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 2008.

  • Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 to convert DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, VSD, MPP, XPS (Windows only), and PUB (Windows only)

  • Autodesk AutoCAD DWF and DWG (English only)

    Note: The Generate PDF service does not support conversion for DWF and DWG files created with AutoCAD 2013.

  • OpenOffice 3.3 to convert ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, ODF, SXW, SXI, SXC, SXD, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, and PPTX. ( Windows, Linux, and Solaris only)

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

  • Adobe FrameMaker® 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

Note: LiveCycle supports only 32-bit editions of the above mentioned software.

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-1b and PDF/A-1a that use only the DeviceRGB color space

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

  • DOCX

  • XLSX

  • PPTX

Note: The PDF conversion of FM, PMD, PM6, P65, PM, DWG, MPP, SWF, XPS, FLV, VSD, WordPerfect documents, and Microsoft Office documents (DOC, XLS, PPT, WPD, MPP, RTF, TXT) is possible only if Acrobat XI Pro is installed.

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

  • Install required native applications on the computer hosting LiveCycle

  • Install Adobe Acrobat XI Pro on the computer hosting LiveCycle

  • Perform post-installation setup tasks

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

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