Delete last page at runtime

Hi,

There are some print options in Designer, if your different kinds of paper are different size then they might be all you need.

Regards

Bruce

Hi Bruce,

thanks for your explanation.

To use that option, our last page would need a different page size, correct?

How can I tell the last page to be on a different master page, or a different page size?

Best regards

Joschka

That is difficult to say without seeing the structure of your form. But, I would hope you could have a second master page that the last page was linked with.  Can you structure your form that way?

We can create a second master page, but we would need to tell the content when to switch to the second master page.

Here's the structure:

Repeeating_subform will eventually extend to the last page.

How do I tell repeating_subform to use my second masterpage "last_page"?

Hi,

I had thought the last page was different, that is an alternative to content in your sample.  So that print options approach wont work.

This script will hide all repeating_subform objects that are on the last page.

var pageCount = xfa.layout.pageCount();  
for (var i = _repeating_subform.count - 1; i >=0; i--) {
      if (xfa.layout.page(repeating_subform.all.item(i)) == pageCount) {
           repeating_subform.all.item(i).presence = "hidden";
      }
 }

Hm... that sounds like the right direction.

If I do that now, the last page does not contain any items, but it's still printed.

Any idea on how to avoid the blank page?

Can I access the page and set the presence to hidden? If so, how?

I guess your repeating_subform and my_text allows page breaks within content?  If so then we will need to get rid of one more.

So try this;

var pageCount = xfa.layout.pageCount();    
var lastVisible = null;
for (var i = _repeating_subform.count - 1; i >=0; i--) {  
      if (xfa.layout.page(repeating_subform.all.item(i)) == pageCount) {  
           repeating_subform.all.item(i).presence = "hidden";  
      } else {
           if (lastVisible == null) {
                lastVisible = repeating_subform.all.item(i);
           }
      }
}  
if (xfa.layout.pageSpan(lastVisible) > 1) {
     lastVisible.presence = "hidden";  
}

Thanks again for your input.

Same problem. I've tried to hide all items from the second-last page (... == pageCount - 1).

With 4 pages of subforms, pages 3 and 4 are now empty, but are still printed.

Is the event ready:layout maybe too late?

The page count is only available at this event though, right? At least the script doesn't work in ready:form.

Hi, 

There's lots I'm not sure about with what you are trying o do.  I tried that code in the click event of a button.  But maybe the DocReady would work?

Brue

Hi Brue,

what I'm trying to do is to split the document into last page and everything but last page.

Since I can't use external tools for this (like PDF Toolkit / PDF Toolbox), I have to find a script to do just that.

I hope it's clearer now.

A button will not work for us, since the form is not interactive.

So I really just need a command to delete the last page from the resulting PDF, or every page before that.