Subhrajyoti Moitra wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > yes you are right I really dont need to shrink it. Only scale it down > wrt to the new page size. Is that what you are saying?
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying there's no reason to change the page size. > I am not inclined to the image idea since, it wont retain all the > interactive features, without a lot of work as you pointed out. You didn't understand: page content and interactive features are separated in a PDF. You haven't read the complete PDF spec yet; otherwise you'd understand. > Basically I am trying to add headers and footer to every page. Now it so > happens that in some pages, the bottom/top margins are very low and this > content overlaps my footer/header table > So I thought, lets try the idea, where in we scale/shrink the page to a > smaller size including the form fields, without loosing their > functionality. This is more difficult than I thought. Yes, it would be much easier if you made the MediaBox larger. > is there a way to detect this overlap .. given a reference rectangle? No. There is code in iText that comes close, but it's still in beta. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
