- Command aliases
The PDF Adapter works with Acrobat forms and templates to generate a PDF document or extract data from all or part of an input PDF document.
- Transaction scope and document persistence in memory
When a document is added using the -ADOC command, the PDF Adapter stores the document in memory. Documents stored in memory are identified by a document identifier that is either provided by the user, or generated by the PDF Adapter. The document persists in memory as specified by the transaction scope in the card settings.
- The data_from_map option
Some of the PDF Adapter action commands that follow include the data_from_map option. The data_from_map option represents the data that is passed as the third parameter of a GET function. It is not a parameter on the adapter command line.
- Add document (-ADOC) command
The -ADOC command adds a file on the local file system, or a remote file, accessible through http protocol, on the file system as a document in memory and returns the document ID to the map. Alternatively, the -ADOC command can add dynamic data from a map as a document in memory and return the document ID to the map.
- Remove document (-RDOC) command
The -RDOC command removes a document from memory. By default, documents are removed from memory when a map, or card, processing completes. Transaction scope card setting determines the document persistence in memory. Use this command if too many intermediate documents accumulate in memory during map processing.
- Replace document (-UDOC) command
The -UDOC command replaces an existing document in memory with a new one and returns the new document ID.
- Get document data (-GDOC) command
The -GDOC command returns data from a document in memory.
- Filename (-URL) command
- Schema (-SCHEMA) command
- Page (-PAGE) command
- PDF Template (-TEMPLATE) command
- Name lookup file (-NAMES) command
- Append data (-APPEND) command
- PDF transformation (-PDF) command
The -PDF command allows the map to transform map data in XML format to PDF data using the GET map rule. PUT receives map data in XML format and transforms it to formatted PDF data. This command allows the same with GET, so that it can return PDF data back to the map, by performing in-memory transformation. The XML format data must conform to the PDF importer generated, native XML schema for the corresponding PDF document