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This page is for administrators who want to enable PhixFlow to convert Excel files to PDFs when exporting from analysis models.
Overview
When creating analysis models, data modellers can configure a file exporter to export data from PhixFlow in several different formats, such as
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CSV or Excel. For Excel files, there
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is also an option to convert the file
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into a PDF
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document:
- Convert To PDF
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For information about
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this option, see File Exporter.
Configuration
PhixFlow uses LibreOffice libraries to convert an Excel file into a PDF.
To
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enable PDF conversion conversion in PhixFlow:
1. Install LibreOffice: Install LibreOffice
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- system's CLASSPATH environment variable
- common class loader in catalina.properties, which is part of the Tomcat configuration.
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2. Edit the file $TOMCAT/conf/catalina.properties:
Find the line which starts common.loader= and add the path to the LibreOffice Program folder at the end of that line so that the line looks something like:
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common.loader="${catalina.base}/lib","${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar","${catalina.home}/lib","${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar","C:/Program Files/LibreOffice/program" |