plugin "PDF from Single DOCX (with fonts)" is failing,

we have tried to update the calls using "PDF from DOCX" but it works only with externally loaded DOCX generated from template. It is not not with ones created from a DOCX directly in appian.

can someone help if it has already faced and addressed the issue?
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rajanikanthreddy 3 months ago in reply to pauls0008

did it solved
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Mike Schmitt 4 months ago
I'm trying to run a user-supplied PDF through "Compress PDF". It's refusing and giving me the following error message:
```
Cannot read JPEG2000 image: Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) Image I/O Tools are not installed
```
This is happening in the current version of the plug-in and for a valid PDF as far as I can tell (it opens fine in Adobe Reader as well as the Appian document preview field, etc).

Any chance an update could be created to account for this issue?
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