> I define templates as simple as a list of coordinate points or hot spots or however you want to call them. > These points are uniquely keyed by labels e.g. TOP_LEFT and they also have a recurrence flag i.e. repeat > for all pages. So they look like Spot(x,y,TOP_LEFT,repeat). These coordinate tuples are defined > manually once so that the visual "appealingness" is well known in advance and not computed on the fly by > some algorithm where you could lose predictability of the visual output. > > Now that's all :) I then use the Builder Design pattern which is one of the few interfaces to client code with > methods similar to e.g. > > IBuilder#addPdfPart(Spot,IPdfPart) > IBuilder#addTable(Spot,ITable) > IBuilder#build() > Giovanni,
Interesting - could you show me how you define your spot function? The idea of simply assembling a 'top' spot, 'left' spot and 'right' spot is appealing, but I'm a little lost on how to implement it. Are spots = paragraphs or templates or what? Also, how would this work with a different header / footer on all pages after the first page? I very much appreciate your suggestion! I would imagine it would be something like (this is totally fake): setFirstPageHeader(myPdfTemplateForPage1Top); setFirstPageFooter(myPdfTemplateForPage1Bottom); setAllOtherPageHeader(myPdfTemplateForAllOtherPagesTop); setAllOtherPageFooter(myPdfTemplateForAllOtherPagesBottom); setLeftColumnContent(theEntireMultipageTemplateForTheLeft); setRightColumnContent(theEntireMultipageTemplateForTheRight); OK - yes, that is total BS, but that's what I need to accomplish. I would settle for the SAME header and footer on all pages, then a multipage-left column, and a multipage-right column. I've been researching things, would a 2 column pdfTable be a good idea for this? My content within the 2 columns would be paragraphs (chunks with font formatting) -- can this work? Thoughts on the header/footer issue? You all rock! Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
