Working with PDF/A Documents

Include project files

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-docconverter-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.

Create a DocConvert client

• Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
• Create a DocConverterServiceClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.

Reference a PDF document to convert to a PDF/A document

• Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the PDF document to convert by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file.
• Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.

Set tracking information

• Create a PDFAConversionOptionSpec object by using its constructor.
• Set the information tracking level by invoking the PDFAConversionOptionSpec object’s setLogLevel method and passing a string value that specifies the tracking level. For example, pass the value FINE. For information about the different values, see the setLogLevel method in the AEM Forms API Reference.

Convert the document

Convert the PDF document to a PDF/A document by invoking the DocConverterServiceClient object’s toPDFA method and passing the following values:

• The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the PDF document to convert
• The PDFAConversionOptionSpec object that specifies tracking information

The toPDFA method returns a PDFAConversionResult object that contains the PDF/A document.

Save the PDF/A document

• Retrieve the PDF/A document by invoking the PDFAConversionResult object’s getPDFA method. This method returns a com.adobe.idp.Document object that represents the PDF/A document.
• Create a java.io.File object that represents the PDF/A file. Ensure that the file name extension is .pdf.
• Populate the file with PDF/A data by invoking the com.adobe.idp.Document object’s copyToFile method and passing the java.io.File object.

Include project files

• Create a Microsoft .NET client assembly that consumes the DocConverter WSDL.
• Reference the Microsoft .NET client assembly.

Create a DocConvert client

• Using the Microsoft .NET client assembly, create a DocConverterServiceService object by invoking its default constructor.
• Set the DocConverterServiceService object’s Credentials data member with a System.Net.NetworkCredential value that specifies the user name and password value.

Reference a PDF document to convert to a PDF/A document

• Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store the PDF document that is converted to a 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 and the mode to open the file in.
• 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 tracking information

• Create a PDFAConversionOptionSpec object by using its constructor.
• Set the information tracking level by assigning a value that specifies the tracking level to the PDFAConversionOptionSpec object’s logLevel data member. For example, assign the value FINE to this data member.

Convert the document

Convert the PDF document to a PDF/A document by invoking the DocConverterServiceService object’s toPDFA method and passing the following values:

• The BLOB object that contains the PDF document to convert
• The PDFAConversionOptionSpec object that specifies tracking information

The toPDFA method returns a PDFAConversionResult object that contains the PDF/A document.

Save the PDF/A document

• Create a BLOB object that stores the PDF/A document by getting the value of the PDFAConversionResult object’s PDFADocument data member.
• Create a byte array that stores the content of the BLOB object that was returned by using the PDFAConversionResult object. Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s binaryData data member.
• Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the PDF/A document.
• 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.

Include project files

Include client JAR files, such as adobe-docconverter-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.

Create a DocConvert client

• Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.
• Create a DocConverterServiceClient object by using its constructor and passing the ServiceClientFactory object.

Reference a PDF document used to determine PDF/A compliancy

• Create a java.io.FileInputStream object that represents the PDF document to convert by using its constructor and passing a string value that specifies the location of the PDF file.
• Create a com.adobe.idp.Document object by using its constructor and passing the java.io.FileInputStream object.

Set run-time options

• Create a PDFAValidationOptionSpec object by using its constructor.
• Set the compliance level by invoking the PDFAValidationOptionSpec object’s setCompliance method and passing PDFAValidationOptionSpec.Compliance.PDFA_1B.
• Set the information tracking level by invoking the PDFAValidationOptionSpec object’s setLogLevel method and passing a string value that specifies the tracking level. For example, pass the value FINE. For information about the different values, see the setLogLevel method in the AEM Forms API Reference.

Retrieve information about the PDF document

Determine PDF/A compliancy by invoking the DocConverterServiceClient object’s isPDFA method and passing the following values:

• The com.adobe.idp.Document object that contains the PDF document.
• The PDFAValidationOptionSpec object that specifies run-time options.

The isPDFA method returns a PDFAValidationResult object that contains the results of this operation.