To whom it may concern:

We are a Java shop that wants to convert aspose.words documents to PDF documents.  Do you have an eta for the availability of this feature?

Thank you,

Chris

 Hello Chris,

 

Thanks for considering Aspose.

 

I am afraid we might not be able to support the conversion of Word file into PDF using Aspose.Pdf for Java, in short time. We apologize for your inconvenience.

 

As a workaround, I would suggest you to wait for few months as Aspose.Words team is going to support this feature by the end of second quarter, of this year, but it’s not a promise. I think Aspose.Words team would be in better position to confirm the dates regarding the availability of this feature. For this reason I am moving this thread to Aspose.Words forum.

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Nayyer Shahbaz
Support Developer, Aspose Sialkot Team
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Hi Chris

 

Thanks for your interest in Aspose.Words for java. Unfortunately, Aspose.Words for java does not support PDF format yet. This feature will be supported somewhere in the second half of this year. I will notify you as soon as this feature is available.

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

Is there an update on this, or traction? We're using Aspose.Words in Java, and have needed this for a while now.

Hi Chris,

 

Thanks for your request. There is no news regarding this issue. The estimate is the same – the second half of this year, most likely the end of this year.

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

Do you have a schedule update for us regarding this feature? - I'm especially interested in PDF/A support for generating documents from word templates by mail-merge and publish them as PDF/A (unchangable and therefore revision-save). - Thank you in advance!

Hi

 

Thanks for your interest in Aspose.Words for java. Unfortunately, Aspose.Words for java does not support converting to PDF format yet. This feature is scheduled on the end of November; you will be notified as soon as it is available.

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

Thank you for your quick reply - does this mean PDF/A will be supported then as well?

Hi

 

Thanks for your inquiry. The same compliance options, which are currently supported in .NET version of Aspsoe.Words, will be supported in Java.

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/aspose.words.rendering.pdfcompliance.html

 

As you see currently only Pdf15 and PdfA1b compliance options are supported. Is Pdf/A-1b acceptable for you? Or do you need Pdf/A-1a compliance?

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

Great news! A-1b would be perfectly enough for our demands. So I'll be looking forward to the end of the year! :-)

Just one thing that came to my mind regarding this topic: Our customers heavily rely on conditional fields in word mail-merge templates. Currently, they have to press Strg+A to select everything and then press F9 to update conditional field contents after document retrieval from the web application.
We requested a timeframe for supporting this feature some two or three months ago or so and got the reply that this should be included until middle of next year at latest.
When I think about mail-merging word templates and saving them as PDF documents, it would be necessary to have automatic evaluation of conditional fields included as well, wouldn't it? - Is it possible for you to give a more concrete timeframe for that as well? - Thank you very much!

Kind regards,
Marcus

Hi Marcus,

 

Thanks for your request. Evaluation of conditional fields is also supported in .NET version of Aspose.Words. This feature will be supported in Java in one of upcoming releases.

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

I am also very interested in this functionality.  Your product does everything I need it to do but output in PDF format.  When will this be available?

Hi

 

Thanks for your inquiry. We are currently working on this feature. Conversion to PDF feature in Java is scheduled on the end of this year. You will be notified as soon as it is available.

 

Best regards,

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Andrey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

We are happy to inform you that the first auto-ported version of Aspose.Words for Java is ready. This version supports converting documents to PDF. You can get it from here.

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Best regards,
Aspose.Words team

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