PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing

By: Bart Cassady - bartong
PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing
2002-06-26 12:51
Do you have a way to pass page size to the PDF output of the report?

iText has the ability to specify page size.

Example:

Document document = new Document(PageSize.LEGAL);

Do you provide a mechanism to access this?

If not, could I suggest a "pdfPageSize" attribute for the


By: Bart Cassady - bartong
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing
2002-06-26 12:54
Sorry, the browser freaked out and submitted the message before I was done.



Do you have a way to pass the page size to the PDF output of the report?

iText has the ability to specify page size.

Example:

Document document = new Document(PageSize.LEGAL);

Do you provide a mechanism to access this?

If not, could I suggest a "pdfPageSize" attribute for the jasperReports tag?

Thanks.

Bart



By: Teodor Danciu - teodord
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing
2002-06-27 00:23

Hi,

For the moment, this is not possible.
That's because the JasperReports object that
we use to generate report is a "read-only" entity.

We could add to it setter methods like
setPageHeight() and setPageWith(), that do not
affect the internal structure of the compiled report
design and do not need report design recompilation.

But my question is:
Why do you need to specify the page size
at runtime?
The report element won't be rearranged
automatically to fit the new page size.
They will be either chopped, either you will have
extra white space on the right.

There are still other problems with that:
When compiling a report design, we make sure
that all sections (especially their height) fit the
page size, so that when filling the report we don't
encounter situations when we have to print section
bigger than the page itself.
This is how the engine behaves.

A runtime provided page size would pose many
problems and I don't think this is the way to do it.

Why don't you make a different report design for
every page size that you need and switch between
them at runtime as needed?
I don't think you have to deal with hundreds of
different page sizes (maybe 2 or 3).
In principle, the report designs are static, only the
data required to fill them is dynamic.

Thank you,
Teodor



By: Bart Cassady - bartong
PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing - clarification
2002-07-03 07:39
Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself very well.

I need the resulting PDF to know that it is size "LEGAL" so that when the user prints they do not have to select this option.

I think that a "pdfPageSize" option on the jasperReport tag would be a reasonable solution, much like the "pdfFontName" option on the font tag.

This option could take values used by iText, for example PageSize.LEGAL.

Thanks,
Bart



By: Teodor Danciu - teodord
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing - clarification
2002-07-17 07:54

Hi,

I have made some simple tests and apparently,
even if you use a predefined page size when
creating the PDF file, that won't make Acrobat
Reader recognize it when you open the print dialog.

In fact, what happens is that Acrobat uses the
default page size of your printer and does not read
it from opened PDF file.

We might get some answers from the iText
discussion forums.

Thank you,
Teodor



By: Bart Cassady - bartong
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing - works?
2002-07-18 09:52
And now that I try it again, it seems to be working properly....

I think that maybe I was mucking up my page heights and widths or something.

Sorry to waste your time.


By: Ashiq Al Jhan - aljhan
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing
2002-08-08 07:33
I think an additional attribute in the jasperReport element to define the media size would be helpful, especially with the java 1.4 (JPS) where we could specify the MediaSize. in Java 1.4 in the printJob we could specify MediaSizeName.ISO_A4, so that it automatically selects the the A4 size in the Paper selection..This will be helpful because some clients may have the printer's default paper size as 'Letter' and page footers may disappear when he prints a jasper report whose height and width is specified on A4 size. (This will reduce the calls from the users to the support staff complaining 'I don't see the last couple of lines') . This can be included in the DTD now, but the implementation can be done later.


By: Bernd Proissl - berndproissl
RE: PDF Legal (8.5x14) Printing
2002-08-08 12:53
Do you have experience with MediaSize.findMedia()? It should look up a MediaSizeName based on the page dimension. The page dimension is allready in the report definition and may be used to look up the MediaSizeName.

Bernd