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barathseshadri
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7 years ago
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Dopbox API downloading xls file as pdf

I was looking at the dropbox API and I noticed that download doesn't take a file format to download as and getPreview doesn't convert .xls to .pdf , but does an html conversion. Is there another way to convert .xls to .pdf through the API even it involves multiple steps?

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    No, the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to get a PDF version of a .xls file, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

    That being the case, you'd need to download the original .xls file data (using the download method you mentioned, which always returns the raw data) and convert that to PDF in your app's code.

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    Greg-DB
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    7 years ago

    No, the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to get a PDF version of a .xls file, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

    That being the case, you'd need to download the original .xls file data (using the download method you mentioned, which always returns the raw data) and convert that to PDF in your app's code.

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