Quick Start: Converting a Microsoft Word document to a PDF document using LiveCycle Remoting

The following Flex and ActionScript code example converts the selected Word file to a PDF document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" xmlns="*" 

  creationComplete="initializeChannelSet();">

  <mx:Script>

    <![CDATA[

  import mx.rpc.livecycle.DocumentReference;

  import flash.net.FileReference;

  import flash.net.URLRequest;

  import flash.events.Event;

  import flash.events.DataEvent;

  import mx.messaging.ChannelSet;

  import mx.messaging.channels.AMFChannel;  

  import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;

  import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

  // Classes used in file retrieval  

  private var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();

  private var docRef:DocumentReference = new DocumentReference();

  private var fName:String = new String();

  private var parentResourcePath:String = "/";

  private var serverPort:String = "servername:portnumber";

  private var now1:Date;     

  // Holds information returned from LiveCycle

  [Bindable]

  public var progressList:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

  // Set up channel set to talk to LiveCycle.

  // This must be done before calling any service or process, but only 

  // once for the entire application.

  // Note that this uses runtime configuration to configure the 

  // destination correctly, so 

  // no other setup is needed in remoting-config.xml.

  private function initializeChannelSet():void {

    var cs:ChannelSet= new ChannelSet(); 

    cs.addChannel(new AMFChannel("remoting-amf", "http://" + serverPort + "/remoting/messagebroker/amf")); 

    PDFService.setCredentials("administrator", "password");

    PDFService.channelSet = cs;

  }

  // Call this method to upload the file.

  // This creates a file picker and lets the user select the file to upload.

  private function uploadFile():void {

    fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, selectHandler);

    fileRef.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA,completeHandler);

    fileRef.browse();

  }

  // Gets called for selected file. Does the actual upload via the file upload servlet.

  private function selectHandler(event:Event):void {

    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://" + serverPort + "/remoting/lcfileupload");

    fName = fileRef.name;

    fileRef.upload(request);

  }

  // Called once the file is completely uploaded. Now it is safe to access 

  // that object for other things.

  private function completeHandler(event:DataEvent):void {                    

    now1 = new Date();

    // At this point we can do whatever we want with the file that has been uploaded.

    // Our docRef variable has the object. Refer to the asdoc for 

    // DocumentReference for methods and properties.

    docRef.url = event.data as String;      

    docRef.referenceType=DocumentReference.REF_TYPE_URL;

    executeConvertToPDF(); 

  }      

  // prepares parameters for conversion and makes the call

  public function executeConvertToPDF():void {

     var paramObject:Object = new Object();

     paramObject["inputDocument"] = docRef;

     paramObject["fileName"] = fileRef.name;

     paramObject["fileTypeSettings"] = "Standard";

     paramObject["pdfSettings"] = "Standard";

     paramObject["securitySettings"] = "No Security";

     PDFService.CreatePDF(paramObject);

  }

      // this method handles a successful createPDF invocation

   public function handleCreatePDF(event:ResultEvent):void

     {

       var progObject:Object = new Object();

       // LC Remoting always returns a map in event.result. 

       // This method returns a map, too.

       var res:Object = event.result["Result"];

       // Within the Result map is another Map.

       var dr:DocumentReference = res["ConvertedDoc"] as DocumentReference;

       var now2:Date = new Date();

       // These fields map to columns in the DataGrid

       progObject.filename = fName;

       progObject.timing = (now2.time - now1.time).toString();

       progObject.state = "Success";

       now1 = new Date();

       progObject.link = "<a href='" + dr.url + "'>Right-click to open in new window</a>";

       progressList.addItem(progObject);

      }

  private function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void {

    // Do anything else here.

  }

    ]]>

  </mx:Script>

  <mx:RemoteObject id="PDFService" destination="GeneratePDFService" 

    result="resultHandler(event);">

      <mx:method name="CreatePDF" result="handleCreatePDF(event)"/>

  </mx:RemoteObject>

  <mx:Panel id="lcPanel" title="PDF Generation LiveCycle Remoting Example" 

       height="30%" width="35%" paddingTop="10" paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" 

       paddingBottom="10">

     <mx:Label width="100%" color="blue"

            text="Select a DOC file. This example automatically converts a Word doc to PDF."/> 

    <mx:DataGrid x="10" y="0" width="600" id="idProgress" editable="false" 

       dataProvider="{progressList}" height="231" selectable="false" >

      <mx:columns>

        <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Filename" width="200" dataField="filename" editable="false"/>

        <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="State" width="75" dataField="state" editable="false"/>

        <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Timing" width="75" dataField="timing" editable="false"/>

        <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="link" editable="false" headerText="Click to Open">

         <mx:itemRenderer>

            <mx:Component>

               <mx:Text x="0" y="0" width="100%" htmlText="{data.link}"/>

            </mx:Component>

         </mx:itemRenderer>

        </mx:DataGridColumn>

      </mx:columns>

    </mx:DataGrid>

    <mx:Button label="Select File" click="uploadFile()" />

  </mx:Panel>

</mx:Application>

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