Hi Andreas, Yes that is correct. The pages of the overlay used to get repeated instead of just using the first page.
Thanks Laurent On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 31.08.2014 02:45, schrieb Laurent Yaish: > > So I looked at the code and it does look like there is no way to do this >> with the new implementation. >> Using the -even, -odd or -page options could work for a small document, >> but >> we wouldn't be able to overlay a 999 page PDF with a 3 page template. >> >> What if we added something like a -useAllOverlayPages parameter (it's a >> bad >> name, I know) that would then populate specificPageOverlayPage with all >> the pages available from the defaultOverlay and then just do something >> like: >> >> int usePageNum = pageNumber % specificPageOverlayPage.size(); if >> (useAllOverlayPages && specificPageOverlayPage.containsKey(usePageNum)) { >> layoutPage = specificPageOverlayPage.get(usePageNum); } >> >> in the overlayPage() method. >> >> I'd try it, but don't code in Java and it probably would take me a while >> just to get the thing to compile... :) >> > Just for clarification. In your given example you expect to overlay your > 999 pages pdf with a 3 pages overlay pdf by repeating those 3 pages over > and over again. Am I right? > > Thoughts? >> > Obviously the old implementation provided that feature and the current one > not. So, if it's needed we should reimplement it. Shouldn't be that hard > .... > > Thanks >> >> Laurent >> > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > > >> >> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Laurent Yaish <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to overlay a 12 page PDF with a 2 page "template". >>> With the old Overlay implementation it would repeat the template 6 times: >>> page 1, page 2, page 1... >>> >>> I tried several of the options documented, but couldn't get it to work >>> like it used to. >>> >>> Does the new implementation support this? >>> >>> I'm only using 1.8.2 because the code appears to be broken in the latest >>> 1.8.6. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Laurent >>> >>> >>> >> >
