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Add group by support in PDFPageFormatter

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fmelizard
Safer

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
Influencer
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  • January 29, 2020

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

 


PierreAtSafe
Safer
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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!


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