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

The following code example converts a PDF document to an XDP document.

/*

 * 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 PDFUtilityWSApp

{

    class ConvertToXDPTest

    {

        [STAThread]

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            try

            {

                // Create a PDFUtilityServiceService object

                PDFUtilityServiceService svc = new PDFUtilityServiceService();

                // Provide authentication credentials to the service

                svc.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(

                    “administrator”,

                    “password”

                );

                // Create a BLOB that represents the input PDF file

                BLOB inDoc = new BLOB();

                // Specify a PDF document to convert to an XDP file

                string inputFileName = “C:\\Adobe\\Sample2.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

                inDoc.binaryData = byteArray;

                // Convert the PDF document to an XDP file

                BLOB outDoc = svc.convertPDFtoXDP(inDoc);

                // Save the returned BLOB object as an XDP file

                byte[] outByteArray = outDoc.binaryData;

                string FILE_NAME = “C:\\Adobe\\Grant777.xdp”;

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

                BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2);

                w.Write(outByteArray);

                w.Close();

                fs2.Close();

                Console.WriteLine(“The PDF document was converted to an XDP file.”);

            }

            catch (Exception ee)

            {

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

            }

      }

    }

}

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