PDF Document

You can use this SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence action to create an Adobe® portable document format (PDF) document based on the following document properties:

Information including title, author, subject, keywords, creator
Page size
Margins
Headers and footers
Watermark

You can use the other PDF actions to add content to the document.

Note Note

To save a PDF document, use the Image Saver action to link the PDF document output to the encoded image input of the Image Saver action.

End of the note.

Features

The properties for this action are listed in the following table:

Property	Data Type	Access	Use
Title	String	In and out	Adds a title to the PDF document.
Author	String	In and out	Identifies the author of the PDF document.
Subject	String	In and out	Defines the subject of the PDF document.
Keywords	String	In and out	Creates a comma-separated list of words that identify and describe the PDF document. Keywords are used when you are searching for PDF documents.
Creator	String	In and out	Refers to the name of the application that created the PDF document
Page Size	String	In and out	Defines the size of the PDF document. For example, LETTER, 11x17, A0 through A10, LEDGER, LEGAL, and NOTE.
Top Margin	Integer	In and out	Defines the margin in points. For example, 72 points equals one inch.
Bottom Margin	Integer	In and out	Same as Top Margin.
Left Margin	Integer	In and out	Same as Top Margin.
Right Margin	Integer	In and out	Same as Top Margin.
Watermark Encoded Image	String	In and out	Refers to the image that is used as a watermark. To load a watermark, you must use the Image Loader action.
Watermark X Location Watermark Y Location	Integer	In and out	Specifies the X and Y coordinate, respectively, for the watermark. The coordinate system starts at zero on the lower left-hand corner of the page. If you increase the X coordinate value, the image moves to the right. If you increase the Y coordinate value, the image moves toward the top of the page. The center of the image is placed at the coordinate (WatermarkXLocation, WatermarkYLocation).
Watermark Center Flag	Boolean	In and out	If you select this checkbox, the system ignores the Watermark X Location and Watermark Y Location and centers the watermark on the page.
Header Text Footer Text	String	In and out	Defines the header and footer, respectively, on every page of the PDF document. To display the page number in the header or footer, use the pound symbol in your string. For example, the string "Page #" is displayed as "Page 1".
HeaderFontName FooterFontName	String	In and out	Identifies the font in the header and footer text, respectively. The following fonts are available: Helvetica Courier Times New Roman
HeaderFontStyle FooterFontStyle	Integer	In and out	Defines the style of the header and footer text, respectively. The following values are available: 0 (normal) 1 (bold) 2 (italic) 3 (bold italic) 4 (underline)
HeaderFontSize	Integer	In and out	Defines the size of the header text.
HeaderAlignment FooterAlignment	Integer	In and out	Refers to the alignment of the header and footer text, respectively. The following values are available: 0 (left) 1 (center) 2 (right) 3 (justified)
HeaderTextColor FooterTextColor	String	In and out	The color of the header and footer text, respectively. The system accepts the following values: hexadecimal (for example, #F8F8F8) RGB (for example, 255,255,255) HTML (for example, Orange)
HeaderBackgroundColor FooterBackgroundColor	String	In and out	Identifies the background color of the header and footer, respectively. The system accepts the same values as in the HeaderTextColor and FooterTextColor above.
Output	XML	In and out	Specifies the XML output.
Success	Boolean	Out	Indicates whether the action succeeded or failed.