Adding blank pages

Blank pages can be used as cover sheets for pre-existing document files, or as separators containing useful indexing data.

 

To add blank pages, specify the page size instead of the file name in the input command:

output “c:\output.pdf”

  input letter, pages=3    # adds three letter-size blank pages

  input “c:\cover.pdf”

 

Blank pages added with the above command are appended to the output PDF file.  Barcode or text commands cannot access the properties of the input files (e.g.  ${pdf.$author})   

To access and use these properties, position the append command to add the pages to the input file BEFORE it (the input file) is appended to the output:

output “c:\output.pdf”

  input “c:\cover.pdf”

    append  # adds one page with the size of the last page of cover.pdf

    append legal, 3  # adds 3 legal-size blank pages