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Automatic PDF generation

smcardle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:25:00 GMT

Hi.Using actions can I perform the following use case:Create 2 spaces for the same directory. Space 1 = read/write - This is the space that users will created and modify documents in, for example word and open office. These are versioned with extraction of metadata etc.Space 2 = read only - this poi

Re: Automatic PDF generation

zaizi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:30:33 GMT

This is possible. But you are going to have to write a bit of java code. Creating the PDFs before is the best option. Otherwise they'll have to be generated on the fly as users of space 2 request to download them. This will have a performance issue, depending on the number of users and the size of the documents.

Re: Automatic PDF generation

smcardle — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:31:29 GMT

Hi Zaizi.

Actually, this should not cause a performance problem at all. The PDF files should be generated when the first user tries to download it and then it would be cached for dowload by space 2 users. The PDF files do NOT require to be generated for every user and will only be generated the first time they are downloaded….

So guys, any ideas on how I do this with Alfresco?

Regards

Steve

Re: Automatic PDF generation

smcardle — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:43:19 GMT

Bump

Surely somebody must know the best way to do this?

Steve