You may use the LiveCycle Assembler Service to achieve this use case. Assembler Service requires a DDX document used to specify instructions for assembling the PDF document ( in this case it will be the range of pages to be assembled into PDF ) . Since the input here is a native file format (e.g. word doc ) , LiveCycle Generate PDF service must be installed/configured to convert native formats to PDF as Assembler service can call only services installed with LiveCycle.
Find below a sample DDX(xml) that fetches the page range to assemble into resultant PDF.
<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/">
<PDF result="out.pdf">
<PDF source="testdoc.docx" pages="5-10"/>
</PDF>
</DDX>
The following JAVA code (SOAP method ) uses the DDX doc to assembles PDF. Please edit the below location as per your environment and run the JAVA code.
- A Document Description XML (DDX) document : ( in this case C://DDX.xml )
- The input document : ( in this case C://testdoc.docx )
- A location to store the resulting PDF document : ( in this case C:// AssemblerResult.pdf )
import com.adobe.livecycle.assembler.client.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import com.adobe.idp.Document;
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactory;
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactoryProperties;
public class AssemblerPDF
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
//Set connection properties required to invoke LiveCycle ES2
Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_DEFAULT_SOAP_ENDPOINT, "http://<servername>:<port>");
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL,ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SOAP_PROTOCOL);
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SERVER_TYPE, "JBoss");
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME, "administrator");
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD, "password");
//Create a ServiceClientFactory instance
ServiceClientFactory myFactory = ServiceClientFactory.createInstance(connectionProps);
//Create an AssemblerServiceClient object
AssemblerServiceClient assemblerClient = new AssemblerServiceClient(myFactory);
//Create a FileInputStream object based on an existing DDX file
FileInputStream myDDXFile = new FileInputStream("C:\\DDX.xml");
//Create a Document object based on the DDX file
Document myDDX = new Document(myDDXFile);
//Create a Map object to store PDF source documents
Map inputs = new HashMap();
FileInputStream mySourceMap = new FileInputStream("C:\\testdoc.docx");
//Create a Document object based on the map.pdf source file
Document myPDFMapSource = new Document(mySourceMap);
//Place entries into the Map object
inputs.put("testdoc.docx",myPDFMapSource);
//Create an AssemblerOptionsSpec object
AssemblerOptionSpec assemblerSpec = new AssemblerOptionSpec();
assemblerSpec.setFailOnError(false);
//Submit the job to Assembler service
AssemblerResult jobResult = assemblerClient.invokeDDX(myDDX,inputs,assemblerSpec);
java.util.Map allDocs = jobResult.getDocuments();
//Retrieve the result PDF document from the Map object
Document outDoc = null;
//Iterate through the map object to retrieve the result PDF document
for (Iterator i = allDocs.entrySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
// Retrieve the Map objects value
Map.Entry e = (Map.Entry)i.next();
//Get the key name as specified in the
//DDX document
String keyName = (String)e.getKey();
if (keyName.equalsIgnoreCase("out.pdf"))
{
Object o = e.getValue();
outDoc = (Document)o;
//Save the result PDF file
File myOutFile = new File("C:\\AssemblerResult.pdf");
outDoc.copyToFile(myOutFile);
}
}
}catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
For further details , please refer the ddx reference (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/ddxRef.pdf) examples on "page ranges" .
Sample JAVA code for Assembler Service quick starts is available at link ( http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/programLC/help/index.htm?content=000014.html ).
