What about a completely different solution?
Write the first 3 pages to PDF 1
Write the next 1 to PDF 2
Write the rest to PDF 3
Concatenate.
Or write 1..3,5..N to PDF 1
Write 4 to PDF 2
Do a special concatenate which reads 1..3, adds 4, adds the rest.
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> Date: 28 July 2011 16:20:28 GMT+01:00
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> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Document getBottomMargin() bug
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> So I now see where this is going be difficult. It pretty easy to change
> margins, and then invoke "doc.newPage()". The difficult part is
> reverting the following pages back to the standard margins.
>
> I know when I'm about to start a page that needs different margins. I
> only want those new margins on that page. Once I add enough content to
> fill that page, the next page should revert back to the standard
> margins.
>
> page 1 has standard margins
> page 2 has standard margins
> page 3 has standard margins
> Change my margins and do a page break
> page 4 has custom margins
> start adding content that may span multiple pages
> page 5..N needs to go back to standard margins (which is why I as using
> "onEndPage()" page event.)
>
> If I can't (safely) change my document margins in onEndPage(), how else
> can I know I've reached the end of page 4 and should reset my margins so
> they are active on page 5+?
>
> Hhmmmm....
>
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: 1T3XT BVBA [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Document getBottomMargin() bug
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> On 28/07/2011 15:42, Jason Berk wrote:
>> Is the rule "once you change margins, top/bottom/left/right may not
>> return what you expect"?
> The rule is:
> - don't change margins in PdfDocument (in a page event), change them in
> Document (not in a page event).
> - if you change them in Document, do so before triggering the newPage()
> method.
> - the new margins will only be "active" on the next page.
>
> I don't have the time to adapt, compile and execute your example, but
> this should be avoided:
>
> public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) {
> doc.setMargins(LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BIG_BOTTOM); }
>
> I see that you tried to work around the fact that document is actually a
> PdfDocument instance.
> This is inventive (it surprised me), but I don't think it's a good idea.
> Operations on the Document object trigger page events, and you're
> triggering operations on the Document inside page events.
> I wouldn't bet on the outcome of such a workaround.
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