If no one opposes I would change the behavior to be the same as the page
size. I don't think it would break much code and the fix would be trivial.
The page margins as they are just don't work.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Gravel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 17:16
> To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Changing margins in middle of document
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> When I first saw that post from Bruno I assumed the
> following would work:
> > > document.newPage();
> > > document.setMargins(172, 172, 172, 172);
> But it did NOT, as I explained earlier (see test code
> below). Am I doing something wrong??
>
> Francois.
>
>
> == MY TEST CODE ==
> Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
> writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
> FileOutputStream("c:\\pdf\\margins2.pdf"));
> document.setMargins(72, 72, 72, 72);
> document.open();
> for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
> Paragraph par = new Paragraph();
> for (int j = 0; j < 50; ++j)
> par.add(new Chunk("Hello World "));
> document.add(par);
> }
> document.newPage();
>
> // change margins here
> document.setMargins(172, 172, 172, 172);
> for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
> Paragraph par = new Paragraph();
> for (int j = 0; j < 50; ++j)
> par.add(new Chunk("Bonjour le Monde "));
> document.add(par);
> }
> document.close();
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In my opinion margins should behave like the page
> > size but there are other
> > issues. See
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1106857.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Paulo Soares
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Francois Gravel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 15:09
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [iText-questions] Changing margins in
> > middle of document
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to change margins in the middle of a
> > > document, but I just can't get it to work right.
> > I
> > > tried:
> > >
> > > document.setMargins(172, 172, 172, 172);
> > > document.newPage();
> > > (The new page is OK but the current page's left
> > and
> > > right margins get messed up)
> > >
> > > document.newPage();
> > > document.setMargins(172, 172, 172, 172);
> > > (The first page where setMargins is called is
> > messed
> > > up, the following ones are ok)
> > >
> > > It also tried onStartPage and onEndPage in
> > > EventHandlers. Again the transition is just not
> > > right.
> > >
> > > It looks like the safest place to change margins
> > is at
> > > the start of PdfDocument.initPage() (I tried and
> > it
> > > worked fine). Why isn't onStartPage called from
> > > there?
> > >
> > > I'd like to avoid bastardizing my iText library,
> > so
> > > any suggestion would be greatly apreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Francois.
> > >
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