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Any way to mimic the print packing slip functionality via suitescript?
The goal is to generate 1 PDF with numerous packing slips. But I'm trying *not* to save all the individual packing slips to the file cabinet, then use &lt;pdfset&gt; to generate a single one referencing all the other

``` arrFulfillmentIds.forEach(( fulfillmentId ) =&gt; {
                const objPackingSlipFile = render.packingSlip({
                    entityId: fulfillmentId,
                    printMode: render.PrintMode.PDF,
                });
                objPackingSlipFile.folder = -15;
                objPackingSlipFile.name = `PackingSlip-${fulfillmentId}.pdf`;
                objPackingSlipFile.isOnline = true;
                const stPackingSlipId = objPackingSlipFile.save();
                arrFileIds.push( stPackingSlipId );
            });```

```SL.renderSinglePDF = ( fileIds ) =&gt; {
            const xmlLines = [ "&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"?&gt;", "&lt;pdfset&gt;" ];

            fileIds.forEach(( fileId ) =&gt; {
                const singlePDF = file.load({ id: fileId });
                const stPDFURL = xml.escape({ xmlText: singlePDF.url });
                xmlLines.push( `&lt;pdf src='<https://XXXXXX-sb1.app.netsuite.com>${stPDFURL}'/&gt;` );
            });

            xmlLines.push( "&lt;/pdfset&gt;" );

            return render.xmlToPdf({
                xmlString: xmlLines.join( "\n" ),
            });
        };```
This works, but forces me to use a ton of governance for file.save / file.load

Wondering if there is a way around that?

you can be more efficient and do 1 search for all your urls, instead of loading them one at a time

if you were dedicated, you can print it as html which is a string you can actually manipulate and parse through in code to make your own combined pdf

Search is a good idea to save some governance. I appreciate that.

I was using file.getContents and was able to get back a “pdf string”, but couldnt figure out how to concatenate them together to create a new file. Felt like I was very close but couldnt get it to work

a pdf is binary content, netsuite represents it as a base 64 string which is not a form that is easily manipulated

which is why you change the <https://system.na0.netsuite.com/app/help/helpcenter.nl?fid=section_458625732421.html|print mode> to html, which is plain text and can be manipulated, though not easily

all super helpful information- thanks <@U5TF1GQ20>