How to Convert ODP to PDF using Node.js

Just like PowerPoint files, Open Document Presentation (ODP) files look great when they’re stored in PDF format. Plus — making this conversion ensures unwanted edits can’t be made to the original file.

Using the ready-to-run code below, we can easily equip our applications with a free API designed to convert ODP files into PDF format. This service processes files quickly in-memory (zero data retention) to main a high degree of security, and it can be used up to 800 times per month with no additional commitments when authorized with a free-tier API key.

We first need to install the SDK. We can do so in one of two ways — either by running the below command:

npm install cloudmersive-convert-api-client --save

Or by adding this snippet to our package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-convert-api-client": "^2.6.3"
  }

After that, we can include the below examples in our file to structure our request & return our converted file content:

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;

// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';



var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ConvertDocumentApi();

var inputFile = Buffer.from(fs.readFileSync("C:\\temp\\inputfile").buffer); // File | Input file to perform the operation on.


var callback = function(error, data, response) {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error);
  } else {
    console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
  }
};
apiInstance.convertDocumentOdpToPdf(inputFile, callback);

That’s all there is to it — no more code required!