topic Use MS Office as PDF convertor in Alfresco Archive

Use MS Office as PDF convertor

simon — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:57:09 GMT

Hi again,This may sound as a strange question but is it possible to replace the OpenOffice text conversion engine by MS Office?Our company supports MS Office (as most companies probably) but doesn't support OpenOffice. Starting with Alfresco would mean even more work for the helpdesk and we are not

Re: Use MS Office as PDF convertor

kevinr — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:56:34 GMT

If you can implement a Java class that can call MSOffice for you then yes it's possible. All of the transformers in Alfresco are pluggable and new ones can be added:

The documentation to read is:

http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Content_Transformations

http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Adding_a_Mime_Type

http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide#Transformation_Mimetype

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Re: Use MS Office as PDF convertor

simon — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:30:03 GMT

We are running Alfresco on Linux so it will be even harder to get this working.

Tried some conversions from our MS Word company templates to PDF with the OpenOffice transformer and they failed horribly. Not an Alfresco problem, I know but why is there no PDF converter (unless Adobe distiller probably) around that can guarantee a 100% compatibility?!

So start implementing a Java class? Won't be easy… Other idea's, anyone?

Re: Use MS Office as PDF convertor

choon — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:16:28 GMT

I solved a similar problem through printing files to post script and going from there.
Hope that helps,
Dan