Hello Daniel, On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Daniel Cane wrote: > Interesting - could you show me how you define your spot function? The idea of > simply assembling a 'top' spot, 'left' spot and 'right' spot is appealing, but > I'm a little lost on how to implement it. Are spots = paragraphs or templates > or > what? > > Also, how would this work with a different header / footer on all pages after > the first page? > > I very much appreciate your suggestion! > The Spot is a class or better yet an enum type which has a corresponding stored configuration in your preferred configuration format e.g. xml, properties, txt etc. The client code can refer to Spots by the appropriate enum instance e.g.
spot.properties: TOP_LEFT=23,0,repeat TOP_RIGHT=250,0,repeat etc the client code would look like this: IBuilder builder = ... builder.addPdfTemplate(Spot.TOP_LEFT,load(Parts.HEADER)); note that client code does not exactly know what TOP_LEFT details are ... The Spot type could also have some sort of small gap constant value maybe also externalized in configuration which would support functions like this: Spot.TOP_LEFT.right().right() so you would have finer control on the coordinate positions but again I would avoid any algorithm that moves things around because: - complexity - possible lose of predictability of the visual output From all the ideas I thought of for implementing the layout, this was the simplest one ... HTH, Best regards, Giovanni
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