Illustrated in the below image is a flow where a Word to PDF Writer step is used to convert a Word document to a PDF file. The Combine step is used to combine records into a single output. A Run File destination step to deliver an output file that can be downloaded.
Adding a Word to PDF Writer Step
To add a Word to PDF Writer step in a flow, follow the below instructions:
1. Click on the highlighted icon as shown in the below image.
2. The below page will appear. Select or search for a Writer step to pull out the source data. Click on the Writer tab and select Word to PDF as shown in the image below.
Configuring a Word to PDF Writer Step
Illustrated in the below image is the configuration that is available in the Word to PDF Writer step.
Input section – The object input to use. The options available to select are Previous, Record, Output, Result, and Original Record.
Previous - Automatically selects the input data source based on the previous step type. If the previous step is a destination, then the
resultwill get converted to a PDF; if the previous step was a writer, then theoutputwill be converted to PDFRecord - Returns the current processed record.
Output - Returns the flow’s output file.
Result - Returns the output of the file.
Original Record - Returns the original record.
Using a Word to PDF Writer Step
The image below shows the Word document to be converted.
The Run File step is shown below. The File Type has been selected as PDF.
Viewing the created PDF file
1. Click the Execute Flow button shown in the image below:
2. Click on the Choose File button to upload the Word document to be converted.
3. Click the Create Run button.
4. Once the run has completed successfully, click on the processed run and then click the download button on the Run File step to download the output file as highlighted in the image below.
The image below is an example of the Word file that was converted to a PDF file.
