Hi…

We have a requirement for which we are looking at purchasing aspose words. A last step in our requirement is to convert the word documents to PDF formats. We were thinking about using aspose PDF to achieve the same. I read in one of the forums that the aspose PDF for Java does not support the ‘convert word to PDF feature’. I am sure that your clients might have asked for this feature, do you suggest any open source or third party java applications which support this feature.

We need to produce PDF documents, but as PDF document can not support these items

1) We need to support dynamic table row expansion. If a static PDF has table with 4 rows and the application needs to display more rows, we need a way to expand the table, so that we can display more rows.

2) If a static PDF has a text box with 10 rows and the application needs to display more or less number of rows, we need a way to expand the textbox or shrink the textbox.

We found out that your WORD solution is supporting it, that is why we go for WORD java solution. As long as we can lock or make the final WORD document read only, we do not need the WORD to PDF conversion, so that end user can’t manipulate the server generated WORD document.

Thanks
Senthil

Hi

Thanks for your inquiry. You can make document to be read-only using Aspose.Words java API. Please see the following link to learn more

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/com/aspose/words/document.html#protect(int)

Also here is code example:

doc.protect(ProtectionType.READ_ONLY);

doc.save("out.doc");

Hope this helps.

Best regards.