topic Transformation from PCL to PDF in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/transformation-from-pcl-to-pdf/m-p/30663#M15749 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi I am trying to deploy a transformator to convert PCL format files to PDF in the new version 1.3 of alfresco. Therefore I created all my custome files in my tomcat/shared/extension.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I run debug the application, it seems it executing my transformation correctly.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But just after the custom execution, I get this exception:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>16:58:45,922 ERROR [content.transform.AbstractContentTransformer] Content writer not closed by transformer: <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; writer: ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2006/6/12/16/f0dee67e-fa23-11da-aec2-b965a7a2b11e.bin, mimetype=text/plain, size=0, encoding=UTF-8]<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; transformer: PdfBoxContentTransformer[ average=10000ms]<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>My rule says to transform whatever input files with a mimetype PCL to a PDF, so I don't see why the generic PdfBoxContentTransformer get invoked whereas this one only transforms&nbsp; text to PDF!!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Here are my custom files:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>mimetype-custom-extensions.xml</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;alfresco-config area="mimetype-map"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Mimetype Map"&gt; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;mimetypes&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;mimetype mimetype="application/vnd.hp-pcl" display="PCL"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;extension default="true"&gt;pcl&lt;/extension&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/mimetype&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/mimetypes&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/config&gt;<BR />&lt;/alfresco-config&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>transformers-custom-context.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' '<A href="http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd</A>'&gt;<BR /> <BR />&lt;beans&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="transformer.pcl2pdf" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer" parent="baseContentTransformer"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="explicitTransformations"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ContentTransformerRegistry$TransformationKey" &gt;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;constructor-arg&gt;&lt;value&gt;application/vnd.hp-pcl&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/constructor-arg&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;constructor-arg&gt;&lt;value&gt;application/pdf&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/constructor-arg&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="checkCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key=".*"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;pcl2pdf32.exe&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="errorCodes"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;value&gt;2&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transformCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;property name="errorCodes"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;value&gt;2&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="Linux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;pcl2pdf32.exe '${target}''${source}'&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="Windows.*"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;pcl2pdf32.exe "${target}" "${source}"&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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Therefore I created all my custome files in my tomcat/shared/extension.When I run debug the application, it seems it executing my transformation correctly.But just after the custom executi Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:12:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/transformation-from-pcl-to-pdf/m-p/30663#M15749 domma 2006-06-12T15:12:55Z Re: Transformation from PCL to PDF https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/transformation-from-pcl-to-pdf/m-p/30664#M15750 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, Manuela</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What you are seeing is bug </SPAN><A href="http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-457" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-457</A><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In actual fact, the problem is that the PDF document could not be transformed to text for indexing purposes.&nbsp; There might be some incompatibility between the PDF generated and what PDFBox can read.&nbsp; The way to check this is to perform a few conversions using the custom transformer that you can and then to search for "nitf" (Not Indexed Transformation Failed) in the UI.&nbsp; You should see the converted documents show up in the search.&nbsp; So, the problem is really that the converted documents cannot be indexed.&nbsp; This will not prevent the documents from being stored in the repository.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you have a tool to convert PDF to Text, then you might try a similar approach with that.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:27:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/transformation-from-pcl-to-pdf/m-p/30664#M15750 derek 2006-06-12T17:27:55Z