Sounds like what you REALLY WANT is JDF (<http://www.cip4.org/documents/jdf_specifications/index.html>), which is the international standard used in the printing & publishing industry for specifying this type of information with a print job.
Make sure your printer supports it - if not, find one that does - and then just generate it along with your PDF. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Berk [mailto:jb...@purdueefcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:13 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: [iText-questions] how would you do..... I'm producing statements with iText (and it rocks BTW). I produce a single PDF for each account and load the PDF into a DB. Then I concatenate all the statements that need printed into one big PDF file and give them to a print house, that prints and mails the statement. Currently, each page in the pdf has some index data used by the print house to know how to separate the statements into individual envelopes and to know what stock to print the page on, as certain pages have disclaimer content on the back side. I'm wondering if I could add the disclaimer page on the fly when I join up the PDFs. Then they could print all pages on white stock and in duplex. The trick is when the individual pdfs are created I would need to somehow "mark" the appropriate pages, so that when I join them I can add the appropriate backer page. For example, assume I have the following: Account A with 3 pages that needs a backer page inserted after page 2 Account B with 4 pages that needs a backer page inserted after page 2 Account C with 5 pages that needs a backer page inserted after page 4 Currently when I cat the statements, I get this: a1 a2 a3 b1 b2 b3 b4 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 but I'm evaluating if I can do this: a1 a2* backer a3 b1 b2* backer b3 b4 c1 c2 c3 c4* backer c5 * denotes my "marker" Any hints/tips? Jason ***This is a transmission from Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union (PEFCU) and is intended solely for its authorized recipient(s), and may contain information that is confidential and or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to an addressee, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, publication or copying of the information contained in this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us by telephoning (765) 497-3328 or returning the email. You are then instructed to delete the information from your computer. Thank you for your cooperation.*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
