Quick Start: Converting a Microsoft Word document to a PDF document using the web service API

The following C# .NET example converts a Word file named Loan.doc to a PDF document named Loan.pdf. (See Converting from Native File Formats to PDF.)

/*

 * 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;

using System.Web.Services;

namespace GeneratePdfWSApp

{

	class GeneratePdf_CreatePDF

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			try

			{

			// Create a GeneratePDFServiceServiceWse object (since DIME attachments are used)

			GeneratePDFServiceService svc = new GeneratePDFServiceService();

			// Provide authentication credentials to the service

			svc.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(

				"administrator", 

				"password"

				);

			// Create a BLOB that represents the input Microsoft Word file

			BLOB inDoc = new BLOB();

			inDoc.attachmentID = "test";

 			String path = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.doc"; 

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

			//Get the length of the file stream 

			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; 

			// Specify the PDF and security settings 

			String adobePDFSettings = "Standard"; 

			String securitySettings = "No Security"; 

			String fileTypeSettings = "Standard"; 

			//Convert the Word file to a PDF document

			mapItem[] createPDFResults = svc.CreatePDF(

				inDoc, 

				path, 

				fileTypeSettings, 

				adobePDFSettings, 

				securitySettings, 

				null, 

				null 

				); 

			//Obtain the converted PDF document 

			for (int count = 0; count < createPDFResults.Length; ++count) 

			{ 

				//Get an item from the map 

				mapItem mapEntry = createPDFResults[count]; 

				String mapKey = mapEntry.key as String; 

				//The new PDF will always have the map key "ConvertedDoc" 

				if (mapKey.Equals("ConvertedDoc"))

					{ 

					BLOB resultBlob = mapEntry.value as BLOB; 

					byte[] binaryFile = resultBlob.binaryData; 

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

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

					//Create a BinaryWriter object

					BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

					w.Write(binaryFile);

					w.Close();

					fs2.Close();

				}

			}

		}

		catch (Exception ee)

		{

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

		}

	}

  }

}

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