Quick Start: Creating multiple PDF files using the web service API

The following C# code creates multiple PDF files for each data record that is located in an XML data file named Loan_data_batch.xml. The files are written to the C:\Adobe\ directory.

/*

 * 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 CreateBatchFiles

{

	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();

			//Specify the XML data file that contains multiple records

			string path = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan_data_batch.xml";

			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);

			inData.binaryData = ByteArray; 

			//Set output run-time options to create 

			//multiple PDF files

			PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec();

			pdfOptions.generateManyFiles= true;

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

			pdfOptions.recordName = "LoanRecord";

			pdfOptions.lookAhead = 300 ; 

			//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 multiple PDF files

			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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