Wow,
Forgive me(for repeating an already answered question as I knew it was
somewhere)
Thank You so much sir, I'll pray for a new lego set and If I adopt iText, I
might just send one. The speed of the reply was great thanks again.
GB
J
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
>
> InJesus wrote:
>> I aplogize in advance if somebody has answer this already,
>
> The answer is in the book, but in the meanwhile,
> some even better answers have come up (due to
> enhancements in the latest iText versions).
>
>> I need to take a one page template, populate it with AcroForm data then
>> do
>> it again several times then combine them as one PDF. as Copy doesn't have
>> AcroForms and Stamper doesn't deal with multiple pages I'm not sure what
>> to
>> do.
>
> The answer is: combine both.
> while more data do {
> - Create a PDF in memory (ByteArrayOutputStream) with PdfStamper.
> - Add it to another PDF with PdfCopy.
> }
>
> Downside: the PDF created with PdfCopy will be very large.
> Remedy 1: use PdfSmartCopy instead of PdfCopy.
> Remedy 2: use PdfWriter to do everything
>
> The original solution and remedy 2 are described here:
> http://itext.ugent.be/articles/eid-pdf/index.php#template
> Remedy 1 is advised but not yet documented.
> However, it's very easy to implement: just replace PdfCopy
> with PdfSmartCopy in de code of the original solution.
>
> best regards,
> Bruno
>
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