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Create Preview PDF Plug-In
Overview
The Create Preview PDF was created to generate a PDF preview for a single record as fast as
possible. This preview is typically used for previews embedded in web pages. The process does
not involve the Output Engine and therefore the result does not have output optimizations
applied. Omitting this optimization step scrapes of another few milliseconds in the rendering
process resulting in even faster PDF creation times. The data source could be set to a
DataMapping configuration. As stated the preview returns a PDF for a single record. When
providing multiple records the preview is created based on the first record.
The plugin makes the PDF available to the process as the job data file. This file could be written
to a publicly accessible location (for example the _iRes folder) so that path could be served back
to the browser allowing the web page to embed the PDF data for online viewing.
The user interface of the plug-in consists of the following tabs:

Data Mapper

Content Creation, similar to
All in One

OL Connect Proxy

On Error

Comments
Data Mapper Tab
The
Data Mapper
tab can have one of the following source options:

Data mapping configuration