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Create a PDF document using the Java API

Create a PDF document by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that is used to populate the PDF document by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor. Pass the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Set PDF run-time options.
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the File URI option by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method. Pass a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file that the Output service generates. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design to improve the performance of the Output service by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setCacheEnabled and passing true.
NOTE

You cannot set the version of the PDF document by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setPdfVersion method if the input document is an Acrobat form (a form created in Acrobat) or an XFA document that is signed or certified. The output PDF document retains the original PDF version. Likewise, you cannot set the tagged Adobe PDF option by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setTaggedPDF* method if the input document is an Acrobat form or a signed or certified XFA document. *

NOTE

You cannot set the linearized PDF option by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setLinearizedPDF method if the input PDF document is certified or digitally signed. (See Digitally Signing PDF Documents.)
Generate a PDF document.

Create a PDF document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput method and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
The generatePDFOutput method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.

NOTE

When generating a PDF document by invoking the generatePDFOutput method, be aware that you cannot merge data with an XFA PDF form that is signed or certified. (See Digitally Signing and Certifying Documents.)

NOTE

The OutputResult object’s getRecordLevelMetaDataList method returns null.

NOTE

You can also create a PDF document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method. (See Passing Documents located in Content Services (deprecated) to the Output Service.)
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Retrieve a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the status of the generatePDFOutput operation by invoking the OutputResult object’s getStatusDoc method. This method returns status XML data that specifies whether the operation was successful.
- Create a java.io.File object that contains the results of the operation. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getStatusDoc method).
Although the Output service writes the PDF document to the location specified by the argument that is passed to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method, you can programmatically retrieve the PDF/A document by invoking the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc method.

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Creating a PDF document using the Java API

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Creating a PDF document using the Java API

Create a PDF/A document using the web service API

Create a PDF document using the web service API

Create a PDF document by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store XML data that will be merged with the PDF document.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the XML file that contains form data.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM field with the contents of the byte array.
Set PDF run-time options
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the File URI option by assigning a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file that the Output service generates to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s fileURI data member. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design to improve the performance of the Output service by assigning the value true to the RenderOptionsSpec object’s cacheEnabled data member.
NOTE

You cannot set the version of the PDF document by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setPdfVersion method if the input document is an Acrobat form (a form created in Acrobat) or an XFA document that is signed or certified. The output PDF document retains the original PDF version. Likewise, you cannot set the tagged Adobe PDF option by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setTaggedPDF* method if the input document is an Acrobat form or a signed or certified XFA document.*

NOTE

You cannot set the linearized PDF option by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s linearizedPDF member if the input PDF document is certified or digitally signed. (See Digitally Signing PDF Documents.)
Generate a PDF document.

Create a PDF document by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutputmethod and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with result data. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
NOTE

When generating a PDF document by invoking the generatePDFOutput method, be aware that you cannot merge data with an XFA PDF form that is signed or certified. (See Digitally Signing and Certifying Documents.)

NOTE

You can also create a PDF document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method. (See Passing Documents located in Content Services (deprecated) to the Output Service.)
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents an XML file location that contains result data. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was populated with result data by the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutput method (the eighth parameter). Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM field.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to the XML file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.
See also

Summary of steps

Invoking AEM Forms using MTOM

Invoking AEM Forms using SwaRef

NOTE

The OutputServiceService object’s generateOutput method is deprecated.

Creating PDF/A Documents

You can use the Output service to create a PDF/A document. Because PDF/A is an archival format for long-term preservation of the document’s content, all fonts are embedded and the file is uncompressed. As a result, a PDF/A document is typically larger than a standard PDF document. In addition, a PDF/A document does not contain audio and video content. Like other Output service tasks, you provide both a form design and data to merge with a form design to create a PDF/A document.

The PDF/A-1 specification consists of two levels of conformance, namely a and b. The major difference between the two is regarding the logical structure (accessibility) support, which is not required for conformance level b. Regardless of the conformance level, PDF/A-1 dictates that all fonts are embedded in the generated PDF/A document.

Although PDF/A is the standard for archiving PDF documents, it is not mandatory that PDF/A be used for archiving if a standard PDF document meets your company’s needs. The purpose of the PDF/A standard is to establish a PDF file that can be stored for a long period of time as well as meet document preservation requirements. For example, a URL cannot be embedded in a PDF/A because over time the URL may become invalid.

Your organization must assess its own needs, the length of time you intend to keep the document, file size considerations, and determine your own archiving strategy. You can programmatically determine if a PDF document is PDF/A compliant by using the DocConverter service. (See Programmatically Determining PDF/A Compliancy.)

A PDF/A document must use the font that is specified in the form design and fonts cannot be substituted. As a result, if a font that is located within a PDF document is not available on the host operating system (OS), then an exception occurs.

When a PDF/A document is opened in Acrobat, a message is displayed that confirms that the document is a PDF/A document, as shown in the following illustration.

cp_cp_pdfamessage

NOTE

The AIIM web site has a PDF/A FAQ section that you can access at https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To create a PDF/A document, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Reference an XML data source.
Set PDF/A run-time options.
Set rendering run-time options.
Generate a PDF/A document.
Retrieve the results of the operation.

Include project files

Include necessary files in your development project. If you are creating a custom application by using Java, include the necessary JAR files. If you are using web services, make sure that you include the proxy files.

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

Create an Output Client object

Reference an XML data source

To merge data with the form design, you must reference an XML data source that contains data. An XML element must exist for every form field that you want to populate with data. The XML element name must match the field name. An XML element is ignored if it does not correspond to a form field or if the XML element name does not match the field name. It is not necessary to match the order in which the XML elements are displayed if all XML elements are specified.

Set PDF/A run-time options

You can set the File URI option when creating a PDF/A document. The URI is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms. That is, if you set C:\Adobe, the file is written to the folder on the server, not the client computer. The URI specifies the name and location of the PDF/A file that the Output service generates.

Set rendering run-time options

You can set rendering run-time options when creating PDF/A documents. Two PDF/A related options that you can set are the PDFAConformance and PDFARevisionNumber values. The PDFAConformance value refers to how a PDF document adheres to requirements that specify how long-term electronic documents are preserved. Valid values for this option are A and B. For information about level a and b conformance, see the PDF/A-1 ISO specification that is titled ISO 19005-1 Document management.

The PDFARevisionNumber value refers to the revision number of a PDF/A document. For information about the revision number of a PDF/A document, see the PDF/A-1 ISO specification that is titled ISO 19005-1 Document management.

NOTE

You cannot set the tagged Adobe PDF option to false when creating a PDF/A 1A document. PDF/A 1A will always be a tagged PDF document. Also, you cannot set the tagged Adobe PDF option to true when creating a PDF/A 1B document. PDF/A 1B will always be an untagged PDF document.

Generate a PDF/A document

After you reference a valid XML data source that contains form data and you set run-time options, you can invoke the Output service, causing it to generate a PDF/A document.

Retrieve the results of the operation

After the Output service performs an operation, it returns various data items such as XML data that specifies whether the operation was successful.

Create a PDF/A document using the Java API

Create a PDF/A document by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that is used to populate the PDF/A document by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Set PDF/A run-time options.
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the File URI option by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method. Pass a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file that the Output service generates. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the PDFAConformance value by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setPDFAConformance method and passing a PDFAConformance enum value that specifies the conformance level. For example, to specify conformance level A, pass PDFAConformance.A.
- Set the PDFARevisionNumber value by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setPDFARevisionNumber method and passing PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1.
NOTE

The PDF version of a PDF/A document is 1.4 regardless of which value you specify for the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setPdfVersionmethod.
Generate a PDF/A document.

Create a PDF/A document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput method and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF/A document, specify TransformationFormat.PDFA.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contain the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
The generatePDFOutput method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.

NOTE

The OutputResult object’s getRecordLevelMetaDataList method returns null*. *

NOTE

You can also create a PDF /A document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method. (See Passing Documents located in Content Services (deprecated) to the Output Service.)
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the status of the generatePDFOutput method by invoking the OutputResult object’s getStatusDoc method.
- Create a java.io.File object that will contain the results of the operation. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getStatusDoc method).
NOTE

Although the Output service writes the PDF/A document to the location specified by the argument that is passed to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method, you can programmatically retrieve the PDF/A document by invoking the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc* method.*

See also

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Creating a PDF/A document using the Java API

Setting connection properties.

Create a PDF/A document using the web service API

Create a PDF/A document by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store data that will be merged with the PDF/A document.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the PDF document to encrypt and the mode in which to open the file.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM field with the byte array contents.
Set PDF/A run-time options.
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the File URI option by assigning a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file that the Output service generates to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s fileURI data member. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the PDFAConformance value by assigning a PDFAConformance enum value to the RenderOptionsSpec object’s PDFAConformance data member. For example, to specify conformance level A, assign PDFAConformance.A to this data member.
- Set the PDFARevisionNumber value by assigning a PDFARevisionNumber enum value to the RenderOptionsSpec object’s PDFARevisionNumber data member. Assign PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1 to this data member.
NOTE

The PDF version of a PDF/A document is 1.4 regardless of which value you specify.
Generate a PDF/A document.

Create a PDF document by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutputmethod and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDFA.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with result data. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
NOTE

You can also create a PDF /A document by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method. (See Passing Documents located in Content Services (deprecated) to the Output Service.)
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents an XML file location that contains result data. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was populated with result data by the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutput method (the eighth parameter). Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM field.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to the XML file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Pass documents to the Output Service using the web service API

Passing Documents located in Content Services (deprecated) to the Output Service

The Output service renders a non-interactive PDF form that is based on a form design that is typically saved as an XDP file and created in Designer. You can pass a com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the form design to the Output service. The Output service then renders the form design located in the com.adobe.idp.Document object.

An advantage of passing a com.adobe.idp.Document object to the Output service is that other AEM Forms service operations return a com.adobe.idp.Document instance. That is, you can get a com.adobe.idp.Document instance from another service operation and render it. For example, assume that an XDP file is stored in a Content Services (deprecated) node named /Company Home/Form Designs, as shown in the following illustration.

You can programmatically retrieve Loan.xdp from Content Services (deprecated) and pass the XDP file to the Output service within a com.adobe.idp.Document object.

NOTE

For more information about the Forms service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To pass a document obtained from Content Services (deprecated) to the Output service, perform the following tasks:

Include project files.
Create a Output and a Document Management Client API object.
Retrieve the form design from Content Services (deprecated).
Render the non-interactive PDF form.
Perform an action with the data stream.

Include project files

Include the necessary files to your development project. If you are creating a client application by using Java, include the necessary JAR files. If you are using web services, include the proxy files.

Create an Output and a Document Management Client API object

Before you can programmatically perform a Output service API operation, create a Output Client API object. Also, because this workflow retrieves an XDP file from Content Services (deprecated), create a Document Management API object.

Retrieve the form design from Content Services (deprecated)

Retrieve the XDP file from Content Services (deprecated) by using the Java or web service API. The XDP file is returned within a com.adobe.idp.Document instance (or a BLOB instance if you are using web services). You can then pass the com.adobe.idp.Document instance to the Output service.

Render the non-interactive PDF form

To render a non-interactive form, pass the com.adobe.idp.Document instance that was returned from Content Services (deprecated) to the Output service.

NOTE

Two new methods named generatePDFOutput2and g eneratePrintedOutput2accept a com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains a form design. You can also pass a com.adobe.idp.Documentthat contains the form design to the Output service when sending a print stream to a network printer.

Perform an action with the form data stream

You can save the non-interactive form as a PDF file. The form can be viewed in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.

Creating PDF Documents Using Fragments

Pass documents to the Output Service using the Java API

Pass a document retrieved from Content Services (deprecated) by using the Output service and Content Services (deprecated) API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar and adobe-contentservices-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output and a Document Management Client API object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties. (See Setting connection properties.)
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
- Create a DocumentManagementServiceClientImpl object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Retrieve the form design from Content Services (deprecated).

Invoke the DocumentManagementServiceClientImpl object’s retrieveContent method and pass the following values:
- A string value that specifies the store where the content is added. The default store is SpacesStore. This value is a mandatory parameter.
- A string value that specifies the fully qualified path of the content to retrieve (for example, /Company Home/Form Designs/Loan.xdp). This value is a mandatory parameter.
- A string value that specifies the version. This value is an optional parameter, and you can pass an empty string. In this situation, the latest version is retrieved.
The retrieveContent method returns a CRCResult object that contains the XDP file. Retrieve a com.adobe.idp.Document instance by invoking the CRCResult object’s getDocument method.
Render the non-interactive PDF form.

Invoke the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method and pass the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the additional resources such as images are located.
- A com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the form design (use the instance returned by the CRCResult object’s getDocument method).
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
The generatePDFOutput2 method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
Perform an action with the form data stream.
- Retrieve a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the non-interactive form by invoking the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc method.
- Create a java.io.File object that contains the results of the operation. Ensure that the file name extension is .pdf.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getGeneratedDoc method).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Passing documents to the Output Service using the Java API

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Passing documents to the Output Service using the Java API

Pass documents to the Output Service using the web service API

Pass a document retrieved from Content Services (deprecated) by using the Output service and Content Services (deprecated) API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Because this client application invokes two AEM Forms services, create two service references. Use the following WSDL definition for the service reference associated with the Output service: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

Use the following WSDL definition for the service reference associated with the Document Management service: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/DocumentManagementService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

Because the BLOB data type is common to both service references, fully qualify the BLOB data type when using it. In the corresponding web service quick start, all BLOB instances are fully qualified.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output and a Document Management Client API object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom). You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference.)
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
- Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
NOTE

Repeat these steps for the DocumentManagementServiceClient* service client. *
Retrieve the form design from Content Services (deprecated).

Retrieve content by invoking the DocumentManagementServiceClient object’s retrieveContent method and passing the following values:
- A string value that specifies the store where the content is added. The default store is SpacesStore. This value is a mandatory parameter.
- A string value that specifies the fully qualified path of the content to retrieve (for example, /Company Home/Form Designs/Loan.xdp). This value is a mandatory parameter.
- A string value that specifies the version. This value is an optional parameter, and you can pass an empty string. In this situation, the latest version is retrieved.
- A string output parameter that stores the browse link value.
- A BLOB output parameter that stores the content. You can use this output parameter to retrieve the content.
- A ServiceReference1.MyMapOf_xsd_string_To_xsd_anyType output parameter that stores content attributes.
- A CRCResult output parameter. Instead of using this object, you can use the BLOB output parameter to retrieve the content.
Render the non-interactive PDF form.

Invoke the OutputServiceClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method and pass the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the additional resources such as images are located.
- A BLOB object that represents the form design (use the BLOB instance returned by Content Services (deprecated)).
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- An output BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput2 method. The generatePDFOutput2 method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- An output OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
The generatePDFOutput2 method returns a BLOB object that contains the non-interactive PDF form.
Perform an action with the form data stream.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor. Pass a string value that represents the file location of the interactive PDF document and the mode in which to open the file.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the BLOB object retrieved from the generatePDFOutput2 method. Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to a PDF file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Passing Documents located in the Repository to the Output Service

An advantage of passing a com.adobe.idp.Document object to the Output service is that other AEM Forms service operations return a com.adobe.idp.Document instance. That is, you can get a com.adobe.idp.Document instance from another service operation and render it. For example, assume that an XDP file is stored in the AEM Forms repository, as shown in the following illustration.

pd_pd_formrepository

The FormsFolder folder is a user-defined location in the AEM Forms repository (this location is an example and does not exist by default). In this example, a form design named Loan.xdp is located in this folder. In addition to the form design, other form collateral such as images can be stored in this location. The path to a resource located in the AEM Forms repository is:

Applications/Application-name/Application-version/Folder.../Filename

You can programmatically retrieve Loan.xdp from the AEM Forms repository and pass it to the Output service within a com.adobe.idp.Document object.

You can create a PDF based on an XDP file located in the repository using one of two ways. You can pass the XDP loction by reference or you can programmatically retrieve the XDP from the repository and pass it to the Output service within an XDP file.

Quick Start (EJB mode): Creating a PDF document based on an application XDP file using the Java API (shows how to pass the location of the XDP file by reference).

Quick Start (EJB mode): Passing a document located in the AEM Forms Repository to the Output service using the Java API (shows how to programmatically retrieve the XDP file from the AEM Forms Repository and pass it to the Output service within a com.adobe.idp.Document instance). (This section discusses how to perform this task)

NOTE

For more information about the Forms service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To pass a document obtained from the AEM Forms repository to the Output service, perform the following tasks:

Include project files.
Create a Output and a Document Management Client API object.
Retrieve the form design from the AEM Forms repository.
Render the non-interactive PDF form.
Perform an action with the data stream.

Include project files

Create an Output and a Document Management Client API object

Retrieve the form design from the AEM Forms Repository

Retrieve the XDP file from the AEM Forms Repository by using the Repository API. (See Reading Resources.)

The XDP file is returned within a com.adobe.idp.Document instance (or a BLOB instance if you are using web services). You can then pass the com.adobe.idp.Document instance o the Output service.

Render the non-interactive PDF form

To render a non-interactive form, pass the com.adobe.idp.Document instance that was returned using the AEM Forms Repository API.

NOTE

Two new methods named generatePDFOutput2and generatePrintedOutput2accept a com.adobe.idp.Documentobject that contains a form design. You can also pass a com.adobe.idp.Document that contains the form design to the Output service when sending a print stream to a network printer.

Perform an action with the form data stream

You can save the non-interactive form as a PDF file. The form can be viewed in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.

ResourceRepositoryClient

Pass documents located in the Repository to the Output Service using the Java API

Pass a document retrieved from the Repository by using the Output service and Repository API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar and adobe-repository-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output and a Document Management Client API object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties. (See Setting connection properties.)
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
- Create a DocumentManagementServiceClientImpl object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Retrieve the form design from the AEM Forms Repository.

Invoke the ResourceRepositoryClient object’s readResourceContent method and pass a string value that specifies the URI location to the XDP file. For example, /Applications/FormsApplication/1.0/FormsFolder/Loan.xdp. This value is a mandatory. This method returns a com.adobe.idp.Document instance that represents the XDP file.
Render the non-interactive PDF form.

Invoke the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method and pass the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the additional resources such as images are located. For example, repository:///Applications/FormsApplication/1.0/FormsFolder/.
- A com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the form design (use the instance returned by the ResourceRepositoryClient object’s readResourceContent method).
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
The generatePDFOutput2 method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
Perform an action with the form data stream.
- Retrieve a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the non-interactive form by invoking the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc method.
- Create a java.io.File object that contains the results of the operation. Ensure that the file name extension is .pdf.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getGeneratedDoc method).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Passing a document located in the AEM Forms Repository to the Output service using the Java API

Create a PDF document based on fragments using the web service API

Creating PDF Documents Using Fragments

You can use the Output and Assembler services to create an output stream, such as a PDF document, that is based on fragments. The Assembler service assembles an XDP document that is based on fragments located in multiple XDP files. The assembled XDP document is passed to the Output service, which creates a PDF document. Although this workflow shows a PDF document being generated, the Output service can generate other output types, such as ZPL, for this workflow. A PDF document is used for discussion purposes only.

The following illustration shows this workflow.

cp_cp_outputassemblefragments

Before reading Creating PDF Documents using Fragments, it is recommended that you become familiar with using the Assembler service to assemble multiple XDP documents. (See Assembling Multiple XDP Fragments.)

NOTE

You can also pass a form design assembled by the Assembler service to the Forms service instead of the Output service. The primary difference between the Output service and Forms service is that the Forms service generates interactive PDF documents and the Output service produces non-interactive PDF documents. Also the Forms service cannot generate printer-based output streams like ZPL.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To create a PDF document based on fragments, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output and Assembler Client object.
Use the Assembler service to generate the form design.
Use the Output service to generate the PDF document.
Save the PDF document as a PDF file.

Include project files

Create an Output and Assembler Client object

Before you can programmatically perform an Output service API operation, create an Output Client API object. Also, because this workflow invokes the Assembler service to create the form design, create an Assembler Client API object.

Use the Assembler service to generate the form design

Use the Assembler service to generate the form design using fragments. The Assembler service returns a com.adobe.idp.Document instance that contains the form design.

Use the Output service to generate the PDF document

You can use the Output service to generate a PDF document using the form design that the Assembler service created. Pass the com.adobe.idp.Document instance that the Assembler service returned to the Output service.

Save the PDF document as a PDF file

After the Output service generates a PDF document, you can save it as a PDF file.

Assembling Multiple XDP Fragments

Creating PDF Documents

Create a PDF document based on fragments using the Java API

Create a PDF document based on fragments by using the Output Service API and Assembler Service API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output and Assembler Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
- Create an AssemblerServiceClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Use the Assembler service to generate the form design.

Invoke the AssemblerServiceClient object’s invokeDDX method and pass the following required values:
- A com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the DDX document to use.
- A java.util.Map object that contains the input XDP files.
- A com.adobe.livecycle.assembler.client.AssemblerOptionSpec object that specifies the run-time options, including the default font and the job log level.
The invokeDDX method returns a com.adobe.livecycle.assembler.client.AssemblerResult object that contains the assembled XDP document. To retrieve the assembled XDP document, perform the following actions:
- Invoke the AssemblerResult object’s getDocuments method. This method returns a java.util.Map object.
- Iterate through the java.util.Map object until you find the resultant com.adobe.idp.Document object.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to extract the assembled XDP document.
Use the Output service to generate the PDF document.

Invoke the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method and pass the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF
- A string value that specifies the content root where the additional resources, such as images, are located
- A com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the form design (use the instance returned by the Assembler service)
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design
The generatePDFOutput2 method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation
Save the PDF document as a PDF file.
- Retrieve a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the PDF document by invoking the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc method.
- Create a java.io.File object that contains the results of the operation. Ensure that the filename extension is .pdf.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file. (Ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that the getGeneratedDoc method returned.).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Creating a PDF document based on fragments using the Java API

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Creating a PDF document based on fragments using the Java API

Setting connection properties.

Create a PDF document based on fragments using the web service API

Create a PDF document based on fragments by using the Output Service API and Assembler Service API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Use the following WSDL definition for the service reference associated with the Output service:
```
 http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.
```
Use the following WSDL definition for the service reference associated with the Assembler service:
```
 http://localhost:8080/soap/services/AssemblerService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.
```
Because the BLOB data type is common to both service references, fully qualify the BLOB data type when using it. In the corresponding web service quick start, all BLOB instances are fully qualified.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output and Assembler Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserNamefield.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Passwordfield.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialTypefield.
- Assign the BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly constant value to the BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Modefield.
NOTE

Repeat these steps for the AssemblerServiceClient* object. *
Use the Assembler service to generate the form design.

Invoke the AssemblerServiceClient object’s invokeDDX method and pass the following values:
- A BLOB object that represents the DDX document
- The MyMapOf_xsd_string_To_xsd_anyType object that contains the required files
- An AssemblerOptionSpec object that specifies run-time options
The invokeDDX method returns an AssemblerResult object that contains the results of the job and any exceptions that occurred. To obtain the newly created XDP document, perform the following actions:
- Access the AssemblerResult object’s documents field, which is a Map object that contains the resultant PDF documents.
- Iterate through the Map object to retrieve the assembled form design. Cast that array member’s value to a BLOB. Pass this BLOB instance to the Output service.
Use the Output service to generate the PDF document.

Invoke the OutputServiceClient object’s generatePDFOutput2 method and pass the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the additional resources, such as images, are located.
- A BLOB object that represents the form design (use the BLOB instance returned by the Assembler service).
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- An output BLOB object that the generatePDFOutput2 method populates. The generatePDFOutput2 method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- An output OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
The generatePDFOutput2 method returns a BLOB object that contains the non-interactive PDF form.
Save the PDF document as a PDF file.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor. Pass a string value that represents the file location of the interactive PDF document and the mode in which to open the file.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the BLOB object retrieved from the generatePDFOutput2 method. Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to a PDF file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Print to files using the Java API

Printing to Files

You can use the Output service to print streams such as PostScript, Printer Control Language (PCL), or the following label formats to a file:

Zebra - ZPL
Intermec - IPL
Datamax - DPL
TecToshiba - TPCL

Using the Output service, you can merge XML data with a form design and print the form to a file. The following illustration shows the Output service creating laser and label files.

NOTE

For information about sending print streams to printers, see Sending Print Streams to Printers.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To print to a file, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Reference an XML data source.
Set print run-time options required to print to a file.
Print the print stream to a file.
Retrieve the results of the operation.

Include project files

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

Create an Output Client object

Reference an XML data source

To print a document that contains data, you must reference an XML data source that contains XML elements for every form field that you want to populate with data. The XML element name must match the field name. An XML element is ignored if it does not correspond to a form field or if the XML element name does not match the field name. It is not necessary to match the order in which the XML elements are displayed if all XML elements are specified.

Set print run-time options required to print to a file

To print to a file, you must set the File URI run-time option by specifying the location and the name of the file to which the Output service prints. For example, to instruct the Output service to print a PostScript file named MortgageForm.ps to C:\Adobe, specify C:\Adobe\MortgageForm.ps.

NOTE

There are optional run-time options that you can define. For information about all the options that you can set, see the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec class reference in AEM Forms API Reference.

Print the print stream to a file

After you reference a valid XML data source that contains form data and you set print run-time options, you can invoke the Output service, which causes it to print a file.

Retrieve the results of the operation

After the Output service performs an operation, it returns various data items, such as XML data, that specifies whether the operation was successful.

See also

Print to files using the web service API

Print to files using the Java API

Print to a file using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as the adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that is used to populate the document by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Set print run-time options required to print to a file.
- Create a PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Specify the file by invoking the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method and passing a string value that represents the name and location of the file. For example, if you want the Output service to print to a PostScript file named* MortgageForm.ps* located in C:\Adobe, specify C:\Adobe\MortgageForm.ps.
- Specify the number of copies to print by invoking the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s setCopies method and passing an integer value that represents the number of copies.
Print the print stream to a file.

Print to a file by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePrintedOutput method and passing the following values:
- A PrintFormat enumeration value that specifies the print stream format to create. For example, to create a PostScript print stream, pass PrintFormat.PostScript.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the location of related collateral files such as image files.
- A string value that specifies the location of the XDC file to use (you can pass null if you specified the XDC file to use by using the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object).
- The PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object that contains run-time options required to print to a file.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contain the XML data source that contains form data.
The generatePrintedOutput method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.

NOTE

The OutputResult object’s getRecordLevelMetaDataList method returns null*. *
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the status of the generatePrintedOutput method by invoking the OutputResult object’s getStatusDoc method (the OutputResult object was returned by the generatePrintedOutput method).
- Create a java.io.File object that will contain the results of the operation. Ensure that the file extension is XML.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getStatusDoc method).

See also

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Printing to a file using the Java API

Setting connection properties.

Print to files using the web service API

Print to a file using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store form data.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file that contains form data.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its binaryData property with the contents of the byte array.
Set print run-time options required to print to a file.
- Create a PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Specify the file by assigning a string value that represents the location and name of the file to the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s fileURI data member. For example, if you want the Output service to print to a PostScript file named MortgageForm.ps located in C:\Adobe, specify C:\Adobe\MortgageForm.ps.
- Specify the number of copies to print by assigning an integer value that represents the number of copies to the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s copies data members.
Print the print stream to a file.

Print to a file by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePrintedOutput method and passing the following values:
- A PrintFormat enumeration value that specifies the print stream format to create. For example, to create a PostScript print stream, pass PrintFormat.PostScript.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the location of related collateral files such as image files.
- A string value that specifies the location of the XDC file to use (you can pass null if you specified the XDC file to use by using the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object).
- The PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object that contains print run-time options required to print to a file.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains form data.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with result data. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents an XML file location that contains result data. Ensure that the file extension is XML.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was populated with result data by the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutput method (the eighth parameter). Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to the XML file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Sending Print Streams to Printers

You can use the Output service to send print streams such as PostScript, Printer Control Language (PCL), or the following label formats to network printers:

Zebra - ZPL
Intermec - IPL
Datamax - DPL
TecToshiba - TPCL

Using the Output service, you can merge XML data with a form design and output the form as a print stream. For example, you can create a PostScript print stream and send it to a network printer. The following illustration shows the Output service sending print streams to network printers.

NOTE

To demonstrate how to send a print stream to a network printer, this section sends a PostScript print stream to a network printer by using the SharedPrinter printer protocol.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To send a print stream to a network printer, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Reference an XML data source.
Set print run-time options
Retrieve a document to print.
Send the document to a network printer.

Include project files

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

Create an Output Client object

Before you can programmatically perform an Output service operation, create an Output service client object. If you are using the Java API, create an OutputClient object. If you are using the Output web service API, create an OutputServiceClient object.

Reference an XML data source

Set print run-time options

You can set the run-time options when sending a print stream to a printer, including the following options:

Copies: Specifies the number of copies to send to the printer. The default value is 1.
Staple: An XCI option is set when a stapler is used. This option can be specified in the configuration model by the staple element and is used for PS and PCL printers only.
OutputJog: An XCI option is set when output pages should be jogged (physically shifted in the output tray). This option is for PS and PCL printers only.
OutputBin: XCI value that is used to enable the print driver to select the appropriate output bin.

NOTE

For information about all run-time options that you can set, see the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec class reference.

Retrieve a document to print

Retrieve a print stream to send to a printer. For example, you can retrieve a PostScript file and send it to a printer.

You can choose to send a PDF file if your printer supports PDF. However, an issue with sending a PDF document to a printer is that each printer manufacturer has a different implementation of the PDF interpreter. That is, some print manufacturers use Adobe PDF interpretation, but it depends on the printer. Other printers have their own PDF interpreter. As a result, printing results may vary.

Another limitation of sending a PDF document to a printer is that it just prints; it cannot access duplex, paper tray selection, and stapling, except through settings on the printer.

To retrieve a document to print, you use the generatePrintedOutput method. The following table specifies content types that are set for a given print stream when using the generatePrintedOutput method.

Print format	Description
DPL	Creates a dpl203.xdc by default or custom xdc output stream.
DPL300DPI	Creates a DPL 300 DPI output stream.
DPL406DPI	Creates a DPL 400 DPI output stream.
DPL600DPI	Creates a DPL 600 DPI output stream.
GenericColorPCL	Creates a Generic Color PCL (5c) output stream.
GenericPSLevel3	Creates a Generic PostScript Level 3 output stream.
IPL	Creates a Custom IPL output stream.
IPL300DPI	Creates a IPL 300 DPI output stream.
IPL400DPI	Creates a IPL 400 DPI output stream.
PCL	Creates a Generic Monochrome PCL (5e) output stream.
PostScript	Creates a Generic PostScript Level 2 output stream.
TPCL	Creates a Custom TPCL output stream.
TPCL305DPI	Creates a TPCL 305 DPI output stream.
TPCL600DPI	Creates a TPCL 600 DPI output stream.
ZPL	Creates a ZPL 203 DPI output stream.
ZPL300DPI	Creates a ZPL 300 DPI output stream.

NOTE

You can also send a print stream to a printer by using the generatePrintedOutput2 method. However the quick starts associated with the Sending Print Streams to Printers section use the generatePrintedOutput method.

Send the print stream to a network printer

After you retrieve a document to print, you can invoke the Output service, which causes it to send a print stream to a network printer. For the Output service to successfully locate the printer, you have to specify both the print server and the printer name. In addition, you must also specify the printing protocol.

NOTE

If PDFG is installed on the forms server and the server runs on Windows Server 2008, you cannot use the SharedPrinter property. In this situation, use a different printer protocol.

NOTE

If you are using a network printer and the access mechanism is SharedPrinter, you need to specify the complete network path of printer.Send a print stream to a network printer using the Java API

Send a print stream to a network printer by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as the adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that is used to populate the document by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Set print run-time options

Create a PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object that represents print run-time options. For example, you can specify the number of copies to print by invoking the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s setCopies method.

NOTE

You cannot set the pagination value by using the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s setPagination method if you are generating a ZPL print stream. Likewise, you cannot set the following options for a ZPL print stream: OutputJog, PageOffset, and Staple. The setPagination* method is not valid for PostScript generation. It is valid only for PCL generation. *
Retrieve a document to print
- Retrieve a document to print by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePrintedOutput method and passing the following values:
  - A PrintFormat enumeration value that specifies the print stream. For example, to create a PostScript print stream, pass PrintFormat.PostScript.
  - A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
  - A string value that specifies the location of related collateral files, such as image files.
  - A string value that specifies the location of the XDC file to use.
  - The PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object that contains run-time options that are required to print to a file.
  - The com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the XML data source that contains form data to merge with the form design.
  This method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object to send to the printer by invoking the OutputResult object ‘s getGeneratedDoc method. This method returns a com.adobe.idp.Document object.
Send the print stream to a network printer

Send the print stream to a network printer by invoking the OutputClient object’s sendToPrinter method and passing the following values:
- A com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the print stream to send to the printer.
- A PrinterProtocol enumeration value that specifies the printer protocol to use. For example, to specify the SharedPrinter protocol, pass PrinterProtocol.SharedPrinter.
- A string value that specifies the name of the print server. For example, assuming the name of the print server is PrintSever1, pass \\\PrintSever1.
- A string value that specifies the name of the printer. For example, assuming the name of the printer is Printer1, pass \\\PrintSever1\Printer1.
NOTE

The sendToPrinter method was added to the AEM Forms API in version 8.2.1.

Send a print stream to a printer using the web service API

Send a print stream to a network printer by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost* with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms. *
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store form data.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the location of the XML file that contains form data.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. Determine the byte array length by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM field with the contents of the byte array.
Set print run-time options.

Create a PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor. For example, you can specify the number of copies to print by assigning an integer value that represents the number of copies to the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s copies data member.

NOTE

You cannot set the pagination value by using the PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object’s pagination data member if you are generating a ZPL print stream. Likewise, you cannot set the following options for a ZPL print stream: OutputJog, PageOffset and Staple. The pagination* data member is not valid for PostScript generation. It is valid only for PCL generation. *
Retrieve a document to print.
- Retrieve a document to print by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePrintedOutput method and passing the following values:
  - A PrintFormat enumeration value that specifies the print stream. For example, to create a PostScript print stream, pass PrintFormat.PostScript.
  - A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
  - A string value that specifies the location of related collateral files, such as image files.
  - A string value that specifies the location of the XDC file to use.
  - The PrintedOutputOptionsSpec object that contains print run-time options that are used when sending a print stream to a network printer.
  - The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains form data.
  - A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePrintedOutput method. The generatePrintedOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
  - A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePrintedOutput method. The generatePrintedOutput method populates this object with result data. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
  - An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- Create a BLOB object to send to the printer by getting the value of the OutputResult object ‘s generatedDoc method. This method returns a BLOB object that contains PostScript data returned by the generatePrintedOutput method.
Send the print stream to a network printer.

Send the print stream to a network printer by invoking the OutputClient object’s sendToPrinter method and passing the following values:
- A BLOB object that represents the print stream to send to the printer.
- A PrinterProtocol enumeration value that specifies the printer protocol to use. For example, to specify the SharedPrinter protocol, pass PrinterProtocol.SharedPrinter.
- A bool value that specifies whether to user the previous parameter value. Pass the value true. (This parameter value is required for web service invocation only.)
- A string value that specifies the name of the print server. For example, assuming that the name of the print server is PrintSever1, pass \\\PrintSever1.
- A string value that specifies the name of the printer. For example, assuming that the name of the printer is Printer1, pass \\\PrintSever1\Printer1.
NOTE

The sendToPrinter method was added to the AEM Forms API in version 8.2.1.

Creating Multiple Output Files

The Output service can create separate documents for each record within an XML data source or a single file that contains all records (this functionality is the default). For example, assume that ten records are located within an XML data source and you instruct the Output service to create separate PDF documents (or other types of output) for each record by using the Output Service API. As a result, the Output service generates ten PDF documents. (Instead of creating documents, you can send multiple print streams to a printer.)

The following illustration also shows the Output service processing an XML data file that contains multiple records. However, assume that you instruct the Output service to create a single PDF document that contains all data records. In this situation, the Output service generates one document that contains all of the records.

The following illustration shows the Output service processing an XML data file that contains multiple records. Assume that you instruct the Output service to create a separate PDF document for each data record. In this situation, the Output service generates a separate PDF document for each data record.

cm_outputbatchmany

The following XML data shows an example of a data file that contains three data records.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
 <batch> 
 <LoanRecord> 
     <mortgageAmount>500000</mortgageAmount> 
     <lastName>Blue</lastName> 
     <firstName>Tony</firstName> 
     <SSN>555666777</SSN> 
     <PositionTitle>Product Manager</PositionTitle> 
     <Address>555 No Where Dr</Address> 
     <City>New York</City> 
     <StateProv>New York</StateProv> 
     <ZipCode>51256</ZipCode> 
     <Email>TBlue@NoMailServer.com</Email> 
     <PhoneNum>555-7418</PhoneNum> 
     <FaxNum>555-9981</FaxNum> 
     <Description>Buy a home</Description> 
 </LoanRecord> 
 <LoanRecord> 
     <mortgageAmount>300000</mortgageAmount> 
     <lastName>White</lastName> 
     <firstName>Sam</firstName> 
     <SSN>555666222</SSN> 
     <PositionTitle>Program Manager</PositionTitle> 
     <Address>557 No Where Dr</Address> 
     <City>New York</City> 
     <StateProv>New York</StateProv> 
     <ZipCode>51256</ZipCode> 
     <Email>SWhite@NoMailServer.com</Email> 
     <PhoneNum>555-7445</PhoneNum> 
     <FaxNum>555-9986</FaxNum> 
     <Description>Buy a home</Description> 
 </LoanRecord> 
 <LoanRecord> 
     <mortgageAmount>700000</mortgageAmount> 
     <lastName>Green</lastName> 
     <firstName>Steve</firstName> 
     <SSN>55566688</SSN> 
     <PositionTitle>Project Manager</PositionTitle> 
     <Address>445 No Where Dr</Address> 
     <City>New York</City> 
     <StateProv>New York</StateProv> 
     <ZipCode>51256</ZipCode> 
     <Email>SGreeb@NoMailServer.com</Email> 
     <PhoneNum>555-2211</PhoneNum> 
     <FaxNum>555-2221</FaxNum> 
     <Description>Buy a home</Description> 
 </LoanRecord> 
 </batch>

Notice that the XML element that starts and ends each data record is LoanRecord. This XML element is referenced by the application logic that generates multiple files.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To create multiple PDF files based on an XML data source, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Reference an XML data source.
Set PDF run-time options.
Set rendering run-time options.
Generate multiple PDF files.
Retrieve the results of the operation.

Include project files

Include necessary files in your development project. If you are creating a client application using Java, include the necessary JAR files. If you are using web services, make sure that you include the proxy files.

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

Create an Output Client object

Reference an XML data source

Reference an XML data source that contains multiple records. An XML element must be used to separate the data records. For example, in the example XML data source that is shown earlier in this section, the XML element that separates data records is named LoanRecord.

An XML element must exist for every form field that you want to populate with data. The XML element name must match the field name. An XML element is ignored if it does not correspond to a form field or if the XML element name does not match the field name. It is not necessary to match the order in which the XML elements are displayed if all XML elements are specified.

Set PDF run-time options

You must set the following run-time options for the Output service to successfully create multiple files based on an XML data source:

Many Files: Specifies whether the Output service creates a single document or multiple documents. You can specify true or false. To create a separate document for each data record in the XML data source, specify true.
File URI: Specifies the location of the files that the Output service generates. For example, assume that you specify C:\Adobe\forms\Loan.pdf. In this situation, the Output service creates a file named Loan.pdf and places the file in the C:\Adobe\forms folder. When there are multiple files, the file names are Loan0001.pdf, Loan0002.pdf, Loan0003.pdf and so on. If you specify a file location, the files are placed on the server, not the client computer.
Record Name: Specifies the XML element name in the data source that separates the data records. For example, in the example XML data source that is shown earlier in this section, the XML element that separates data records is called LoanRecord. (Instead of setting the Record Name run-time option, you can set the Record Level by assigning it a numeric value that indicates the element level that contains data records. However, you can set only the Record Name or the Record Level. You cannot set both values.)

Set rendering run-time options

You can set rendering run-time options while creating multiple files. Although these options are not required (unlike output run-time options, which are required), you can perform tasks such as improving the performance of the Output service. For example, you can cache the form design that the Output service uses in order to improve performance.

When the Output service processes batch records, it reads data that contains multiple records in an incremental manner. That is, the Output service reads the data into memory and releases the data as the batch of records is processed. The Output service loads data in an incremental manner when either one of two run-time options are set. If you set the Record Name run-time option, the Output service reads data in an incremental manner. Likewise, if you set the Record Level run-time option to 2 or greater, the Output service reads data in an incremental manner.

You can control whether the Output service performs incremental loading by using the PDFOutputOptionsSpec or the PrintedOutputOptionSpec object’s setLazyLoading method. You can pass the value false to this method which turns off incremental loading.

Generate multiple PDF files

After you reference a valid XML data source that contains multiple data records and set run-time options, you can invoke the Output service, which causes it to generate multiple files. When generating multiple records, the OutputResult object’s getGeneratedDoc method returns null.

Retrieve the results of the operation

After the Output service performs an operation, it returns XML data that specifies whether the operation was successful. The following XML is returned by the Output service. In this situation, the Output service generated 42 documents.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
 <printResult> 
 <status>0</status> 
 <requestId>4ad85f9e2</requestId> 
 <context/> 
 <messages> 
 <message>Printed all 42 records successfully.</message> 
 </messages> 
 <printSpec> 
 <input> 
 <validated>true</validated> 
 <dataFile recordIdField="" recordLevel="0" recordName="LoanRecord"/> 
 <sniffRules lookAhead="300"/> 
 <formDesign>Loan.xdp</formDesign> 
 <contentRoot>C:\Adobe</contentRoot> 
 <metadata-spec record="false"/> 
 </input> 
 <output> 
 <format>PDF</format> 
 <fileURI>C:\Adobe\forms\Loan.pdf</fileURI> 
 <optionString>cacheenabled=true&padebug=false&linearpdf=false&pdfarevisionnumber=1&pdfaconformance=A&taggedpdf=false&TransactionTimeOut=180</optionString> 
 <waitForResponse>true</waitForResponse> 
 <outputStream>multiple</outputStream> 
 </output> 
 </printSpec> 
 </printResult>

See also

Create multiple PDF files using the Java API

Create multiple PDF files by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files”

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path. .
Create an Output Client object
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that contains multiple records by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Set PDF run-time options
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the Many Files option by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setGenerateManyFiles method. For example, pass the value true to instruct the Output service to create a separate PDF file for each record in the XML data source. (If you pass false, the Output service generates a single PDF document that contains all records).
- Set the File URI option by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileUri method and passing a string value that specifies the location of the files that the Output service generates. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
- Set the Record Name option by invoking the OutputOptionsSpec object’s setRecordName method and passing a string value that specifies the XML element name in the data source that separates the data records. (For example, consider the XML data source shown earlier in this section. The name of the XML element that separates data records is LoanRecord).
Set rendering run-time options
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design to improve the performance of the Output service by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setCacheEnabled and passing a Boolean value of true.
Generate multiple PDF files

Generate multiple PDF files by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput method and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enum value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
The generatePDFOutput method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
Retrieve the results of the operation
- Create a java.io.File object that represents an XML file that will contain the results of the generatePDFOutput method. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the applyUsageRights method).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Creating multiple PDF files using the Java API

Create multiple PDF files using the web service API

Create multiple PDF files by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store form data that contains multiple records.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor. Pass a string value that represents the file location of the XML file that contains multiple records.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM field with the contents of the byte array.
Set PDF run-time options.
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the Many Files option by assigning a Boolean value to the OutputOptionsSpec object’s generateManyFiles data member. For example, assign the value true to this data member to instruct the Output service to create a separate PDF file for each record in the XML data source. (If you assign false to this data member, then the Output service generates a single PDF that contains all records).
- Set the file URI option by assigning a string value that specifies the location of the file(s) that the Output service generates to the OutputOptionsSpec object’s fileURI data member. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
- Set the record name option by assigning a string value that specifies the XML element name in the data source that separates the data records to the OutputOptionsSpec object’s recordName data member.
- Set the copies option by assigning an integer value that specifies the number of copies that the Output service generates to the OutputOptionsSpec object’s copies data member.
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design to improve the performance of the Output service by assigning the value true to the RenderOptionsSpec object’s cacheEnabled data member.
Generate multiple PDF files.

Create multiple PDF files by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutputmethod and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enum value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with result data.
- An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
Retrieve the results of the operation
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents an XML file location that contains result data. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was populated with result data by the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutput method (the eighth parameter). Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s binaryData data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to the XML file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Creating Search Rules

You can create search rules that result in the Output service examining input data and using different form designs based on the data content to generate output. For example, if the text mortgage is located within the input data, then the Output service can use a form design named Mortgage.xdp. Likewise, if the text automobile is located in the input data, then the Output service can use a form design that is saved as AutomobileLoan.xdp. Although the Output service can generate different output types, this section assumes that the Output service generates a PDF file. The following diagram shows the Output service generating a PDF file by processing an XML data file and using one of many form designs.

In addition, the Output service is able to generate document packages, where multiple records are provided in the data set and each record is matched to a form design and a single document is generated made up of multiple form designs.

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NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To instruct the Output service to use search rules while generating a document, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Reference an XML data source.
Define search rules.
Set PDF run-time options.
Set rendering run-time options.
Generate a PDF document.
Retrieve the results of the operation.

Include project files

Include necessary files in your development project. If you are creating a client application using Java, then include the necessary JAR files. If you are using web services, then make sure that you include the proxy files.

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s classpath:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (Required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

if AEM Forms is deployed on a supported J2EE application server that is not JBoss, then you will need to replace adobe-utilities.jar and jbossall-client.jar with JAR files that are specific to the J2EE application server on which AEM Forms is deployed.

Create an Output Client object

Before you can programmatically perform an Output service operation, you must create an Output service client object.

Reference an XML data source

Define search rules

To define search rules, you define one or more text patterns that the Output services searches for in the input data. For each text pattern that you define, you specify a corresponding form design that is used if the text pattern is located. If a text pattern is located, then the Output service uses the corresponding form design to generate the output. An example of a text pattern is mortgage.

NOTE

If text patterns are not located, then the default form is used. Make sure that all form designs that you use are located in the content root.

Set PDF run-time options

Set the following PDF run-time options in order for the Output service to successfully create a PDF document based on multiple form designs:

File URI: Specifies the name and location of the PDF file that the Output service generates.
Rules: Specifies rules that you defined.
LookAHead: Specifies the number of bytes to use from the beginning of the input data file to scan for the defined text patterns. The default is 500 bytes.

Set rendering run-time options

You can set rendering run-time options while creating PDF files. Although these options are not required (unlike PDF run-time options), you can perform tasks such as improving the performance of the Output service. For example, you can cache the form design that the Output service uses in order to improve performance.

Generate a PDF document

After you reference a valid XML data source and set run-time options, you can invoke the Output service resulting in it generating a PDF document. If the Output service locates a specified text pattern in the input data, then it uses the corresponding form design. If a text pattern is not used, then the Output service uses the default form design.

Retrieve the results of the operation

After the Output service performs an operation, it returns XML data that specifies whether the operation was successful.

See also

Create search rules using the Java API

Create search rules by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the XML data source that is used to populate the PDF document by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the XML file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Define search rules.
- Create a Rule object by using its constructor.
- Define a text pattern by invoking the Rule object’s setPattern method and passing a string value that specifies a text pattern.
- Define the corresponding form design by invoking the Rule object’s setForm method . Pass a string value that specifies the name of the form design.
NOTE

For each text pattern that you want to define, repeat the previous three sub-steps.
- Create a java.util.List object by using an java.util.ArrayList constructor.
- For each Rule object that you created, invoke the java.util.List object’s add method and pass the Rule object.
Set PDF run-time options.
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Specify the name and location of the PDF file that the Output service generates by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setFileURI method. Pass a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
- Set the rules that you defined by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setRules method. Pass the java.util.List object that contains the Rule objects.
- Set the number of bytes to scan for the defined text patterns by invoking the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s setLookAhead method. Pass an integer value that represents the numbers of bytes.
Set rendering run-time options.
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design in order to improve the performance of the Output service by invoking the RenderOptionsSpec object’s setCacheEnabled and passing true.
Generate a PDF document.

Generate a PDF document that is based on multiple form designs by invoking the OutputClient object’s generatePDFOutput method and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the default form design. That is, the form design that is used if a text pattern is not located.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form designs are located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the form data that is searched by the Output service for the defined text patterns.
The generatePDFOutput method returns an OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation.
Retrieve the results of the operation.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the status of the generatePDFOutput method by invoking the OutputResult object’s getStatusDoc method.
- Create a java.io.File object that will contain the results of the operation. Ensure that the file extension is .xml.
- Invoke the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the com.adobe.idp.Document object to the file (ensure that you use the com.adobe.idp.Document object that was returned by the getStatusDoc method).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Creating search rules using the Java API

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Creating search rules using the Java API

Create search rules using the web service API

Create search rules by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Reference an XML data source.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store data that will be merged with the PDF document.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the PDF document to encrypt and the mode in which to open the file.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM field with the contents of the byte array.
Define search rules.
- Create a Rule object by using its constructor.
- Define a text pattern by assigning a string value that specifies a text pattern to the Rule object’s pattern data member.
- Define the corresponding form design by assigning a string value that specifies the form design to the Rule object’s form data member.
NOTE

For each text pattern that you want to define, repeat the previous three sub-steps.
- Create a MyArrayOf_xsd_anyType object that stores the rules.
- Assign each Rule object to an element of the MyArrayOf_xsd_anyType array. Invoke the MyArrayOf_xsd_anyType object’s Add method for each Rule object.
Set PDF run-time options
- Create a PDFOutputOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Set the file URI option by assigning a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file that the Output service generates to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s fileURI data member. The File URI option is relative to the J2EE application server hosting AEM Forms, not the client computer.
- Set the copies option by assigning an integer value that specifies the number of copies that the Output service generates to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s copies data member.
- Set the rules that you defined by assigning the MyArrayOf_xsd_anyType object that stores the rules to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s rules data member.
- Set the number of bytes to scan for the defined text patterns by assigning an integer value that represents the numbers of bytes to scan to the PDFOutputOptionsSpec object’s lookAhead data method.
Set rendering run-time options
- Create a RenderOptionsSpec object by using its constructor.
- Cache the form design in order to improve the performance of the Output service by assigning the value true to the RenderOptionsSpec object’s cacheEnabled data member.
NOTE

You cannot set the version of the PDF document by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s pdfVersion member if the input document is an Acrobat form. The output PDF document retains the PDF version of the Acrobat form. Likewise, you cannot set the tagged PDF option by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s taggedPDF method if the input document is an Acrobat form.

NOTE

You cannot set the linearized PDF option by using the RenderOptionsSpec object’s linearizedPDF member if the input PDF document is certified or digitally signed. For information, see Digitally Signing PDF Documents.
Generate a PDF document

Create a PDF document by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutputmethod and passing the following values:
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A string value that specifies the name of the form design.
- A string value that specifies the content root where the form design is located.
- A PDFOutputOptionsSpec object that contains PDF run-time options.
- A RenderOptionsSpec object that contains rendering run-time options.
- The BLOB object that contains the XML data source that contains data to merge with the form design.
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with generated metadata that describes the document. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- A BLOB object that is populated by the generatePDFOutput method. The generatePDFOutput method populates this object with result data. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
- An OutputResult object that contains the results of the operation. (This parameter value is required only for web service invocation).
NOTE

When generating a PDF document by invoking the generatePDFOutput method, be aware that you cannot merge data with an XFA PDF form that is signed, certified, or contains usage rights. For information about usage rights, see Applying Usage Rights to PDF Documents.
Retrieve the results of the operation
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents an XML file location that contains result data. Ensure that the file extension is XML.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was populated with result data by the OutputServiceService object’s generatePDFOutput method (the eighth parameter). Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to the XML file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also

Flatten a PDF document using the web service API

Flattening PDF Documents

You can use the Output service to transform an interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF. An interactive PDF document lets users enter or modify data that is in the PDF document fields. The process of transforming an interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document is called flattening. When a PDF document is flattened, a user cannot modify the data in the document fields. One reason to flatten a PDF document is to ensure that data cannot be modified.

You can flatten the following types of PDF documents:

Interactive XFA PDF documents
Acrobat Forms

Attempting to flatten a PDF that is a non-interactive PDF document causes an exception.

NOTE

For more information about the Output service, see Services Reference for AEM Forms.

Summary of steps

To flatten an interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document, perform the following steps:

Include project files.
Create an Output Client object.
Retrieve an interactive PDF document.
Transform the PDF document.
Save the non-interactive PDF document as a PDF file.

Include project files

Include the necessary files in your development project. If you are creating a client application by using Java, include the necessary JAR files. If you are by using web services, make sure that you include the proxy files.

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)
jbossall-client.jar (required if AEM Forms is deployed on JBoss)

Create an Output Client object

Retrieve an interactive PDF document

Retrieve an interactive PDF document that you want to transform to a non-interactive PDF document. Attempting to transform a non-interactive PDF document, causes an exception.

Transform the PDF document

After you retrieve an interactive PDF document, you can transform it to a non-interactive PDF document. The Output service returns a non-interactive PDF document.

Save the non-interactive PDF document as a PDF file

You can save the non-interactive PDF document as a PDF file.

Flatten a PDF document using the Java API

Flatten an interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document by using the Output API (Java):

Include project files.

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-output-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
- Create an OutputClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.
Retrieve an interactive PDF document.
- Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the interactive PDF document to transform by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the interactive PDF file.
- Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.
Transform the PDF document.

Transform the interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document by invoking the OutputServiceService object’s transformPDF method and passing the following values:
- The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the interactive PDF document.
- A TransformationFormat enum value. To generate a non-interactive PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A PDFARevisionNumber enum value that specifies the revision number. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify null.
- A string value that represents the amendment number and year, separated by a colon. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify null.
- A PDFAConformance enum value that represents the PDF/A conformance level. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify null.
The transformPDF method returns a com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains a non-interactive PDF document.
Save the non-interactive PDF document as a PDF file.
- Create a java.io.File object and ensure that the file name extension is .pdf.
- Invoke the Document object’s copyToFile method to copy the contents of the Document object to the file (ensure that you use the Document object that was returned by the transformPDF method).

See also

Quick Start (EJB mode): Transforming a PDF document using the Java API

Quick Start (SOAP mode): Transforming a PDF document using the Java API

Flatten a PDF document using the web service API

Flatten an interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document by using the Output API (web service):

Include project files.

Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

NOTE

Replace localhost with the IP address of the server hosting AEM Forms.
Create an Output Client object.
- Create an OutputServiceClient object by using its default constructor.
- Create an OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom.) You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference. However, specify ?blob=mtom to use MTOM.
- Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the OutputServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.
- Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.
- Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:
  - Assign the AEM forms user name to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
  - Assign the corresponding password value to the field OutputServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
  - Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
  - Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.
Retrieve an interactive PDF document.
- Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store the interactive PDF document.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the interactive PDF document.
- Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
- Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
- Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM property with the contents of the byte array.
Transform the PDF document.

Transform the interactive PDF document to a non-interactive PDF document by invoking the OutputClient object’s transformPDF method and passing the following values:
- A BLOB object that contains the interactive PDF document.
- A TransformationFormat enumeration value. To generate a non-interactive PDF document, specify TransformationFormat.PDF.
- A PDFARevisionNumber enum value that specifies the revision number.
- A Boolean value that specifies whether the PDFARevisionNumber enum value is used. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify false.
- A string value that represents the amendment number and year, separated by a colon. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify null.
- A PDFAConformance enum value that represents the PDF/A conformance level.
- Boolean value that specifies whether the PDFAConformance enum value is used. Because this parameter is meant for a PDF/A document, you can specify false.
The transformPDF method returns a BLOB object that contains a non-interactive PDF document.
Save the non-interactive PDF document as a PDF file.
- Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the non-interactive PDF document.
- Create a byte array that stores the data content of the BLOB object that was returned by the transformPDF method. Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM data member.
- Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
- Write the contents of the byte array to a PDF file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.

See also