HOW TO MERGE TWO PAGES INTO ONE using DDX?

[Former Community Member]

Hello,



HOW TO MERGE TWO PAGES INTO ONE using DDX?

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Could any one of you expert can help to solve the below issue?



I need to merge/assemble two or more PDFs into one. As a beginner i understood the Assembler Service is a solution for this problem. But, i end up no answer for the following situation.



We have three different PDFs.

PDF1 - Header message

PDF2 - Body Message 1

PDF3 - Body Message 2



PDF1 PDF2 PDF3

------------------- ------------------- -------------------

| | | | | |

| | | body | | body |

| header | | message1 | | message2 |

| (dynamic) | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

------------------- ------------------- -------------------



Based on some business constraint, i have to merge "Header" page with "Body Message1" (or) merge "Header" page with "Body Message 2"



------------------- -------------------

| | | |

| header | | header |

------------------- -------------------

| | or | |

| | | |

| body | | body |

| message1 | | message2 |

------------------- -------------------



Limitations:

- Body message cannot have header message within it, because the same body message will be used with another header.



Thanks

Siva

[Former Community Member]

You can either use <PageOverlay> to overlay the Header PDF page onto the PDF with the Body, or you could turn the Header PDF page into a <Header> DDX element. It depends on the page size of the Header PDF.



Please be aware that if you use <Header>, the default margins for positioning the header are 1/2 inch all around. You can set this to 0 or whatever you want using the <PageMargins> element.



An example of using PageOverlay:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/" >



<PDF result="result1">

<PDF source="PDF2"/>

<PageOverlay>

<PDF source="PDF1"/>

</PageOverlay>

</PDF>



<PDF result="result2">

<PDF source="PDF3"/>

<PageOverlay>

<PDF source="PDF1"/>

</PageOverlay>

</PDF>



</DDX>