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Overlay contents of multiple PDFs onto a single page
Hi All,
I'm trying to overlay the contents of multiple PDF pages onto a single
page, not as images though. So I've found the Overlay class and while it
works when I use it to overlay each page onto a separate page, if I try and
run it multiple times on the same page, the contents of the second file are
present, but invisible (I can select the text but not see it). When I
import them to separate pages they are both visible, and the contents of
the XObject elements in both files are the same, so I'm a bit stumped... Is
there something I can adjust in Overlay to fix this issue?
Thanks in advance!
Re: Overlay contents of multiple PDFs onto a single page
Posted by Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com>.
I think that was it! I re-created the source files and it seemed to have
solved this issue. Thanks for the tip!
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 6:29 PM Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Maybe, but each file is just a "snippet", smaller than the target page, so
> they should not be overlapping. Or does the Overlay command create a
> full-page layer for each one?
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 6:27 PM Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>
> wrote:
>
>> could it be that you are overlaying with a white background?
>>
>> BR
>> Maruan
>>
>> > Am 17.06.2021 um 18:21 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <
>> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to overlay the contents of multiple PDF pages onto a single
>> > page, not as images though. So I've found the Overlay class and while it
>> > works when I use it to overlay each page onto a separate page, if I try
>> and
>> > run it multiple times on the same page, the contents of the second file
>> are
>> > present, but invisible (I can select the text but not see it). When I
>> > import them to separate pages they are both visible, and the contents of
>> > the XObject elements in both files are the same, so I'm a bit
>> stumped... Is
>> > there something I can adjust in Overlay to fix this issue?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
>>
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Re: Overlay contents of multiple PDFs onto a single page
Posted by Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com>.
Maybe, but each file is just a "snippet", smaller than the target page, so
they should not be overlapping. Or does the Overlay command create a
full-page layer for each one?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 6:27 PM Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>
wrote:
> could it be that you are overlaying with a white background?
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
> > Am 17.06.2021 um 18:21 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <
> gilad.denneboom@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to overlay the contents of multiple PDF pages onto a single
> > page, not as images though. So I've found the Overlay class and while it
> > works when I use it to overlay each page onto a separate page, if I try
> and
> > run it multiple times on the same page, the contents of the second file
> are
> > present, but invisible (I can select the text but not see it). When I
> > import them to separate pages they are both visible, and the contents of
> > the XObject elements in both files are the same, so I'm a bit stumped...
> Is
> > there something I can adjust in Overlay to fix this issue?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
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Re: Overlay contents of multiple PDFs onto a single page
Posted by Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>.
could it be that you are overlaying with a white background?
BR
Maruan
> Am 17.06.2021 um 18:21 schrieb Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to overlay the contents of multiple PDF pages onto a single
> page, not as images though. So I've found the Overlay class and while it
> works when I use it to overlay each page onto a separate page, if I try and
> run it multiple times on the same page, the contents of the second file are
> present, but invisible (I can select the text but not see it). When I
> import them to separate pages they are both visible, and the contents of
> the XObject elements in both files are the same, so I'm a bit stumped... Is
> there something I can adjust in Overlay to fix this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance!
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