IBM® FileNet® Rendition Engine converts documents from various formats, such as those produced by Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to PDF and HTML formats. Multiple Rendition Engine servers can be configured to support large numbers of conversion requests.
The following diagram provides a detailed view of Rendition Engine architecture and its interaction with Content Platform Engine.
An application requests that a document be published by submitting a publish request through one of the FileNet P8 APIs. A publish request might create a copy of the document in a new folder, with new security attributes, or it might also transform the document content to another format (HTML or PDF). The publish request is queued in the Content Platform Engine server. The publishing background task dequeues the publish request and calls the appropriate publishing event handler. If a format conversion is a part of the publish request, then the handler sends the document to the Rendition Engine server to perform the necessary transformation.