Hi,

Is there sample code to render multiple Notes documents (selected from a Notes view) to a single output pdf? Each Notes Document should be separated by a page break within the output pdf file.

Any examples or pointers are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
SV

I would implement the multi-doc converter this way (replace the correspondingreference agent http://pd4ml.com/i/PdfAgentR7.java methods with the following):

public void NotesMain() {
	try {
		Session session = getSession();
		AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

		System.out.println("AGENT start.");

		Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();

		String xsl = null;

		if (readXslFromJar) {
			xsl = getXsl();
		} else {
			DocumentCollection dcx = 
				db.search("@Contains(Form; \"" + xslDocumentFormName + "\")");
			Document xsldoc = dcx.getFirstDocument();
			if (xsldoc != null) {
				xsl = xsldoc.getItemValueString(xslDocumentFieldName);
			} else {
				throw new IOException( "Can not find " + xslName);
			}
		}

		// System.out.println("XSL: " + xsl);

		// collect selected documents
		DocumentCollection dc = agentContext.getUnprocessedDocuments();

		URL[] urls = new URL[dc.getCount()];
		int ind = 0;
		
		Document doc = dc.getFirstDocument();
		while (doc != null) {

			Document tmp = db.createDocument();
			RichTextItem rti = tmp.createRichTextItem("PD4MLBody");
			doc.renderToRTItem(rti);

			DxlExporter dxl = session.createDxlExporter();
			dxl.setConvertNotesBitmapsToGIF(true);
			dxl.setOutputDOCTYPE(false);
			String xml = dxl.exportDxl(tmp);

			String xml = getTestDxl();

			System.out.println("DXL FORM: " + xml);

			System.out.println("TRANS: " + System.getProperty("java.version"));
			System.out.println("TRANS: " + System.getProperty("java.vm.version"));
			System.out.println("TRANS: " + System.getProperty("java.vm.vendor"));
			System.out.println("TRANS: " + System.getProperty("java.vm.name"));

			long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
			
			String html = transformXML(xml, xsl);


			long middle = System.currentTimeMillis();
			System.out.println("XSL transformation: " + (middle-start) + "ms");

			System.out.println("HTML: " + html);

			File htmlFile = File.createTempFile("pd4dxl", ".html");
			java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream( htmlFile );
			fos.write( html.getBytes() ); 			

			urls[ind++] = htmlFile.toURL();

			doc = dc.getNextDocument();
		}

		File pdf = File.createTempFile("pd4ml", ".pdf");
		java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(pdf);
		generatePDF( urls, 
			fos, 
			PD4Constants.A4, 
			"java:/fonts",
			"<font color=green face=tahoma>DXL to PDF convesion result." +
			" $[page] of $[total]</font>");

		System.out.println("PDF file " + pdf.toURL() + " is generated" );
		
		System.out.println("AGENT done.");
		
	} catch (SAXException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (Exception e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	}
}

public static final void generatePDF(URL[] urls, OutputStream fos,
		Dimension format, String fontsDir, String footerBody)
		throws Exception {

	PD4ML pd4ml = new PD4ML();
	pd4ml.setPageInsets(new Insets(20, 10, 10, 10));
	pd4ml.setHtmlWidth(1000);
	pd4ml.setPageSize(format);

	if (fontsDir != null && fontsDir.length() > 0) {
		pd4ml.useTTF(fontsDir, true);
	}

	if (footerBody != null && footerBody.length() > 0) {
		PD4PageMark footer = new PD4PageMark();
		footer.setAreaHeight(-1);
		footer.setHtmlTemplate(footerBody);
		pd4ml.setPageFooter(footer);
	}

	pd4ml.render( urls, fos);
	fos.flush();
	fos.close();
}

The code is schematic and needs to be optimized.

After the resulting PDF is stored/sent/etc, the TEMP directory needs to be cleaned up. So it makes sence to register object references, created by the calls

File htmlFile = File.createTempFile("pd4dxl", ".html");
File pdf = File.createTempFile("pd4ml", ".pdf");

and to remove them later, close to the agent code end.