PDF conversion on the Web
To preview the PDF Converter's web functionality follow these simple steps:
Copy SWING PDF Converter database (PDFConverter.nsf) to your server.
Open Domino Administrator, navigate to PDFConverter.nsf and sign the application with Active Server's ID.

Open PDFConverter.nsf in Lotus Notes and enter your serial key.
In Application properties (5th tab) set "When opened in browser: Open designated Frameset" -> "Frameset: MainWeb".

Open the application in your web browser and click the Create PDF button.

PDF Converter will now extract all required files. Please restart your Domino server to complete installation.
You should be able to use PDF Converter on the web now

How it works
SWING PDF Converter web example UI form is stored in Swing PDF Converter database, in "FaxWeb" form. Back end code is in the "FaxWeb" agent.
Here's a brief explanation how web conversion works: Form "FaxWeb" is a Notes form that is optimized for web display.
When user clicks on the button "Create PDF", simple formula code that saves the document and closes window is executed: @Command([FileSave]); @Command([FileCloseWindow])
There is an event trigger defined which executes when the document is being saved ("WebQuerySave" event): @Command([ToolsRunMacro];"FaxWeb") This event executes LotusScript agent "FaxWeb".
Agent "FaxWeb" initializes Swing PDF Converter, converts the document and constructs output HTML from PDF document path.
This HTML code is printed to the clients browser.
Sample code
Here's the "FaxWeb" agent source code:
Option Public
Option Declare
Use "SwPDFMain"
Sub Initialize
Dim s As New NotesSession, docContext As NotesDocument
Dim swPDF As New SwPDFCreator, swPDFDoc As SwPDFDocument, pdfErr As SwPDFError
Dim rtitem As NotesRichTextItem, PDFFileName As String, HrefUrl As String
PDFFileName = "test.pdf"
Set docContext = s.DocumentContext
If Not docContext Is Nothing Then
If swPDF.Init("") Then
' Set alternate form and default file name used for PDF conversion
swPDF.PDFSettings.AlternateForm = "Fax"
swPDF.PDFSettings.IncludeWebAttachments = True
swPDF.FileName = PDFFileName
' enable font embedding for non ascii characters
swPDF.PDFSettings.EnableFontEmbedding = True
'enable console logging
swPDF.PDFSettings.ConsoleLogging = True
' Convert doc to PDF
Set swPDFDoc = swPDF.ProcessDocument(docContext)
If Not swPDFDoc Is Nothing Then
' Finally, get generated PDF as RTItem and store it in document for further reference
Set rtitem = swPDFDoc.GetAsRTItem()
Call rtitem.CopyItemToDocument(docContext, "")
Call docContext.Save(True, True)
Call swPDFDoc.Recycle()
' Construst a URL and display generated PDF in a web browser
HrefUrl = "0/" & Cstr(docContext.UniversalID) & "/$File/" & PDFFileName
Print |You can download a copy of PDF file from here
| & Chr$(13) & ||
Else
' There was an error in PDF conversion
Set pdfErr = swPDF.GetError()
Print "ERROR: " & pdfErr.Message & ""
End If
Else
' There was an error in PDF initialization
Set pdfErr = swPDF.GetError()
Print "ERROR: " & pdfErr.Message & ""
End If
End If
End Sub
About "Pass-Thru HTML"
SWING PDF Converter does not support "Pass-Thru HTML" content on Lotus forms.
Rendering those forms to PDF will result in PDF document showing the plan HTML/JavaScript source code.
To work around this issue you may design an alternate Notes form that shows the same content but without using HTML.
More on alternate forms:
How to use alternate formsUsing alternate formsLast updated
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