Convert Excel to PDF

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

sangeethaBabu98 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:11:52 GMT

yes

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

maheshg4310 — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:47:32 GMT

HI Sangeetha, is it working?

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:30:29 GMT

During the 22.3 webinar yesterday they mentioned a newer plug-in called PDFTron. The exciting thing with this is that it can display MS Office formats (word, excel, etc) on-form, and save PDF copies of them for you. Note the plug-in is paid, but a free version works (the generated document gets a "PDF Tron" watermark if you use the free version).

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

sangeethaBabu98 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:20:18 GMT

@vibhas7797

1. Read excel using readexcelsheetpaging function. this will return headers and data separately.

2. Create an html template , pass headers and data as input and generate an html document using "HTML Doc from Template" smartservice.

3. Pass this html doc to "HTML to Pdf" smart service.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

vibhas7797 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:52:29 GMT

Thanks will try.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

vibhas7797 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:52:05 GMT

Unfortunately not, user is uploading N number of documents with different extensions, and we would have to convert all of the into the PDF.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

Chris — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:38:18 GMT

Are you generating the document yourself? E.g., for scenarios such as when the file is generated it from the data source, you could look to generate it as an HTML dynamically instead and utilize the PDF from HTML service within the Dynamic Document Generator plugin.

Not sure if that will help your use case, just a thought.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:54:14 GMT

You can search for more third-party services like this but the idea was to do it outside Appian.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

vibhas7797 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:32:59 GMT

Mentioned API is not working as expected, few columns and text doesn't get fit to the PDF pages.

RE: Convert Excel to PDF

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 08:11:11 GMT

I am not sure if there is a direct way of achieving it as this topic has been hanging around for quite a long time, but there is a workaround for it.
You can generate your excel on Appian and then use a third-party service like https://pspdfkit.com/api/excel-to-pdf-api/ to convert your excel to PDF outside Appian.

There are a lot of other third-party services as well that you can choose from depending on the business data sensitivity.

Harshit Bumb