Enabling Document Conversion Services

Document Conversion Services are used when working with the Common Mail Portlet, WCM authoring and previewing, and search.

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Document conversion is now supported on z/OS®.

Documents produced by many standard applications (such as word processors or spreadsheet editors) can be viewed as HTML pages using Document Conversion Services. Documents received as attachments to email can be viewed in the browser even if the application that created the document is not installed. Document Conversion Services also allows documents to be searched by content. Document pages can also be converted into an image format such as GIF, BMP, JPG or PNG.
  • Configuring Document Conversion Services
    Learn about how to configure the Document Conversion Services in WebSphere® Portal. A knowledge of these prerequisites steps can assist you in preventing, identifying, and correcting problems related to Document Conversion Services.
  • Supported platforms for document conversion services
    Some platforms support running the DCS locally while others don't. The following table lists the platforms and versions that support running the document conversion services. On platforms that don't support running the DCS locally, document conversion must be performed on a remote IBM® WebSphere Application Server that supports document conversion services.
  • Setting up file type definitions to enable Document Conversion Services.
    Set up file definition types to ensure that document conversions will work for Microsoft Office, Lotus® SmartSuite®, and OpenOffice file types.
  • Using Document Conversion Services with Stellent
    For Linux and Solaris, when using Stellent version 8.1.0 and later, the X-server dependency has been removed.
  • Configuring a remote Document Conversion Service
    To balance processing power, you can run document conversion services on a remote IBM WebSphere Application Server that supports document conversion services. Enabling the delegation of document conversion services to a remote server requires steps on both IBM WebSphere Portal and the remote server.
  • Files that can be viewed as HTML
    View a list of file types that are viewable as HTML.
  • Parent topic: Configuring