Quick Start: Converting an HTML document to a PDF document using the web service API

The following C# .NET example converts HTML content located at http://www.adobe.com to a PDF document named test.pdf. (See Converting HTML Documents 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 GeneratePdfWSApp

{

	class GeneratePdf_HtmlToPDF

	{

	[STAThread]

	static void Main(string[] args)

	{

	try

		{

		// Create a GeneratePDFServiceService object

		GeneratePDFServiceService pdfGenClient = new GeneratePDFServiceService();

		// Provide authentication credentials to the service

		pdfGenClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(

				"administrator", 

				"password"

				);

		//Get an HTML document to convert to a PDF document

		String inputFileName = "http://www.adobe.com";

		//Specify the PDF and security settings

		String securitySettings = "No Security";

		String fileTypeSettings = "Standard";

		//Send the conversion request to the GeneratePdf Service

		mapItem[] result = pdfGenClient.HtmlToPDF(

				inputFileName,

				fileTypeSettings,

				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\\Test.pdf";

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

		BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

		w.Write(outByteArray);

		w.Close();

		fs2.Close();

		Console.WriteLine("The URL 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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