Dr Flex & Dr LiveCycle

Disease:

If you have upgraded to LiveCycle ES from a previous version of PDF Generator or even Adobe Elements Server, you may have noticed that the Web UI for generating PDF files is only accessible for those that have a login to the server, and for those that have the proper rights to use the PDF Generator services. In the past there was a URL where everybody could go to server-based PDF Generation.

Prescription:

Of course you could start to develop your own web-page to offer this service to anybody within your company, but actually there is a documented solution for this. In the LiveCycle ES LiveDocs on our website, there is a topic called “Quick Start: Converting a Microsoft Word document to a PDF document using LiveCycle Remoting“. This specific sample uses LiveCycle Remoting to call the standard PDF Conversion process that is part of LC ES. Click here to access the page that contains the code needed.

Tips to stay healthy:

If you take the code described above, and open it using Adobe Flex, you can create a SWF file there that you can post on a web server. The result looks like this:

It will take you 30 minutes to do the whole process, and you will have a working process. Make sure you link to the swc files in the LiveCycle ES SDK (located in C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8\LiveCycle_ES_SDK\misc\DataServices\Client-Libraries) when compiling the application.

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