Conversion plugin

Purpose of the conversion plugin

The Advanced and Premium licences of Javadocx include the conversion plugin. Its purpose is to convert document formats while keeping their content and visual style at the same time.

The main goal of the conversion plugin is to transform DOCX documents to PDF and HTML. However, it is also compatible with many other formats. This way you can work with the following document formats: DOCX, PDF, (X)HTML, DOC, ODT, PNG, RTF and TXT.

The conversion plugin is multi-platform and compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS. Once installed, it is as easy to use as executing this Java line of code:

$docx->transformDocument('document.docx', 'document.pdf');

Since the release of Javadocx 8, Advanced and Premium license includes native Java classes to transform DOCX to HTML:

$transformHTMLPlugin = new TransformDocAdvHTMLDefaultPlugin();

$transform = new TransformDocAdvHTML('document.docx');
$html = $transform->transform($transformHTMLPlugin);

Possible conversions

Thanks to the conversion plugin it is possible to perform the following conversions:

Source	Output
DOCX	PDF	(X)HTML	DOC	ODT	PNG	RTF	TXT
DOC	DOCX	PDF	(X)HTML	ODT	PNG	RTF	TXT
ODT	DOCX	PDF	(X)HTML	DOC	PNG	RTF	TXT
RTF	DOCX	PDF	(X)HTML	DOC	ODT	PNG	TXT

Due to format limitations, the PNG transformation only generates the first page of the document.

You can combine the conversion plugin with the embedHTML method to transform HTML to DOCX, and with TXT2DOCX to convert text files to DOCX.

This way, the Javadocx functionalities allow you to achieve almost any type of conversion.

Usual test cases

These are the most usual test cases when working with the Javadocx conversion plugin:

Generate DOCX files from scratch or from templates and convert them to PDF.
Create a WYSIWYG HTML editor with CKEditor (or any other editor), convert the resulting HTML to DOCX and finally transform it to PDF, DOC and so on.
Transform DOC, ODT and RTF files to DOCX to modify their contents with Javadocx.
Convert DOCX files to HTML and embed them in a WYSIWYG editor. This allows to edit it online, then converting it again to DOCX to lastly transform it to PDF, PNG, DOC and so on.
Convert DOCX files to PDF or PNG to preview it in browsers.

Additional features

Apart from the features of the conversion plugin explained so far, Javadocx adds support for the following options:

Generate PDFs in PDF/A-1 format
Automatic generation of the Table of Contents (TOC)
Default configuration for CKEditor
Options to improve the final output of the documents
Obtaining statistics of pages, images, tables...
Support to run MS Word on Windows servers to generate the documents

For more information

Please visit the conversion plugin documentation page.