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Convert documents to display as PDF's when accessed through the web client?

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Updated August 14, 2018

asked on August 14, 2018

Hello,

We have a user wondering if there is a setting or an option in the Laserfiche API for converting documents to display in PDF format when called up via the web browser? They are looking to have TIF documents or other non-native document types converted to PDF on the fly when accessed via the web browser.

Do you know if this is possible or any workarounds to do this?

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replied on August 14, 2018

I'd say that trying to force LF to always generate PDF versions of TIFF documents on-the-fly is probably not the best idea. Generating a PDF is relatively resource-intensive and the larger a document is the longer it will take to generate meaning your users would be waiting for the document each time.

I think the big question is why do they want a PDF in the first place? If they have that strong a need for the PDF copy, then it would make a lot more sense to pre-generate the PDF and have it ready to go rather than adding the overhead at the point where the user views a document.

I don't think it is really possible to automatically generate them on-the-fly without custom solutions, but the web interface should already have a way for them to request a PDF.

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replied on August 14, 2018

Hi Aharon,

Can you talk more about what the goal is of converting the documents to PDF? The web client will display both TIFFs and PDF formats, but if you've already got them as TIFFs what's the goal of converting them?

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