Hello All,
I need an approach to save unstructured .doc file to .pdf extn. I know we have .docx to PDF. But I have .doc this to be converte to .pdf.
Its great if anyone help in suggesting approach for this.
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"doc" and "docx" are the same file format. Did you try that smart service?
What is the issue? Did you make a test with the smart service and it failed?
Yes it’s working fine for .docx not for .doc
If your Word documents are stored in the binary file format "Word 97-2003 Document", then that smart service will not work. It only works with the XML based document file formats.
I suggest to check the app market for plugins.
Why don't you use HTML to PDF?
Hello all,
We have the same issue: we cannot convert .doc files to PDF. Did you find a solution?
Thank you.
Stefan Helzle said:"doc" and "docx" are the same file format.
Yikes, this isn't true, and it's not even close.
".doc" is the (much) older, proprietary format; ".docx" is the open, XML / WordML based format (which is just a ZIP container containing plaintext human-readable XML files you can open and edit). A convertor that recognizes DOCX files wouldn't have the first clue how to deal with a .doc file. And if a document is actually docx but has been named with the .doc extension, that is a severe type mismatch.
What is the problem... do you receive an error when converting, or the document generated is incorrect?=
joaos8084 said:.doc
If you're referring to the old, closed, proprietary Microsoft Word ".doc" format that predated the open ".docx" format, then i'm not sure there is a built-in converter for Appian. There may be a plug-in that can handle them.
Yes, I was referring to that case. I will search for a plug-in. Maybe I can find one.