page control by data input PDF portrait and landscape

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1

Hello all

I have as data input PDF’s in portrait and also landscape format. How can I set a page switch in designer to assign the right print layout? As print layout I’ve created 2 pages, 1 as A4 portrait and the other as A4 landscape.

Thank you your input in advance

Best regards

Miro

2

Hi Miro,

You can achieve this using a control script.

Assuming that each multi-page PDF represents a single record, you can get each page Width and Height in the datamapper with the following commands:

add a field of type “Float” based on JavaScript and get the page width. Let’s name this field pageWidth:

steps.currentPageWidth;

Do the same for the page height. Let’s name the field for the current page height: pageHeight

steps.currentPageHeight;

Next, add a control script which will enable only the Portrait section if pageHeight < pageWidth and vice versa. In the below control script, ‘Landscape’ and ‘Portrait’ represent the names of the landscape and portrait sections respectively:

if (record.fields.pageWidth > record.fields.pageHeight) {
merge.context.sections[‘Landscape’].enabled = true;
merge.context.sections[‘Portrait’].enabled = false;
} else{
merge.context.sections[‘Landscape’].enabled = false;
merge.context.sections[‘Portrait’].enabled = true;
}

The result will only be visible once you generate the actual output since this is when the control script is executed.

Regards,

Rod

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Hi Rod

Thank you for your input and support.

Best regards

Miro