Questions Regarding Adobe Document Services

Greetings,
We are looking at implementing Adobe Document Services and I have some general questions about running it; any input you can give will be helpful. I am particularly eager for good reference documents that have answers to these questions.
Question 1:
We have multiple ABAP stacks which could use ADS (which runs on the J2EE stack). Can we use just one J2EE instance running the latest version of ADS and hook it up to all our ABAP stacks? Or do we need a separate J2EE instance for each ABAP stack?
Question 2:
Are there direct version dependencies between ADS and the ABAP stack version / J2EE stack version? In other words, if we upgrade the ABAP stack version does the ADS version need to increase to the same stack level?
Question 3:
Does Adobe Lifecycle Designer require a separate client install for it to work in the SAPGUI?
Question 4:
What is meant by "high volume" print scenarios -- and why would this supposedly need a dual-stack system?
Thanks in advance SDNers!
- Kris

actuall the statement to have ABAP+JAVA for performnce reasons is obsolete as of NW 7.0 SP12
please see the Master guide at https://service.sap.com/instguides
For SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SP Stack 06 and higher, run both usage types AS ABAP and AS Java in
one system to improve performance for printing scenarios in this system. This precludes the
possibility of using one central ADS for several systems.
As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SP Stack 12, this restriction no longer applies. Therefore you can also
improve performance by using one central ADS for several systems.
this is a good starting point https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe
There are in particular for ADS installations on HP-UX performance constraints
please checkout #1133230:
Because the ADS binary files execute using the AIRES emulator, erformance of the ADS will be slightly different from what is indicated in the ADS sizing guidelines.
Performance for small print forms will be approximately 2.0 times slower than indicated in the sizing guideline.
Performance for medium and large print forms and non-cached interactive forms will be approximately 1.5 times slower than indicated in the sizing guideline
Performance for cached interactive forms will be approximately 25% faster than indicated in the sizing guideline
Nesimi

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Hi Rachel,
The most important SAP Notes that apply to the configuration of the Adobe document services are shown below:
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SAP Note Number
Title
894009
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A few questions regarding the configuration of Adobe Document Services

For Your Information: the main questions are repeated at the end of this post.
The Adobe Document Services seems to work fine. The test I did on http://<server>:<port>/AdobeDocumentServices/Config gives the error
' "Required stream: "PDFDocument" not found. ' so that's fine.
But when I do this: http://server:50000/webdynpro/dispatcher/local/TutWD_OnlineInteractiveForm/OnlineInteractiveFormApp
The result: the PDF is shown and I can enter text in the textboxes and also use the radioboxes.
But I can't use the dropdownboxes, neither can I use the "submit" and "check" buttons..
Is this normal? Or is it because of the ReaderRights credential?
Or is it necessary to install the ACF?
Here is some info I got from a blog:
"Client Side Requirements
Follow the steps mentioned below. Please make sure the following prerequisites are met before working with Adobe Interactive Forms.
NWDS 7.0 / 6.0
Adobe Live cycle designer 7.1 / 7.0
Adobe Reader 7.0.8 [ Minimum : 7.0.1]
End User Requirements
Adobe Reader 7.0.8 [ Minimum : 7.0.1]
Active Component Framework (ACF) - SPS 9, SPS 10"
Two more questions;
1)This info is in the config guide:
"If you have installed the ADS and the WD runtime environment on different J2EE engines and if the communication between these engines uses the SLD, you need to publish the ADS to the SLD."
Does this mean that I don't need to do this when I haven't used SLD? Or is it necessary to install SLD?
Some more info:
Prerequisites:
A System Landscape Dir must already have been configured.
If you have not yet done so, perform the necessary activities according to the documentation SAP System Landscape Directory, Administrative Activities section, chapters:
Start and stop the SLD Service
Configure the SLD Server
Configure data persistence
Make settings for the SLD bridge
You can find this documentation by calling the following URL in your web
browser: http://<host>:<port>/sld
When I check this URL, I don't see anything concerning an (already configured) SLD.
2) Do I need the license below too to develop in AIF?
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes/sdn_oss_bc_srv/~form/handler%7b5f4150503d3030323030363832353030303030303031393732265f4556454e543d444953504c4159265f4e4e554d3d373530373834%7d
Main questions----
I need to create a form with a few fields (of which some fields are mandatory); then I have to use a few BAPI's to check these fields and to save the content in a CRM system.
I've installed Netweaver Sneak Preview, and configured Adobe Document Services (made ADSUser & ADSCaller, set IIOP etc to Autostart, Installed the credentials). The tests seem to work fine, but I haven't developed anything yet.
My questions:
1)Is it necessary to install the ACF?
2)Is it necessary to install Adobe LifeCycle Designer?
3)Also SLD?
4)Also the license described above?
Grz
Allan
Message was edited by:
Allan Duinslaeger

No one?
Some questions are answered by someone else.
-The SLD is okay, it doesn't need to be configured
-The Adobe Lifecycle Designer is automatically installed when installing the Netweaver Studio Sneak Preview SP16
Just two more questions:
1)when I open http://server:port/webdynpro/dispatcher/local/TutWD_OnlineInteractiveForm/OnlineInteractiveFormApp
The PDF is shown but I can't use the buttons or the dropdown boxes.
I tried to install ACF but I have NW04s SP16, and the ACF is only SP11.
So when I install that, it only shows a blue screen with "I am the placeholder control"
When I install ACF SP19 for NW04, the PDF shows again, but I still can't use the buttons or dropdowns. Is this normal?
2) Do I need the license described below?
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes/sdn_oss_bc_srv/~form/handler%7b5f4150503d3030323030363832353030303030303031393732265f4556454e543d444953504c4159265f4e4e554d3d373530373834%7d
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I need to create a form with a few fields (of which some fields are mandatory); then I have to use a few BAPI's to check these fields and to save the content in a CRM system.
I've installed Netweaver Sneak Preview, and configured Adobe Document Services (made ADSUser & ADSCaller, set IIOP etc to Autostart, Installed the credentials). The tests seem to work fine, but I haven't developed anything yet.
My questions:
1) What about the ACF?
2) Also the license described above?
Grz
Allan

Adobe Document Services landscape question

Hello,
We have installed Adobe Document Services (ADS) as part of Netweaver 2004s on a 32 bit Windows server. We have our Development Portal configured to point to this server in the configuration of ADS.
Can we use the same ADS server for our QA Portal? We want to limit the number of servers/instances that we have to install and maintain.
Thank you,
George Barta

Hello,
There is a web service client connection to setup, and that's it (so nothing extraordinary there) !
Guids on how to do this are available on service.sap.com/adobe (configuration guide) and also in the following threads:
ADS connection
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Regards,
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HI,
I have an XDP file designed by Adobe Designer 7.1 with the following hierarchy of elements:
-form1(root)
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--tmpForm (subform - Repeat subform for each data entry )
---ST (Text)
Now, this XDP file generates an Interactive PDF form with Reader Rights enabled by the Adobe Document Services.
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you can't change the behavior of the save button in the browser nor in Reader/Acrobat.
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Adobe Document Services Architecture NW04s

All,
I am working at a customer that will be using Adobe Document Services for interactive forms.
The customer has several existing SAP applications but for this project it was recommended to configure the ADS on the SRM server (java stack is required)
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A)Should they have a centralized ADS server?
B) Should they have an ADS on each landscape? ie: one for CRM, one for SRM, one for ERP, in Dev/TST and QA
C)Can they have an ADS on their SRM server and share it with their ERP or other servers? ie: If they want to use ESS/MSS in the future
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Interesting question, frequently faced in large companies.
The ADS can be shared between various SAP systems, (question c: yes).
So typically the same ADS server can be used for DEV and QAS environments, and one special for productive purposes (questions a, b, c).
Recommandation from SAP side is that the ADS should have the same SPS level as the other components (ABAP or Java) with of course same SP level for all the components for the J2EE engine where the ADS is running.
This the way the newly created forms are tested by SAP (questions a, b, c).
Knowing this, to have a central ADS instance is in practice quite difficult to achieve, so the answer depends on the architecture (number of servers, upgrades plannings etc.)
Keep in mind the sizing of the ADS: your architecture will also then depend of the usage of the ADS by the various SAP systems (questions a, b, c).
Hope this helps,
Best regards,
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Configuring the Destination URL for the Adobe Document Services

hi all,
I am going through the documentation for "Configuring the Destination URL for the Adobe Document Services " at :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/02/560f41ca73d349e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
I am not able to understand 7th step
7. Define the user name and password. To find out how to create the user name and password for the Adobe document services, see Creating a User for Basic Authentication in the document Adobe Document Services Configuration Guide. You can find this guide in the SAP Service Marketplace under Quick Link /InstguidesNW04.
In our scenario
We are running NW04s SP11 on 2 machines
1) 32-bit machine with ADS and credentials properly configured on Web AS for Java installation
com.adobe AdobeDocumentServices null (710.20061024154505.342190)
com.adobe AdobeDocumentServicesEjbClientLibrary null (705.20060407121920.289077)
sap.com SAP-JEE 7.00 SP11 (1000.7.00.11.0.20070201154700)
sap.com SAP-JEECOR 7.00 SP11 (1000.7.00.11.0.20070201154700)
com.adobe DocumentServicesBinaries2 null (710.20060629085312.115621)
com.adobe DocumentServicesConfiguration null (710.20061024154505.342190)
com.adobe DocumentServicesDestProtoService null (710.20060821084105.325745)
com.adobe DocumentServicesLibrary null (710.20060629090137.115621)
com.adobe DocumentServicesLicenseDatabase null (705.20051005114147.242570)
com.adobe DocumentServicesLicenseManager null (710.20060929113452.336248)
com.adobe DocumentServicesLicenseService null (710.20060929113452.336248)
com.adobe DocumentServicesLicenseSupportService null (710.20060929113641.336248)

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sap.com/SAP-JEE 7.00 SP11 (1000.7.00.11.0.20070201154700) 20070308153213
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sap.com SAP_MSS 600 SP7 (1000.600.0.7.4.20070321052655)
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I have opened this thread to solve the previous unanswered question I posted on SDN Empty area in place of Interactive form. .
One more thing the adobe print forms of ESS [Total Compensation Statement and Salary Statement] are rendering properly, only the ones with Interactive ability or not.
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Hello Sanketh,
1. To access the NW04s configuration guide,
 - Go to https://service.sap.com/adobe
 - On the left frame (tree), under Adobe > Media Library > Documentation
 - On the right had pane you will find the link to the NW04s Configuration guide
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Best Regards,
Krish

[PDF] use Adobe Document Services

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We already discussed about generating PDF (see also this Weblog : /people/sap.user72/blog/2004/11/10/bsphowto-generate-pdf-output-from-a-bsp) from the current page ([PDF] Print BSP current page)
I would like to re-open the subject and asks the question :
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Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Guillaume
Message was edited by:
Guillaume Garcia

using ADS it should be possible. but we have taken a different route. we have developed a small java application (jsp) using <a href="http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html">ITEXT</a> residing on the j2ee engine and from out bsp we call this and pass our array to it, it would then render the content in PDF.
Regards
Raja

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I have installed SAPNW2004sJavaSP9_Trial on my local machine and when I try to register the Register the password for credential by following the steps below I face a problem in step 4. The error is a pop up as enclosed.
An error occured while indexing the credential files:
com.adobe.service.sap.ConfigurationException:An error occured while indexing the credential files
1.Log on to the Visual Administrator (C:\usr\sap\J2E\JC00\j2ee\admin\go.bat)
2. On the Cluster tab, choose Server 0 -> Services -> Document Services Configuration
3. On the Runtime tab, select Credentials
4. Choose Browse to search for the name of the credential and then Select
5. In the Alias field, enter the alias of the credential you installed, for example ReaderRights. (Entries for the name of the credential are case-sensitive)
6. In Password field, enter the password you received together with the credential you installed (filename.txt in <zip_extract_folder>\SAPNetWeaver04SneakPreviewJavaSP11\ADSCredentialFiles). Confirm the password again and then click Add
&#56256;&#56451; Restart the following services for the changes to take effect: PDF Manipulation Module, Document Services Trust Manager
7. Restart also the application com.adobe/AdobeDocumentServices
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TrustServices Credentials problem
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Thanks for all your help in advance.
Regards,
Divya

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Then you should be able to register your credential.
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Password:----
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Hello, check these to debug your ADS problems:
ADS Installation and configuration:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/37/504b8cbc2848a494facfdc09a359b1/frameset.htm
Troubleshooting for ADS configuration:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30ec0508-9438-2c10-f393-a41fb255698d?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
ADS tests
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmobile71/helpdata/en/43/f31e3082221595e10000000a1553f7/content.htm
Landscape with ADS:
http://csc-studentweb.lr.edu/swp/Berg/Conferences/SAP_NW2008_and_Admin_2008/BI/Track13/Track13_Session4.pdf
Regards Otto

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at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.Page.processRendering(Page.java:2045)
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at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.impl.Page.processRequest(Page.java:1707)
at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.controller.impl.Controller.doProcessRequest(Controller.java:926)
at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.controller.impl.Controller.processRequest(Controller.java:868)
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at com.sap.ip.bi.webapplications.runtime.jsp.portal.components.LauncherComponent.doContent(LauncherComponent.java:21)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.AbstractPortalComponent.serviceDeprecated(AbstractPortalComponent.java:209)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.AbstractPortalComponent.service(AbstractPortalComponent.java:114)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:328)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:136)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:189)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.component.PortalComponentResponse.include(PortalComponentResponse.java:215)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.pom.PortalNode.service(PortalNode.java:646)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.callPortalComponent(PortalRequestManager.java:328)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:136)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.dispatchRequest(PortalRequestManager.java:189)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.PortalRequestManager.runRequestCycle(PortalRequestManager.java:753)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.ServletConnection.handleRequest(ServletConnection.java:240)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher$doService.run(Dispatcher.java:522)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher.service(Dispatcher.java:405)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:156)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:390)
at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:264)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:347)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:325)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:887)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:241)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:148)
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at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100)
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... 51 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:183)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:201)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.HTTPSocket.readLine(HTTPSocket.java:806)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.HTTPSocket.getInputStream(HTTPSocket.java:341)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.HTTPSocket.getResponseCode(HTTPSocket.java:250)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxrpc.wsdl2java.soapbinding.HTTPTransport.getResponseCode(HTTPTransport.java:362)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxrpc.wsdl2java.soapbinding.MimeHttpBinding.outputMessage(MimeHttpBinding.java:551)
at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxrpc.wsdl2java.soapbinding.MimeHttpBinding.call(MimeHttpBinding.java:1425)
at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.adsproxy.ConfigBindingStub.rpData(ConfigBindingStub.java:78)
... 53 more
I checked notes 934275 and 826419, but those did not help. I verified that the ADS is working fine by using http://<server>:<port>/AdobeDocumentServices/Config
Because this works it seems to me that the package is correctly deployed. We are on SPS 9.
Anybody any suggestions what to test more?

Hi,
Adobe Document Services 32 bit only supports Suse SLES 9 on x86_64 64 bit. Is this what you are using ?
Please refer to the Platform Availability Matrix to check on the compatibility issues. Here's the link : https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000651812&
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sunil

Adobe Document Services SP19

Hi,
We are running Adobe Document Services with MSS on NW04 EP6 SP15, with Adobe SP15.
We are planning on upgrading the Portal components to SP19 and am wondering when SP19 of Adobe Document Services is going to be made available for download?
Right now, I am able to find the Adobe DS SP18.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Neeta

Hello Neeta,
Where do you search for this service pack? It should be available in the service marketplace under the following path: Support Packages and Patches -> SAP NetWeaver -> SAP NETWEAVER -> SAP NETWEAVER 04 - > Entry by Component -> Adobe Document Services -> ADOBE DOCUMENT SERVICES 1.00 -> OS independent.
Regards,
Philipp

Adobe Document Services - http Response 500 - How to configure the logging?

We are building an application in Web Dynpro Java that fetches data from an R/3 system via an RFC connection and is then supposed to show said data in a pdf within an iview. For that task we want to use the InteractiveForm UIElement. We bind the data to its pdfSource in the iViewu2019s context. Currently the form only consists of a text field bound to one attribute element of the pdfSource context node.
The ADS webservice is configured according to the manuals found here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/fa/0b700d6cfd4e03a8ec2186ba6ff4af/frameset.htm
and tested successfully under the following link
http://<portal_host>:<port>/AdobeDocumentServices/Config?style=document
However, when we execute the application, an error occurs in the webservice generating the pdf, namely Invalid Content-Type:text/html. The error occurs when the iView containing the form is shown for the first time, even before the attributes of the pdfSource context are filled with data (we expect to see an empty form).
As it seems the webservice is expected to return a MIME type of either application/pdf or text/xml (we donu2019t know for sure since the SAP manuals and forums are inconclusive here), but instead we get text/html. This seems to be due to the fact that the webservice exits with an http response 500 Internal Server Error (we used several network monitoring tools to confirm that such a response is sent). Since such http responses are but html files with an empty body, yet not xml or pdf, the aforementioned error does make sense to us, but we do not know what Internal Error has caused it.
The only help that SAP seems to provide for an error u201CInvalid Content-Type:text/htmlu201D in context with ADS points to an expiring password or otherwise poor configuration of the ADSUser, which (most certainly) is not our case here since, and as said above, the configuration was and can be tested successfully.
We then tried to view the logs for this error on the machine where the J2EE engine is running with ADS installed according to this (not very comprehensible) guide:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/de/97/ccfc3f0ac2c642e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
We cannot find anything relevant in the server.log of the Visual Administrator except this message (it is generated exactly when our error occurs u2013 the trace severity is set to ALL for all Adobe application elements according to manual):
Date , Time , Message , Severity , Category , Location , Application , User
12/08/2010 , 13:50:46:511 , application [webdynpro/dispatcher] Processing HTTP request to servlet [dispatcher] finished with error.
The error is: com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.adobe.pdfdocument.base.core.PDFDocumentRuntimeException: Failed to GENERATEPDF
Exception id: [0800274DA7ED00850000005B00000900000496E5919E28BA] , Error , /System/Server/WebRequests , com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl , sap.com/tcwddispwda , Guest
There is no error.pdf to be found on the file system and since neither have we known nor are we told by the error message, whether the underlying cause is is a render error or connection error or configuration error or what not, we donu2019t know whether the error.pdf is supposed to be generated at all.
Or could there be any other reason why generation didnu2019t take place?
Furthermore we canu2019t seem to be able to find any logs more verbose or detailed about this issue - at least not within the Visual Administrator or the portalu2019s nwa.
How is it possible to properly debug the webservice for pdf-generation or at least to retrieve a fully detailed log containing all notifications and exception stack traces etc.?
I am assuming that we are making some basic mistakes regarding the logging configuration - but what?
Our goal is to know what causes the 500 Internal Server Error response that causes the Incorrect Content-Type exception.
We are using a NetWeaver 7.01 portal installation with Adobe Document Services 7.01 installed on a Windows Server 2003 platform.
Any help is highly appreciated!
Serg

Have you tried restarting the Java PDF object in Visual Administrator? Once you do all of your config, you have to restart the PDF object (sao.com/tcwdpdfobject) for the changes to take place. I am assuming you've run all of the test programs in SAP (FP_TEST_00, FP_TEST_03, etc.). Is there any chance that the ADSUSER is locked somehow?

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