I would suspect that the GUID being passed back is the XML GUID instead of the 
PDF GUID. I definitely get back a working PDF when I asked for it using the 
OMP interface in OpenVAS 8.

Matthew.

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 08:45:54AM +0000, Christiaan De Vries wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I have all the dependencies installed, but even then when I select PDF as 
> output, it still generates an XML file...
> 
> I now convert that file to PDF on the command line using one of the generate 
> scripts.
> 
> In short, no problem for me anymore.. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Christiaan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hall [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 3:34 AM
> To: Christiaan De Vries <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] FW: Generate PDF using 'report' file...
> 
> You can get XML, HTML, or PDF, all from the open-source version even with 
> OpenVAS8.
> 
> I've been doing it for several months and it works fine if you have the TeX 
> dependencies needed.
> 
> As discussed, through OpenVAS's own official interface, you can't re-convert 
> the already exported XML to PDF over again, but somebody else from Greenbone 
> I think already replied how to do it manually using the XSLT and some other 
> tools.
> 
> So I don't understand, what is still a problem now and what's been fixed?
> 
> Matthew.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:34:37AM +0000, Christiaan De Vries wrote:
> > Hi Eero,
> > 
> > As per the original message, I had selected PDF as the format, not XML???
> > 
> > With regards to commercial tools, always interested.. would you be able to 
> > send me some information on that?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Christiaan
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