Docx to PDF images and styles lost

[shedh]

Hi,

Using the following code the temp file has images and the styles but once converted to pdf images and styles are lost

$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$rendererLibraryPath = '../composer/vendor/tecnickcom/tcpdf';
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setPdfRendererPath($rendererLibraryPath);
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setPdfRendererName('TCPDF');
$templateProcessor = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\TemplateProcessor('./docs/PurchaseOrderTemplate.docx');
$templateProcessor->setImageValue('logo', './docs/sigtext.png');
$templateProcessor->saveAs('./docs/temp/temp2.docx');

$temp = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load('./docs/temp/temp2.docx');

$xmlWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($temp , 'PDF');
$xmlWriter->save('./docs/results/sampledocument.pdf', TRUE);

[geoffwasham]

I am also experiencing this issue. I started using PHPWord specifically because the documentation indicated I could use it to hydrate Word docs and then convert them to PDF.

Please update/comment as to the status of this feature.

[gpstiip88]

@geoffwasham try use unoconv to convert docx to pdf.
I'm using phpword to parse template and the results seems nice, but can't convert to pdf.

[geoffwasham]

@gpstiip88 Thanks for the suggestion. I've looked into that one, just not a good fit for my web server.

Would love to hear a response from PhpOffice/PhpWord developers.

[m1stermanager]

also experiencing this issue. absolutely cannot/will not run word on my servers for something like unoconv to work. not awesome that this is the "standard" php word/office lib?

[AlanHdz]

also experiencing this issue, any updates?

[m1stermanager]

our solution was to make sure that openoffice was available to the app, write the docx, convert to pdf, do whatever w/ the pdf bytes, cleanup temp docx and pdf

(so not using this particular library... which I'm sure is great for other things)