Manual Procedures for PDF Printing setup:

- For PDF printing support a set of libraries have to be installed on the server in order to have it enabled in Maximo.
Note: If you are running Maximo in a Windows server, you can skip steps 1 and 2.

1) - Install all required libraries:
Root or Administrator access is needed.

We strongly advise to use a package management utility, such as apt-get or yum.
For a Red Hat linux environment, the required packages can be installed by running the following commands:

$ sudo yum install libjpeg
$ sudo yum install fontconfig
$ sudo yum install libX11
$ sudo yum install libXext
$ sudo yum install libXrender
$ sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
$ sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
$ sudo yum install libicu
$ sudo yum install libicu-devel

2) - After successfully completing step 1, you need to download and install the ICU tool https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/

3) - Install the HTML to PDF conversion tool.
The PDF Printing feature requires WKHtmlToPdf https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf
- Versions for other operating systems can be found at https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

4) - After the HTML to PDF conversion tool installation is done, you need to set up the following Maximo System Property: skd.pdf.converter.path
– Example on Windows: C:\PDF\wkhtmltopdf.exe
- Example on Linux: /PDF/wkhtmltopdf

- Once all the steps are completed, the 'Print to PDF' action shall be ready for use at the Graphical Scheduling and Graphical Scheduling Large Projects applications.

5) Update the "mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath" system property to point to the location where the PDF files will be generated. It can be any folder in the Maximo Server that Maximo would have permission to create files and folders without restrictions.

6) The system property "skd.pdf.export.baseurl" is optional and should be updated only in cases that the user has access to a specific/secure URL but Maximo should use a different base url to export the PDF Files.