Create a new PDF from N templates

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   I'd like to combine several PDF templates into a new output PDF file.

Each PDF template would ALWAYS contain a single page. 

So, this is an algorithm of what's needed:

Create a new, blank , empty Document 

For PageNo=1 to nPages 

  Create Page # PageNo

  Add page from template # PageNo

Next

Save Final document, with nPages

How can I do it ? Is it conceptually OK to do it ?

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jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Create a new PDF from N templates Posted: 02 Jan 06 at 12:16PM
	I'd like to combine several PDF templates into a new output PDF file. Each PDF template would ALWAYS contain a single page. So, this is an algorithm of what's needed: Create a new, blank , empty Document For PageNo=1 to nPages Create Page # PageNo Add page from template # PageNo Next Save Final document, with nPages How can I do it ? Is it conceptually OK to do it ?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jan 06 at 4:15PM
	Hi! Why you don't want to merge the complete files? Here's an easy example how to merge three files to a new one (delphi 5): . . . QP := TiSEDQuickPDF.Create; try QP.UnlockKey('MyLicenseKey'); QP.ClearFileList('mfl'); QP.AddToFileList('mfl', file1); QP.AddToFileList('mfl', file2); QP.AddToFileList('mfl', file3); finally QP.MergeFileList('mfl', filenew); QP.Free; file1 := ''; file2 := ''; file3 := ''; filenew := ''; end; . . .
	Cheers, Ingo

jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 6:52AM
	Tried this upon VBScript : OPTION EXPLICIT DIM objMyForm,status Set objMyForm = WScript.CreateObject("ISED.QUICKPDF") objMyForm.unlockkey("mykey") status=objMyForm.ClearFileList("mfl") But status will always return 0 whereas it should return 1. Any hint ?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 7:00AM
	Hi! You just start and want to clear a filelist which doesn't exist at that moment. So ClearFileList returns with 0 'cause there isn't a filelist.
	Cheers, Ingo

jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 7:09AM
	Perfect ! Now it's working. Once more, thank you so much !

jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 8:12AM
	Ops ! Not everything is working... The problem is that after merging, the List of Fields seems to reflect only the first added PDF file and not all the fields from all of them. How can I abstract the whole list of fields ? Should I switch between pages ? I tried it but it didnt work. The thing is that I need to "see" all of the fields so that I can to a FOR/NEXT replacing their contents by their corresponding values.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 9:04AM
	Hi! We had this already... I think there fields in the several documents with same names... Each name must have a unique name.
	Cheers, Ingo

jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 10:43AM
	Yeah, I thought about that too. It's not the case though. All of the field names are absolute, that is, unique, amongst all of the files. What if I open a new document, and then add page per page and substitute the fields page per page ?

jabaltie Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 Nov 05 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 138	Post Options Post Reply Quote jabaltie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 11:53AM
	Below is a script where I tried to add page per page and substitute field contents page per page. Also merge is done page per page. Final result ? Blank PDF with N pages. OPTION EXPLICIT DIM objPDF,docPDF,docpage,lni Set OBJPDF = WScript.CreateObject("ISED.QUICKPDF") WScript.Echo "UnlockKey ",objPDF.unlockkey("mykey") docPDF=OBJPDF.NewDocument() WScript.Echo "doc id 1 ",docPDF WScript.Echo "Load File ",OBJPDF.LoadFromFile("TEST.PDF") docpage=objPDF.DocumentID(1) WScript.Echo "doc id 2 ",docpage WScript.Echo "field CNT ",objPDF.FormFieldCount for lni=1 to objPDF.FormFieldCount WScript.Echo objPDF.GetFormFieldTitle(lni) next WScript.Echo "set form f", objPDF.SetFormFieldValueByTitle("TCOVERBO","X") WScript.Echo "select doc",objPDF.SelectDocument(docPDF) WScript.Echo "Merge ",objPDF.MergeDocument(docpage) WScript.Echo "save ",objPDF.SaveToFile("C:\TEMP\TEST.PDF") What could be wrong ?