Converting Between File Formats and PDF

About the Generate PDF Service

The Generate PDF service converts native file formats to PDF. It also converts PDF to other file formats and optimizes the size of PDF documents.

The Generate PDF service uses native applications to convert the following file formats to PDF. Unless otherwise indicated, only the German, French, English, and Japanese versions of these applications are supported. Windows only indicates support for only Windows Server® 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

• Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 to convert DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, VSD, MPP, MPPX, XPS, and PUB (Windows only)

  Note: Acrobat® 9.2 or later is required to convert Microsoft XPS format to PDF.

• Autodesk AutoCAD 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 to convert DWF, DWG, and DXW (English only)

• Corel WordPerfect 12 and X4 to convert WPD, QPW, SHW (English only)

• OpenOffice 2.0, 2.4, 3.0.1, and 3.1 to convert ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, ODF, SXW, SXI, SXC, SXD, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, VSD, MPP, MPPX, and PUB

  Note: The Generate PDF service does not support the 64-bit versions of OpenOffice.

• Adobe Photoshop® CS2 to convert PSD (Windows only)

  Note: Photoshop CS3 and CS4 are not supported because they do not support Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008.

• Adobe FrameMaker® 7.2 and 8 to convert FM (Windows only)

• Adobe PageMaker® 7.0 to convert PMD, PM6, P65, and PM (Windows only)

• Native formats supported by third-party applications (requires development of setup files specific for the application) (Windows only)

The Generate PDF service converts the following standards-based file formats to PDF.

• Video formats: SWF, FLV (Windows only)

• Image formats: JPEG, JPG, JP2, J2Kí, JPC, J2C, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, PNG, JPF

• HTML (Windows, Sun™ Solaris™, and Linux®)

The Generate PDF service converts PDF to the following file formats (Windows only):

• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

• HTML 3.2

• HTML 4.01 with CSS 1.0

• DOC (Microsoft Word format)

• RTF

• Text (both accessible and plain)

• XML

• PDF/A-1a that uses only the DeviceRGB color space

• PDF/A-1b that uses only the DeviceRGB color space

• PDF/E-1 that uses only the DeviceRGB color space

The Generate PDF service requires that you perform these administrative tasks:

• Install required native applications on the computer hosting LiveCycle

• Install Adobe Acrobat Professional or Acrobat Pro Extended 9.2 on the computer hosting LiveCycle

• Perform post-installation setup tasks

These tasks are described in Installing and Deploying LiveCycle ES3 Using JBoss Turnkey.

You can accomplish these tasks using the Generate PDF service:

• Convert from native file formats to PDF.

• Convert HTML documents to PDF documents.

• Convert PDF documents to file formats.