Document To PDF

In today's digital age, we often come across various types of documents that we need to share or store electronically. One of the most popular file formats for sharing and preserving documents is PDF (Portable Document Format). In this guide, we will explore how to convert a document to PDF, ensuring that your files are easily accessible and maintain their formatting across different devices and platforms. Here are the step by step process -

Supporting this Module

This module depends on the following, so install the modules using composer.

1. "phpoffice/phpword"
2. "phpoffice/phpspreadsheet"
3. "setasign/fpdi"
4. "mpdf/mpdf"
5. "tmitry/xmlreader-extension"

Installation

Install the module using composer - "composer require drupal/document_to_pdf"

Post-Installation

1. Installing the module will create an admin form in the configuration page. This will have a list of Content Types present in the site.
2. Check the Content Types in which you want to attach field_document_to_pdf field and submit the form.
3. Traverse to the content types and enable the field in Managed Display & Managed Form Display. Also change the Label if required.
4. Add nodes for those selected content types.
5. Any document of mime/type txt,docx and xlsx uploaded in field_document_to_pdf will be converted to pdf after node submit.

Additional Development

Will continue working on the conversion of pptx files to PDF.