Quick Start (MTOM): 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. The LoanArchive.pdf is written to the C:\Adobe folder located on the J2EE application server hosting LiveCycle, not the client computer. (See Creating PDF/A Documents.)

???/** 
    * Ensure that you create a .NET project that uses  
    * MS Visual Studio 2008 and version 3.5 of the .NET 
    * framework. This is required to invoke a  
    * LiveCycle service using MTOM. 
    *      
    * For information, see "Invoking LiveCycle using MTOM" in Programming with LiveCycle   
    */ 
using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.ServiceModel; 
using System.IO; 
 
//A reference to the Output service  
using CreatePDFA.ServiceReference1; 
 
 
namespace CreatePDFA 
{ 
       class Program 
       { 
           static void Main(string[] args) 
           { 
               try 
               { 
                   //Create an OutputServiceClient object 
                   OutputServiceClient outputClient = new OutputServiceClient(); 
                   outputClient.Endpoint.Address = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://hiro-xp:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom"); 
 
                   //Enable BASIC HTTP authentication 
                   BasicHttpBinding b = (BasicHttpBinding)outputClient.Endpoint.Binding; 
                   b.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Mtom; 
                   outputClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "administrator"; 
                   outputClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "password"; 
                   b.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Basic; 
                   b.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly; 
                   b.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 2000000; 
                   b.MaxBufferSize = 2000000; 
                   b.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = 2000000; 
 
                   //Create a BLOB object to store form data 
                   BLOB inData = new BLOB(); 
 
                   //Reference XML data to merge into the PDF/A document 
                   string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\Loan.xml"; 
                   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; 
 
                   //Set PDF run-time options 
                   PDFOutputOptionsSpec pdfOptions = new PDFOutputOptionsSpec(); 
                   pdfOptions.fileURI = "C:\\Adobe\LoanArchive.pdf"; 
     
                   //Set rendering run-time options 
                   RenderOptionsSpec renderOptions = new RenderOptionsSpec(); 
                   renderOptions.cacheEnabled = true; 
                   renderOptions.PDFAConformance = PDFAConformance.A; 
                   renderOptions.PDFARevisionNumber = PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1; 
                   pdfOptions.lookAhead = 300; 
                   pdfOptions.recordLevel = 1;  
 
                   //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 a PDF/A Document 
                   outputClient.generatePDFOutput(TransformationFormat.PDFA, 
                           "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.MTOM; 
 
                   //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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