How to render forms (.for) as PDF through webservice

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Here is the situation:
We are working on a product catalog project where the catalog also contains a forms library in relationship with various Insuarnce products.
There is a catalog search capability being built that should be able to conduct a structured search based on the forms listed in the catalog and then a unstrcutured search that could search the content of an actual form.
The way we are looking at it is to extarct the forms (.for) files from Documaker MRL in PDF format and load into a SharePoint repository against which an unstructured search can be performed.
How can we extract the .for files from the MRL in a realtime process and create a PDF? From the list of available ewps services only doPublish has the distributionchannels options to create a PDF. However, it is dependent on availability of an import file as well as specification of key1 and key2.
The MRL is in Oracle 10g and DocServer and the presentment are on AIX boxes.
Any suggestion or recommendation will greatly help. Even an alternative approach that would enable the unstructured search for the forms is most welcome.
Thanks,
Prashant

Hi Prashant,
Do your forms change so frequently that you need real-time access to the FOR ???
One of the major issues I see with that kind of setup is ensuring that the calling web service gets the correct version of the form.
Say you have form 123 456 (2010-01) Documaker version 1, revision 10, that has been published and 123 456 (2012-06) Documaker version 2.1, not published, and a work-in-process. Unless you build a complete parallel forms management system, chances are you would often get the wrong version of a form.
Distributing a form in a "work-in-process" state is never good, but try to imagine the panic if, by mistake, a future version of a form, drastically reducing the coverage, is leaked.
You could probably build the search features on a set of folders containing the PDF version of approved, published forms. That's the kind of setup we have in place.

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