Can we use PDFBox to convert microsoft formats like .doc, .docs, .ppt, .pptx, etc to PDF?
I am struggle finding some good solution with the same.
Their website doesnt have any proper answer to this.
I am struggle finding some good solution with the same.
Their website doesnt have any proper answer to this.
If you're comfortable with an external API for this, converting MS Office documents to PDF is as simple as:
curl -X POST --form "document=@$SOURCE" -H "Authorization: da.key=$API_KEY" https://documentalchemy.com/api/v1/document/-/rendition/pdf -o "$DEST"
If you're not comfortable with an external API for this, I think the conventional answer to your question is to use unoconv [1] which is simply a Python script that uses LibreOffice [2] or OpenOffice (formerly StarOffice) [3] to do the conversion.
[1] https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv
[2] https://www.libreoffice.org/
[3] http://www.openoffice.org/
You can also use Libre/OpenOffice directly for the conversion, but unoconv is geared toward having an always-on version of office running in the background that you use for the conversion, which is a significant performance boost relative to launching the app for every conversion.
unoconv is a little flaky, but works well in general (it's certainly a part of the DocumentAlchemy backend).
However by far the easiest for you might just be to use the Microsoft Office addin that allows you to print to PDF[1]
If you need to do this programmatically then you could use the LibreOffice command line tools for converting files[2]
[1] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Print-share-and-pro...
[2] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2641/convert-to-comm...
Where I work, we ended up paying for the commercial Aspose products. Example doc to pdf code: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsnet/How+to++Convert+...
Apache OpenOffice API used to be able to do this. Not sure about output quality. Also not sure if LibreOffice API too supports it.
You might also want to evaluate a commercial framework like Aspose [1] (not affiliated, I've just come across their marketing pieces)
[1]: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/slidesnet/Converting+Pres...
Windows 10 and OS X have built in PDF printers now.
Because the MS Office PDF integration is shit, when I get such PDFs in Preview on Mac OS X and then want to print it.