We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

Eduardo Fuentes — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:09:10 GMT

If the main objective is to use PDF then PDF Tools, if you want it for Images the Image Utilities would be the example.

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

scotte — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 03:39:48 GMT

Are you familar with the smart server "PDF Tools"? It has a pdg merge, create pdf, etc. Do you think that one be a good service to download and try to modify to add rotation? Or are you recommending the "Image Utilities" may be best? Thanks!

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

scotte — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:53:59 GMT

Thanks!

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

Eduardo Fuentes — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:11:10 GMT

Assuming you want to use the rotation offered by the browser plug-in then they will have to rotate and save to their local computer and you will have to offer the possibility of uploading a new version of the document either in the same form or in the next form via File Upload Component; the node will bot pull it from her computer, the user will need to select Upload and provide the rotated file.

In the approach of building your own plug-in I was thinking more about:

1. Show the original PDF
2. Show a dropdown with standard rotation options (e.g. 90`, 180`, etc)
3. The user selects one option from the dropdown and submits the form
4. Between the form 1 and the form 2 (which will display the final result) you place your custom plug-in which does the rotation

For images there's already a plug-in that does image manipulation such as crop, trim, square and resize meaning you could use the approach #2 I describe in 4 steps above to test this and then enahnce the plug-in to do rotation.

The plug-in is called Image Utilities (doesn't offer rotation but is a good example) forum.appian.com/.../summary

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

scotte — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:45:37 GMT

Thanks Eduardo! I want to confirm...and also ask a 2nd question. Even if the user could rotate the PDF within the browser/form they would have to save it to a folder, at that time it is not available to the current process. We would have to somehow retrieve it from another node and then display it in a new task/form? My second question is...what if this document was NOT a PDF but a jpg or TIF file. If we could rotate the file using javascript or CSS within the browser and then save it to a PV, then the saved PV/document would be available moving forward in the process? Thanks!

RE: We are using the custom shared components called PDF Tools custom nodes. One of

Eduardo Fuentes — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:35:17 GMT

The modifications that a user does in the browser to a PDF are done to the local copy of the file, they will need to re-upload unless you want to create your own custom smart service that allows for rotation so the end user can select from a predefined set of options to rotate and submit the form for your node to rotate the PDF and display in a second form the rotated file.