Create dynamic page size or change size of pdf

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Hello,

I need to create page size dynamically based on a datafield (e.g.: 25x30), instead of creating multiple medias and sections manually in the Connect Designer. I have to do that because there are too much different media sizes (minimum 55 different sizes).

If that doesn`t work, is there a way to resize a generated pdf document via script in the workflow (maybe with alambic)?

Thanks,
Thomas

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Not sure about creating page sizes dynamically (I will leave that part to Design experts), but in Workflow you can script a method that scales and centers a page onto a different media. The following code does that, but be advised that it’s just something I had in my collection of scripts and that it may not do exactly what you want. In this example, it maps the current job file (which is presumed to be a PDF) onto a newly created A3 page. It only handles single page PDFs.

Still, it should help get you started if you want to implement this with Workflow:

var newPDF = Watch.GetPDFEditObject();
var jobPDF = Watch.GetPDFEditObject();
var newRect = new ActiveXObject("AlambicEdit.PdfRect")
var jobRect = new ActiveXObject("AlambicEdit.PdfRect")

jobPDF.Open(Watch.GetJobFileName(),false);
// Current job page size
jobRect = jobPDF.Pages(0).Size();

newPDF.Create("C:\\test\\newFile.pdf");
// A3 size
newRect.left    = 0;
newRect.top     = 1190;
newRect.right   = 842;
newRect.bottom  = 0;
newPDF.Pages().Insert(0,newRect);

var widthScaling  = newRect.right/jobRect.right;
var heightScaling = newRect.top/jobRect.top;
var scaling = Math.min(widthScaling, heightScaling);

// Merge existing page onto new page, scaling and offsetting accordingly
newPDF.Pages(0).Merge2(jobPDF.Pages(0),(newRect.right-(jobRect.right*scaling))/2,(newRect.top-(jobRect.top*scaling))/2,0,scaling)
newPDF.Save(false);
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Thank you for your reply. Scaling is not what I need. I have to crop a pdf file without scaling the pdf content. So the content should be cutted.

Example: I have a pdf page in 210x297mm and I have to crop it to get 200x280.

Sorry for that confusion.

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Unfortunately, at the current moment, there is no way to dynamically define media size.

That is other than deifning all of them and selecting them through a Control script.

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Phil’s script can still work. It has to be slightly modified so that the source page is not scaled (scaling = 1) and positioned correctly onto the destination.

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I have a job which is a mix of landscape and portrait pages and variable number of pages per document, I need to extract text from the pages and the documents are multipage so I can’t treat each page as a different document.

Is there a way to set the section used for each page via control script rather than on a document level?

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When you say

Is there a way to set the section used for each page …

What is the “page” you are referencing? Section? Sheet? Record?