Is it possible to convert from MS office file formats using Apache PDFBox (the documentation isn't clear about this, and the javadoc seems to indicate no such capability exists), or would I need to do some tedious conversions with Apache POI?
The reason I'm asking is the answer to this StackOverflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10861227/convert-ms-office-to-pdf-in-java
I imagine I'll need to use Apache POI, but I wanted to clarify.
In order to do this conversion, you will need MS Office, or perhaps Google Drive. PDFBox does not convert from anything to PDF or vice versa -- it simply reads and writes PDF files. Apache POI will not do that type of conversion either -- it simply reads and writes MS Office files. Specifically, it does not render them. You could implement a rendering engine for each type of Office file yourself, but that would be a gargantuan task to say the least.
Take a look at https://angelozerr.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/how-to-convert-docxodt-to-pdfhtml-with-java/.
One of possible options it mentions is XWPFConverterPDFViaIText:
org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.pdf provides the DOCX 2 Pdf converter based on Apache POI XWPF and iText.
You can test this converter with the REST Converter service http://xdocreport-converter.opensagres.cloudbees.net/
