Quick Start: Creating a PDF document using the web service API

The following C# code example creates a PDF document named Loan.pdf. This PDF document is based on a form design named Loan.xdp and an XML data file named Loan.xml.

/*

 * 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 CreatePDFDocument

{

	class Class1

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			try

			{

			//Create an OutputServiceService object

			OutputServiceService outputClient = new OutputServiceService(); 

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

			//Create a BLOB object to store form data

			BLOB inData = new BLOB();

			//Reference XML data to merge into the PDF document

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

			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

			inData.binaryData = byteArray;

			//Set PDF run-time options

			PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec();

			pdfOptions.fileURI = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.pdf";

			pdfOptions.lookAhead = 300;

            pdfOptions.recordLevel = 1; 

			//Set rendering run-time options

			RenderOptionsSpec renderOptions = new RenderOptionsSpec(); 

			renderOptions.cacheEnabled = true; 

			//Create empty objects to pass as arguments

			//to the generatePDFOutput method

			//These objects are populated by the method

			BLOB generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc = new BLOB(); 

			BLOB generatePDFOutputResultDoc = new BLOB();

			OutputResult outResult = new OutputResult();

			//Create a PDF Document

			outputClient.generatePDFOutput(TransformationFormat.PDF,

					"Loan.xdp",

					"C:\\Adobe",

					pdfOptions,

					renderOptions,

					inData,

					out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc,

					out generatePDFOutputResultDoc,

					out outResult);

			//Write the result data to Output.xml

			//Populate a byte array with BLOB data

			byte[] outByteArray=generatePDFOutputResultDoc.binaryData; 

			//Create a new file to store result data

			string FILE_NAME = "C:\\Adobe\\Output.xml"; 

			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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