Summary

LANSA Integrator

Summary

INT013 - Create PDF Output using PDFDocumentService

Important Observations

  • The PDFDocumentService enables complex and dynamic PDF documents to be produced.
  • The format of the PDF document is defined in an XML template
  • Your RDML produces the PDF based on the structure defined by the XML
  • Your RDML "adds content" into the PDF document
  • The page is defined as a grid in using units of points. An A4 landscape page is 590 x 840 points for example
  • The bottom left corner is location 0,0

Tips & Techniques

  • Time spent planning your document layout in some detail, will speed up the overall task

What I Should Know

  • How to define the content of the PDF document using an XML template
  • How to create PDF document using the PDFDocumentService.