Outside In Technology is used by Inbound Refinery, PDF Export, and XML Converter.

When running on Windows, Inbound Refinery can use several third-party applications to create PDF files of content items. In most cases, a third‐party application that can open and print the file is used to print the file to PostScript, and then the PostScript file is converted to PDF using the configured PostScript distiller engine. In some cases, Inbound Refinery can use a third-party application to convert a file directly to PDF.

The Convert to PDF using third-party applications option is selected on the Primary Web-Viewable Rendition page. When using this option, Inbound Refinery requires the following:

• A PostScript distiller engine.

• A PostScript printer.

• The third‐party applications used during the conversion.

• WinNativeConverter component installed and enabled on the refinery server.

The following table lists the common file formats that can be converted to PDF using third‐party applications on Windows. Please note the following important considerations:

• Third‐party applications used in conversions, a PostScript distiller engine, and a PostScript printer are not provided with Inbound Refinery. You must obtain all third‐party applications required for the conversions you want to perform, as well as a PostScript distiller engine and a PostScript printer of your choice.

• All third-party applications necessary to convert a file must be installed on the Inbound Refinery computer.

• Only the listed common file formats are supported for conversion. Conversion of additional file formats might be possible, however, the results cannot be guaranteed.

• Only the listed versions of each third-party application are supported for use with Inbound Refinery. Conversion using other versions of the third-party applications might be possible, however, the results cannot be guaranteed.

• Only conversion of listed file formats using the listed third-party applications is supported. Conversion of some file formats using an alternate third-party application might be possible (for example, conversion of Corel WordPerfect files using Microsoft Word), however, the results cannot be guaranteed.

• All listed file formats are supported for conversion to PDF, however, Outside In Image Export cannot create thumbnails from all of these native file formats. To ensure that thumbnails are created for all file formats, clear the Create Thumbnail Image from the Native Vault File check box on the Inbound Refinery Thumbnail Options page. When files are converted by Inbound Refinery and this check box is cleared, Outside In Image Export will create thumbnails from the generated web‐viewable PDF files (instead of the native files), and therefore should be able to produce thumbnails for all files.

  Common file formats that can be converted to PDF on a Windows Platform	Supported 3rd-party applications for conversion
  Adobe FrameMaker (see *below) .fm .mif	Adobe FrameMaker 7.0
  Adobe InDesign .indd .indt	Adobe InDesign CS2
  Adobe PageMaker .pm# .pt# .p65	Adobe InDesign CS2
  Adobe Photoshop .psd .eps	Adobe Photoshop CS2 (see **below)
  Corel WordPerfect .wp .wp# .wpd	Corel WordPerfect 11
  Microsoft Excel .xls .xlt .xlw .xlsx	Microsoft Excel (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft PowerPoint .ppt .pot .pps .ppa .pptx	Microsoft PowerPoint (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Project .mpp	Microsoft Project (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Publisher .pub	Microsoft Publisher (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Snapshot .snp	Microsoft Snapshot (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Visio .vsd .vst .vdx .vtx	Microsoft Visio (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Word .doc .dot .docx .dotx	Microsoft Word (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Microsoft Write .wri	Microsoft Word (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  QuarkXPress .qxd .qxt	Adobe InDesign CS2
  Rich Text Format .rtf	Microsoft Word (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010
  Text .txt	Microsoft Word (Office) 2003, 2007, 2010

* Adobe FrameMaker+SGML is not supported. Adobe FrameMaker .book files are not supported.

** Adobe Photoshop CS2 requires manual configuration.