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Add group by support in PDFPageFormatter

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  • August 14, 2018
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fmelizard
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We often wanted to create an PDF document with multiple pages, or multiple PDF documents, all using the same page layout template. Currently the PDFPageFormatter only works with one page at a time, requiring complicated workflow change to create multi-page or multiple PDF document creation.
It would be great to have a Group By parameter in this transformer, so that creating PDF pages or files with the same layout template becomes simpler.

Would be nice to be able to:

  • Create page numbers dynamically for each group
  • Use only the features within each group to populate the page
  • Use only the features within each group to determine the extend of the data

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deanhowell
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  • January 29, 2020

Yes that would be terrific, similar to the group by in the MapnikRasterizer.

 


PierreAtSafe
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Hello,

We just released a brand new Document PDF Writer along with FME 2025.1: https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe/packages/documentpdf

This comes with a new transformer: DocumentPDFStyler allowing for much better document formatting.

I’d recommend giving it a shot, and let us know if you’d like to see improvement brought to this new version!