Hello Thomas,

thanks for your explanations. I'll have a look at both hints. Are there
any samples for solution 1 which i can modify to my needs?

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> Hi Mork,
>
> Mork0075 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/25/2007 12:06:21 PM:
>
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>> I think of the following: i want to print 100 label, 4 per each A4 page.
>> As i understand you, i should create 25 pdfs file (each with 4 label)
>> and then merge it to one large pdf. This create 25 "useless" pdfs, i
>> have to handle their references and delete them later and so on. I
>> really  nice solution would something like that:
>>
>> document.addNewPage("<svg ...");
>> document.addNewPage("<svg...");
>>     
>
>    We don't have this right now.  I would suggest two possible 
> solutions both of which involve FOP (Apache's implementation 
> of XSL).
>
>    1) You can build an XSL (Formatting Objects) Document that
>       embeds your SVG documents (either directly or through
>         image refs).  Then if you run FOP on that document you
>       can get one PDF.
>
>    2) You can grab the source for the PDF transcoder from the
>       FOP project.  With that you can modify it to be a bit 
>       more like Batik's 'PrintTranscoder'.  At this level adding
>         a new page is as simple as calling 'nextPage()' on the 
>         PDFDocumentGraphics2D (which is what the PDFTranscoder
>         uses to render the document to PDF).
>
>    Number 1 involves essentially no coding but is a bit more
> round about and you would have to learn a bunch about XSL to
> get what you want (that said it might be useful for what you
> are trying to do).
>
>    Number 2 involves coding but is probably the simpler of the
> two.  You will need to figure out how to build the jar files 
> that we need so it's a bit more cumbersome from that point of
> view.
>
>    If you did #2 it would be a potentially nice thing to 
> consider contributing back (although that would require
> an Apache CLA).
>
>   
>> and then transcode one large document into a pdf file.
>>
>> Ruud Steltenpool schrieb:
>>     
>>> if you mean "artifacts" as in 'visual disturbances i invite you to
>>> give examples.
>>>
>>> If you mean "hassle", i think it's quite easy, though it needs a
>>> download indeed.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> this means that i have to create perhaps 10 single pdf files and then
>>>> merge them together. Isnt there a nicer solution without so much
>>>> artefacts?
>>>>
>>>> Ruud Steltenpool schrieb:
>>>>         
>>>>> use pdftk
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