The Generate PDF service’s CreatePDF2 operation can use
OpenOffice to convert many types of native file formats to PDF.
It supports these OpenOffice file formats: ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, ODF,
SXW, SXI, SXC, SXD. To support fallback conversion using Microsoft
Office file formats, this service also converts these types of files:
BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPF, JPX, JP2, J2K, J2C, JPC,
HTML, HTM, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, WPD, PSD.
File type settings specify how each supported file format is
converted to PDF. The conversion settings used with OpenOffice are
not as specific as settings used with Microsoft Office. Here are
examples of the OpenOffice settings:
Lossless compression
Tagged PDF
Use transition effects
The file type settings can also specify that PDFMaker for Microsoft
Word is used as a fallback converter. If the Generate PDF service
cannot successfully convert the file using OpenOffice, it converts
it using PDFMaker for Microsoft Word.
The Generate PDF service can use multiple instances of OpenOffice
to convert files. This is called multi-threaded conversion. Compared
to using a single instance of OpenOffice, multi-threaded conversion
can significantly increase the rate at which this service converts
OpenOffice files. Support for multi-threaded conversion using OpenOffice
requires post-installation setup tasks described in Installing and Deploying LiveCycle Using
JBoss Turnkey.
Support for fallback conversion is available even when multi-threaded conversion
is enabled.
