Re: Generating PDF using BizTalk

Thanks for the info!

Francois

"zeneves" <zeneves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Aug 8, 5:23 pm, "Francois Malgreve"
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Interesting....

So how do you return the generated pdf to the client? do you put it in an
XML message in a special element type and then send to the client through
a
send port??

Francois Malgreve.http://www.malgreve.net/

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On Aug 8, 12:17 pm, "Markus Eßmayr" <essmayr/at/racon-linz.at> wrote:>
Hello,

today I got a request if it's possible to create PDF-files from
XML-messages
given an appropriate XSLT.
We already use that in one of our Java-WebServices. XML-data gets
transformed using an XSLT and results in a PDF-file thats returned to
the
client.
Has anyone of you an idea, if it's possible to create PDF-files using
BizTalk, and what I need for doing that?

Thanks very much!
Max

That's not a Biztalk feature.

However, you could use some custom code to do that.
We are using XSL-FO technology to convert XML Data to PDF.There are
some tools to do that, like Apache FOP (free).

We have an orchestration that receive the XML data, and somewhere in
the workflow calls an C# class, that applies XSL transformation,
executes the FOP command, waits for the output, read generated PDF
and return it to the client.

There are other tools (not free) to do this, like Ecrion, XML Mill, XF
Render, etc... If the complexity of the PDF is low, Apache FOP will
be enough.

If you need some details on this, ask for it :)

Jose Neves

We are using xs:string type and converting to base64. The client
decodes the string and opens the PDF.

We are using this in a Web application. The web site requests the PDF
to Biztalk machine, Biztalk generates it and returns the PDF to the
client.


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