PDF Tools Smart services

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Vikki — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:10:32 GMT

Is there a documentation that has an actual example (maybe even a screenshot) of how to create the content with a pdfContent data type.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:51:55 GMT

Cool, thanks for the info.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

April Schuppel — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:31:38 GMT

The dev team removed the dependency on the itextpdf library that was used by the smart service CreateUnprotectedCopyPDF.java class

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:59:05 GMT

Great, thanks for the update - for the sake of judging whether we need to upgrade it in all of our environments, will there be any sort of summary about what the bugfix was or related to?

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

April Schuppel — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:53:20 GMT

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 twice per day.

https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/pdf-tools

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

paulc919 — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:52:38 GMT

New version of PDF tools is now available

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

paulc919 — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:26:05 GMT

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

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

guadalupej0001 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:15:39 GMT

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.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:13:23 GMT

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").

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

guadalupej0001 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:11:48 GMT

Hello I can't see the document it shows "Access Denied", do you know if there is anonther url?

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Sanchita Gupta — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:40:53 GMT

The documentation has been added to the AppMarket listing and will be included in the download.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Steven Miccile — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:32:59 GMT

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

community.appian.com/.../PDF-Tools.pdf

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

swetar0001 — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:06:42 GMT

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.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

ChristineLHutchison — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:23:49 GMT

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!

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

Soujanya B — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:12:03 GMT

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

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

aloks0189 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:42:14 GMT

@naveena113 Welcome

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

naveena113 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:36:59 GMT

Thanks Alok.

RE: PDF Tools Smart services

aloks0189 — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:05:26 GMT

@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.