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# Button on view

```
Use "SwPDFMain"
Sub Click(Source As Button)
    Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace, s As New NotesSession, dc As NotesDocumentCollection
    Dim swPDF As New SwPDFCreator, swPDFDoc As SwPDFDocument

    ' Get documents selection from view
    Set dc = s.CurrentDatabase.UnprocessedDocuments

    ' Initialize PDF creation process; license key is required
    If swPDF.Init("<YOUR LICENSE KEY GOES HERE>") Then
        If dc.Count = 1 Then
            ' Convert doc to PDF
            Set swPDFDoc = swPDF.ProcessDocument(dc.GetFirstDocument)
        Else
            ' Convert document collection to PDF
            Set swPDFDoc = swPDF.ProcessDocCollection(dc, w.CurrentView.ViewName)
        End If

        ' Finally, save generated PDF to a file on disk
        Call swPDFDoc.SaveToFile("c:\temp\test.pdf")

        Msgbox "PDF successfully created."
    Else
        ' There was an error in PDF initialization
        Dim pdfErr As SwPDFError
        Set pdfErr = swPDF.GetError()
        Msgbox "An error occurred: (" & pdfErr.Code & ") " & pdfErr.Message & " - line " & pdfErr.Position
    End If
End Sub
```


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