Or depending on the printer, you would use OMR marks to do all of this. For those that are not in this space, these are the several little lines that are normally placed down the side of a page in those bills and other things in your mailbox.
There are printers that react in the process to specialty marks placed on the actual page to do things like paper-tray pulls, inserting pages, determining start and end of collations, etc. This type of technology has existed for many years and one would normally start with their print vendor to determine what machinery they have that is used for this. Kevin Brown Xportability LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/