Regenerate PDF copies of invoices

Hi Experts,
I have a question in billing related output processing.
Scenario/Requirement: My company (ABC) is acquired by some other company (XYZ). Now company XYZ is requesting us to give thes soft copies of invoices in SAP in a PDF format that they will store in some data ware house.
I imagine that it is some form of a customer program that we need to write to regenerate the old invoices in PDF format and also give us an option to download the file to a local folder.
Has anyone faced such kind of a situation earlier? if you did can you let me know some details like what functional module(s) you used to pull this etc.,
Helpful answers will definitely be rewarded.
Thanks,
Sravani

Vishnuu2019s suggestion would work. Here is an alternative that works for sapscript output. It might work for smartforms, but I have never tried it. It involves a new output type, an LSMW to open and save each invoice, and an LSMW for a SAP program to convert spool requests into PDF files.
Configure a new output type for the invoices. Assign the same layout set as your u201Cnormalu201D invoice output type. Assign a key combination that is simple to set up a condition record for all of your invoices (like u201CSales Orgu201D). Add the new output type to your billing output procedure. Transport to your target system.
In the target system,
1.     Create the condition record for the new output type. Assign medium 1 (print), date/time 4 (immediate), and assign a u201Cdummyu201D output device that will not really print anything.
2.     Create an LSMW to open and save a billing document via t-code VF02. With the new output condition record in place, each execution of VF02 will generate a spool request for the output (that will not print since you assigned a dummy printer). Run the LSMW for all of the invoices that you need to process.
3.     Create another LSMW to execute program RSTXPDFT4 for each spool request sitting out there waiting on the dummy printer. You can get a list of the spool requests from table TSP01. Specify the spool request number and network path/file name for the selection screen in your input file.
Regards,
zKen

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