Changing Page Size for iText PDF Output

["Trask, Dennis" <De...@NielsenMedia.com>]

I am using Cocoon to produce PDF documents through the iText serializer.
However, the default page size seems to be "A4", and I need "letter". The
only way I have found to change this (besides changing the iTextSerializer)
is by altering the serializer definition in the root sitemap to include a
page-size attribute. However, with this solution, I cannot produce different
page sizes within a single deployment of Cocoon.
 
I noticed that the sitemap in the iText samples directory tries to pass
page-size and page-orientation parameters to the serializer, but these
parameters seem to be ineffective.
 
Is there a better solution that I have missed? 
 

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Re: Changing Page Size for iText PDF Output

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Trask, Dennis wrote:
> However, the default page size seems to be "A4", and I need "letter". The
> only way I have found to change this (besides changing the iTextSerializer)
> is by altering the serializer definition in the root sitemap to include a
> page-size attribute. However, with this solution, I cannot produce different
> page sizes within a single deployment of Cocoon.

You can define multiple serializers, e.g. ...iText/A4 and ...iText/letter.
Of course this means you need different pipelines or at least matches
for different paper sizes.

> I noticed that the sitemap in the iText samples directory tries to pass
> page-size and page-orientation parameters to the serializer, but these
> parameters seem to be ineffective.
>  
> Is there a better solution that I have missed? 

Hm. Fixing the issues with the sitemap parameters? :-)

J.Pietschmann


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