Overview of the Creo View Adapter for PDF
The
Creo View Adapter for PDF is a Windows-based product for converting Microsoft Office documents to PDF viewables for
Creo View. By default, this uses Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to convert documents to the PDF format. Set the
Use Office for PDF recipe option to
Enable Office Publishing to use the adapter’s Microsoft Office installation to create the PDF instead of AEM. You can select this option on the > tab of the Adapter for PDF recipe editor (see
Miscellaneous Advanced Settings for PDF Conversion.)
The conversion process is generally referred to as publishing. The properties of the published PDF are synchronized with the document’s properties in Windchill. The Creo View Adapter for PDF must first be configured using the doc2pv_config tool.
Publishing is accomplished in one of two ways:
• Run the adapter in the background to convert documents as needed, without direct user intervention. This is called server controlled publishing. This method is described in
docworker Server Controlled Publishing.
The interactive publishing method is not available for the Creo View Adapter for PDF.
In publishing, recipe configuration provides the administrator with complete control of the conversion process. See
Introduction to Recipe Editing for Converting CAD Data for an overview of the recipe concept.