This method may not work very well though if you are generating thousands of pages per document.
Why not?
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds
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Because you would have all of your document's pages loaded into memory. That may not be the ideal situation depending on your machine's available memory. Not a big deal really, just something to consider.
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In that case you probably want to look into some sort of caching arrangement, where your pages are swapped to disk while you run through the document. Something like Cache would probably do the job nicely.
Once you get to the end of the document, you can go back to the first page, add the "1 of 3456 pages" to the page, write that page out, flush that page from the cache, and continue to the end.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds
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thanks for the advice. i ended up making an array of pages and then at the end i cycled through the array and numbered the pages based on $pdf->pages; so i had something like $elementNumber of $pdf->pages; at the top of each page. i guess what i was trying to figure out is if this couldn't be done through the pdf object. i figured that every time a page object was created $pdf->page;
the page would be put on a list owned by the pdf instance -- yeah totally goofy don't know what i was thinking... | [reply] |