Okay, able to do a little more research to phrase my question more clearly...
I'm thinking of using using PdfSmartCopy to concatenate a number of generated
documents. Each document would have a PdfImportedPage of the same de-formed
document as the underlayer and the populated form fields as the regular layer.
I guess the question is whether I can add the underlayer, populate the form and
then stamp it, or if I need to stamp the form before adding the underlayer, or
if there's an entirely different approach that's even better. I want to avoid
having 10 copies of the de-formed document if I can avoid it.
Thanks
From: Giles, Bear [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [iText-questions] stacks of identical forms
I think I've half-remembered something from the book so a question in case I
screwed up something.
I have a document that's a stack of identical forms. According to chapter 16 I
can just step through each FDF, form.setFields(fdf), stamp it, and concatenate.
But I also vaguely remember an example earlier in the book that discussed a
mailing of grades? courses? to all 25k students. Something about pushing the
original document into a common underlayer and putting the varying information
(and only the varying information) in distinct layers. There was a huge space
savings doing it this way.
Does this make sense, or is there something that keeps us from doing it when
stamping FDF data? It wouldn't be a problem for me to take the original PDF
form and clone just the form so the stamped documents are pretty lightweight.
It's just a question of where the discussion is of sharing the underlying
document/layer and whether there's some other showstopper here.
Thanks,
Bear
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