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

The following C# code example creates a PDF/A document named LoanArchive.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 ConvertPDFA

{

	class Class1

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

			try

			{

				//Create a OutputServiceService object

				OutputServiceService outputClient = new OutputServiceService(); 

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

				//Create a BLOB object

				BLOB inData = new BLOB();

				//Reference a PDF document to convert to a PDF/A document

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

				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;

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

				BLOB results = outputClient.transformPDF(

					inData,

					TransformationFormat.PDFA,

					PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1,

					true,

					null,

					PDFAConformance.A,

					true);

				//Populate a byte array with a BLOB data

				byte[] outByteArray=results.binaryData; 

				//Save the PDF/A document as a PDF file named LoanArchive.pdf

				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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