Rendering Line Breaks in PDF

danhn over 7 years ago

Hi All,
I am using the PDF from DOCX custom plugin to convert a generated word file into a pdf. The contents of the word file are a series of text that contains line breaks between them. When the pdf file is generated, the line breaks are not properly carry over. Is there any kind of delimiters or notations that i can includes in the text so that line breaks can render properly when displaying as a pdf. So far, i have tried replacing the line breaks with <br />, <w:br />, \
, \\r, \\r\
without any luck. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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0 aloks0189
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over 7 years ago

@danhn we also have faced a similar type of issue where a word contain grid type table format data along with normal content, but when we generate it as PDF in Appian , the table format data gets skipped but remaining all contents used to as usual. But the same word file if I convert online, that was good, containing all informations including grid table form data. No breakthrough so far
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0 normanc over 7 years ago

Try joinarray(split(text, separator), "</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:r><w:t>") when generating the Word document.
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0 danhn over 7 years ago

@normanc, thank you so much Norman, your OOXML syntax does the trick. @aloks176 as Norman suggested, turn out the formating is able to render properly when enclosed with OOXML syntax. I think for your case it might be useful to look into creating the table using OOXML before the word to pdf conversion
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0 ghanashyamm0005
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10 months ago in reply to normanc

Could you please explain more on the function. What is the need of joinarray function here. What shall I pass in text and separator arguments in split function?
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0 Harshit Bumb (Appyzie)
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10 months ago in reply to ghanashyamm0005

I think text has to be the text of the doc file and the separator has to be " <br />". Join array function will construct a single string and will add "</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:r><w:t>" between the various elements of the array to make it a single string.
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