Quick Start: Converting a PostScript file to a PDF document using the web service API

The following C# .NET code example converts a PostScript file called Loan.ps to a PDF document called Loan.pdf. (See Converting PostScript to PDF 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 DistillerWSApp

{

	class DistillerTest

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			try

			{

				//Create a DistillerServiceService object

				DistillerServiceService ds = new DistillerServiceService();

				//Provide authentication credentials to the service

				ds.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(

					"administrator", 

					"password"

					);

				//Create a BLOB that represents the input PS file

				BLOB inDoc = new BLOB();

				//Get the input PS document

				string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.ps";

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

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

				int len = (int)fs.Length;

				byte[] byteArray = new byte[len];

				//Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream

				fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len);

				//Populate the BLOB object

				inDoc.binaryData = byteArray;

				//Specify the PDF and security settings

				String adobePDFSettings = "Standard";

				String securitySettings = "No Security";

				//Send the conversion request to the Distiller Service

				mapItem[] result = ds.CreatePDF(

					inDoc, 

					inputFileName,

					adobePDFSettings, 

					securitySettings, 

					null, 

					null

					);

				//Extract the newly created PDF document from the returned map

				BLOB outDoc = null;

				for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)

				{

					String myKey = (String)(result[i].key);

					if (myKey == "ConvertedDoc")

					{

						outDoc = (BLOB)(result[i].value);

					}

				}

				//Populate a byte array with the BLOB

				byte[] outByteArray = outDoc.binaryData;

				//Create a new file containing the returned PDF document

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

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

				BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

				w.Write(outByteArray);

				w.Close();

				fs2.Close();

				Console.WriteLine("The PS file was converted to a PDF document");

			}

			catch (Exception ee)

			{

				Console.WriteLine("An unexpected exception was encountered: " + ee.Message + "\n" + ee.StackTrace);

			}

		}

	}

}

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