Hi Andreas, Should I create an issue in Jira for this?
Thanks Laurent On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Laurent Yaish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
