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Convert documents to PDF
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chevron_rightView a document
chevron_rightOption 1: from local device storage
chevron_rightOption 2: from content uri
Conversion requires full version of PDFTron library. See PDFTron full or standard?
If you are already using any of DocumentActivity or PdfViewCtrlTabHostFragment, you will not need to go through this article as viewing of other document types is already taken care of internally. Continue reading this article if you are not planning to use any of the above.
Saving annotations back to non-PDF formats is not supported. You can instead save the annotated PDFDoc to a PDF file.
PDFViewCtrl has a powerful and seamless conversion system which allows you to stream documents during conversion to PDF. It supports the following file types:
- Office file conversion: .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .doc. (with the office conversion Add-On module)
- Image conversion: .bmp, .jpg, .tif, .png, .gif
- Image collections (zip archives with any type of image listed above)
- Markdown: .md
In this tutorial you will be able to display a non-PDF file in PDFViewCtrl.
Before going forward, please make sure you have finished setting up PDFViewCtrl as described in Using PDFViewCtrl.
linkView a document
The easiest way to display a non-PDF file in PDFViewCtrl is through the PDFViewCtrl.openNonPDFUri API.
linkOption 1: from local device storage
To access device storage, add the following permissions to AndroidManifest.xml file in the <manifest> tag (outside of the <application> tag):
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />Then add the following when you would like to show the document, typically onCreate or onResume of your Activity or Fragment:
linkOption 2: from content uri
Add the following when you would like to show the document, typically onCreate or onResume of your Activity or Fragment:
To monitor the conversion event, do:
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