This page is for administrators who want to enable PhixFlow to convert Excel files to PDFs when exporting from analysis models.

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When creating analysis models, data modellers can configure a file exporter to export data from PhixFlow in several different formats, such as CVS CSV or Excel. For Excel files, there are options is also an option to convert the file to into a PDF formatdocument:

• Convert To PDF PDF Target Path

For more information about these optionsthis option, see File Exporter.

Configuration

PhixFlow uses LibreOffice libraries to convert an Excel file into a PDF.

To configure enable PDF conversion conversion in PhixFlow:

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1. Install the latest minor version of LibreOffice Version

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2 on the PhixFlow server using the default settings.

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LibreOffice is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download

2. Edit the file $TOMCAT/conf/catalina.properties:

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• system's CLASSPATH environment variable
• common class loader in catalina.properties, which is part of the Tomcat configuration.

Monitoring

PhixFlow reports on the PDF convertion process in the system console PDF Chore tab.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:

common.loader="${catalina.base}/lib","${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar","${catalina.home}/lib","${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar","C:/Program Files/LibreOffice/program"