I have a band control and this does it's job perfectly. it shows the content I want to show over many pages, with a header and footer on each page.
The problem is however that now I need to design a document that needs to be printed recto verso and so I need to have pairs of pages, where the front page contains the current pages generated in the band and where the back page needs to be inserted in the current flow of pages.
Is there a way to do this?
Hi datamdatam,
Thank you for posting your inquiry to the forums. Though, in review of your question I am not clear on what you are aiming to accomplish. This is the part of your problem description that I am not following:
".....recto verso and so I need to have pairs of pages, where the front page contains the current pages generated in the band and where the back page needs to be inserted in the current flow of pages."
With this clarification I can research this matter for you.
Hello Troy
Thank you for looking into this.
The thing we want to achieve is that, instead of alternating headers and footers, is that we have alternating "main blocks".
An example:I can generate an invoice containing 3 pages. For this I use a band, so I have a header and footer on each page. I provide the engine with all data that goes in the band, resulting in a number of pages in the PDF file.
The problem I have now is that I need to have page 1 of the invoice in the PDF, followed by an empty page, only containing the address of the invoice so I can print this on the backside of the first page, than have the second page of the invoice, the same empty page again with the address, the thirth page of the invoice and ending again with the address page. Like this I should get a PDF containing 6 pages, the odd pages are the invoices pages and the even pages are the address pages.
Hope this makes things clear
Thank you for these details. This clarifies your objective for me. I am in the process of developing an example for you that you can reference.
For this I am interacting with the LayoutElement and Page Break to set-up the layout of the report as specified when printing.
I will follow-up with you regarding this matter again on or before Wednesday.
Hello Troy,
I'm having the same problem as Troy Rodda.
The customer would like to have the general agreements printed on the back of every invoice.
For the moment the invoice is printed on pre-printed paper with the agreement on the back.
But now they want to send the invoice via pdf.
So I need to get the agreement on the odd pages but I can't seam to find a way to know when a new page is started to add my agreement.
Where you able to solve this for Troy Rodda?
Can you share the solution?
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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