PDF Tools Smart services

naveena113 over 7 years ago

Hi Jim/Team

We have been using the PDF tools smart services in our application & were converting a DOCX to standard PDF document, what we've noticed is that
the PDF document doesn't retain the 'Table Of Contents' the links are just stored as static text with an underline.

Please let us know if anybody has used it & were able to retain the 'Table Of Contents' from a DOCX to PDF using this smart service.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Akkera

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Sanchita Gupta over 5 years ago in reply to Steven Miccile +1
Appian Employee

The documentation has been added to the AppMarket listing and will be included in the download.
April Schuppel over 4 years ago in reply to paulc919 +1
Appian Employee

Hi paulc919 , guadalupej0001 , The bug with PDF Tools has been fixed and it is available for download from the AppMarket. It will be available from the admin console after the next sync, which happens…

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0 aloks0189
Certified Lead Developer
over 7 years ago

@naveena113 i too have face the same issue, while converting docx to pdf everything gets appear but when it comes to Table of contents, it do not, i tried extracting the source code of this plugin and found that the code which is responsible to convert DOCX to PDF, it's most of the classes are already got Deprecated, that means this Smart Service do not contain updated source code, so may be in upcoming versions of API's (used by Smart Service) these Deprecated class support may get remove also.

so as per my understanding the only way through which we can achieve this is, building our own custom Smart Service, As i already did R&D on this, and was getting proper PDF similar as DOCX File in terms of java source code, so you can write your custom code and build a smart service, that may do your job.

Any other suggestions appreciated.
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0 aloks0189
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over 7 years ago

@naveena113 i too have face the same issue, while converting docx to pdf everything gets appear but when it comes to Table of contents, it do not, i tried extracting the source code of this plugin and found that the code which is responsible to convert DOCX to PDF, it's most of the classes are already got Deprecated, that means this Smart Service do not contain updated source code, so may be in upcoming versions of API's (used by Smart Service) these Deprecated class support may get remove also.

so as per my understanding the only way through which we can achieve this is, building our own custom Smart Service, As i already did R&D on this, and was getting proper PDF similar as DOCX File in terms of java source code, so you can write your custom code and build a smart service, that may do your job.

Any other suggestions appreciated.
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0 Soujanya B over 5 years ago in reply to aloks0189

Hi Alok,

I have a requirement to generate dynamic PDF from apian form data.Form data is storing at DB.

So I want to use create pdf from template smart service and generate the PDF as per the requirement.

My query is how to generate the pdf template ?

Can you assist in this.

Thanks

Soujanya
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0 ChristineH
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over 5 years ago in reply to Soujanya B

Here are some options

1. Out of the box - use the PDF Doc from Template. Get a PDF an in Adobe you can Prepare the form to add fields that will be scanned and can be populated through Appian

2. Plugin - https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/dynamic-document-generator You can create a docx (word doc) or html template with the ### markers that Appian can scan and populate

3. Plugin - https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools You can use a PDF and in Adobe, Prepare the form to add the fields, then flatten the document so that it can not be edited

Hope one of these works for you!
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0 swetar0001 over 5 years ago in reply to ChristineH

Hi,

I was trying to use the PDF Tools plugin. Downloaded the jar, but was not able to find a straight forward document where this is explained how to set it up. Can you please point me to some doc which has steps to use this plugin? My use case is to read the contents of a PDF.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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0 Steven Miccile
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over 5 years ago in reply to swetar0001

Looks like the documentation was lost at some point. Here it is. I will get it attached to the AppMarket.

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0 Sanchita Gupta
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over 5 years ago in reply to Steven Miccile

The documentation has been added to the AppMarket listing and will be included in the download.
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0 guadalupej0001
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over 4 years ago in reply to Sanchita Gupta

Hello I can't see the document it shows "Access Denied", do you know if there is anonther url?
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0 Mike Schmitt over 4 years ago in reply to Sanchita Gupta

I concur with the previous comment (attn: Sanchita Gupta ) -- the PDF tools link to the App Market is showing an Access Denied error, searching PDF tools in the app market now returns no matches, and it currently no longer appears in the Admin Console plug-ins deployment dialog (i.e. when searching "PDF").
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0 guadalupej0001
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over 4 years ago in reply to Steven Miccile

Hello Steven, do you know if the PDF Tools plugin exists? Because I can't find it in App Market and the link in your attachment doesn't work.
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0 paulc919 over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

I'd received an email last night to say that the PDF tools plug in is under review and has been removed from the AppMarket. This makes me wonder if there are issues with the Plug In and if we should stop using it ?!

https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools
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0 paulc919 over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

New version of PDF tools is now available
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