How to generate PDF from an IView

Question

Hi all,
I have been reading a lot about generating PDF document, smart form, adobe LiveCycle Forms, BAPI's..etc. but I can not find anything more simple:
I just would like to show (and maybe save and print) in PDF format (maybe in a popup) an IView content.
I have read how to generate a pdf file from a binary attribute of the Context, but nothing about how to fill this binary attribute with the data of the current showed IView.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Hello, Lohitha.
Thanks for your post. You are right, the general way to create a PDF is like that, using Adobe Interactive Forms.
Using this, I must design a form and fill it with data binding. But, in fact, what I'm requested to do is just convert the current IView into a pdf file without using any forms, but keeping the IView design.
Let me explain myself, It could be something similar to convert a .doc file into .pdf.
I tried this code;
     IPrivatePDFComponentView.IContextElement contextElement = wdContext.currentContextElement();
     byte[] bytes = contextElement.getPdfSource(); //here I get bytes = null since PdfSource is empty if I do not use Interactive Forms!!
     try {
          File file = new File("C:\temp\example.pdf");
          FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file);
          os.write(bytes);
          os.close();
     } catch (IOException e) {
          // do something
          e.printStackTrace();
Do you know how could I do that?
Thanks