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ramakg
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over 7 years ago
I want convert uploaded doc/dox document to pdf. I am using PDF from DOCX smart service but the format is not retaining. Can you please suggest is there any other smart service available?
Thanks in advance.
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abhinavg712
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over 7 years ago
Please have a look at
forum.appian.com/.../summary
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ramakg
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over 7 years ago
abhinavg712 , I am referring "PDF from DOCX" from above link.
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abhinavg712
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over 7 years ago
@ Ramakg, as the plugin description says " Please note that the translation from DOCX to PDF is not always 1:1. The template may need to be tweaked or simplified to achieve the desired results."
Or you can think of building an utility using either using Apache POI ior iText to achieve the desired the result. Let's see what other practitioners says.
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mathieud
over 7 years ago
It is one of the caveats of the open source based plugins (because of the underlying libraries they rely on). Commercial libraries offer better fidelity for .docx to pdf conversion. If you are on-premise, you could create a plugin based on one of these libraries. If you are on the cloud I would suggest you use an web service API such as
www.aspose.com/.../cloud
since it is against policy to create plugins based on commercial libraries (see
forum.appian.com/.../Shared_Components.html)
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