Thanks Jeremias. As always to the point and helpful Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote: > > This could be done using a similar approach as I've taken with my > PDF-in-PDF plug-in for FOP. Each page could be converted to a PDF Form > and then painted from a newly set-up page with the new dimensions. That > could lead to a nice new function for PDFBox. They're also always > looking for contributors. ;-)
I'll try to schedule some time to experiment with PDFBox to write such a scaling tool, based on your pdf image extension. Having close to no knowledge on PDF or PDFBox...that'll be...interesting. > > Also you might want to take a look at Multivalent. It has a good impose > function. Maybe it can be mistreated for your purposes. > Multivalent has indeed what I was looking for (thanks for the pointer, I was not aware of the project), but its license is a bit unclear to me. Also could not find the source code. > Another possibility is to use the new intermediate format I'm currently > writing for FOP. It allows arbitrary transformation matrices which could > be used to do something like you need. No guarantee that it'll work. I > haven't done any tests in that direction. And it can only work for > formats like PDF, PS and Java2D. For PCL and AFP this will definitely > not work due to the format limitations. But I assume that won't bother > you. Well, that would certainly be the most optimal approach in terms of performance, but I am not sure it would be optimal in terms of amount of work and delivery date. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Scale-fop-created-pages-for-pdf-output-tp21445071p21452885.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
