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Convert MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to PDF using JavaScript

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Package: Office Conversion

Convert an MS Office file to a PDF document without any external third-party dependencies in a browser. WebViewer already allows you to view Office documents. The below sample shows how to convert the Office document to a PDF, without initializing WebViewer UI. (You can also check out our MS Office to PDF demo now.)

Setup

  1. Install WebViewer by running npm i @pdftron/webviewer or download it here.
  2. Copy core folder from node_modules/@pdftron/webviewer/public/core (if you downloaded the SDK, you will find core folder in WebViewer/lib/) to a location that can serve static assets. For example, public folder in a React app.
  3. Reference webviewer-core.min.js script in index.html and create a JS function to perform the conversion.
1<html>
2  <body>
3    <script src="../core/webviewer-core.min.js"></script>
4    <script>
5    (async function() {
6      Core.setWorkerPath('../core');
7      const licenseKey = 'YOUR_LICENSE_KEY';
8      await Core.PDFNet.initialize(licenseKey);
9
10      // perform the conversion with no optional parameters
11      const buf = await Core.officeToPDFBuffer('/path/to/file.docx');
12
13      //optionally save the blob to a file or upload to a server
14      const blob = new Blob([buf], { type: 'application/pdf' });
15      
16      // As an example. you can save the file with the following code
17      // Create a temporary anchor element
18      const blobUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
19      const link = document.createElement("a");
20      link.href = blobUrl;
21      link.download = "my_file.pdf";
22      
23      // Trigger the download
24      link.click();
25      
26      // Clean up
27      document.body.removeChild(link);
28      URL.revokeObjectURL(blobUrl);
29
30    })()
31    </script>
32  </body>
33</html>

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Additional font resources

WebViewer will automatically use substitute fonts hosted on a web server when a font is not embedded in the source document. The fallback fonts are hosted with Apryse by default but if this is a concern, you can host the fonts on your own servers. See this FAQ for more details.

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