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How to Generate and Download PDFs on the fly without persisting in CAP Application
Streaming a generated document straight to the client without writing it anywhere first — which sidesteps the retention question a stored file creates, and is the distinction worth having beside the attachments capability.
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Document outputCAPDocument outputProducing a document a person receives — a printed form, a generated PDF, a filled template — and getting it to a printer or a queue rather than returning it as a payload.
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- explains → applies_to on capability:document-output (cap)Door scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).
- Entered the atlasDiscovered via SAP Community · cap-tag.
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