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Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

theorbix — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:24:14 GMT

Hello,I need to modify the behaviour of the PDF rendering of MS-Office documents.When defined in a Rule, the standard "Transform and copy content to a specific space" action does not work well when applied to subspaces (all documents converted in PDF will be saved in the SAME destination space, and

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

stevereiner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:41:28 GMT

Yes,

         
         var nodeTrans = docNode.transformDocument("application/pdf", parentNodeForTransform);
         if (nodeTrans != null)
         {
             nodeTrans.properties.content.mimetype = "application/pdf";
         }
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(Note you have to set the mimetype on the transform result!)
FlexSpaces does this transform in its integratedsemantics/transform/makePDF javascript webscript
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

theorbix — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:45:16 GMT

Thanks Steve for the hint!

Now, for the next question: do you know if it is possible to modify the behaviour of the PDF transformation, for instance to automatically add some security settings (disable printing, disable copy, etc.) to the resulting PDF file?

I know that this could also be done by using some external third party libraries for PDF manipulation, but perhaps there is an easier way by changing some settings that influence the transformDocument() method…

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

opoplawski — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:05:59 GMT

Did you every come up with an implementation of this? I'm looking for a transform that will convert to PDF in the current space what ever it it. This could then be an inherited rule defined only once.

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

theorbix — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:43:08 GMT

No, I didn't have the time to continue my investigations…

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

opoplawski — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:24:04 GMT

FlexSpaces does this transform in its integratedsemantics/transform/makePDF javascript webscript
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Steve

Now, I think I've downloaded everything there but still can't find the actual makePDF webscript. Pointers?

Thanks!

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

stevereiner — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:33:39 GMT

Its inside http://forge.alfresco.com/frs/download.php/494/webscripts-only.zip inside the integratedsemantics.zip

in the in the integratedsemantics/transform dir
makePDF.post.desc.xml ,
makePDF.post.js,
makePDF.post.xml.ftl

Re: Can the PDF converter be invoked via scripts?

opoplawski — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:52:11 GMT

Thanks, didn't expect the double zip.