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Matthew BirckbichlerMatthew Birckbichler 

Utilize Command Line Tools Within Apex?

I downloaded a command-line toolkit to my desktop to that has the capability to edit pdfs, which is something I need to do within salesforce. I was thinking that I either need to set up a server (which I know nothing about), or utilize the local machine command line somehow. Any thoughts on this? or am I on the wrong path?
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James LoghryJames Loghry
Matthew,

You cannot run command line tools in Apex itself.  What you could do however, is see if you can run it on a service like Heroku, and then expose it as an API that Salefsorce could call.  Otherwise, if you're editing PDFs, look for a javascript PDF library such as https://parall.ax/products/jspdf, that you could potentially use in a Visualforce solution.  Otherwise, you could also try utilizing your own custom solution using the getContentAsPDF method / renderAs="pdf" in Visualforce

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James LoghryJames Loghry
Matthew,

You cannot run command line tools in Apex itself.  What you could do however, is see if you can run it on a service like Heroku, and then expose it as an API that Salefsorce could call.  Otherwise, if you're editing PDFs, look for a javascript PDF library such as https://parall.ax/products/jspdf, that you could potentially use in a Visualforce solution.  Otherwise, you could also try utilizing your own custom solution using the getContentAsPDF method / renderAs="pdf" in Visualforce
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Matthew BirckbichlerMatthew Birckbichler
Thanks for the quick response James, the toolkit I am using simply came with a setup.exe and I've tested that it works through the command line on my machine.  I've never used anything like heroku, does this sound like something that will work?