AEM Output Service REGARDING

[#1]

Hi Folks,

The following link http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/output-service.html gives info about generating PDF document in AEM, but I do not find the OutputService class in the jars that come along AEM 6 installation. 

Please let me know if any of you have tried creating PDF document in AEM without using a serviceclientfactory to connect to Adobe Livecycle ES4.

The Java API link given at http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/javadocs/index.html, but not able to find a single example that uses these API to generate a PDF. 

Regards -

Ashok Deivasigamani

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ashok,

     Sample code for using Output Service in AEM for generating PDF is on following page

     http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/aem-document-services-programmatically.html

    Output Service API classes/interface can be found in Client SDK jar at this maven repository. http://repo.adobe.com/nexus/content/groups/public/com/adobe/aemfd/aemfd-client-sdk/1.0.2/

 Thanks

Nitin

[#3]

@snacdonald2008, I did not get your last post on the thread.

Regards -

Ashok Deivasigamani

[#4]

This one the list for an end to end community AEM article. 

[#5]

Hi Nitin,

Thanks for the guidance, Now after building the code and deploying the same in AEM, I am facing the following issue.

I had placed by XDP file in the the following path in dam /content/dam/formsanddocuments/NedbankInc/ and set the same as content root for the PDF options object before calling the generatePDFOutput method.

But I get the following exception

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \content\dam\formsanddocuments\NedbankInc\CurrentAccountForm.xdp (The system cannot find the path specified)

Regards -

Ashok Deivasigamani

[#6]

Hi Folks,

The adobe helpx at http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/overview-aem-document-services.html identifies four services available in the Output services namely generatePDFOuput2, generatePrintedOutput2, sendToPrinter, transformPDF. But the OutputService java doc available at http://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/javadocs/com/adobe/fd/output/api/OutputService.html does not have the above services but instead have 6 other methods, 2 for generating PDF, 2 for generating Printed Output(Post Script, etc) and 2 for generating (1 for pdf and 1 for printed) documents in batch.

I had used generatePrintedOutput(Document inDoc, Document data, PrintedOutputOptions printedOutputOptions)  and generated the post script, I had attached the code for your reference. 

I have not understood the use for

setXci(Document xci) in the PrintedOutputOptions API, Also how to send the generated Post Script to a local or networked printer, is there a API to set the printer parameters.

Regards -

Ashok Deivasigamani