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Save As PDF Through API
When I preview a document in my browser, I am able to click Workflows -> Save As -> PDF to convert the file to an appropriate extension (in this case, I am trying to convert a .tif file to a .pdf so ...
Unfortunately, this isn't available on the public Dropbox API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Is there any possible workaround for this? I have a large amount of .docx files uploaded daily to different folders and need to convert them all to pdf. Maybe there could be a hack for hitting the 'Save as' endpoint?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thang2000 The public Dropbox API doesn't offer this functionality, but from your description it sounds like the Dropbox automation feature may be helpful for you. You would set that up manually once per folder to have it then run automatically, without using the Dropbox API yourself.
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