Output MS Office files to PDF

I am having trouble downloading multi-page PPT files into a PDF. I have created a new task with a flattener transformer followed by a PDF encoder primitive.

All I keep getting is the first page of the PPT in the PDF. There must be a way to get all the powerpoint pages into a pdf.

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nbwoven

From what I remember for MB-4.5.2 and below the PDF encoder could only handle one-page-documents (ppt,doc). What MB version are you running ?

Bill Klish

we are running 4.5.3 on windows 2003 EE SP1

and the one page that is created looks terrible

nbwoven

Try doing this without the "flattener transformer" which obviously in your case is merging the multiple layers(slides) into one(slide/page) right now .

Only If you want your users to be able to retrieve an asset that contains multiple layers as PDF files is there a need to create a task that includes the Flattener and PDF Encoder .

The PDF encoder only supports single layered assets. The output file will be a PDF document with just the first layer (frame/page) of the asset.

Thats exactly what you are getting right now Smiley Happy

lyman

I am afraid that what you get in this scenario is a PDF of a picture of a PPT. The PowerPoint is rendered to a (relatively low res) bitmap and then that is transformed into a JPEG and then wrapped as a PDF. Hence the quality issues. To be honest, even that picture could have been at higher resolution except that its aim was to produce a 512x512 thumbnail so extra resolution appeared excessive.

However true MS Office --> PDF capabilitie are in MediaBin 4.6!

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd

Bill Klish

Great news. We will upgrade as we need this functionality. Are we still looking at around 5/15 for that? I want to plan things out as we are getting close to user acceptance testing.

Rob76

Is it possible to install this functionality without upgrading to 4.6? Currently we are on 4.5.3. Would it be as simple as registering the .dll primitive if we took it from a 4.6 install?

Thanks

lyman

No. The primitive that handles Office-->PDF is 4.6 (or preferably 4.6.1!) only.

Cheers,

Lyman