Important Observations

• The PDFDocumentService enables complex and dynamic PDF documents to be produced.

• The format of the PDF document is defined in an XML template

• Your RDML produces the PDF based on the structure defined by the XML

• Your RDML "adds content" into the PDF document

• The page is defined as a grid in using units of points. An A4 landscape page is 590 x 840 points for example.

• The bottom left corner is location 0,0

Tips & Techniques

• Time spent planning your document layout in some detail, will speed up the overall task

What I Should Know

• How to define the content of the PDF document using an XML template

• How to create PDF document using the PDFDocumentService.