Quick Start: Converting a PostScript file to a PDF document using the web service API

The following C# .NET code example converts a PostScript file called test.ps to a PDF document called test.pdf.

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.IO ; 

namespace DistillerWSApp

{

	class DistillerTest

	{

		[STAThread]

		static void Main(string[] args)

		{

            try

            {

                // Create a DistillerServiceService object

                DistillerServiceService ds = new DistillerServiceService();

                // Provide authentication credentials to the service

                ds.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(

                    "administrator", 

                    "password"

                );

                // Create a BLOB that represents the input PS file

                BLOB inDoc = new BLOB();

                // Get the input PS document

                string inputFileName = "C:\\test.ps";

                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;

                // Specify the PDF and security settings

                String adobePDFSettings = "Standard";

                String securitySettings = "No Security";

                // Send the conversion request to the Distiller Service

                mapItem[] result = ds.CreatePDF(

                    inDoc, 

                    inputFileName,

                    adobePDFSettings, 

                    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:\\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 PS file 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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