There are a number of important notes to consider when installing the Document Transformation Engine in addition to the supported platforms.
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The standalone Document Transformation Engine requires the software components to be installed and available on the same machine.
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Only install the English versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft Office 2016 32 bit because other languages cause encoding issues resulting in unpredictable behavior.
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Although the engine must be configured in English, this has no impact on the transformation language used for documents.
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To enable the Document Transformation Engine to work with non-English documents you must install the desired Microsoft Office language pack of the language you want to work with.
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Microsoft Office (32-bit and 64-bit).
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Please be advised that the Alfresco Document Transformation Engine (DTE) uses Microsoft Office to automate the creation of high-fidelity renderings of Office document formats; as a result, it is your responsibility as a user of DTE to ensure that you have proper licensing arrangements in place with Microsoft to allow for such automation.
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The Document Transformation Engine does not work with Windows non-English regional settings.
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Make sure that the Windows print spooler service is running.
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GhostScript v8.64 and pdf2swf are no longer distributed along with Document Transformation Engine. Make sure you install both these tools manually.