proof of concept of workaround for BFO's well know...
# advancedpdfd
David B
07/05/2023, 1:56 AMproof of concept of workaround for BFO's well known inability to specify a header/footer to print on the last page:
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michoel
07/05/2023, 3:22 AMCan you elaborate on what's happening? How is this getting replaced?
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David B
07/05/2023, 4:12 AMdoing it via script. It's not ideal, but the basic pattern is: print > count pages > alter template content > print again
David B
07/05/2023, 4:15 AMhave been thinking on it all day, the trick is that you print the footer on #page1 (or whatever page, it's configurable), and then change it to the last page. That way it takes up the same amount of space.
The issue I have found is that it would potentially fail with particularly large containers, see diagram
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creece
07/05/2023, 4:08 PMso you're just making a template placeholder and replacing it with your code realtime? I do that sometimes myself.
creece
07/05/2023, 4:09 PMa better PDF generator would be amazing. Real-time display of your changes and stuff. One can hope.
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rustyshackles
07/06/2023, 1:02 AM@creece Would that work, the real time replacement, if you use the native Print button?
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michoel
07/06/2023, 2:53 AM@creece I haven't tried it but there is a Chrome extension that has a real-time preview in the editor
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creece
07/07/2023, 8:31 PMYeah you can do it but the issue is netsuite has their own flavor of the BFO/Freemarker so its not gonna be 1:1.
creece
07/07/2023, 8:32 PMthats what I'm aware of at least.. maybe its changed?
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Stephan Vagner
07/12/2023, 11:20 AMNice. It's way easier to print a special footer/header only on the FIRST page, but the last has always been tough
Stephan Vagner
08/25/2023, 3:55 AM@David B Hey did you get your script to handle this eventually? Trying to get it working with just freemarker.
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David B
08/25/2023, 4:03 AMspent many hours investigating. The only way to do it purely in Freemarker + BFO is the workaround of always adding a pagebreak at the end of the
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Stephan Vagner
08/25/2023, 4:05 AMAnd an extra blank page isn't exactly 'fun'.
Thanks and I'm always on the look out to see if this can be solved
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