INT013 - Create PDF Output using PDFDocumentService
Objectives
- To create an application which produces a PDF document containing employee details and skills.
- To demonstrate how to use the PDFDocumentService.
- To understand how to define the PDF document layout, by defining an XML template document.
To achieve the objectives you will complete the following:
Concepts
- The enables complex and dynamic PDF output to be produced.
- The format of the output PDF document is defined by an XML template document. This XML template includes <content></content> tags which are used to define the content of the various areas of a page. This structure is completely flexible, but will typically include content areas such as header, details, lists and footer.
- Your RDML/RDMLX program creates a PDF document using the XML template and "adds content" into the content areas defined by the XML template
- Content can be added in any sequence
- The page area is defined as a grid. A4 landscape for example, is defined as having an area of 590 x 840 pts.
- The bottom left hand position is 0,0
- All output to the page is defined as having a position on an X1, Y1 axis. These values define the top left hand corner for this element. Y is the vertical axis.
- In the guide, refer to in the for details of all the elements which can be defined in the XML template.
- The includes a sample XML template and the RDML function to output a PDF document using it.
Before You Begin
If you plan to run this exercise on your IBM i server:
- Create the following folder, if it does not already exist:
/LANSA_<pgmlib>/jsm/instance/training
Where <pgmlib> is your LANSA program library, e.g. dcxpgmlib.
- Copy these files to the . . /training folder
- lanlogo.gif
- ph0070.tif
These files are included in a zip file which can be download from:
http://www.lansa.com/support/docs/index.htm
See LANSA Integrator / Extra Tutorial Files.