Quick Start (MTOM): Converting a PDF document to PostScript using the web service API

The following C# example converts a PDF document called Loan.pdf to a PostScript document called Loan.ps. (See Converting PDF Documents to PostScript.)

/** 
    * 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 ConvertPDFtoPS.ServiceReference1; 
 
namespace ConvertPDFtoPS 
{ 
       class Program 
       { 
           static void Main(string[] args) 
           { 
               try 
               { 
                   //Create a ConvertPdfService object 
                   ConvertPdfServiceClient convertPdfClient = new ConvertPdfServiceClient(); 
                   convertPdfClient.Endpoint.Address = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://hiro-xp:8080/soap/services/ConvertPDFService?blob=mtom"); 
 
                   //Enable BASIC HTTP authentication 
                   BasicHttpBinding b = (BasicHttpBinding)convertPdfClient.Endpoint.Binding; 
                   b.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Mtom; 
                   convertPdfClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "administrator"; 
                   convertPdfClient.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 that represents the input PDF file 
                   BLOB inDoc = new BLOB(); 
 
                   //Get the input PDF document 
                   string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\Loan.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.MTOM = byteArray; 
 
                   //Create a ToPSOptionsSpec object that defines run-time options 
                   ToPSOptionsSpec psSpec = new ToPSOptionsSpec(); 
                   psSpec.psLevel = PSLevel.LEVEL_3; 
 
                   //Send the conversion request to the ConvertPDF Service 
                   BLOB outDoc = convertPdfClient.toPS2(inDoc, psSpec); 
 
                   //Populate a byte array with the BLOB 
                   byte[] outByteArray = outDoc.MTOM; 
 
                   //Create a new file containing the returned PDF document 
                   string FILE_NAME = "C:\\Adobe\Loan.ps"; 
                   FileStream fs2 = new FileStream(FILE_NAME, FileMode.OpenOrCreate); 
                   BinaryWriter w = new BinaryWriter(fs2); 
                   w.Write(outByteArray); 
                   w.Close(); 
                   fs2.Close(); 
 
                   Console.WriteLine("The PDF file was converted to a PostScript document."); 
               } 
               catch (Exception ee) 
               { 
                   Console.WriteLine(ee.Message); 
               } 
           } 
       } 
}