docx4j 8.2.3 facilitates 3 distinct ways to convert Microsoft Word docx documents to PDF. There are also possibilities for converting pptx or xlsx to PDF.<\/p>\n
The three approaches:<\/p>\n
So which should you choose? The following table covers some of the things you might want to consider:<\/p>\n
| <\/th>\n | export-FO<\/th>\n | Microsoft Graph<\/th>\n | documents4j<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overview<\/td>\n | Conversion of docx to XSL FO, then uses Apache FOP to convert to PDF<\/td>\n | Uses Microsoft’s cloud<\/td>\n | Uses your Microsoft Office installation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fidelity<\/td>\n | Suitable for simple documents (text, tables, supported image types, header\/footers)<\/td>\n | 100% (Microsoft’s fidelity)<\/td>\n | 100% (Microsoft’s fidelity)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Suitability<\/td>\n | simple docx<\/td>\n | docx, pptx, xlsx<\/td>\n | docx, pptx, xlsx<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| License considerations<\/td>\n | ASL v2<\/td>\n | Refer applicable Microsoft cloud terms<\/td>\n | Refer Microsoft EULA governing your Office install (increasingly restricted with each release)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cost<\/td>\n | Free<\/td>\n | Microsoft cloud costs<\/td>\n | (Microsoft Office)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Confidentiality<\/td>\n | documents don’t leave your server<\/td>\n | documents go to Microsoft cloud<\/td>\n | documents need not leave your servers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Other advantages<\/td>\n | – Fast XSL FO\/PDF templating for high volume PDF creation – Open source, so can be extended<\/td>\n | – Microsoft encourages this approach – Microsoft cloud handles scalability<\/td>\n | – Can update a docx table of contents – Can convert RTF and binary .doc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Other disadvantages<\/td>\n | Two step (docx to XSL FO to PDF) processing is slower (except for XSL FO templating)<\/td>\n | – Dependency on 3rd party cloud – Currently can’t update docx table of contents vote to fix<\/a><\/td>\n | – Not supported by Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" docx4j 8.2.3 facilitates 3 distinct ways to convert Microsoft Word docx documents to PDF. There are also possibilities for converting pptx or xlsx to PDF. The three approaches: export-fo: the content is converted to XSL FO, and from there, to PDF (or any of the other formats supported by Apache FOP) documents4j: since 8.2.0, use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docx-to-pdf","category-microsoft-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |