PDF having pages with different sizes

[rekhasasik]

Hi,

I need a help rearding printing a jasper generated PDF having pages of different sizes.

For example the first page should be of size LETTER(8.5 X 11) and the rest should be of size A4.

As per the design of iReports, I can find there is possibility of configuring page size for the total report(PDF)only. can anyone have a idea on this.

Thanks in Advance

 

Thanks

Sasi Rekha

[lucianc]

JasperReports does not (currently) support multiple page sizes in the same (design) report. The only thing you could do is to create multiple reports (having different page sizes), and use batch exporting to obtain a single PDF output.

 

HTH,

Lucian

[janve]

Hi Lucian,

 

The batch exporting sample shows that it can merge 3 (or more) reports to 1 pdf file. Every report section starts with pagenumber 1 in the pdf. Can you give me a clue if there a possibility to get a continuous pagenumbering in the pdf file?

 

Best regards, Jan

[lucianc]

It is possible by using an additional report parameter whose value is used as initial page number:

Code:

<parameter name="PageNumberOffset" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
<variable name="PageNumber" class="java.lang.Integer">
  <variableExpression>new Integer($V{PAGE_NUMBER}.intValue() + $P{PageNumberOffset}.intValue())</variableExpression>
</variable>
...
<textField>
  <textFieldExpression>"Page " + $V{PageNumberOffset}</textFieldExpression>
</textField>

 

Then, when you fill the reports, you would collect the number of generated pages and use this value as PageNumberOffset for the next report to fill:

Code:

[code] int pages = 0; for (..reports..) { ... params.put("PageNumberOffset", new Integer(pages)); ... JasperPrint print = fillReport(params); pages += print.getPages().size(); }

 

Regards,

Lucian

Post edited by: lucianc, at: 2008/02/14 12:54