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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 23.2
  • First Released:
  • Last Updated:
  • Cost: Free
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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.
  • Encrypt PDF - Encrypts an existing PDF with a password.

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 list of bookmarks and associated page number in the PDF

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  • I'm having an issue when using FillPDF to populate fields in a LiveCycle document.  First I need to offer kudos that it works at all - the LiveCycle file format is pestersome and in my experience has been hard to work with.

    My issue is pretty straightforward: when I fill in a field in-process, and view the resulting document either in the Appian preview field, or previewed directly within Chrome, the filled-in value appears seemingly correctly.  But if I download the generated document and open in Adobe Reader, the field is apparently still empty.  If I open the file in a text editor, I'm able to find the value that had been inserted... but when I enter the value directly in Adobe Reader then save, the desired value shows up in additional places within the binary (again, viewed within a text editor).  I don't know what the exact issue is here, however it's preventing me from using Fill PDF to fulfill a use case of ours, which the older PDF from Template smart service fails at (in a worse way).  If anyone's able to offer some insight into this, I'd appreciate it.

  • in reply to Michael Chirlin

    - thanks, any chance Appian might come up with a remedy for this issue on the plug-in side?

    FYI i didn't see your reply initially since Community apparently doesn't want to notify me for basic replies here.

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