Quick Start: Converting a document to a PDF/A document using the web service API

The following C# code example converts a PDF document named Loan.pdf into a PDF/A document that is saved as a PDF file named LoanArchive.pdf. (See Converting Documents to PDF/A Documents.)

/*

 * Ensure that you create a .NET client assembly that uses 

 * base64 encoding. This is required to populate a BLOB 

 * object with data or retrieve data from a BLOB object.

 * 

 * For information, see "Invoking LiveCycle ES using Base64 Encoding" 

 * in Programming with LiveCycle ES

 */

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.IO;

namespace ConvertToPDFA

{

    class Class1

    {

        [STAThread]

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            try

            {

                //Create a DocConverterServiceService object

                DocConverterServiceService docConverterClient = new DocConverterServiceService();

                docConverterClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("administrator", "password");

                //Create a BLOB object

                BLOB inDoc = new BLOB();

                //Specify the PDF document to convert to PDF/A

                string path = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.pdf";

                FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);

                //Get the file stream length and create a byte array  

                int len = (int)fs.Length;

                byte[] ByteArray = new byte[len];

                //Populate the byte array with the contents of the FileStream object

                fs.Read(ByteArray, 0, len);

                inDoc.binaryData = ByteArray;

                //Create a PDFAConversionOptionSpec object and set 

                //tracking information	

                PDFAConversionOptionSpec spec = new PDFAConversionOptionSpec();

                spec.logLevel = "Fine";

                //Convert the PDF document to a PDF/A document

                PDFAConversionResult result = docConverterClient.toPDFA(inDoc, spec);

                //Save the PDF/A document

                BLOB outDoc = result.PDFADocument;

                //Populate a byte array with a BLOB data

                byte[] outByteArray = outDoc.binaryData;

                //Create a new file that represents the PDF/A document

                string FILE_NAME = "C:\\Adobe\\LoanArchive.pdf";

                FileStream fs2 = new FileStream(FILE_NAME, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

                //Create a BinaryWriter object

                BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

                w.Write(outByteArray);

                w.Close();

                fs2.Close();

            }

            catch (Exception ee)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(ee.Message);

            }

        }

    }

}

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