Avoiding Microsoft Office as a Dependency

If you’re converting Microsoft Office files into PDF only and you’re using the GdPicture converter, disable the relevant MS Office converter by commenting it out of the configuration of the conversion service. The options are:

MS Word — WordProcessing
MS Excel — SpreadSheets
MS PowerPoint — Presentations

When doing this, you don’t need to install Microsoft Office alongside the conversion service:

<!-- <add key="WordProcessing"
      description="Word Processing (e.g. MS-Word, RTF, TXT)"
      fidelity="Full"
      maxInstances="2"
      supportedExtensions="doc,docx,docm,dot,dotx,dotm,rtf,txt,wps,xml,odt,ott,mht,html,htm,wpd"
      supportedOutputFormats="xps,pdf,doc,docx,rtf,txt,html,mht,xml,odt"
      type="Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService.WordProcessorConverterFullFidelity,
            Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService, Version=1.0.1.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c9db4759c9eaad12" /> -->
...
<!-- <add key="SpreadSheets"
      description="Spreadsheets (e.g. Excel, CSV)"
      fidelity="Full"
      maxInstances="2"
      supportedExtensions="xls,xlsx,xlsm,xlsb,xlt,xltx,xml,csv,dif,ods,ots,mht,html,htm"
      supportedOutputFormats="xps,pdf,xls,xlsx,csv,html,mht,xml,ods"
      type="Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService.SpreadSheetConverterFullFidelity,
            Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService, Version=1.0.1.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c9db4759c9eaad12" /> -->
...
<!-- <add key="Presentations"
      description="Presentations (e.g. PowerPoint)"
      fidelity="Full"
      maxInstances="1"
      supportedExtensions="ppt,pptx,pptm,xml,odp,otp,pps,ppsx,ppsm"
      supportedOutputFormats="xps,pdf,xml,ppt,pptx,odp,pps,ppsx,mht"
      type="Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService.PresentationConverterFullFidelity,
            Muhimbi.DocumentConverter.WebService, Version=1.0.1.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c9db4759c9eaad12" /> -->