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 raw list of bookmarks in the PDF.

riang over 5 years ago

Hi Team,

We're getting issues with the Plugin. The error is:

bundleName for SmartServiceException, builder.smartServiceClass=class

com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.AbstractPDFDocumentGeneration

The platform version is 18.2. Let us know what would fix this, coz it's affecting also production apps that uses this.
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Rajat over 5 years ago

Hi , We are facing issue with the plugin after upgrade to 18.3. Is this not supported ?
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Ben Dudley over 6 years ago

Hi timothym906 , the issue may be environment-specific. However, please see if this KB article helps: community.appian.com/.../kb-1097-illegal-attempt-to-change-the-data-type-for-smart-service-x-x-x-input-or-output-named-name-error-thrown-during-plugin-deployment.

Additionally, you may want to post in Discussions as your question will have the most visibility there!
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timothym906 over 6 years ago

Hello,

We received the following error trying to deploy the latest version of PDFTools in Appian 18.2. Any help is appreciated.

12:56:32,037 INFO [stdout] (Appian Plugin Hot Deploy) 2018-08-02 12:56:32,037 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO com.appiancorp.process.admin.LoadACSchemas - Attempted to skip registration of [com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.MergePDF] as it is current [2.1.0], but the ActivityClassSchema was not registered, so re-registering

12:56:32,063 INFO [stdout] (Appian Plugin Hot Deploy) 2018-08-02 12:56:32,063 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] INFO com.appiancorp.process.admin.LoadACSchemas - Attempted to skip registration of [com.appiancorp.ps.pdftools.ExtractPDFPages] as it is current [2.1.0], but the ActivityClassSchema was not registered, so re-registering

12:56:32,089 INFO [stdout] (Appian Plugin Hot Deploy) 2018-08-02 12:56:32,089 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager - There was an error loading the descriptor 'Fill PDF' of plugin 'pdftools'. Disabling.

12:56:32,093 INFO [stdout] (Appian Plugin Hot Deploy) com.atlassian.plugin.PluginException: com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: com.appiancorp.process.admin.IncompatibleSmartServiceRegistrationException: The Smart Service Module was invalid: Illegal attempt to change the data type for smart service pdftools.FillPDF, input or output named PdfFields (APNX-1-4104-005)
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eshbeata over 6 years ago

Hello

FillPDF doesnt support Unicode Arabic .

Thanks
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