Here is a Executable Jar that does just that. http://www.bearprinting.com/ReadersSpread.jar
It's uploading now, so wait a few minutes. Bill Ensley Bear Printing -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bruno Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:18 AM To: Larry Schmidlin Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Printer's Spread with iText Larry Schmidlin wrote: > Is there an easy way to create a pdf in the Printer's Spread format > using iText? i.e., I'm making a 20 page book and the pages are 2 > sided, but half the size of a regular letter size. Thus, 4 pages are > put on a piece of paper, 2 pages on each side of the piece of paper. > The paper is then cut or folded to create the book. (A very common > book size in bookstores). > One printer says he'd prefer to see the pages like > 20/1 & 2/19, > 18/3 & 4/17, > 16/5 & 6/15, > 14/7 & 8/13, > 12/9 & 10/11 > Another printer says to create > 1/4 & 2/3, > 5/8 & 6/7, > 9/12 & 10/11, > 13/16 & 14/15, > 17/20 & 18/19. > > I see how I could play some tricks doing something similar to the > TwoOnOne example by creating some temporary pdfs, then combining them, > but thought I'd check if someone has solved it already. For the Manning Book I have made the following example. It puts a 4 page document on 1 page so that it can be folded. You'll have to adapt the code, but especially the lines with addTemplate should be interesting for you. Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4); try { // we create a PdfReader object PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("HelloUniverse.pdf"); // step 2 PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("HelloWorldFolded.pdf")); // step 3 document.open(); // step 4 PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); PdfImportedPage page; page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1); cb.addTemplate(page, -0.5f, 0f, 0f, -0.5f, PageSize.A4.width() / 2, PageSize.A4.height()); page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 2); cb.addTemplate(page, 0.5f, 0f, 0f, 0.5f, 0f, 0f); page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 3); cb.addTemplate(page, 0.5f, 0f, 0f, 0.5f, PageSize.A4.width() / 2f, 0f); page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 4); cb.addTemplate(page, -0.5f, 0f, 0f, -0.5f, PageSize.A4.width(), PageSize.A4.height()); cb.setLineDash(20, 10, 10); cb.moveTo(0, PageSize.A4.height() / 2f); cb.lineTo(PageSize.A4.width(), PageSize.A4.height() / 2f); cb.stroke(); cb.moveTo(PageSize.A4.width() / 2f, 0); cb.lineTo(PageSize.A4.width() / 2f, PageSize.A4.height()); cb.stroke(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (DocumentException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } // step 5 document.close(); br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
