PDF Publications

There are many ways of generating PDFs, please read this post for an overview

The example below is for a simple PDF content using the iText® library and its wrapper tool (publication template MIME type must be set to PDF):

For binary contents the return type of method must be byte[]

public byte[] myPublicationMethod (PrintTemplate pt) {
	ByteArrayOutputStream out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
	try {
		Document pdf = PDFTool.open(out);
		pdf.add(new Phrase(getFieldValue("myTextContentField")));
		PDFTool.close(pdf);
	} catch (DocumentException e) {
		AppLog.error(e, getGrant());
	}
	return out.toByteArray();
	
}

Rhino equivalent

importPackage(Packages.com.lowagie.text);

MyObject.myPublicationMethod = function(pt) {
	try {
		var out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
		var pdf = PDFTool.open(out);
		pdf.add(new Phrase(this.getFieldValue("myTextContentField")));
		PDFTool.close(pdf);
		return out.toByteArray();
	} catch(e) {
		console.error(e);
	}
};